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Another Music In A Different Kitchen, Pt. 2: Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica

Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 21 June 2002

WHEN THE noble savage theory of punk rock was first laid out in the early-to-mid-'70s, I bought in. According to one version of the mantra, all you needed was "an attitude, three chords and something to rant about". And I believed it. Now I'm not so sure.

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