Grow Fins: Rarities 1965–1982
1999 compilation album by Captain Beefheart
Grow Fins: Rarities 1965–1982 is a 5-HDCD box set compiled from previously unreleased recordings by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band. The featured material spans the band's entire career, but focuses mainly on their work up to the late 1960s and the sessions for Beefheart's best-known album, Trout Mask Replica (1969).
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Grow Fins: Rarities 1965–1982” is 1999 compilation album by Captain Beefheart. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Grow, Fins and Rarities, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “1999 compilation album by Captain Beefheart” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3496547. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1982 and 1969.
Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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