Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band "Safe As Milk" 1967

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. "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." [Buddha's 1999 reissue of Safe as Milk contained restored artwork and seven bonus tracks.] - Review by Richie Unterberger
trax:
01 Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do 02 Zig Zag Wanderer 03 Call On Me 04 Dropout Boogie 05 I'm Glad 06 Electricity 07 Yellow Brick Road 08 ABBA Zaba 09 Plastic Factory 10 Where There's Woman 11 Grown So Ugly 12 Autumn's Child 13 Safe As Milk (Take 5) 14 On Tomorrow 15 Big Black Baby Shoes 16 Flower Pot 17 Dirty Blue Gene 18 Trust Us (Take 9) 19 Korn Ring Finger