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Captain Beefheart

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Musician referenced as part of Tom Waits' aesthetic persona described as 'Bukowski-meets-Captain-Beefheart Beat poet barfly.'

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Tom WaitsCharles Bukowski
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"That is, they both craft aesthetic personas to tell stories that make the trashy glamorous in a quintessentially American way—LDR as the 'hip-hop Nancy Sinatra' and Tom Waits as the Bukowski-meets-Captain-Beefheart Beat poet barfly."
Lana Del Rey cops way more criticism than Tom Waits ever did for doing basically the same thing. Discuss. · u/ukrainianpsycho · ↑33 · 2023-02-26
"GOES TO SHOW YOU WHAT A MOON CAN DO MOONLIGHT ONNNNN VERMONNNNNT"
Captain Beefheart, "Moonlight on Vermont" (1969) · u/discount-tracheotomy · ↑29 · 2025-11-30
"Tom Waits as the Bukowski-meets-Captain-Beefheart Beat poet barfly"
Lana Del Rey cops way more criticism than Tom Waits ever did for doing basically the same thing. Discuss. · u/ukrainianpsycho · ↑33 · 2023-02-26
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