Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Safe As Milk (CD)
Captain Beefheart's debut album, originally released in 1967, is the most accessible and pop-inflected of his entire catalogue. Still, Safe As Milk is a very heavily blues-influenced work but it also hints at what was to come.
Not only did a 20-year old Ry Cooder play bass & guitar on "Abba Zaba" and "Grown So Ugly", he also arranged the latter as well as "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do". Also, Cooder's role in the recording process was 'to translate the Captain's wilder notions to the rest of the band and generally acts as musical director'. With him as a supervisor, the sessions proceeded more or less smoothly and Safe As Milk was recorded within a month.
Fun fact; the album appears in the 2000 film High Fidelity as an album that the character Barry, played by Jack Black, continually refuses to sell to a customer, whom he deems unsuitable to own it.
- Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do
- Zig Zag Wanderer
- Call On Me
- Dropout Boogie
- I'm Glad
- Electricity
- Yellow Brick Road
- Abba Zaba
- Plastic Factory
- Where There's Woman
- Grown So Ugly
- Autumn's Child
- Safe As Milk (Take 5)
- On Tomorrow
- Big Black Baby Shoes
- Flower Pot
- Dirty Blue Gene
- Trust Us (Take 9)
- Korn Ring Finger