Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Drawing from a diverse range of influences, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band created music that has occasionally been dubbed "avant garde-blues", with a loud complex weave of guitar work that would come to influence the punk movement in the following decade, unusual use of percussion, free jazz solos, and surreal lyrics. His album Trout Mask Replica (1969), which was produced by Frank Zappa, is number 58 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list (beating albums like Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, Prince's Purple rain and John Lennon's Imagine) and is his most popular album, regarded by some as the most original musical work to come out of the 1960's.