Product Description
Captain Beefheart’s 1967 debut album Safe As Milk introduced the world to a one-of-a-kind visionary whose unique output had no precedent in contemporary music. Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet, filtered the raw influence of the blues and R&B through his own singular musical sensibility and left-field lyrical wordplay, and surrounded himself with some of the most talented and inventive young musicians around. The result was an album that, even in the heady year in which it was released, sounded like nothing else, and the stage for one of rock’s most iconoclastic and idiosyncratic careers.

With backup from the first, and perhaps finest, incarnation of Beefheart’s legendary Magic Band (including future solo star Ry Cooder on guitar and teenage drum prodigy John “Drumbo” French), and production from future studio superstar Richard Perry, Beefheart unveils his fully-formed sound and vision on such landmark tracks as “Zig Zag Wanderer,” “Abba Zaba,” “Dropout Boogie,” “I’m Glad” and “Electricity” (covered two decades later by Sonic Youth).

Now released on LP and CD by Sundazed Music, this landmark album now sounds the way it was meant to sound, thanks to the restoration of Perry’s rare original—and, to most fans, superior—mono mix, which was later altered by Beefheart’s label without the artist’s involvement. Both the LP and CD version of this definitive edition feature authoritative new liner notes by Rolling Stone editor and longtime Beefheart enthusiast David Fricke.

“In mono, Safe As Milk is a powerful, concentrated revelation,” Fricke writes, further noting, “Safe As Milk promised comfort, exotic nourishment and rude health—and delivered. Created in a year rich in historic debuts and transformative statements about rock’s dynamic and expressive possibilities, Safe As Milk was so far in it was out.”

CD version features a four-panel digipack containing all artwork elements. The LP version includes a lovingly-restored sleeve, an insert containing the original custom sleeve art, plus the famous & Bye-Lo Baby & Safe As Milk sticker and the album, pressed on 180 gram vinyl.

1. Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do
2. Zig Zag Wanderer
3. Call On Me
4. Dropout Boogie
5. I'm Glad
6. Electricity
7. Yellow Brick Road
8. Abba Zaba
9. Plastic Factory
10. Where There's Woman
11. Grown So Ugly
12. Autumn's Child

CD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E4V0AQK/?tag=imwan-20

Vinyl
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E4V09VQ/?tag=imwan-20

At last on CD!

I'll have to get this one on CD.

Interesting...just a high ticket price...

It has been noted that at least one track seems to have an edited-on ending from a fold-down of the stereo mix ("Electricity"; unfortunately, the real mono mix features a different fade-out). Disappointing.

I have an original mono vinyl rip that isn't bad. This CD version sounds way better, never noticed my favourite song Electricity was from a fold down.

To be clear, it isn't that the entire song is a fold, but rather than the very, very end seems to be edited on from another source (it could be that the tapes were in dire shape; something similar happened with the 13th Floor Elevator mono tape that Sundazed used a few years ago, but there they did repair work with needle-drops rather than what appears to be a few seconds of a stereo fold).

I need to get this. Embarrassed to say I never had this album in any format yet it is deemed a classic. Now that we have a re-master mono from Sundazed it will be added.

Rick A.

Hey Rick

The 1st album in mono was how I discovered Beefheart

I also love the mirror man sessions and their 2nd official album Strictly Personal

I have never been able to get into subsequent albums as much such as Trout Mask Replica which completely lost me