Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Safe As Milk



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 it's exactly normal and straightforward. Featuring Ry Cooder on guitar, this is blues-rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk-rock influences than he would employ on his more avant-garde outings. "Zig Zag Wanderer," "Call on Me," and "Yellow Brick Road" are some of his most enduring and riff-driven songs, although there's plenty of weirdness on tracks like "Electricity" and "Abba Zaba."



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3 comments:

M i r n a said...

are you a fan of the beatles?

Ryan said...
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Ryan said...

I like 'Trout Mask Replica' better. I have a cd track of a radio show hosted by Johnny Stingray from Kaos, where Beefhart and El Duce from The Mentors call up.