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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Sure 'Nuff 'N' Yes I Do | |||
| 2. Zig Zag Wanderer | |||
| 3. Dropout Boogie | |||
| 4. I'm Glad | |||
| 5. Electricity | |||
| 6. Yellow Brick Road | |||
| 7. Abba Zaba | |||
| 8. Plastic Factory | |||
| 9. Trust Us (take 6) | |||
| 10. Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Tarotplane | |||
| 2. Kandy Korn | |||
| 3. Safe As Milk (take 5) | |||
| 4. 25th Century Quaker | |||
| 5. Korn Ring Finger | |||
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Electricity consists of extensive extracts from Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band's earliest album recordings, Safe As Milk and Strictly Personal. Both were recorded for the Buddah label, with A&M having rejected the band's demo tapes as too disconcertingly far out. Ironically, by his later standards, tracks like "Zig Zag Wanderer" and "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" sound relatively straight--gruff, R&B-influenced onslaughts, featuring Ry Cooder on slide guitar. Beefheart's voice and lyrical preoccupations, however, are already highly distinctive--he hollers like a 300-year-old bluesman with a Lewis Carroll-inspired, childlike view of the world. By the time of Strictly Personal and tracks like "Trust Us" and "Moody Liz", The Magic Band were jamming their way into some very odd terrain indeed, a sort of modernist, cubist take on raw blues. Indeed, these were the blueprints for Beefheart's first masterpiece, 1969's Trout Mask Replica. A milestone, this, on the yellow brick road to pure genius. --David Stubbs
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Don Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, was born 15 January 1941 in Glendale, California. Don graduated college in 1959 where he had met an aspiring R&B musician, Frank Zappa, who shared his similar left- field view of the world and would later collaborate on production. Vliet and Zappa moved to Cucamonga, California, where they planned to shoot a film, 'Captain Beefheart Meets The Grunt People'. As the project remained in limbo, Zappa moved to Los Angeles and Vliet returned to the Mohave Desert area, adopted the Beefheart name and formed the first line-up of his backing group The Magic Band. The first Magic Band came together in 1965 and was signed to the A&M Label. But after one successful single release, 'Diddy Wah Diddy', they were dropped and re-signed to Buddha Records. The Magic Band recorded the album 'Safe As Milk', which included musicians John "Drumbo" French and Rising Son's Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal. Eight of the original tracks from 'Safe As Milk' are represented in this collection and the remainder are from his next recording sessions of November 1967.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is a collection of the best tracks from the Captains early records, 'Safe As Milk' and 'Strictly Personal'. If you're not familiar with the works of Captain Beefheart this is a good place to start. 'Zig Zag Wanderer' and the other opening tracks reflect a more straight-edged sound, some would say with an early RnB influence. However, later tracks like 'Trust Us', 'Beatle Bones 'n' Smoking Stones' and 'Yellow Brick Road' really let his unique blues/psychedelic style shines through. The two albums these tracks were tacken from can be seen as the building blocks toward his greatest achievement, the mighty 'Trout Mask Republica'.
This is a great collection of Beefhearts early workings and if your thinking about getting anything by him start here! Then buy 'Trout Mask Republica. You will not be dissapointed.
This is a great collection of Beefhearts early workings and if your thinking about getting anything by him start here! Then buy 'Trout Mask Republica. You will not be dissapointed.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A not so great "Greatest Hits?"
13 Dec 1998
Format:Audio CD
"Electricity" is supposed to be a "best of" of the Captain's early works. It contains excerpts from "Safe As Milk," "Strictly Personal" and "Mirror Man." A muted down (lacking in high frequencies) sound marres this album. While the low hum throughout the CD version of "Safe As Milk" is gone, again this weighed-down sound is a big downer. The selections from "Strictly Personal" are questionable, as I don't own this album. But the instrumentaion and vocal quality is lacking greatly. (this should be expected though, as "Strictly Personal" was never released, but instead edited and stacked with phasing by the producer to may it sound period and complete) The track "Big Black Baby Shoes" is actually an earlier (and far insuperior) version of "Ice Rose" off the album "Bat Chain Puller." And "Dirty Blue Gene" (also the title of a completely different Beefheart song off of "Doc at the Radar Station") is a slighly different instrumental version of "Witch Doctor Life" from "Ice Cream For Crow." Both of these, though musically hideous, are good references to the thought process of the band. The packaging of this album is its best quality. Great for an import. With a nice review and picture of the band from a live show in the 60's. But what ever happened to personell listings??? Buy it if you're cheap, or like pretty pictures or as a completion to your collection. But you'd be better off buying the albums seperately.
Excellent Introduction to 60s Beefheart
3 Aug 2006
Format:Audio CD
I can't think of a better way to introduce yourself to the early Captain. One reviewer has quibbles aplenty with,'Electricity', but while understanding those, not for a moment would I pass up on this 'cheapie'. The soung quality is good to excellent, and the material is right out there with the most consummate stuff the Captain ever produced. The nucleus of, 'Safe is Milk' is here, if you haven't got it.'Sure 'nuff 'n Yes, I do', 'Zig zag' the title track,'Tarot plane,'Kandy Korn', 'Yellow Brick Road', the parody of the Beatles,'Stawberry Fields'; all this razzles and dazzles, just as it did in the 60s. That's presence!
so,so good
2 May 2001
Format:Audio CD
This is a bargain buy if ever there was one. It's cheap (well i got it cheap) and has amazing music, pre-trout replica. If you want an intro to cap and aren't willing to risk a particular album, get this one because it has stuff from 3 albums. Short little songs and long bluesy jamming. Some highlights are 'abba zabba' 'surenuff n yes i do' 'moody liz' 'dropout boogie'. I cannot recommend this cd strongly enough!!
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