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.]
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I'm always surprised when people don't know who Captain Beefheart is. I have early memories of my mother relating to me an exchange which takes place on the seminal Trout Mask Replica, culminating in the words: 'That's right, the Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous!' She even did the voices. Well, if the Trout Mask Replica is the one everyone talks about, Safe as Milk is the one they listen to. And...
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