The 1986 Listening Post - Adrian Belew - Desire caught By the Tail

Adrian Belew - Desire caught By the Tail

#120/1285

1986 Housekeeping

Adrian Belew

Desire Caught By the Tail

Genre: Experimental

1.75 out of 5

You have the Residents who have a wild sense of humor and an innate understanding of how they come across and they play into that to their favor, more often than not.

And then you have Brian Eno who completely invented “ambient” music and gave the world a bunch of amazing records.

And there’s Beefheart. And, even Zappa. 

There’s a cheekiness to all of them, as though they accept that they are weirdos and are happy to be weirdos. 

Belew comes across as though he’s IMPORTANT. And I find all of his nonsense off putting. 

I might accept “Laughing Man” as an example of his ability to play in the land of piffle but it goes on forever and has no sense of its own joke.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/desire-caught-by-the-tail/1443587959