Ice Cream for Crow
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Ice Cream for Crow | ||
Studio album by Captain Beefheart | ||
Released | 1982 | |
Recorded | 1982 | |
Genre | Rock | |
Length | 37:29 | |
Label | Virgin Records | |
Producer(s) | Captain Beefheart | |
Professional reviews | ||
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Captain Beefheart chronology | ||
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978) |
Doc at the Radar Station (1980) |
Ice Cream for Crow (1982) |
Ice Cream for Crow is the twelfth LP by Captain Beefheart, originally released in 1982. It is the last record he released before retirement. It charted briefly in the UK at #90, but failed to make the Billboard Top 200.
It is worth noting that much of the material on this album and its predecessor Doc at the Radar Station were originally composed during the Trout Mask Replica period: Beefheart had, even before he retired from music, largely stopped composing new songs.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Captain Beefheart.
- "Ice Cream for Crow" – 4:35
- "The Host the Ghost the Most Holy-O" – 2:25
- "Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian" – 4:20
- "Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat" – 3:13
- "Evening Bell" – 2:00
- "Cardboard Cutout Sundown" – 2:38
- "The Past Sure Is Tense" – 3:21
- "Ink Mathematics" – 1:40
- "The Witch Doctor Life" – 2:38
- ""81" Poop Hatch" – 2:39
- "The Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole" – 5:43
- "Skeleton Makes Good" – 2:17
[edit] Personnel
- Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) - vocals, harmonica, soprano sax, Chinese gongs, prop horn
- Jeff Moris Tepper - steel appendage guitar, slide guitar, acoustic guitar
- Gary Lucas - glass-finger guitar, slide guitar, guitar, National steel duolian
- Richard Midnight Hatsize Synder - bass guitar, marimba, viola
- Cliff R. Martinez - drums, shake bouquet, glass washboard, metal drums
- Eric Drew Feldman - Rhodes piano, synthesized bass