Safe As Milk

Very weird album but judging by the artist's name and album title this comes as no surprise. Despite its oddities, I am enjoying this album so far. While it's a very interesting and unique sound and I'm happy having experienced it once, I don't think this is something I'd listen to again.

Som das antiga, legalzinho mas não muito meu estilo

Precies gek genoeg dat het leuk blijft!

Largely cathartic for me. As you know I dated Shelley Beefheart for 4 years and she made me cum a lot. Captain Beefheart was always a bit of a prick to me because I was fisting his sister.

Interesting

I hadn't listened to this before. It sounds like Beefheart, but with the rough edges filed off. It gives you an idea that without the madness, he'd be a good bluesman. But the weirdness is so much more fun.

More listenable than I was expecting based upon prior Cpt Beefheart experience.

Captain Beefheart is an artist that has been on my list for trying to get into. I've tried to listen to Troutmask Replica a few times, with little success. It is the musical equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses; lauded by some, but impenetrable and difficult. Maybe starting with Troutmask is jumping into the deep end too soon, so I was glad to see this come up on the list. I wanted to give the Captain a real chance with a more approachable record. So, sitting down to really listen (and I listened through three times), this album I really liked. It sounds like some of the edgier rock of 1967 (Zappa, Velvets), but more firmly rooted in the blues. The Captain's vocals are surreal and gruff (obviously influence on later Tom Waits), but not so far out into left field as to be incomprehensible. MVP is Ry Cooder, whose playing is superb, and you can tell the songs that he did the arrangements for. Standout tracks: Sure Nuff 'n Yes I Do, Dropout Boogie, Electricity, Plastic Factory and the cover of Grown So Ugly. Enjoyed, would listen again, and feeling better prepared for Troutmask when it turns up on the list.

I hate country

Pretty good

Reminds me a lot of Love, or Mothers Of Invention, but I like both of those bands' sound more. "Where There's Woman" was the only song I ended up saving.

Buen album

Weird, bluesy and a bit psychedelic. Nice one

Its pretty experimental, though not too wild - I guess thats his charm. However, some misses on here too.

Had to dig up a mono release because the stereo mixing was way too aggressive for headphones, but overall pretty fun weird folky mishmash thing

Call on Me is a fun time. So is Yellow Brick Road - very much enjoying the rhyming in that one. Whatever they're doing to their guitars in Dirty Blue Gene is pretty funky and fairly interesting. Love the band name.

Delightfully weird. I love the blues but its probably not this i would be putting on if i want to listen to blues, still good tho

This album was pretty decent. Had a bunch of different styles played throughout. Overall I felt it to have strong blues vibes while still having a classic prick sound. Overall not really any song in particular stood out but for this album coming out in the 60s it felt ahead of its time. 6.3/10

Not into this

Good

I'm Glad, Zig Zag Wanderer and Sure 'Nuff 'n' Yes, I do are standouts on this album

Quel retour fracassant de Victor MacBernik. Après des années de disette, la faute à l'arrêt du programme "La Famille Pirate", Victor s'est vu redonner une chance de démontrer l'étendu de son talent. Le moins que l'on puisse dire, c'est qu'il a su saisir l'opportunité qui s'offrait à lui. Sur le titre Electricity, il viendra absolument tout donner, nous offrant un "EEEEEEEEEEEElectriciTYYYYYYYY" des plus merveilleux, qui ne manquera pas d'être repris par petits et grands. Je n'ai qu'un mot: bravo.

art-blues? zappa like sounds on some songs but very bluesy

This was interesting, kind of a bluesey experimental album. I'm guessing that Captain Beefheart enjoyed his share of drugs during the making of this. The (7!) bonus tracks made the album way too long.

Great debut record. Mixes genres (psychedelic rock, garage rock, doo-wop, r&b, etc.). Pretty accessible for a Captain Beefheart record, but is just enough “out there” to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Not my favorite

Weird but accessible? I liked it I think?

It's fine. Vanilla Zappa, but it's a relatively decent listen.

Normally I like late 60's experimental/psychedelic/garage music, but this didn't do much for me. It was probably pretty cool when it first came out but it hasn't aged well. Didn't hate it, but didn't enjoy it much either. 3 stars.

After trout mask replica this one had me scared, but it was surprisingly good!

This was good... just show me the next band though.

Liked it more than I thought I would. Some pretty interesting stuff in this album

3.5/5

Eclectic, inventive and quite interesting

Echt te oude poprock. Klinkt als beatles/kinks maar dan wat minder poppy en bij vlagen beetje raar/experimenteel. 3*

More accessible than I thought it was gonna be, especially in terms of the instrumentals (which I really enjoyed!), but gets a little weird around half way through. Some of the vocals became a bit grating after a while.

It is a decent album with some interesting aspects to it and good bass. But overall I don't think it is all too special. "I'm Glad" is probably the track that I like the most, but the one that feels like it belongs on the album the least.

I got to learn where the Black Keys heard some of their initial cover songs from. The music was interesting with lots of range and good to have in the background.

I was expecting some noisy, annoying shit from Captain Beefheart. My college roommate was into him and I hated that shit. Fortunately, CBH hadn’t yet hit his disdainful stride for this debut album and it’s very listenable. I actually like it and I would gladly listen to this album again. CBH shows his eccentricities in his varied song styles: delta blues, soul, and psychedelic rock. The weirdness is there just not fully formed yet…thankfully.

