Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (1999 CD Version)

Formatted in 320kbps MP3

Track Listing (Asterisk signifies CD Bonus Track)

1: Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do - 0:00
2: Zig Zag Wanderer - 2:15
3: Call On Me - 4:55
4: Dropout Boogie - 7:32
5: I'm Glad - 10:04
6: Electricity - 13:35
7: Yellow Brick Road - 16:42
8: Abba Zaba - 19:11
9: Plastic Factory - 21:55
10: Where There's Woman - 25:04
11: Grown So Ugly - 27:13
12: Autumn's Child - 29:40
13: Safe as Milk (Take 5)* - 33:42
14: On Tomorrow* - 37:56
15: Big Black Baby Shoes* - 44:53
16: Flower Pot* - 49:43
17: Dirty Blue Gene* - 53:39
18: Trust Us (Take 9)* - 56:23
19: Korn Ring Finger* - 1:03:45

This is Buddah Records' remastered reissue of The Magic Band's 1967 debut album, Safe as Milk. The reissue was released in 1999, containing the original 12 tracks, as well as 7 bonus tracks that were originally intended for the unreleased "Brown Wrapper" follow-up album. The bonus tracks were recorded about 2 months after the original release of Safe as Milk, as well as from the same sessions used to record the songs for the 1971 album "Mirror Man".

While more conventional and accessible than Beefheart's later work, Safe As Milk is still an incredible album that introduced the bluesy, idiosyncratic, and experimental groundwork that would be expanded upon in The Magic Band's later work such as Trout Mask Replica. The non-replicable sound of the band can most easily be heard in Electricity, through the Captain's raw, sour vocals, the constantly-changing tempo, and Samuel Hoffman's fitting use of the theremin.

Just this year, Sundazed Music released a mono reissue of the album in both CD and LP format - it's a restoration of the original mono mix owned by the original album producer Richard Perry, featuring an incredibly improved production quality (primarily making Beefheart's vocals mono as opposed to being far-left or far-right as noticeable in the video). You can purchase it at this link:

http://www.sundazed.com/shop/safe-as-milk.php