Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Crazy Little Thing Lyrics

I think tom waits prolly listened to beef maybe its a coincidence lol those vocals so b52 lol you bee 53

Story of my Life. From 8 track in the tour bus to my beautiful man cave. My wonderful wonderful desert island disc.

Today's kids haven't got the clue about music. Lucky if u were brough up in the 70tis u get soo much variety. Everything was new.

The kids these days couldn't play this stuff even if they tried

Christopher Johnson Brought up in the 70s: check!

Utterly superb. A short track with everything. Best rhythm best lyrics best vocals drumming guitar work. Wow.

check out his art - do a google search for Don Van Vliet art. He was exhibited at famous museums like the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.
His art was probably more respected than his music, at least in terms of the price it brought and the art world giving him respect.
He never got the respect nor success he deserved in rock which is why he finally quit I believe.

He started as a sculptor about age 12, total genius

Note how your evidence for Beef's artistic genius was simply to refer to the Authority of The Museum of Modern Ass?

FYI The Museum of Modern Art is part of a massive cultrural subversion scam. _(Captain BeefArt:_ get it?)

What do you think _'How'd you learn to talk real low like that'_ means, hrm? I'll leave it up to you to figure out...in the meantime, take note of the huge strain of musical sarcasm running through Beefheart and Zappa's music...it's a clue.

The truth sucks shit (I dig Beef's music) but _'Better to be slapped with the truth, than kissed with a lie.'_

*References*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re_pJuPdz6Q

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

This song describes a woman that is exactly like a friend of mine. To a tee

My favorite Beefheart album.

Trout, Lick, Doc and Shiny Beast are the purest Vliet (Beefheart) in my opinion. Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot were a "pop" rock experiment and I LOVE them! But I think his true musical genius was in the aforementioned albums.
Be sure to check out beefheart.com for all kinds of great stuff!

@nunayerdangbiznez Some of us were late to the party and only knew the pop side of the captain and zappa. The old "real" stuff just takes more time maybe to really like... for me at least. Not there yet :)

@castello west Hang in there long enough it will all come to you.

Memories of Sweet Jane, Gainesville, FL summer of 1973 sliding on a hit and a half of purple haze

purple haze in '73?

Clear Spot Beefheats best album by far......The magic band at their best. One of the best albums I ever bought.

+Robert Patamia it's great but Decals is greater by far

From what I've listened to:

Trout Mask Replica>>>Mirror Man>Lick My Decals Off, Baby>>Strictly Personal>Safe as Milk>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Clear Spot>>Spotlight Kid

space age couple why do you flex ya magic muscle?

Think I just found another favorite Beef album. This rocks from one song to the next. SO well done.

Every Beefheart album has something great on it. He was so talented that even big corporations couldn't ruin him

Spotlight Kid is a wonderful album

everything on Clear Spot is a favorite but this is one of my most favorite tunes of all times.   It was my theme song in college (not self-assigned, mind you) 

I agree completely with this comment. Crazy little thing has me completely hooked, I have been listening to it at least 10 times a day for the past few weeks and can't seem to stop. I am still in shock that it took me 30 years of life before hearing about beefheart. My musical palette was already diverse (or so I thought), but the compositions from beefheart and zappa are just somehow contagious and catchy on a deeper level than anything ive ever experienced prior to discovering them. It amazes me that material like this was written in the early 70s because there was no precedent for beefheart or zappa to go off of, and they pioneered masterpieces from their own instincts, which to me is a testament to the fact that both of them were musical genius' in their own right. This album along with others of beefheart's work is quite clearly a masterpiece of sound.

Only about 1000000 years ahead of his time...

Salute the Captain :-)

A Scottish band called The Primevals have - its on You Tube.

Has anybody ever covered this one?

No offense but.... name one woman who's not crazy. Just one.... : ) Can't do it can you!!!

Mike Ventura Jesus

Susan B. Anthony, Hariot Tubman, Anne Frank, Eartha Kitt, Ruth Underwood, Moe Tucker, Hannah Höch, Sandy Hurvitz, Pamela Des Barres, Fiona Apple, Avril Lavigne, Billie Elish, Alicia Keys, Wanda Sykes...

Unparralled greatness

I dedicate this one to Ms. Sasha Knox

one of my favorite tracks on the album.

Dear Peep Holes: Don Van Vliet (rip) was the tits....now git hip!

How old?

ArthorBearing 15