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Ice Cream for Crow is the twelfth studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in September 1982, the final one released during his life time. After it was recorded, Don Van Vliet retired from music to devote himself to a career as a painter.[1] It spent two weeks in the UK album charts, reaching number 90,[2] but failed to make the Billboard Top 200.

While Ice Cream for Crow was being produced, Herb Cohen had settled his lawsuit with Frank Zappa over the latter withholding the master tapes to Captain Beefheart's unreleased Bat Chain Puller album.[3] As a cost-saving measure, Don Van Vliet proposed that three recordings from Bat Chain Puller – "Human Totem Pole", "Odd Jobs", and "81 Poop Hatch" – be included on Ice Cream for Crow.[4] Zappa ultimately refused this request, and Vliet was left to rework an outtake version of "Human Totem Pole", and hastily compose "Skeleton Makes Good" in one evening (although the acappella "81 Poop Hatch" was in fact included from Vliet's own copy of the Bat Chain Puller tape). The songs "Ice Cream For Crow", "Semi-Multicolored Caucasian", "The Past Sure Is Tense" and "The Witch Doctor Life" had also been written for earlier albums but not used.[3]

According to Vliet's biographer Mike Barnes, "the most original and vital tracks [on the album] are the newer ones." Thus, Ice Cream for Crow, while rooted in past musical ideas, points toward a new musical direction for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Indeed, Barnes writes that the album "feels like an hors-d'oeuvre for a main course that never came".[5]

The album cover features a painting by Van Vliet and a portrait photo of him by Anton Corbijn. A music video was made to promote the title track, directed by Van Vliet and Ken Schreiber, with cinematography by Daniel Pearl, which was rejected by MTV for being "too weird". However, the video was included in the Letterman broadcast on NBC-TV, and was accepted into the Museum of Modern Art, where it has been used in several of their programs related to music.[6][7] Van Vliet explained in a 1982 interview on Late Night with David Letterman that the album's title represented the contrast between the black of a crow and the white of vanilla ice cream.[8]

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