For the sake of argument (and the uninitiated), let's say that musician/sculptor/poet/artist Captain Beefheart has scorched as much musical earth as any artist in the last...
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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...
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The title is misleading. To be sure, this is a fine collection of Captain Beefheart material, but it's simply Safe As Milk (1967) in all but name (even the cover art is...
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This short-lived release contains materials which are also available under a multitude of other titles. Among them are Rare Beefheart/Vintage Zappa, If You Got Ears, The...
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Before gaining a cult with his avant-garde excursions in the late '60s, Captain Beefheart wielded a much more traditional sort of blues-rock. That's not to say that these...
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Although it was rendered obsolete by the release of the superior The Dust Blows Forward: An Anthology, this career retrospective is noteworthy for a few reasons. It...
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The Best of the Buddah Years is, in fact, another confusing reissue of Captain Beefheart material existent elsewhere on different releases, and this disc is only this peak...
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Considered by many to be a substandard effort due to the circumstances of its release (producer Bob Krasnow, the owner of Blue Thumb, the label which debuted with this...
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About the best one can say about 1974's Bluejeans & Moonbeams is that it's not as bad as his other release of the year, Unconditionally Guaranteed. In fact, there are two...
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Generally acclaimed as the strongest album of his comeback, and by some as his best since Trout Mask Replica, Doc at the Radar Station had a tough, lean sound owing partly...
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A worthy successor to Trout Mask Replica, the album features the new addition of Art Tripp and a staggering mass of extremely intense music--concluding with the somewhat...
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Produced by Captain Beefheart himself, Lick My Decals Off, Baby was a further refining and exploration of the musical ideas posited on Trout Mask Replica. As such, the...
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A single-minded vision is watered down as the songwriting is shared with wife Jane Van Vliet and producer Andy DiMartino. One of two 1974 Beefheart albums produced by...
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A great package--featuring two Beefheart albums, one (Spotlight Kid) muddily recorded, one (Clear Spot) a sonic masterwork--this package is marred by its liner notes, which,...
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This two-fer compiles two Beefheart albums originally released in 1972. The Spotlight Kid was a stripped-down, slide-guitar-filled move toward Beefheart's beloved Delta...
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One of the very best rock 'n' roll albums ever made, this record sounds like nothing else ever performed by man. Containing an equal mix of stunning music, lyrics and...
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Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total...
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The Mirror Man Sessions features the complete remastered contents of Mirror Man, albeit in a resequenced running order, and fills out the rest of the CD with a number of...
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So titled because the original album, simply titled Bat Chain Puller, had to be ditched and rerecorded after a legal tuzzle involving Frank Zappa's manager, Shiny Beast...
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This is basically a combination of Safe as Milk and Mirror Man onto one CD, minus Mirror Man's "Tarotplane." For those who care enough about the Captain to want all or most...
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With yet one final Magic Band lineup in place, featuring Richard Snyder on bass and Cliff Martinez on drums alongside returning vets Tepper and Lucas, Beefheart put the...
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Because live performances from Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band during the '80s are a scarce commodity, Merseytrout: Live in Liverpool 1980, which documents the band's...
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For the sake of argument (and the uninitiated), let's say that musician/sculptor/poet/artist Captain Beefheart has scorched as much musical earth as any artist in the last...
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An unprecedented project in the rock field: a five-CD box set of unreleased material by a cult artist that never had anything close to a chart hit. Of course Captain...
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For the sake of argument (and the uninitiated), let's say that musician/sculptor/poet/artist Captain Beefheart has scorched as much musical earth as any artist in the last...
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Leaving alone the obvious condition that Captain Beefheart's numerous experimental albums aren't as prime for a "best of" treatment as the discographies of most artists are,...
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Electricity is a solid budget-line collection that compiles highlights from Safe as Milk, Mirror Man and the Strictly Personal sessions. While the individual albums will...
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