Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby

It took me a long time to like Beefheart, a friend had tried playing me some maybe twenty years ago, and as open headed as I was I couldn't take it at the time, then John Peel decided to play 'Trout Mask Replica,' one track a night on his show, and hearing it in this bite sized way made me love it and buy a copy. Then one day in the early 90's in a record shop in Belfast just up from Queen's I found this in the racks, and something moved me buy it, though I'd never even heard of it. I couldn't play it until I got back to England, but when I did I fell head over heals in love with it. - It had all the experimental qualities of 'Trout,' but somehow more compressed and accurate, and there were these little instrumentals that touched the heart with their angular notes, for we have angular parts that don't always get much light shining into them.. I am constantly amazed that this album isn't available on CD, so here you go, if you don't have it, sit in a good armchair, in good two dollar room, with a good two dollar broom and give it 39 minutes of your two dollar time.

Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Doctor Dark
I Love You, You Big Dummy
Peon
Bellerin' Plain
Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop
Japan In A Dishpan
I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go Petrified Forest
One Red Rose That I Mean
The Buggy Boogie Woogie
The Smithsonian Institute Blues
Space-Age Couple
The Clouds Are Full Of Wine (Not Whiskey Or Rye)
Flash Gordon's Ape

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