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When I sat down at my computer this evening I put the TV on. The John Travolta movie, A Civil Action came on. The song that opens up the movie sounds like a version of Bo Diddley's I'm A Man, and is sung by a voice that sounds a lot like C. Beefheart. I looked it up on Amazon- it IS Captain Beefheart! They recycled the song Hard Workin' Man from the soundtrack of the movie Blue Collar. I didn't know that! That must've been pretty good for him- to be on a song leading off the soundtrack to a John Travolta movie... On Amazon a reviewer complains that the Beefheart song is not included on the soundtrack album.
Does anyone else have examples of Beefheart being re-packaged in a mass-market pop-culture context?
Does anyone else have examples of Beefheart being re-packaged in a mass-market pop-culture context?
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Re: Beefheart on Television
Tue, January 11, 2005 - 4:53 AMIn "The Big Lebowski," the main character is listening to "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" in one scene. -
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Re: Beefheart on Television
Mon, January 17, 2005 - 4:56 PMDid anyone see him on Saturday Nite Live? He did 2 songs and it was absolutely amazing. If this is old hat, forgive me. -
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Re: Beefheart on Television
Mon, January 24, 2005 - 3:41 PMOh, yeah! The SNL segment was when I started getting into the Captain, tho' I knew of him before. That's the only artist I ever discovered that way.
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Re: Beefheart on Television
Tue, January 25, 2005 - 2:38 PMI've heard that they made a sort of "music video" (before there WERE music videos) of Lick My Decals Off, Baby, but I've never seen it. The Cramps covered "Hard Workin' Man" on one of their later albums. -
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Re: Beefheart on Television
Wed, January 26, 2005 - 1:31 AMAll I have to say is: ARoP Baberrebop - AH, boperEbop!!! -
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Re: Beefheart on Television
Fri, June 2, 2006 - 1:50 PMonly a year late posting to this but... Check out the beefheart on youtube.com .... there is a great selection of him on letterman , the video for lick my decals off... and a couple other things. The Letterman bit is compelling, you tell Dave is mostly in awe and confused - the later interview you can tell he's a bit more loosened up - Dave interviewing Tom Waits is also a great thing to witness.
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