180 grams audiophile vinyl / Insert / Contains 7 bonus tracks (LP2)

 

Beefheart's debut album, originally released in 1967, was the most accessible and pop inflected of all the releases from his 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. Not only did a 20-year old Ry Cooder play bass and 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.

 

Side 1

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 2

1. Yellow Brick Road

2. Abba Zaba

3. Plastic Factory

4. Where There's Woman

5. Grown So Ugly

6. Autumn's Child

 

Side 3

1. Safe As Milk (Take 5)

2. On Tomorrow

3. Big Black Baby Shoes

4. Flower Pot

 

Side 4

1. Dirty Blue Gene

2. Trust Us (Take 9)

3. Korn Ring Finger