called Ice Cream for Crow one of Captain Beefheart's best albums. Ned Raggett of AllMusic called the album "a last entertaining blast of wigginess from one of the few truly independent artists in late 20th century pop music, with humor, skill, and style all still intact", with the Magic Band "turning out more choppy rhythms, unexpected guitar lines, and outré arrangements, Captain Beefheart lets everything run wild as always, with successful results". Raggett says that Beefheart's "entertainingly outrageous" spoken word performances are successfully cohered with the Magic Band's "insanely great arrangement". Robert Christgau gave the album an A−, saying, "Ornette or no Ornette, the Captain's sprung delta atonality still provides surprising and irreducible satisfactions, but his poetry repeats itself more than his ideas warrant. Any surrealist ecologist who preaches the same sermon every time out is sure to provoke hostile questions from us concrete-jungle types". Track listing Personnel Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) – vocals, harmonica, soprano sax, Chinese gongs, prop horn Jeff Moris Tepper – steel appendage guitar, slide guitar, acoustic guitar Richard "Midnight Hatsize" Snyder – bass guitar, marimba, viola Gary Lucas – glass-finger guitar, slide guitar, guitar, National steel duolian Cliff R. Martinez – drums, shake bouquet, glass washboard, metal drums Additional personnel Eric Drew Feldman – Rhodes piano, synthesized bass Janet Van Vliet and Jeff Moris Tepper – production assistance Don Van Vliet – arranger and producer Phil Brown – engineer and mastering (The descriptions "steel-appendage guitar" and "glass-finger guitar" were Beefheartian coinages for slide guitar, respectively using a metal tube or a glass "bottleneck" on the fret finger. Similarly, "shake bouquet" is his name for the maracas.) Notes Captain Beefheart albums 1982 albums Virgin Records albums