In it's core the album is a (country) blues rock album with somethimes some songs with soul influences. But what's up with the troatsinging!? Some song are pretty... experimental to say the least. It has some ups and downs in de amount of experimental sound. Also worth noting that the album has some nice instrumental songs at the end of the album. Overall opinion: It's a decent album, nice to have listened a few times but I won't look it up again any time soon.

Well . . . I'm glad that's over. I'm gonna wash out my ears with some Howlin' Wolf. There were some moments of pure brilliance though. The horns on I'm Glad were fantastic.

Kicked off with some really filthy delta blues. I was thinking this was a sure 4, maybe 5. But for all the songs that totally killed it there were others that just devolved into BS late 60s psychedelia and more avant garde stuff. Not that there isn't a place for that. But it make me love the album as much as I thought I would.

I found very little to enjoy in this album. It just sounded like a group of musically stunted people having a jam session on instruments they weren't very familiar with. My father-in-law loves this band so I was expecting a lot more from this album, which probably didn't help. I did make it all the way through, so it wasn't at 'The Cramps' level of shittiness.

Started ok, then became weird, but not the kind of weird that’s interesting, more the kind of weird that made me want to turn it off.

Tää oli aivan mahdoton albumi. Tarkoittaen, etten osannu päättää, onks tää kaksi vai neljä tähteä. Kolme on väärin, tää ei ole niin mid. Tää on joko huono tai hyvä. Tällä kertaa se taitaa taipua kuitenkin huonon puolelle. Koin sellaista vuoristorataa, kulmakarvojen kohottelua ja tahattomia naurahduksia, etten oikein osaa ottaa tätä tosissaan. Enkä tiiä onko tarkoituskaan, musiikinhan kuuluu olla myös hauskaa. Mut jotenkin nyt sitten lopulta tää tuntu työläämmältä kuin olisi ollut tarpeen.

Vaarallinen vegaaneille.

En erityisemmin pitänyt tästä albumista 🙂 Jostain syystä palasin vielä uusintakierrokselle ja todettakoon että ekat kolme biisiä on ihan jeppis kampetta ja Yellow Brick Roadista pidin kanssa (ja ihmetellessä tuttuutta selvis et onkin Ihmemaa Oz viittaus kuten Eltonillakin). Mut jotenkin noi pörinät ja rämistelyt ei nyt tähän hätkeen oikeen lähtenny.

Huumorimussiikkia? En oo kuunnellu M.A. Nummista mut se tuli tästä vibasta mieleen. Outo mut pari tarttuvaakin juttua.

The instrumental tracks were okay. The rest...not for me.

Fine

Aged milk

Not really a group or an album I remember too well, but I can hear some influence on groups like The Yardbirds and maybe The Kinks. They're clearly trying to do something different than early sixties British Invasion, but it sometimes seems they are throwing a few too many things at the wall, sometimes even in a single song.

(3/7) bluesy

was legit dreading this after Trout Mask Replica a few weeks back. this ain't too bad at all.

i am lactose

these kinds of albums are tough to rate for me. i didn't mind it but i wasn't engaged at all. i've never heard of this band and upon doing research i see why: their lineage and influence isn't in my wheelhouse either. a generous interpretation is "cool opportunity to explore a band / album / genre that i know little about". however, i'm not feeling the exploration at the moment, so it just kind of feels like an unrecognizable slog. if i was more engaged at another time, i could see this being received much better.

1.9, not the best, it was okay for some parts but most songs really dragged on and tested my patience

So much better than the other Captain Beefheart album we had, but still not that great. There’s a lot of promise in the instrumentals, but then the Captain’s vocals bring you crashing back down. Also enjoyed this one being less weird.

Better than the last Captain Beefheart album. The music is fine but the vocals are rough. It's like ordering a stack of pancakes and topping it with hot sauce.

maybe it's because I haven't had my coffee yet but this album is really pissing me off.

Nah

eh i liked one i forget the name

Didn't mind this, pretty dirty blues. High 2s.

Ik hoor vooral het geluid van gitaartjes en daar achter ergens een blues zanger. Ik weet nog niet wat ik er van vind. Klinkt allemaal wat rommelig, maar stoort ook weer niet echt. Het nummer Electricity (waar blijkbaar veel over te doen is) klinkt wel lekker melodieus, maar de tekst is ook hier amper te verstaan. **

When this is purely blues then I quite like it but an hour of weirdness does not land for me the same way that The Residents did. It feels forced, almost like it goes out of its way to sound bad. 2/5 - would not buy or listen to again.

Pleasantly surprised, thought it would be bad but I like the style, second half drops off quite a bit though

If this album were fully instrumental, it would be a 5/5

I’ve only ever heard the lore of Captain Beefheart, but never an album by him, so I was surprised when the first couple of songs were decent. But then it was like, ohhhhh, yeah, there it is. Rough.

Interesting, whole new flavor of the blues for sure. The album starts off really good, ebjoyed the first few tracks quite a bit, then it took a turn about a third of the way through and spiraled out of control from there. Crazy stuff but I must say the ride was okay, bit rough, but Beefheart kept me interested most of the album. However, the lows on the album are absolutely terrible. There are songs on here that are complete nonsense, just pointless and ridiculous. He must have blown people's minds in 1967, I'll give him that.

Offers nothing to me personally

suspect i am going to hate this :) Not as mad as i thought but not my thing

A few bright spots but overall not very captivating.

Bijzonder saaie bluesrock, ga ns weg.

I'm not a fan of old bluesy stuff like this.

Dear god is this obnoxious. And this ain’t even Trout Mask Replica.

