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.
1 Lick My Decals Off, Baby 2:38 - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Lick My Decals Off, Baby (October 1970)
2 Doctor Dark 2:46
3 I Love You, You Big Dummy 2:54
4 Peon 2:24
5 Bellerin' Plain 3:35
6 Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop 2:06
7 Japan In A Dishpan 3:00
- Disc 2 -
1 I Wanna Find A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go 1:53
2 Petrified Forest 1:40
3 One Red Rose That I Mean 1:53
4 The Buggy Boogie Woogie 2:19
5 The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) 2:11
6 Space-Age Couple 2:32
7 The Clouds Are Full Of Wine (Not Whiskey Or Rye) 2:50
8 Flash Gordon's Ape 4:57
- Disc 3 -
1 I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby 4:34 - Captain Beefheart: The Spotlight Kid (February 1972)
2 White Jam 2:57
3 Blabber 'N Smoke 2:48
4 When It Blows It Stacks 3:41
5 Alice In Blunderland 3:55
- Disc 4 -
1 The Spotlight Kid 3:21
2 Click Clack 3:31
3 Grow Fins 3:31
4 There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage 3:13
5 Glider 4:37
- Disc 5 -
1 Low Yo Yo Stuff 3:38 - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Clear Spot (November 1972)
2 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 3:45
3 Too Much Time 2:46
4 Circumstances 3:11
5 My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains 2:57
6 Sun Zoom Spark 2:11
- Disc 6 -
1 Clear Spot 3:35
2 Crazy Little Thing 2:35
3 Long Neck Bottles 3:17
4 Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles 2:54
5 Big Eyed Beans From Venus 4:23
6 Golden Birdies 1:37
- Disc 7 -
1 Alice In Blunderland (Alternate Version) 3:55 - Captain Beefheart: Out-Takes
2 Harry Irene 3:33
3 I Can't Do This Unless I Can Do This / Seam Crooked Sam 2:00
4 Pompadour Swamp / Suction Prints 4:23
5 The Witch Doctor Life 5:27
6 Two Rips In A Haystack / Kiss Me My Love 2:38
7 Best Batch Yet (Track) Version 1 2:18
- Disc 8 -
1 Your Love Brought Me To Life (Instrumental) 3:11
2 Dirty Blue Gene (Alternate Version 1) 2:52
3 Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man (Early Mix) 3:59
4 Kiss Where I Kain't 2:44
5 Circumstances (Alternate Version 2) 3:23
6 Little Scratch 2:57
7 Dirty Blue Gene (Alternate Version 3) 3:03
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.
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