CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART And The MAGIC BAND: "Ice Cream For Crow” (Virgin/Epic):: Two cuts have no lyrics, one has no music, and guess which your humble wordslinger prefers. Ornette or no Ornette, the Captain’s spring Delta atonality still provides surprising and irreducible satisfactions, but his poetry repeats itself more than his ideas warrant.
May 1, 1983