Didn't like this, I get that it's somewhat experimental but I can't vibe with this. There's not a point in the album where I feel connected woth this album at all. That being said, it is not awful there is parts to it which work more than others but it doesn't mesh overall. I won't listen to this again, sorry to the big fans of this. Fav Track: Electricity

לדאבוני לא כזה אהבתי

I like what they attempt to do but not how they do it.

I have a mate who loves these guys. Don’t get it personally

Keiuna Hnung was das ist, irgendwelcher Sound der nicht einzuordnen ist

I can hear the influence

Maybe I'm just grumpy today and not in the mood for these shenanigans but this just didn't hit.

Best Song: Abba Zaba. Despite myself, I kind of liked the nonsense lyrics here. Worst Song: Electricity. Who wants to hear this pack-a-day smoker wheeze out "electricity" for three minutes? Overall: The kind of experimentalism that I don't like. "Look how goofy and drug-addled we are". Great. Do something interesting with it. Not just a 70 minute slog of slightly silly dad rock.

Yeah it was alright, it’s VERY 60’s. instrumentals are great but i don’t really care for beefhearts vocals. I’m gonna drop it below the decent ranking of 3 stars because theres very few tracks of this hour long list that i actually care for. Standouts are zigzag wanderer, i’m glad and dirty blue gene.

Meh.

Boy, this album started so promising... but turns out to be an exercise in disappointment. The opening track is a straight ahead blues tune with some cool slide guitar. I thought sure, I'm on board with this. The following tracks were good in a similar manner. The song Electricity is nice, featuring some Moog synthesizer -- I have to imagine this is some of the first use of it in pop music. But in the same song the singer starts using this whooping vocalization that makes the song virtually unlistenable. The rest of the album falls into endless repetition. There are some instrumental jams on the back half that I would normally be down with, but they aren't very imaginative and aren't played with any particular skill. This is such a contrast with Birth of the Cool yesterday in which improvisation is used, but is thoughtful and features impeccable playing skill. The opening third would be a high 3 even pushing 4. But the back end of this really sounds like they were just padding the decent material with filler to complete an album length release. It's really too bad.

pretty rough, prog rubbish

Deeply weird - but I don't hate it.

It’s fine, but I can’t imagine I’ll think to listen to it again.

There were parts of this that were legitimately funny to listen to, but musically it was just alright. It was like listening to early Pink Floyd or the Doors but not good. Also what does safe as milk even mean.

I don't really care for this album. But I did quite like "I'm Glad" but that's mostly due to the backups.

Zzz

More crass imitation of black American blues. Nothing special.

This album started out in the hole because I hate Trout Mask Replica so much. The guy’s stupid Wolfman Jack voice also didn’t do it any favors. Wikipedia says he sings in five octaves or whatever but I don’t know what an octave is and I think his voice sucks. All that being said, this was pretty inoffensive blues rock, so I didn’t hate it too much. But still, fuck Captain Beefheart.

This was weird.

Kinda cool, quite forgettable.

Num curti não, achei cansativo, barulhento. Na primeira música eu até achei que tinha potencial, eu até que curto o estilo, mas aí as músicas foram ficando mais bagunçadas, barulhentas mesmo. Achei paia. PS: Exageraram pra cacete no stereo também, de modo que chegou a me incomodar, tipo tacavam 100% do vocal pra um lado só, por exemplo. Apesar de obviamente esse esquema stereo ser comum, e geralmente deixar a música muito mais rica, acho que normalmente as músicas não jogam tanto assim pra um lado só, porque me gerou uma sensação mó esquisita, de desequilibrio.

This is unabashedly odd, and something I really wish I liked. That being said, I was not into it 4 months ago, and I don't think I've come around on it since then. It is cool though, respect to Captain Beefheart and also his magic band. If you're looking for a litmus test from the album, throw on Electricty.

No. 162 I don't understand what it means to be safe as milk. I don't understand a lot of things about this album.

Is it typical 60s rock band? Is it a folk album? Is it a blues / soul album? Is it country? I'm not too sure. this album is all over the place in its consistency. it's not fun to listen to. The individual songs are decent, but it just feels like 19 songs randomly picked to be put onto an LP.

I genuinely don’t know where to start with this album. It’s kind of a hodge podge of genres and styles; some better, some worse. Clearly talented, but I’d say I enjoyed maybe half the songs and didn’t really engage with the other half.

Maso

it would seem than an avant-garde bluesy rock album should sound interesting but damn it's just boring.

Very gravely, mix between twangy and metal - odd. I didn't hate it but it wasn't great.

Eh

Strong start then lost interest

Listened while in the car, so I was not givingthe music my full attention. What I heard was variable, a strong start which petered out. John Peel was a huge fan while at his most influential. But not really for me.

There were some quite annoying sequences that got repeated over and over for a long period of time. That definitely sullied my opinion some. This isn't my style. When the instrumentals got interesting, the vocals were annoying. So it just kinda missed for me.

Not sure I could think of a worse name for a band

Not super impressed with this one, I started at three stars but became less interested the more I listened to it. It’s fine I guess, 2 stars (barely)

Weird 70’s vibe

1.5

Encore du rock des années 70 un peu granuleux un peu unky... "I'm Glad" est sympathique mais le reste on s'ENNUIE.

I have nothing to say. I listened. It was unremarkable.

Wow this is… not good. Weird =/= good

Idk man it reeeeeally dragged on and it is so all over the place. The songs are short so sometimes by the time I registered that it’s a new song and got the hang of it, the song ends and another song plays.

