CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND — Safe as Milk (1967-1999) RM | APE (image+.cue), lossless

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.] Richie Unterberger
Tracklist :
1.     Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do 2:15
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
2.     Zig Zag Wanderer 2:40
Drum [Log Drum] – Milt Holland
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
3.     Call On Me 2:37
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
4.     Dropout Boogie 2:32
Drum [Log Drum] – Milt Holland
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
5.     I'm Glad 3:31
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
6.     Electricity 3:07
Theremin – Sam Hoffman
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
7.     Yellow Brick Road 2:28
Percussion [Additional] – Taj Mahal
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
8.     Abba Zaba 2:44
Percussion [Additional] – Milt Holland
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
9.     Plastic Factory 3:08
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann, Jerry Handley
10.     Where There's Woman 2:09
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
11.     Grown So Ugly 2:27
Written-By – Robert Pete Williams
12.     Autumn's Child 4:02
Guitar – Russ Titelman
Theremin [Probably Played] – Sam Hoffman
Written-By – Don Van Vliet, Herb Bermann
– BONUS TRACKS –
13.     Safe As Milk (Take 5) 4:13
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
14.     On Tomorrow 6:56
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
15.     Big Black Baby Shoes 4:50
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
16.     Flower Pot 3:55
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
17.     Dirty Blue Gene 2:43
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
18.     Trust Us (Take 9) 7:22
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
19.     Korn Ring Finger 7:26
Written-By – Don Van Vliet
Credits :
Arranged By – Don Van Vliet (tracks: 2 to 10, 12 to 19), Ry Cooder (tracks: 1, 11)
Bass – Jerry Handley, Ry Cooder (tracks: 8, 11)
Drums – John French
Guitar – Alex St. Clair Snouffer, Jeff Cotton (tracks: 13 to 19), Ry Cooder (tracks: 1 to 12)
Marimba [Bass] – Captain Beefheart (tracks: 1 to 12)
Mastered By – Elliott Federman
Shenai [Shinei] – Captain Beefheart (tracks: 13 to 19)
Vocals, Harmonica – Captain Beefheart