History YMMV / TroutMaskReplica

* NightmareFuel: Just read the TroubledProduction section in the Trivia page. Jesus fucking Christ.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Beefheart denied it, but did have some experiences with marijuana and LSD. According to John French's book, Beefheart once took LSD and looked inside a band member's cupboard in the dark, only to find a pile of potatoes so old that they were starting to grow roots again. This scared the shit out of him, and for a long time he remained convinced that he had seen an alien.

** Beefheart sang in ''"Wild Life"'' that he's going to the mountains, because ''"wild life is a man's best friend."'' In 1982 he stopped making recordings and lived his final years in the middle of nature (although it weren't the mountains, but the Mojave Desert).
** The line ''"this is what is gonna make Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band a big hit"'' in ''"The Blimp."''

* LoveItOrHateIt: This record has quite some obsessive fans, including Creator/MattGroening, who claims it's his favorite record of all time. But there are zillions of people who will never enjoy listening to ''Music/TroutMaskReplica''. Even devoted Beefheart fans don't always play this record that often.
** Groening himself acknowledged that he hated it when he first bought it aged 15, and it took ''"about six or seven"'' listens before it ''"clicked"'':
-->"I thought it was the worst thing I'd ever heard. I said to myself, they're not even trying! It was just a sloppy cacophony. Then I listened to it a couple more times, because I couldn't believe Frank Zappa could do this to me – and because a double album cost a lot of money. About the third time, I realised they were doing it on purpose; they meant it to sound exactly this way. About the sixth or seventh time, it clicked in, and I thought it was the greatest album I'd ever heard".

* MagnumOpus: Frequently cited by critics as not just Beefheart's best record but one of the best rock recordings of any artist ever.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Beefheart denied it, but did have some experiences with marihuana and LSD. According to John French's book, Beefheart once took LSD and looked inside a band member's cupboard in the dark, only to find a pile of potatoes so old that they were starting to grow roots again. This scared the shit out of him, and for a long time he remained convinced that he had seen an alien.

* LoveItOrHateIt: This record has quite some obsessive fans, including MattGroening, who claims it's his favorite record of all time. But there are zillions of people who will never enjoy listening to ''Trout Mask Replica''. Even devoted Beefheart fans don't always play this record that often.

** Groening himself acknowledged that he hated it at first, and it took ''"about six or seven"'' listens before it ''"clicked."''

** Groening himself acknowledged it took ''"about six or seven"'' listens before it ''"clicked."''