CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND - Safe as Milk (1967-1999) RM / APE (image+.cue), lossless

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." [Buddha's 1999 reissue of Safe as Milk contained restored artwork and seven bonus tracks.]  by Richie Unterberger
Tracklist:
1 Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do 2:15
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
2 Zig Zag Wanderer 2:40
Drum [Log Drum] – Milt Holland
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
3 Call On Me 2:37
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
4 Dropout Boogie 2:32
Drum [Log Drum] – Milt Holland
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
5 I'm Glad 3:31
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
6 Electricity 3:07
Theremin – Sam Hoffman
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
7 Yellow Brick Road 2:28
Percussion [Additional] – Taj Mahal
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
8 Abba Zaba 2:44
Percussion [Additional] – Milt Holland
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
9 Plastic Factory 3:08
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann, Jerry Handley
10 Where There's Woman 2:09
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
11 Grown So Ugly 2:27
Written-By – Robert Pete Williams
12 Autumn's Child 4:02
Guitar – Russ Titelman
Theremin [Probably Played] – Sam Hoffman
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
Bonus Tracks
13 Safe As Milk (Take 5) 4:13
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
14 On Tomorrow 6:56
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
15 Big Black Baby Shoes 4:50
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
16 Flower Pot 3:55
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
17 Dirty Blue Gene 2:43
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
18 Trust Us (Take 9) 7:22
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
19 Korn Ring Finger 7:26
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
Credits:
Arranged By – Don Van Vliet (tracks: 2 to 10, 12 to 19), Ry Cooder (tracks: 1, 11)
Bass – Jerry Handley, Ry Cooder (tracks: 8, 11)
Drums – John French
Guitar – Alex St. Clair Snouffer, Jeff Cotton (tracks: 13 to 19), Ry Cooder (tracks: 1 to 12)
Marimba [Bass] – Captain Beefheart (tracks: 1 to 12)
Mastered By – Elliott Federman
Shenai [Shinei] – Captain Beefheart (tracks: 13 to 19)
Vocals, Harmonica – Captain Beefheart