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~ Captain Beefheart
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  • Audio CD (7 April 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: SPV Yellow
  • ASIN: B0013FSVTI
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 168,150 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Electricity, 23 Jan 2007
This review is from: Electricity (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.
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