by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND
Release Date: 07 August 2021
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Music On Vinyl
£24.99
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND SAFE AS MILK Limited 180gram Audiophile Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
Captain Beefheart's debut album, originally released in 1967, is the most accessible and pop-inflected from his entire catalogue. Still, Safe As Milk is a very strong and heavily blues-influenced work but it also hints on many of the features that would later become the trademarks of Captain Beefheart.
A nice fact is that 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.
The 7 bonus tracks are taken from the sessions for the unreleased 'Brown Wrapper' follow-up album. These tracks had been recorded around November 1967, two months after the release of Safe as Milk's and were from the same sessions that yielded the songs on Mirror Man Sessions [MOVLP260].
The 50th Anniversary edition of Safe As Milk is pressed on Milky White vinyl. Only 1.500 individually numbered copies are available.
180 grams audiophile vinyl
Includes insert
50th anniversary edition of the legendary debut album
Including 7 bonus tracks
Featuring Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal
Featured Tracks:
SIDE A
1. SURE 'NUFF 'N YES I DO
2. ZIG ZAG WANDERER
3. CALL ON ME
4. DROPOUT BOOGIE
5. I'M GLAD
6. ELECTRICITY
SIDE B
1. YELLOW BRICK ROAD
2. ABBA ZABA
3. PLASTIC FACTORY
4. WHERE THERE'S WOMAN
5. GROWN SO UGLY
6. AUTUMN'S CHILD
SIDE C
1. SAFE AS MILK (TAKE 5)
2. ON TOMORROW
3. BIG BLACK BABY SHOES
4. FLOWER POT
SIDE D
1. DIRTY BLUE GENE
2. TRUST US (TAKE 9)
3. KORN RING FINGER
Release Date: 17 July 2021
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: RSD
£19.99
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Format: LP Vinyl
Label: LET THEM EAT VINYL
£6.00
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Format: LP Vinyl
Label: US Import
£9.99
