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Type Beefheart into youtube and you'll typically get TMR and Safe as Milk at the top (depending on your location and profile). There's 0.75 of one good track on Safe as Milk and TMR is merely a sketchbook compared to the masterpieces to come.

Let's go:

* Shiny Beast

* Lick My Decals Off, Baby

* Doc at the Radar Station

* Ice Cream For Crow

These are, unconditionally, guaranteed, the best Beefheart albums



I have a real soft spot for Autumn's Child, and I also really like Call on Me and I'm Glad; plus, you get some awesome Ry Cooder moments on Safe as Milk.

But, you've nailed my favorite Beefheart period (Shiny Beast-Ice Cream for Crow), and Shiny Beast stands apart as my favorite (The Floppy Boot Stomp, Tropical Hot Dog Night, Bat Chain Puller, Apes-Ma, etc.). During this period, his work had a balance and maturity - without sacrificing much of his quirkiness.


Absurd. On Safe as Milk, Abba Zabba is 100% a great song, and most of the other songs are decent.


Safe as Milk isn't a work of genius but it's a perfectly serviceable blues rock album




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