Safe as Milk

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Description: Safe as Milk is the debut album by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, originally released in 1967. It is a heavily blues-influenced work, but also hints at many of the features—such as surreal lyrics and odd time signatures—that would later become trademarks of Beefheart's music. The album is also notable for the involvement of a 20-year-old Ry Cooder, who plays guitar and wrote some of the arrangements. ... (more)

Manufacturer: Buddha
Release date: 1 September 1967
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0744659960529 UPC: 744659960529

Tags: 1967 (4), Blues Rock (2), 1960s (1), Psychedelic Rock (1), Psych (1), Cult (1), Blues (1), Cd (1), Chris (1), Debut (1), Psychedelic (1)

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50 Essential Albums of 1967 (50 music items)

"This debut album could have been Captain Beefheart's ticket to ride, the bellowing singer and dada-blues lyricist's 1967 breakthrough. Co-produced with offbeat, commercial nuance by Richard Perry (his first big job on the way to Number Ones for Ringo Starr and Carly Simon) and featuring a young Ry Cooder on lead guitar, Safe as Milk was a thrilling whiplash of cheerfully craggy electric blues and twisted-pop ambition. But Safe as Milk never charted, inaugurating Beefheart's life sentence as a cu"