CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART And The MAGIC BAND: "Ice Cream For Crow” (Virgin/Epic):: Two cuts have no lyrics, one has no music, and guess which your humble wordslinger prefers. Ornette or no Ornette, the Captain’s spring Delta atonality still provides surprising and irreducible satisfactions, but his poetry repeats itself more than his ideas warrant.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
by
Robert Christgau
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART And The MAGIC BAND: "Ice Cream For Crow” (Virgin/Epic):: Two cuts have no lyrics, one has no music, and guess which your humble wordslinger prefers. Ornette or no Ornette, the Captain’s spring Delta atonality still provides surprising and irreducible satisfactions, but his poetry repeats itself more than his ideas warrant. Any surrealist ecoprimitive who preaches the same sermon every time out is sure to provoke hostile questions from us concrete jungle types eventually. A-
ROSANNE CASH: "Somewhere in the Stars” (Columbia):: That “Third Rate Romance” is the least impressive thing here is proof enough of Cash’s continuing growth—“Third Rate Romance” is damn near impossible to ruin, and she doesn’t come close. But since 1 was never much of a Ronstadtian myself, I can’t quite make the leap from preferring the assured warmth and easy precision of Linda’s de facto successor to actually inviting her over. B +