CAPTAIN BEEFHEART SAFE AS MILK STEREO + 180 GRAM LICK MY DECAL & CLEAR SPOT 3LPS
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CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - SAFE AS MILK - STEREO Limited Edition WHITE VINYL FACTORY SEALED LP -
PLUS CLEAR SPOT RHINO RECORDS PRESSED 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION LP SO RARE IT ALSO IS VERY VALUABLE IN THE 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION
AND LICK MY DECALS OFF BABY - RHINO RECORDS 180 GRAM PRESSED LP - SO RARE IT SELLS FOR WELL OVER $150 FOR THIS PRESSING
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the way music was meant to be heard .These Limited Editions will be your last opportunity to add to your vinyl collection. Once these masterpieces are gone, you will not be able to own this Analog Sonic gem again. Being a part of the vinyl breed who understands that no matter where CD technology has gone or will go, it will never replace the way vinyl breathes life into every track. Vinyl is a mainstay of listening experience and owning pieces of musical history that will blow any listener away. It’s the purest form of listening pleasure , not to mention the artistic value of owning a 12” cover of art, -- like posters of your favorite artist.
For many people “Safe As Milk” is THE definitive Captain Beefheart album – after all it was his debut release and the one which included muso fave Ry Cooder on slide guitar. Originally released on Buddah in February ’68, the album was released to zero reaction from what must have been a pretty bemused public at the time. In fact, in the UK, one of Beefheart’s chief fans was respected Radio One DJ John Peel whose constant raving about the good Captain at least ensured a good level of national radio play at the time. While the whole album is an excursion to the outer edges of 60’s musicianship there are several standout tracks like the obvious favorite “Yellow Brick Road”, the wild “Plastic Factory” and the phenomenal “Dropout Boogie”.
Tracks include: Abba Zabba - Dropout Boogie - Zig Zag Wanderer - Sure 'Nuff'N Yes, I do - Electricity - Grown So guly - Yellow Brick road - I'm Glad - Where There's Woman - Plastic Factory - Autumn's Child - Call On Me
Disc: CLEAR SPOT RHINO RECORDS PRESSED 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION LP SO RARE IT ALSO IS VERY VALUABLE IN THE 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION
1. Low Yo Yo Stuff2. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man
3. Too Much Time
4. Circumstances
5. My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
6. Sun Zoom Spark
7. Clear Spot
8. Crazy Little Thing
9. Long Neck Bottles
10. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
11. Big Eyed Beans From Venus
12. Golden Birdies LICK MY DECALS OFF BABY - RHINO RECORDS 180 GRAM PRESSED LP - SO RARE IT SELLS FOR WELL OVER $150 FOR THIS PRESSING Coming off of the liberating heels of 1970's "Trout Mask Replica", Don Van Vliet first changed the name of his band from "His Magic Band" to "The Magic Band" and proceeded to record another tight, vigorous, arrhythmic sonic landscape. Though this album doesn't have quite the free form feeling of its precedessor (which included tape recorder chants, false starts, off microphone chatter, and lots of interesting other random tidbits), it stretches the boundaries of rock music in much the same manner. "Lick My Decals Off, Baby" includes 15 autonomous and amazingly crafted songs. Almost as if someone took the "Trout Mask" sessions, applied a razor to the in betweens and said "THERE! Those are the songs! Now stop it with all that other nonsense!" In this way "Lick My Decals Off, Baby" sounds like an "organized" and only slightly less spontaneous "Trout Mask". This more structured arrangement may have emerged from Van Vliet's alleged desire to actually start making money from The Magic Band. Apparently the previous drummer left after "Trout Mask" and was lured back by a promise of potential cash. In some ways Van Vliet succeeded. The album climbed to number 20 on the UK charts.
Regardless of its commercial status, this album remains one of the band's true masterpieces. The angular and staccato rhythms of "Trout Mask" clank and crunge here with an equal intensity. The title track finds Van Vliet squacking fervently about removing the labels that society affixes to us distracted folk. Apparently many in the early 1970s read the title saliciously (and lines such as "She stuck out her tongue 'n the fun begun" probably didn't help). But some claim that an executive dubbed the title "obscene" just to avoid having to play the album's surreal promotional film (the original of which now belongs to a museum) on the air. "Woe-is-uh-Me-Bop" provides one of the best examples of Van Vliet's fusion of free jazz and blues. The hilarious world play in "I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go" approaches a psychic toungue-twisting level. And "The Smithsonian Institute Blues" continues Van Vliet's theme of humanity's impending downfall - unless we change our ways: "The new dinosaur is walkin' in the old one's shoes" and "All you new dinosaurs / Now it's up t'you t'choose / 'fore your feet hit the tar, you better kick off them old shoes". "The Clouds Are Full of Wine" features Van Vliet's vocals floating rather pleasantly over a layer of cacophony like a bird soaring over a bomb site. And "Flash Gordon's Ape" pulls out all of the stops. A literal typhoon of sound rises up and mercilessly attacks. Somehow it still manages to hold together as a song, incredible as that seems. It definitely leaves an impression at the album's closing.
"Lick My Decals Off, Baby" marks the end of The Magic Band's early extrusions into the avant garde. Beefheart's next four albums gradually toned down his trademark cacophony and angularity. Some fans even accused him of "going commercial". Not until 1978's "Shiny Beast" did Beefheart once again begin to re-explore the musical terrain he left behind here. Why the shift occurred remains open to speculation. And Van Vliet continued to give vague cryptic answers as to why. Regardless, he left behind a string of masterpieces upon his "retirement" in 1982. "Lick My Decals Off, Baby" remains one of them.
Lastly, at the time of the writing this album still langours unjustly with an "out of print" status. Non-bootlegged fresh copies thus fetch treasure trove prices. Which is too bad for those who want to hear this masterwork. Hopefully someone will take a brave stand and make this incredible work readily available again.
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