Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band-Safe As Milk (1967)


 

Artist: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

Title: Safe As Milk

Label: Buddah Records

Format:CD

Cat #: 7446599605-2

Year of Release: 1967

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US CD 1999 reissue with bonus tracks

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 3/14/21

Sell Price: $3.99

Discogs Last Sold: 2/15/21 $9.52

Low: $2.00

Median: $5.00

Average: $6.48

High: $12.99

Current low price: $3.50

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 28

Have/Want: 906/195

Where Sold:n Delaware, OH

Time it took to sell: 6 years

Where and When Bought: consignment collection

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

This is one of those difficult records that never got any easier with CD reissues.  I had an early CD version, this remaster that sold was from a consignment collection.  This was a nice 1999 reissue with bonus tracks after a long history of not getting the respect it deserved.  I bought an early 1985 UK CD copy on the Castle midline label used for $10 in the late 80's.  For my purposes it served me fine.

I hosted Lee Renaldo & Steve Shelly on my radio show on WERS-Boston when Goo came out, and they had all three cd players going with this on one of them.  I can't for the life of me remembering  if the copy played was their copy or mine.  I want to say theirs.  

Beefheart has always been one of those artists where everyone around me loves him but rarely actively listens.  For some reason I managed to get the entire cd reissue catalog before I left Boston, yet none were committed to memory.  I can't tell you why.  Trout Mask Replica probably came the closest, and I probably pulled Shiny Beat or Doc At Radar Station to spin something "adventurous."  Of course, "Muffin Man" was a radio favorite on Bongo Fury but that duo was more Zappa in feel.

But what of the debut that Steve and/or Lee clearly loved enough to have in their pocket to whip out at a moments notice?  Well SY covered "Electricity" but that was not the hit for me.  "Yellow Brick Road" sounds like a Mike Nesmith Monkees track and the percussive "Abba Zabba" are my standouts after about 4 listens.  There are some epics late into the bonus tracks that make a man say to himself, "wow this album is long for 1967, I seem to remember this being a much shorter album."  Then a man suddenly realized that  yes these are the bonus tracks that are still playing.  This makes the modern remastered experience the same lengthwise as Trout Mask Replica.  The length of the bonus tracks are longer than the album itself.

That man doing this thinking was me.

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