Captain Beefheart - This Is The Day

Le Captain cœur de bœuf était chargé comme un porte avion ..

could be Nick Cave

The ole Captain was very unique.........

this is a real love song what a shame the young dont hear it

Suicidally depressing. Musicality matched only by his stage presence.

Is that Alexander Zontac playing the flute.

....it didn't all have to be a high wire act....IMO the 'Bluejean' band were wonderful for Don...back then..if you weren't on the radio...it was tough to sell records...they just made no money.....

Sounds a lot like simple man hmm

Great

This day the captain is a genius

Oh Captain my Captain.

wunderschön !

I think it's beautiful

When you consider he wrote most of the musical arrangements for the band , shows his remarkable talent

Once the Captain sings a song, it's eternally his.

How the heck could he sing with such divinity while on same set he also sang Upon the My O My!,
Incredibly talented soul! Influenced many artists and future bands

I love this song so much!

I love how flute bro is all annoyed that he can't have a mustache

Like it better this way with 'this is the way love "came" to play', instead of the studio version on Unconditionally Guaranteed that says "chose" to play. Also, This Is The Day, Bluejeans & Moonbeams and Observatory Crest are some of the Beefheart tunes, while most of the more the avant garde stuff is too hard on the ears.

Goes to leave the room, stops suddenly and says " One more thing, I can play the flute "

My introduction to Captain Beefheart was through Trout Mask Replica, I avoided him for years due to that experience...This, on the other hand is an absolutely beautiful song and performance. I've always felt utterly bereft that I wasted about 25 years ignoring his other work :-(

Happy valentines day to all you lovers out there

Beautiful! Thanks for posting this superb piece of music, each musician plays the perfect part, the sum of those parts is a far greater thing. There's always something new to find with Captain Beefheart no matter how many times you listen. Love and Peace x

Isn't that Donna's father playing the flute?

Everybody.

The bombs will land. Death is exchanged for words.

A bird was in a tree and sung at me, The little bird gave everything.

Very nice!!

Fuzzy Fiscaldo

I really like Capts so called commercial phase besides severe avant garde phases...the coarse and velveteen were his ways...

brano splendido

Don Van Vleit? Is that his name? Anyway, goddamn I love everything he was ever part of. From inaccessible to pop.

Wife co-written tunes were weak but still the Captain.

5 stars

Ho ho ho.

Wow! I really like this! And I'm no beef heart fan!

I sense a bit of tongue in cheek by ole Cappy.

Nice.

Have you met someone from another planet? Everyday space cadets. There is nobody you think you know that is within a planets distance.

I'd love to be able to break out this number at will, pay for things and attract the wamen folk and such.

genius and all togehther butterflash

heartbreaking sweet hopeful sound

🙂

Perfection x

GENIUS and I mean that

That’s some lousy music.

The feeling, what a song man... Thank you Cap, you have reached inmortality.

these are the bad days

Was he actually a gas engineer?