Captain Beefheart 1967 - Safe as Milk (1967) (eac-log-cover)

Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk (1967)

rock, blues, avantgarde | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 550MB

BMG/Buddha records

Allmusic:
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." [Buddha's 1999 reissue of Safe as Milk contained restored artwork and seven bonus tracks.]

Tracks:
-01. "Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do" (Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann) – 2:15
-02. "Zig Zag Wanderer" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 2:40
-03. "Call On Me" (Van Vliet)[10] – 2:37
-04. "Dropout Boogie" (Van Vliet) – 2:32
-05. "I'm Glad" (Van Vliet) – 3:31
-06. "Electricity" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 3:07
-07. "Yellow Brick Road" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 2:28
-08. "Abba Zaba" (Van Vliet) – 2:44
-09. "Plastic Factory" (Van Vliet, Bermann, Jerry Handley) – 3:08
-10. "Where There's Woman" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 2:09
-11. "Grown So Ugly" (Robert Pete Williams) – 2:27
-12. "Autumn's Child" (Van Vliet, Bermann) – 4:02
CD bonus tracks
-13. "Safe as Milk" (Take 5) – 4:13
-14. "On Tomorrow" – 6:56
-15. "Big Black Baby Shoes" – 4:50
-16. "Flower Pot" – 3:55
-17. "Dirty Blue Gene" – 2:43
-18. "Trust Us" (Take 9) – 7:22
-19. "Korn Ring Finger" – 7:26

Personnel:
* Don Van Vliet – vocals, harmonica, bass marimba, arrangements
The Magic Band
* Alex St. Clair Snouffer – guitar, bass, background vocals
* Jerry Handley – bass, background vocals
* John French – drums, background vocals
Additional musicians
* Ry Cooder – guitar, slide guitar, bass, arrangements of "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" and "Grown So Ugly"
* Samuel Hoffman - theremin on "Electricity" and "Autumn's Child"
* Milt Holland – log drum, tambourine
* Taj Mahal – tambourine

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