Love the names, but too long and didn’t care much for the end

This was funky, ranging from unpleasant listening to interesting and cool. Given that it came out in 1967, I can see how it would have been revolutionary and led the way towards how modern music sounds. However, I wouldn’t choose to listen again.

Hmm. Not sure at all

nah

Weird and strange but also fun at points. Won’t be returning to listen again likely but I’m not so off put by this.

Not for me. Bit too experimental for my taste. Dropout Boogie lived up to its name and did like another couple of songs but I can’t see myself returning to this one

The Grateful Dead’s worst album, which is not on this list, is better than this slop. MI6, you win again.

I thought Zig Zag Wanderer and Yellow Brick Road were fun, although not sure they were actually good. Instrumentals at the back-end we're awful.

Too much beef, not enough heart.

Delta blues prison boyfriend vibes. Similar to other rock faves; doors, stones, dire straights… but weird and unhinged

Some of the vocals really pissed me off

Weird, wacky, but doesn’t quite click with me. Possibly the best band name of all time though

I don’t really know what to say… Sounds like typical 60-s band. Good songs… Unfortunately, I never listen to lyrics and I don’t recognize most of it.

This was surprisingly very average. I was expecting a little more.

Low grade 60s British album. Not worth listening to really

Heard worse but it does not really stick and his vocie get pretty annoying at times. "i'm glad" was pretty decent so it's a good addition to "1001 decent albums that you might want to listen to before you die".

Like a fever dream. Favourite track: I'm Glad

It's alright. It's pretty standard 60's psychedelicish music to me. Maybe there is some history I'm missing. I'd never even heard of them until I got to the list. So I'm betting they are someone's favorite band. It's alright. Nothing that made me want to listen to more of them.

Not my cup of tea

I would have said mercifully short if it didn't feel like 3 hours long instead of 33 minutes. Music not bad, but come on. Probably an acquired taste.

get me out of here

Well, a step up from Trout Mask Replica, actually can listen to it

204/1089 Having heard about the reputation of Trout Mask Replica, I was a bit disappointed that this album was so normal. It’s a fine 60s boyband pop album but doesn’t particularly interest or excite memaybe i need to return to this in the future knowing what to expect 24/100

Weird. Very 60’s. Didn’t like the singer’s voice.

I respect the weirdness of this, but I just... didn't like the sound. Bluesy rock doesn't click for me. So this is a 2 for my taste, but they do seem like an interesting band.

Yet to reach its fullest potential

Sometimes okay to listen to, sometimes a little irritating.

A good band that hired the local beggar of the neighborhood to do the vocals.

Trotz einiger interessanter Momente – etwa der eigenwilligen Stimme von Beefheart und der rohen Energie der Band – wirkt das Album insgesamt unausgereift. Die Produktion ist dünn, die Songs schwanken zwischen ambitioniert und unausgegoren, und die Mischung aus Blues-Riffs und psychedelischen Ideen bleibt oft holprig.

Weird. But I listened to the whole thing. I was never into Captain Beefheart - thought he was a Frank Zappa wanna be, and never came close. This did get better near the end of the album, but I'm not going to go back and try to find 'the good stuff'.

This was not my cup of tea. Kind of hard to describe. I didn't really like the old tiney shouty bluesness of it all

na

Just okay not really for me. 4.1/10

Já tinha ouvido falar do captain Beefheart por conta de Frank zappa. O álbum é diferente, bem experimental.

Pleasant and goofy at its best - some funny vocal deliveries are probably the highlight. For as large as the Trout Mask Replica legend looms large (still haven’t had that one yet), this is pretty normative. I don’t know, I think there are better, more impactful listening experiences if you really want a late 60’s psych rock record. Of which there are aplenty on this list

This was a weird listen. Interesting but disjointed. Not for me

Some shit Drew would like

This was a strange album. I might have to come back to it cuz I really didn’t know what I was expecting.

Favorite songs: I'm Glad, Abba Zaba

2.5

Another questionable inclusion. Fave track: Call On Me

Somebody get me a horse and a real cowboy.

Interesting music from the 60's. Some cool riffs. Can see how it was influential. A bit too manic for my taste.

Blues to start. I’m not the biggest fan of this right off the bat. Listening to the mono version just because the panning is obnoxious. The rest of the album feels like this too. Very stones-like and the stones aren’t fantastic. They’re passable with a few good songs.

This only gets a 2 because the instrumental tracks weren't bad. The songs with vocals were just obnoxious.

Certifiably strange, but also kind of … intriguing?

i spose i can see why this was crazy to listen to 60 years ago, but it doesn't do anything for me

No thanks

Good, but not my thing.

went into this with a scowl on my face after troutmask and was pleasantly surprised to discover some actual songs on here instead of noisy dicking around. it's still mostly the kind of 60s rock that drives me up the wall, but it is at least a listenable album.

Second star is for not being Trout Mask Replica

I've heard of Captain Beefheart over the years but never heard any of their music. It's difficult to pin a style on this. Best I could come up with is Blues mixed with some Rolling Stones and The Kinks, but even that's not close. Musically it's not a bad album but I just found lots of the vocals, e.g. Electricity, and lyrics, e.g. Abba Zaba, a bit too weird. There was a lot of weird music in the 60's so perhaps this shouldn't be surprising.

Okay ... so this is either an acquired taste, or something where you had to have been there to get it. I love lots of 60s experimental music, but this I just don't get!

Weird

A little more accessible than Trout Mask Replica but still weird enough to annoy.

