Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972

• Track Listing

Following his most famous album, Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart displayed an almost dizzying eclecticism as he moved on to another twisted masterwork, Lick My Decals Off, Baby, and then the more accessible, downright soulful 1972 LPs The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot. Here on 4 CDs or 4 vinyl LPs are those three remastered LPs plus a whole disc of collectibles that will send the Captain’s faithful followers into a swoon. On the LPs: I Love You, You Big Dummy; Lick My Decals Off, Baby; Doctor Dark; Bellerin’ Plain; One Red Rose That I Mean; Low Yo Yo Stuff; I’m Gonna Booglarize You Baby; Blabber ’n’ Smoke; the near-Stax sound of Too Much Time; the killer grooves of Nowadays a Woman’s Gotta Hit a Man; Crazy Little Thing, and Long Neck Bottles; the beautiful Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles and My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains, and more. Disc four holds the new discoveries: alternate versions of Alice in Blunderland; Dirty Blue Gene, and Circumstances; instrumental versions of The Witch Doctor Life and You Brought Me to Life; a sung version of I Can’t Do This Unless I Can Do This/Seam Crooked Sam (which became a spoken-word performance on Bat Chain Puller), and more previously unreleased tracks! Rhino/Reprise.