Notes: The 1999 Buddha rerelease added seven bonus tracks: “Safe As Milk,” “On Tomorrow,” “Big Black Baby Shoes,” “Flower Pot,” “Dirty Blue Gene,” “Trust Us (Take 9),” and “Korn Ring Finger.”
Review:
“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” (Unterberger).
“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” (Unterberger).
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