I wanted to like it, but it didnt work for me

Not my thing. But funky

I liked I'm Glad, didn't really click with me otherwise

It started off okay but at some point, I actively wanted it all to stop listening. I got to the bonus tracks and didn't even bother with them...

The nicest thing I can say about this one is it’s probably not the worst album on the list so far

Some interesting moments, but some moments that needed to be skipped.

Funky stuff. Its just about ok.

Don't love it. Bluesier than I was expecting and definitely less weird, but not enough to put me over the top and say anything too kind about it.

I agree with the user who mentioned in their review that drugs would have helped while listening to this album lol. I like blues rocks/R&B but this wasn't for me. I found it to be pretty unpleasant to listen to most of the time. I liked the theremin. I just listened to the original 33 minute album, not the bonus tracks that would have made it longer than an hour. Guess I should brace myself for when I get Trout Mask Replica from what I've read so far.

It was different, I found myself less engaged and just enjoyed it in the background

Definitely better than Trout Head Replica but by the 2nd or 3rd song I was already skipping ahead to the next song after hearing the beginning of each successive song. 2.5/5

gad denkt ou naai. aber alles wo de ry cooder druf isch cha nöd soo scheisse sii. erste track premium slide ry intro. ich lieb de dude. he s sind zum teil kohärenti songs?? i'm glad isch en song song so. und finden nice :). aso vlt mess ich wells de captain beefheart isch au chli andersch. electricity meega cooli giti. wie hesch mit 20i scho so en eigene sound. abba zaba isch chli ass gad. de captain mues amel scho chli extra schräg sii. schochli dum. plastic factory tönt wieder bluesig, verzerrt mega geil. aber de captain singt weird und ich find s git etz besseri bluesrock songs. nüt bsunders. ha die letste paar au ehner ustuschbar beefheartig gfunde. weiss nöd ganz wiso dem typ so viel platz geh wird.

I read in the liner notes that Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet) had difficulty finding a label to release “Safe As Milk” because it was too unconventional. That surprises me, because to me it sounds like a normal blues rock album with great guitar sound (Ry Cooder!) and poorly produced vocals. The experimental elements I expected are few and far between and, for my taste, not well placed. You could probably describe the Captain's singing style as “experimental,” but in my opinion, that would just be a nice way of saying that he doesn't measure up to the Magic Band and their songs. As for the latter, the relatively well-known “Yellow Brick Road” stands out slightly for me.

Not for me, but I'm Glad brought it another star. 2.5/5. Captain Beefheart, eh?

Much better than Trout Mask Replica. Still nothing I would return to. 2.5/5

Didn't enjoy it that much, maybe I will if I relisten. But for now it is below average, 2 stars.

Meh. Old and aged beyond being weird

Honestly no. Terrible.

Psykedeelistä ja blues rokkia, aika räyhäkkää. Vähän ehkä liian sekavaa ja kokeellista ollakseen kauheen hyvää. Vaikka ei nyt toki hirveimmästäkään päästä. Tavallaan kuitenkin sellainen ihan hyvä ajan hengen fiilis. Parhaat: Autumn's Child, I'm Glad

Meh

Well its not Trout mask replica so that is a positive and the first track gave me some hope with it’s bluesy feel. From there it is either boring standard blues rock or the occasional foray into something that points to their more experimental future. Better than the experimental guff, but still not for me

Having still not recovered from the last time I had to listen to Captain Beefheart, I dreaded starting this. The biggest compliment that it can have is that it’s nothing like “that” album - indeed, it sounds completely different, as if it’s by a totally different artist. I still didn’t like it, though. It’s just not for me.

Again another act I must be tone deaf to, and really missing the innovative etc.etc. that is being labelled on this. I just don’t hear the "freak out" experiment that people are saying. Band/person heard a lot about never heard. Gather this is early album and not as weird as led to believe they can be? That trout face thing always comes up. Maybe time has dulled the impact of this or without knowing all the background noise like the early Zappa it just comes over to me as competent white blues and r&b at best, nothing innovative. Dressing it up as eccentric is just covering up the songwriting being a bit, well shit. Well I have now heard them/him and not sure I gained anything, not revisiting 2 Star.

I was listening to this album as I was reading Stoner by John Williams, and an hour went by in a totally 1966 "twee-psych" manner which is serviceable and inoffensive.

2.5 A couple songs I thought were okay, but I really didn’t need to listen to two Captain Beefheart albums in my life.

It was pretty decent. Not something I’d search back out though

On balance, annoying.

5/10

2-/5

2 sterne

could i write poetry to this? n

Okay, fair. ONE Captain Beefheart album and that's it. Here it is and it's just like everyone says...weird and somehow influential. We're talking about it, so it must be art or something, right? I'm just glad to get it over with. But I'd better not see "Trout Mask Replica" on here or I'm gonna be pissed.

ok

Not so magic

Very strange album. Almost felt like an early Frank Zappa impression, but worse in every way. Some decent songs and the shorter runtime helps, but largely forgettable and not noteworthy. Top tracks: I'm Glad, Plastic Factory

I was expecting the worst because Trout Mask Replica was quite possibly the worst album in the entire 1001 list so far. With that expectation, this album actually wasn't *that* bad. It has a kind of traditional blues-rock sound. But towards the end of the album is starts becoming kind of annoying, especially tracks like: On Tomorrow, Trust Us, Korn Ring Finger. So in the end it's still not an album I want to hear again.

Comparing this to Trout Mask Replica puts this at a 3. Comparing it to anything else puts it at a 2. Grading down for today.

Prescindible

Nope, too old for me.

eh

Weird shit, man. Not that that is bad, it's just weird.

