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Safe As Milk: Remastered
by: Captain Beefheart

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0743216917525
Label: Buddha
Manufacturer: Buddha
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Buddha
Release Date: September 04, 1999
Studio: Buddha
Sales Rank: 3508

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Mirror Man: the Mirror Man Sessions/Remastered

Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
"I may be hungry, but I sure ain't weird," Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, famously intones on this bright-sounding re-mastered version of the 1967 debut by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. Safe as Milk is a bold, tough-ass distillation of Delta blues stomp and 1960s garage-punk swagger, fused with a radically polyrhythmic and tempo-shifting style that one might term "art rock". Listening to the delightfully playful, absurdist "Abba Zabba", it's easy to see why Lester Bangs called Beefheart "the only true dadaist in rock"; the song is a good indication of the intricate, rule-breaking music the Magic Band would continue to hone. But there are also formidable ballads (the psychedelic "Autumn's Child", the lachrymose "I'm Glad"), mid-tempo pop-soul tunes (the Otis Redding-ish "Call on Me"), and straight-ahead blues-rock workouts ("Plastic Factory"), all of which showcase the fretwork of a young Ry Cooder. Much has been made of Beefheart's multiple-octave vocal range; he sings menacingly on "Dropout Boogie" and allegedly broke a very expensive microphone on the eerie "Electricity". The last seven tracks on this reissue (for the most part fascinating, unfinished instrumentals) were recorded with a different line-up; they are outtakes from Mirror Man Sessions. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A moment in time
Nothing more to add except legend has it that when he was asked by a journalist ... Whats so safe about milk ?? the captain growled back
' Ever tried paraffin on your cornflakes ?? '

The rest is history!!

Rating:

- Safe?
This album is about as safe as a vile of acid. Also filled with flesh eating bacteria. In the mouth of a T-rex. Get where I'm going with this? You do? Then we are on the same level my friend.

This was the first album released by the genius, Captain Beefheart, and it's a great place to start if you are a bit scared of where too. Which, you probably will be after reading some of the stuff people have written about his music. Yes, it is sometimes a little horrible to listen to and, especially on his later albums, you won't always instantly hear the music underneath. This isn't Abba. This isn't even Frank Zappa. Though, if you're a Frank Zappa fan you are bound to like some of this. But, like I said, this was his first album and it ... Read More:

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- New favourite band
Amazing. I have found my new favourite band, thanks to seeing the film "Captain Beefheart: Under Review".

This is EXACTLY the kind of music I like. It seems criminal that I should be 29 years old before I hear this music, but at the same time I'm glad because it shows that there are still amazing things to discover.

This music is so groovy yet so complex at the same time that I just find it irresistible. The first track, "Sure 'Nuff N' Yes I Do" is a little throwaway, but once you get to "Zig Zag Wanderer" you're just grooving. It sounds so fresh, and just blows anything else out of the water. I used to think The Doors were good, but compared to this... they just seem so lame!

Since I've been listening ... Read More:

Rating:

- Great, Great, Album; Shame About the Extras.
Firstly I have to state that this is not just one of my all-time favourite Beefheart albums, it is one of my all-time favourite albums full-stop.

It has got it all, strange yet very easy to like, and with repeated listening it grows and grows. I never tire of hearing it.
Why was I going to give four stars, not five?
Well one reviewer says that a plus-point with this release is that it is 70+mins long whereas the original is 34 mins long.
Unfortunately the extra material added here adds NOTHING to the original. Worse it actually takes up valuable time you could spend listening to something worthwhile (like the proper album for example).

If you read the notes that come with the album they actually tell ... Read More:

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- Far out in spades - take yourself there
The Magic Captain is wierd (wired?) & strange by any popular measure but this first album is more accessible than Trout Mask or Strictly Personal or even the Spotlight Kid. Whoever takes any notice of popular measure anyhow. Critics invariably get it wrong, and maybe this review is no different. Check it out for yourself.

Really there are so many varied opinions about this album that there's little sense to be made of them all. The only opinion that counts is yours but, for what it's worth, I think this is five star stuff. But then wierd & strange is okay by me (I still like Syd Barrett!) It's certainly original, unique, unusual and powerful.

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