Captain Beefheart ( and his Magic Band ) - Mirror Man ( 1971 )

 

Track listing

Original LP

All tracks written by Don Van Vliet and published by Flamingo Music.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tarotplane"	19:08
2.	"Kandy Korn"	8:07

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"25th Century Quaker"	9:50
2.	"Mirror Man"	15:46

Personnel

• Captain Beefheart – vocals, harmonica, oboe
• Alex St. Clair Snouffer – guitar
• Jerry Handley – bass
• John French – drums
• Jeff Cotton – guitar

Additional personnel

• Mark Marcellino – keyboards

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby ( 1970 )

 

Track listing

All songs initially composed by Don Van Vliet. Arranged by Bill Harkleroad.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lick My Decals Off, Baby"	2:38
2.	"Doctor Dark"	2:46
3.	"I Love You, You Big Dummy"	2:54
4.	"Peon" (instrumental)	2:24
5.	"Bellerin' Plain"	3:35
6.	"Woe-is-uh-Me-Bop"	2:06
7.	"Japan in a Dishpan" (instrumental)	3:00

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have to Go"	1:53
2.	"Petrified Forest"	1:40
3.	"One Red Rose That I Mean" (instrumental)	1:52
4.	"The Buggy Boogie Woogie"	2:19
5.	"The Smithsonian Institute [sic] Blues (or the Big Dig)"	2:11
6.	"Space-Age Couple"	2:32
7.	"The Clouds Are Full of Wine (not Whiskey or Rye)"	2:50
8.	"Flash Gordon's Ape"	4:15

Personnel

• Captain Beefheart – vocals, bass clarinet, tenor sax, soprano sax, harmonica
• Zoot Horn Rollo – electric guitar and glass finger guitar
• Rockette Morton – bassius-o-pheilius
• Drumbo – percussion, broom
• Ed Marimba – marimba, percussion, broom

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica ( 1969 )

 

Track listing

All tracks are written by Don Van Vliet and arranged by John French.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Frownland"	1:41
2.	"The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back"	1:53
3.	"Dachau Blues"	2:21
4.	"Ella Guru"	2:26
5.	"Hair Pie: Bake 1" (instrumental)	4:58
6.	"Moonlight on Vermont"	3:59

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Pachuco Cadaver"	4:40
2.	"Bills Corpse"	1:48
3.	"Sweet Sweet Bulbs"	2:21
4.	"Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish"	2:25
5.	"China Pig"	4:02
6.	"My Human Gets Me Blues"	2:46
7.	"Dali's Car" (instrumental)	1:26

Side three

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hair Pie: Bake 2" (instrumental)	2:23
2.	"Pena"	2:33
3.	"Well"	2:07
4.	"When Big Joan Sets Up"	5:18
5.	"Fallin' Ditch"	2:08
6.	"Sugar 'n Spikes"	2:30
7.	"Ant Man Bee"	3:57

Side four

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Orange Claw Hammer"	3:34
2.	"Wild Life"	3:09
3.	"She's Too Much for My Mirror"	1:40
4.	"Hobo Chang Ba"	2:02
5.	"The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)"	2:04
6.	"Steal Softly thru Snow"	2:18
7.	"Old Fart at Play"	1:51
8.	"Veteran's Day Poppy"	4:31
Total length:		78:51

Personnel

Musicians

• Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) – lead and backing vocals, spoken word, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, musette, simran horn, hunting horn, jingle bells, producer (uncredited), engineer (uncredited)
• Drumbo (John French) – drums, percussion, engineer (uncredited on the original release), arrangement (uncredited)
• Antennae Jimmy Semens (Jeff Cotton) – guitar, "steel appendage guitar" (slide guitar using a metal slide), lead vocals on "Pena" and "The Blimp", "flesh horn" (vocal with hand cupped over mouth) on "Ella Guru", speaking voice on "Old Fart at Play"
• Zoot Horn Rollo (Bill Harkleroad) – guitar, "glass finger guitar" (slide guitar using a glass slide), flute on "Hobo Chang Ba"
• Rockette Morton (Mark Boston) – bass guitar, narration on "Dachau Blues" and "Fallin' Ditch"
• The Mascara Snake (Victor Hayden) – bass clarinet, backing vocals on "Ella Guru", speaking voice on "Pena"

Additional personnel

• Doug Moon – acoustic guitar on "China Pig"
• Gary "Magic" Marker – bass guitar on "Moonlight on Vermont" and "Veteran's Day Poppy" (uncredited)
• Roy Estrada – bass guitar on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
• Arthur Tripp III – drums and percussion on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
• Don Preston – piano on "The Blimp" (uncredited)
• Ian Underwood – alto saxophone on "The Blimp" (uncredited/inaudible)
• Bunk Gardner – tenor saxophone on "The Blimp" (uncredited/inaudible)
• Buzz Gardner – trumpet on "The Blimp" (uncredited/inaudible)

Captain Beefheart ( Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band ) - Strictly Personal ( 1968 )

 

Track listing

All tracks are written by Don Van Vliet.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Ah Feel Like Ahcid"	3:05
2.	"Safe as Milk"	5:27
3.	"Trust Us"	8:09
4.	"Son of Mirror Man - Mere Man"	5:20

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"On Tomorrow"	3:27
2.	"Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones"	3:18
3.	"Gimme Dat Harp Boy"	5:05
4.	"Kandy Korn"	5:06

According to the album credits, all songs were written by Don Van Vliet. Lyricist Herb Bermann has contested this, claiming to have written the lyrics to the songs "Safe As Milk", "Trust Us", "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" and "Kandy Korn"

Personnel

• Don Van Vliet – vocals, harmonica
• Alex St. Clair – guitar
• Jeff Cotton – guitar
• Jerry Handley – bass
• John French – drums

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

Track listing

All songs written by Herb Bermann and Don Van Vliet except where noted. All CD bonus tracks written Don Van Vliet.

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do"		2:15
2.	"Zig Zag Wanderer"		2:40
3.	"Call on Me[23]"	Van Vliet	2:37
4.	"Dropout Boogie"		2:32
5.	"I'm Glad"	Van Vliet	3:31
6.	"Electricity"		3:07

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"Yellow Brick Road"		2:28
8.	"Abba Zaba"	Van Vliet	2:44
9.	"Plastic Factory"	Van Vliet, Bermann, Jerry Handley	3:08
10.	"Where There's Woman"		2:09
11.	"Grown So Ugly"	Robert Pete Williams	2:27
12.	"Autumn's Child"		4:02

Personnel

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

• Don Van Vliet – lead vocals, harmonica, marimba, arrangements
• Alex St. Clair Snouffer – guitar, backing vocals, bass (9, 10), percussion
• Ry Cooder – guitar, slide guitar, bass (8), percussion, arrangements
• Jerry Handley – bass (except 8, 10), backing vocals
• John French – drums, backing vocals, percussion

Additional musicians

• Samuel Hoffman – theremin (6, 12)
• Milt Holland – log drum, tambourine, percussion (2, 4 and 8)
• Taj Mahal – tambourine, percussion (7)
• Russ Titelman – guitar (12)