Beefheart: OP10

Oh, I don't blame you at all...

Devo's cover of Satisfaction got left out.
There was an interview from the late 70s that I read in an issue of Ptolemaic Terrascope in which the interviewer (can't remember who now) was asking Don what he thought about some of the young blood who were exhibiting an influence. Pere Ubu and the Weirdos were mention, iirc, and then Beefheart was like "why did Devo think it was necessary to combine Ant Man Bee with the Rolling Stones Satisfaction?"

The two you are alluding to have a number of highpoints, and only "Bluejeans" has actual filler. (but it's got "ObsCrest", and the title track and and and...)

Oh, those highpoints of both together make for a really great single album, no question. I knew that there were exactly 12 studio albums in the catalog, so the implication that exactly two were dispensible made the choice seem a no-brainer. If that makes any sense.

Moonlight on Vermont
Frownland
Electricity
She's Too Much For My Mirror
Upon The My Oh My
Veteran's Day Poppy
I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby
The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back
Bat Chain Puller
Fallin' Ditch

Gimme Dat Harp Boy
Ashtray Heart
Moonlight In Vermont
Grow Fins
Long Neck Bottles
Electricity
Safe As Milk
Glider
Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles
Dropout Boogie

Captain Beefheart - Mirror Man
^^
this is such a great song. which album has stuff like this?

I've only heard the Pink Pop Festival youtube version so far (5:30s)
I'd probably like any songs like this

it is the title track of the album "Mirror Man", which was supposed to be his 2nd album but didn't come out in its intended form for years.

Pick up the Buddah reissue Mirror Man sessions.
Also check out Strictly Personal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfX5Ymxf4Rg

wd def include^

I finally got around to listening to the whole Mirror Man song and it's like southern fried krautrock :]

Wait till you hear Kandy Korn

oh, I've been listening to that for the past 4 minutes and it's great. I should be listening on my headphones

Zig Zag Wanderer
Electricity
Abba Zabba
Safe As Milk
Trust Us
Kandy Korn
Ella Guru
Moonlight on Vermont
When Big Joan Sets Up
Sugar 'n Spikes

4 minutes? Psh, it's just getting started!

^on the money! Kandy Korn is the definitive explosion of awesomeness inside your head!

Here are twenty-five!

Happy birthday!

Many happy returns, Don.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ml0Lx9l1hI

He had already retired when I spent the summer of 1987 searching record stores for an LP of Trout Mask Replica, and I remember feeling sad when I thought how he really made so few records. That's one reason why I have still held off hearing Bluejeans, Doc and Ice Cream.

You've never heard "Doc at the Radar Station"? You've got to rectify that immediately.

Lots more info incl. links on Captain Beefheart

I'm listening to it to celebrate his 80th! The other two, maybe for his 90th and 100th...