Just when I start enjoying a song, some guy starts doing a weird voice. Not good enough to justify the weirdness

can’t tell if i hate it or if i’m neutral towards it

Just ok

Genre defying, and silly to the point of annoying. Still, there are really great guitar riffs buried in here. Not a total waste of time.

"Safe As Milk" was strangely accessible despite Captain Beefheart's, er, ""singular"" sound. I still found the album's polyrhythmic sound and Beefheart's passionate...growls...to be deeply overwhelming though. Maybe I'll give myself another ten-or-so years to train my ears, and then, I'll return to the album.

Pretty weird and playful. Not exactly my jam, but I certainly love how it pushes the envelope.

At the heart of this, there are some good blues tunes. Unfortunately (intentionally) it is if they are mocking music and embracing weirdness. Which wouldn't necessarily a bad thing, IF it was done in a progressive or interesting way. I'm also not a fan of the gravelly vocals used on a good number of the tracks. There is some deranged genius here, but I guess this is the result you get when you let the drugs do the talking.

Self-indulgent

I hate it

THERE WAS ONE GOOD SONG ON THIS. I’m glad IS THE ONLY REASON WHY THIS ISNT A 1/5. 60’s psychedelic rock SUCKS AND I CANT STAND IT. Omg wow how good does drugs make music, hahahaahahahhaha. It’s boring, whilst trying to be pretentious. AND THIS ALBUM GOES ON FOR 70 MINS ???????? ALSO WHATS UP WITH THE PANNING ON THIS ALBUM????? The sound and mixing engineer should never be allowed to be on any other records because this is such a piss poor job of how to treat music. Also the main singer just sounds drunk the whole album, ur not a vibe… Edit. I wrote this 2 songs before the ending. Oh god. How bad are the last 2 songs. How did this even pass production. They approved this?????

You know it was a good sounding road trip album however it became completely unmemorable and a bit dull though it.

I liked the more blues-y stuff but overall this is not for me

Basking in mild lunacy, drugs drawing others into the glow, a youth full of freedom and abandon. Older, sober, amused, slightly embarrassed. Wistful for better days? Can’t go back, please don’t try. Not a good look.

Once upon a time, there was was a guy in my dorm who had the best stereo and the best weed and a penchant for medieval weapons. Sometimes I'd get high with him and he'd play really terrible Captain Beefheart albums. I was afraid this would be like that, but it wasn't quite.

Safe As Milk is the debut album from Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. Captain Beefheart is the stage name for Don Van Vliet. Guitarist Alex St. Clair founded the band, but over time, the band evolved into a backing band for Van Vliet. During the band's original run, Van Vliet was the only consistent member. While they never achieved significant commercial success, they gathered a cult following, and enough support for a reunited version, which toured for a decade without Van Vliet. The band made psychedelic, blues-based rock. It's heavy, and intense at times - weird and intense enough that it may have been a bit-too-much for mainstream success.

Well, it's better than Trout Mask Replica!!

At three tracks in, everything I have heard so far sounds pretty deeply nested within the country/rock/hippie genre that was in fashion at the time. Dropout Boogie is pretty bad, and apparently starts a shift in the album to "weird and not really good" Electricity has a lot of really annoying shit in it Abba Zaba: ridiculous. Couldn't finish Grown So Ugly: bluesy and not bad at all Safe as Milk Take 5: needed at least a 6th take Big Black Baby Shoes: disclaimer: I am not a guitarist. These guitars are out of tune and terrible sounding Flower Pot: WILL IT EVER BE OVER? Trust Us: I almost didn't make through the intro. The song actually wound up to be maybe my favorite on the album so far. Pretty low bar there though. Oops, wrote that before the 3 hour outro. No thanks Korn Ring Finger: Absolutely fucking not. Terrible Final thoughts: Not great, overall. Weird, atonal, and uninspiring. Also, perhaps the squeakiest drum pedal in all of recorded music history

It twangs like '67, but nothing really draws me in to want to listen more. And there's too much to listen to on this already.

This record is okay, until it's not. How much fuck around time does one album need? Here it's half.

i didn’t love this. i do really like psychedelic rock and a lot of the stuff seemingly in the same realm as these guys but this didn’t really do anything for me. i think it might be because of the heavier blues base that they had going on

About halfway through, my sole thought was, gee, this is a lotta beefheart.

4/10 - another strange album but this one was more fun to listen to. The guitar was sometimes interesting

Second album proposé par le générateur après 'Trout Mask Replica' que j'avais noté 1/5. Ce second album est plus abordable. Je n'apprécie toujours pas la voix du chanteur, mais là les morceaux sont plus construits tout en restant originaux (+1). Il évite donc la note minimale, mais le chant me rebute tellement que je ne souhaite pas l'écouter une seconde fois. =>2/5

Didn't grab me at all.

Nichts ist hängegeblieben. Es war einfach da und es ging vorbei.

Very strange band, and music. Figure you can only enjoy it ,unless your high.

