Sad sad news indeed, I reckon Ice Cream for Crow is my favourite album out of his catalogue. A brilliant album from start to finish for me; it has fragments of beefheart from throughout his catalogue and it flows really well. TMR is obviously totally out there and is a seminal classic, but for me I can't listen to it again and again whereas with ICFC I can. The Spotlight kid got a lot of stick from the band, the cap'n and Beefheart himself, but I think it's a great album.