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He really made some TRUELY groundbreaking music. Next to the Beatles (who I'm not a huge fan of admittingly), I'd say Beefheart was truely the most boundary-pushing rock musician ever. Even though a lot of people look at stuff like Strictly Personal as a failure (though I love it -- the actual songs on it are my fav. Beefheart songs, though the production is a bit shitty), you can already see he was breakig away from the "safe" Safe as Milk rock and trying new experiments. Just insane. He had a silly little "sellout" period there for a year but every other album is truely groundbreaking in some way.
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