I saw the band name and was instantly like, "oh god, another 60s band" Kinda funky. kinda weird, kinda aimless? 2*

bof

A bit weird rock music. Didn't like it much. Stand-out: Yellow Brick Road

I've been down all the roads that run parallel and cross over this one so I am very familiar with the territory and don't feel like I've discovered much by listening to this all the way through. I'm sure in its original context this probably is more noteworthy and I feel like I'm coming into it wrong footed.

started from thats quited good ended with ok it's boring make it stop

Weird and kind of funny-annoying, I'd not visit this again lol

you know, some people just music isn’t their thing and that’s okay

I can understand why my younger self at the age of 14 would not like this record. I was much too immature to appreciate blues music when my head was being turned by the sounds of The Beatles. A few years later thanks to the likes of Clapton the Blues did awaken in me. My record collection therefore has a sizeable amount of Blues associated music but alas no Captain Beefheart (even Trout Mask Replica). So today I listened to this album with the intention of probably righting this wrong. It turns out that in fact there is no wrong to be righted. Not certain if you can pigeon hole this pure Blues and after listening confirmed my suspicions all along that Captain Beefheart was more a product of Southern States drawl if you get my meaning. Turns out my younger self was right all along (as he normally is - the little bastard) 2/5 20/5/25

Listened Before? N These goofy mofos. Musically this album is pretty good. It just feels like a giant joke - much like their other stuff I've heard. Sometimes it borders on serious before going back to it's tongue in cheek humor. I don't really like it overall. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: I'm Glad

This is my first time experiencing Beefheart, so my opinion may change the more I listen to them. This sounds like music for people that don’t enjoy listening to music

Not bad, don't think I'm likely to go back to this one necessarily

Nee joh, een verzameling manieren om kinderachtig te zingen. Volgens het boek is het een 'doorleefde bluesstem'. Kom op... Er is in elk geval voldoende variatie. Saai kan ik het niet noemen. Daarmee kan ik er nog wel 1,5 ster voor over hebben.

Ik ben Kapitein Vleeshart en ik doe met een gek stemmetje Muddy Waters na. Ik ben Kapitein Vleeshart en ik doe met een gek stemmetje Jefferson Airplane na. Ik ben Kapitein Vleeshart en ik doe met een gek stemmetje Ray Charles na. Het lijkt een grote parodie op muziekstijlen als delta blues, folkrock en rhythm n blues. Moet ik deze man serieus nemen? Neemt hij de muziek wel serieus? Neemt hij zijn collega's serieus? Wat wil hij met deze muziek zeggen? Is hij oprecht bezig om mooie of goede muziek te maken of loopt hij expres de boel te verstieren met gekke stemmetjes en rare geluidjes. Het stomme is dat de achtergrondmuziek best prima is. Alleen lijkt het meer een verzameling diss-tracks. Voor de muziek zou ik een 4 kunnen geven, maar ik kan er niet om heen dat ik er ook boos door word. Dit zijn van die gasten die je een klap op hun muil wil geven en tegen ze zeggen dat ze gewoon normaal moeten doen. Ga muziek maken. Het is dat ik bij dit album geen Muldertje hoef te pullen, zoals bij het vorige album wat we van hem kregen. Deze heb ik redelijk eenvoudig af kunnen luisteren. Maar ik twijfel of ik dat album laat meewegen. Dat had zoveel strafpunten, dat ik er nog wel een paar over heb om dit ook mee omlaag te halen.

Albumi #178, 17.03.2025 Safe As Milk on Captain Beefheart & His Magic Bandin debyyttialbumi vuodelta 1967. Ihan kiinnostavaa musisointia, mutta silti aika perusmeininkiä.

When I first started thinking about putting a number rating on this I thought: “Well, a lot of it isn’t that weird and unpleasant so I can give it a three (obviously some of it is a bit weird and unpleasant)” But then what if the bits that are “normal” and “pleasant”? They’re not actually all that good, they’re just surprising like standard music. So if the lows are low and the highs are only OK, I think we have to go with a two.

I had high hopes....there were moments...not enough of 'em tho.

I’m lactose intolerant

An experimental album that just falls on its face with more missteps than success.

No los conocía. Suenan muy bien, pero no es lo que me apetece últimamente. La primera canción es bastante buena: "Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do".

A precursor to their infamous Trout Mask Replica album, though not nearly as experimental. Safe As Milk still displays some of Captain Beefheart's oddball delivery with his interesting vocals and playful lyrics. Is it alright? Sure, but it also comes across as incredibly unpolished an amateurish. This is a rough draft of some pretty middle-of-the-road songs. It's fine.

Whew. This was not easy. Had peaks and valleys. more valleys... Capt Beefheart was ahead of their time, but when their time caught uo with them, that still did not help.

Far from the worst thing I've ever heard (especially considering I know what's coming with another Captain Beefheart album on this list), but overall still a really sloppy and boring album.

Too much going on to enjoy for me. Some cool concepts but not enough space to flesh any of them out. I might come back to explore but this is not a great introduction.

Yeah, no. Sixties fayre that, i think, tried to be at the slightly edgier/alternative end of the spectrum. I just found it lacked the purity of others of this time and none of the hooks.

Not a huge fan. Electricity was a stand out track for me, but overall kind of boring blues with not great instrumentation.

