>It lacks flowall of the more listenable tracks have good flow
list of the more listenable tracks:
ella guru, moonlight on vermont, pachuco cadaver, china pig, my human gets me blues, dalis car, well, when big joan sets up, sugar n spikes, ant man bee, orange claw hammer and veterans day poppy
though a lot of the complex tracks flow too if you pay attention, perhaps best examplified by the rendition of steal softly thru snow on this recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpHgG4jILa0. its quite incredible how well john french was able to put beefhearts insanity together.
flow could also mean how the songs fit together, which they do. Particularly grating tracks are often contrasted with easy listening tracks.
>it lacks structuretheres only a few tracks with pop song structure but personally i dont see anything wrong with that. also unlike most bands beefheart properly ends his songs instead of fading them out.
>it lacks emotional resonanceso does nearly all experimental music, still veterans day poppy is a heartfelt track. its funny that you say this while sucking off velvet underground who are completely devoid of this.
>it lacks buildupsugar n spikes has perhaps the most buildup ive heard in 60s song, or beefhearts habit of having multiple beats of a dissonant chord before resolving it
>it lacks melodythe tones are right there nigga.
>it lacks a true sense of rhythmyet again a spat out sentence that doesnt actually mean anything.
>It influenced nothingwhy should that be a bad thing, if anything being more influental would be bad since most music fucking sucks.