Lick My Decals Off, Baby - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Song: Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1/15)
Album: Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
Artist: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Lick My Decals Off, Baby (Straight, 1970), Beefheart is the sole composer. In a way this is his most intellectual work, because the album takes the traditional topics of blues, eroticism, freedom, trains and nostalgia, and sets them in a modern context of city alienation. Percussionist Artie Tripp (aka Ed Marimba), is added as a formidable complement to French, while Cotton is gone to play in Merrell Fankhauser's MU.
The sound is still fragmented in a myriad of surrealistic miniatures, employing celebrations of Dolphyesque clarinets (Japan In A Dish-plan), of convulsed false notes (Ballerin Plain), of street rallies (The Smithsonian Institute Blues), of absurd guitar solos (One Rose That I Mean). The best of his chamber jazz-blues is found in I Love You Big Dummy, with splendid confrontations between the pirouettes of the clarinet and the gargles of the voice, and in Flash Gordon's Ape, a revolting chaos of anti-rhythms, breath dissonances and free declamations. Beefheart reaches surrealistic heights in The Buggy Boogie Woogie, a meditation in muted tones. Ethnic cues peek through in Peon, a Mexican serenade, and from Woe-is-uh-me-bop and Lick My Decals Off, both with Caribbean flavors.

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[tagomago91]

WHY IS THIS ALBUM OUT OF PRINT?!!

[GlassPike]

His voice is shit hot on this one

[MoralNihilism]

I never realised how amazing this song was until today.

[estvan56]

@Crimzoid21 Most people who don't (or are not capable of) understand(ing) him say stuff like that. You're not alone..........unfortunately.

[Trithiem]

first time hearing this high is fucking amazing, the man was a creative genius

[fat8622]

Why does other music exist when we have Beefheart

[thrakish]

Yes!!!



[DrunkOnPoppySeeds]

Klaus Barbie gave this the thumbs.........down

[SimonThe1st]

Beefheart is up there with The Beatles. Timeless brilliance. This will still be played in 100 years' time if the human race still exists.

[MrKirkenstein]

"she stuck out her tounge and the fun begun..."

there's a line for the ages.

;-)

[reesho]

This is my favorite Beefheart album and perhaps my favorite tune off it. Coming off the boot heels of the ground-breaking Grammy award winning Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off Baby is perhaps more streamlined and certainly just as much a masterpiece in IMHO.

RIP Captain!