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Captain Beefheart - safe as milk (1967)

Track listing:
  1. Sure Nuff 'N Yes, I Do 2:15
  2. Zig Zag Wanderer 2:39
  3. Call On Me 2:40
  4. dropout boogie 2:33
  5. I'm Glad 3:31
  6. Electricity 3:09
  7. Yellow Brick Road 2:28
  8. Abba Zaba 2:44
  9. Plastic Factory 3:14
  10. Where There's Woman 2:09
  11. Grown So Ugly 2:33
  12. Autumn's Child 4:02
  13. Safe as Milk [Take 5][*] 4:13
  14. Safe As Milk (take 12) 5:01
  15. Beatle Bone n' smokin' stones 3:14
  16. Flower Pot 3:55
  17. Gimme Dat Harp Boy 5:05
  18. On Tomorrow 6:57
  19. Big Black Baby Shoes [*] 4:50
  20. Dirty Blue Gene [*] 2:43
  21. Trust Us (take 9) 7:23
  22. Korn Ring Finger 4:19
  23. Safe As Milk (live) 3:21
  24. Safe as Milk 5:27

Notes

Beefheart's first proper studio album is a much more accessible, pop-inflected brand of blues-rock than the efforts that followed in the late '60s — which isn't to say that it's exactly normal and straightforward. Featuring Ry Cooder on guitar, this is blues-rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk-rock influences than he would employ on his more avant-garde outings. "Zig Zag Wanderer," "Call on Me," and "Yellow Brick Road" are some of his most enduring and riff-driven songs, although there's plenty of weirdness on tracks like "Electricity" and "Abba Zaba."