Boy another tough album to rate. I thought the range from blues to rock to weird and even some R&B sounding song (I'm Glad) was pretty interesting. But in the end seem to drag on a bit too long for me. Though the first half the album was the strongest and there were a few songs that stood out for me. The opening 2 songs were solid in Sure Nuff and Zig Zag. I'm Glad sounded remined me of and old R&B song, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Some of the stranger songs I enjoyed include Dropout Boogie and Electricity. This album was good enough to keep my interest for most of the way and there were several parts of the album I thought were pretty good. Not sure if I would ever seek these guys out, but overall it kept me listening. For the older crowd, the one singer sounds like Wolfman Jack. Ha. Another album right down the middle for me. 2.5

In Lieu of a review here are excerpts from Marc Maron's Thinky Pain: "Captain Beefheart has been hanging over me, like this weird, you know, cryptic– you know, I can’t even– I’m not even– I will never be smart enough or large enough of mind to assess and understand Captain Beefheart. Like, it’s just been hanging there, but as soon as I start getting into records, I was like, “I got to fucking understand Beefheart" ... "I just walk into this record store, and it was only open for, like, ten more minutes. I just barge in. I’m like, “Beefheart! Where’s the Beefheart?” And the the guy in there, it was almost as if he was expecting me. He’s like, “Yep.” And he walks me over to this bin, and I’m like, “WHICH one? WHICH one?” “Safe as Milk?” “All right, this is the one? All right, good.” And as I’m walking out, I see there’s a sealed Kraftwerk album, and I’m like, “Well, I’m still kind of gay.” So, like, I get that" ... "then I’m waiting in the line. I got my records, and there’s some big old weird-looking dude behind me, and I approached the cashier kid, and he says, “What’d you get?” I’m like, “You wouldn’t understand.” That’s what I’m doing in my mind. So I go, “I got Captain Beefheart.” He’s like, “Oh, really? Which one?” I’m like, “Safe as Milk.” He’s like, “That’s a good start.” I’m like, “Who the fuck are you?”

2 I don’t really know a ton about Captain Beefheart, though I do know he’s allegedly an avant-garde sort of musician courtesy of Frank Zappa’s circle of cronies and that him and his so-called Magic Band are responsible for Trout Mask Replica - an album I’m admittedly not super well-versed in but that gives off the impression it’s the kind of thing music nerds would refer to as “challenging” when what they really mean is “unlistenable”. I’ll reserve my judgment until I give it a proper listen (and I’m sure I will before this list is through), but I say that all to say I was very, very surprised with how accessible this album ended up being. Though, it’s still not particularly good. While there have been quite a few albums on this list thus far that have grown on me with repeat listenings, this ended up being one I found myself hating more and more each subsequent time through. You definitely hear traces of what’s to come with Beefheart’s later, more experimental work, but it doesn’t result in anything overly remarkable or enjoyable here, and compounded with the lo-fi recording style of the era, some of this stuff is flat-out grating. Like, holy shit, Electricity was borderline painful. If that’s a sign of things to come with Trout Mask Replica, God help us all. Thankfully, most of the stuff here isn’t THAT bad, with the vast majority of it sounding like pretty standard 60s rock fare, though there are two bright spots that elevate this above a 1 for me - one of those being Yellow Brick Road, which is probably the catchiest track to be found (I also admittedly have a bit of a soft spot for the Wizard of Oz), and the other being Plastic Factory, which is just a fun blues number, like the kind you would expect to hear walking into a saloon. I wouldn’t go as far as to say they’re two songs I’m itching to listen to again per se, but they at least stuck out to me. Overall, not great, and it doesn’t make me particularly excited to listen to TMR. Still, considering I am one of said music nerds with more pretentious takes than I’d care to admit, there’s probably a scarily decent chance I end up referring to it as challenging as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Better then the other Beefy album on this list.

Pretty sick, some cool sounds and unique moments

Not sure how a selection like this makes it too the list?

How did this make the list? it sucked and is not innovative or influential.

- Sure, I see that it was a good album, and yeah, I technically like this style of music - I just got a bit bored listening to it

Better than the last one I listened to by captain beefheart but holy hell that is not hard

Vreemd en psychedelisch, maar niet op een goede manier

Late 60's jazzy/blues idiosyncrasy music. Influential for later punk/rock. Kinda whacky but ok to listen to

This was way more "normal" than the trout album, I will give it that. But then...doesn't that defeat the purpose of it being on the list?

I'm not familiar with Captain Beefheart, but hoping to not hear from him again. Maybe General Porkbrain would've done better.

Eh this was too eccentric and experimental. There were some highlights ("Zig Zag Wanderer") but that difficult tracks ("Dropout Boogie") were too much to get through.

cool blend of genres but it just didn’t click for me (outside of I’m Glad)

The panning messed me up. I am not judging it because it's from 1967 and they didn't know yet very much about mixing. The album itself is ok, it is pretty much like The Rolling Stones.

Weird and interesting. Not overly enjoyable though Standout songs: Zig Zag Wanderer Electricity

I like quirky but this wasn’t fun.

This was not good. I like the blues - this isn’t it

Ok

Ehh

Eh

Nah

Hard one to rate. It almost goes like an “every other song” situation, where one song is good, but the next song is just art for art’s sake. I did enjoy some of it, but I wouldn’t say I liked the album. Reminds me of Zappa, but without the musical talent to back it up.

Aimless, pointless musical meanderings - I hate the avant garde. There's some musicality there somewhere, but it never sticks around long enough.

Did not enjoy. Captain Beefheart sounds like the worst porno name I've ever heard.

Not for me

They're just not very good. At least it was better than the Trout one

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Pretty out there. Also kind of bluesy. Interesting in a way. Not one I'd repeat play much though.

Safe As Milk is not as bad as Trout Mask Replica, but it's close.

There’s some fun but admittedly generic jamming in this album, and I will admit this sounds very dated compared to other favs of this era I’ve found through this challenge. I think I’ll leave this one to Parish New York.

Good classic rock

It's ok but not sure it's a must listen. TMR better

Psychedellic Blues? - Annoying bordering on the unlistenable. 2/5

Doesn’t have the weirdness of Trout Mask Replica but also doesn’t really have the uniqueness of it. Forgettable album save a few songs.

This ain't no trout mask replica