Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Safe As Milk Lyrics

I have the original vinyl.

Bayou desert psychedelic electric mustard blues...

A near perfect album.

'Got the time to teach ya' now, bet you'll learn some too'
The way he delivers the 'TOO' at the end of this line is awesome.

I tried to buy this first edition release on vinyl at this crummy, moldy record store in chicago but the jack ass wouldnt sell it to me.

Who else discovered them on Joe Rogan today? Thanks Patrick!

Here here

Nobody cares why you're here.

Joe Rogan brought me here too.

Glad Patrick could shine a little light on this band

Yeah, am here from the Joe Rogan podcast with the Black Keys

_STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON_

@The Dude DROP THAT BEAT ON THE PLAYSKOOL KEYBOARD, YO

Five days ago, this had 18 views.

To Bring You My Love

Captain you were pretty ahead of your time ! Thanx for this legacy ,is solid gold !

hate to piss you off just picked up mono npl 28110 and scx 6157 both virtually unplayed for<£5: 00 charity shop

CLASSIC

I missed this album back in the day but I'm loving ❤️😍 it now.

It's like the Blues and Rock had an idiot savant wunderkind, but neither of them were the real Father, because they'd both secretly been doing it with Voodoo.

This song is why ry cooder has been so revered over the last 50 years plus as one of america's all-time greatest guitarists.

He is why I'm listening to this right now. I"m glad I did.

If I owned a bar, I would play this song every night!

This sounds so much like travelling riverside blues. Love it.

Sure sounds much like the traditional Like the way Johnny Winter did that one

I acknowledge Beefheart's creativity and skill, but really, his sound only came together for me when he had Ry Cooder backing him up.

listen to "big eyed beans from venus" and say that

Catchiest song of all time for me! Incredible music!

would have loved to have heard a harmonica solo at 1:25 to fill in

The above synopsis is incredible and really captures the essence of what is a true masterpiece and a portent of an incredible canon of ineffable work. There will never another Don Van Vliet.

Shame he had no real success during his career, now the most memorable thing he’s known for is making a jumbled mess of a album.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Its an old blues classic Rollin and Tumblin
here's muddy waters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knWt5eW2we8

the most unique band

Motörhead's 'Whorehouse Blues', from 2004, sounds strikingly similar. All hail the Beef 🙏

The similarity between this song that was written in 1967, and Neil Young song Are You Ready for the Country which was written in 1972 is mind-blowing!

Captain beefheart did this song in 1967. The similarity between this song and Neil Young's 1972 Are You Ready for the Country is blowing my mind!

shit never noticed that before

This music is too good for human beings...They dont deserve it.

well 'some humans aint human" John prine

Mental!

just sought this out as i needed a track with outrageous stereo separation and.....fkn ell, I must have heard this a hundred times and I'm still gobsmacked how great it is! Come back Mr B Fart, you went far too early

This is a fucking amazing song

21 people can suck on my hairy nutsack

Love it !

the best

what type/genre of music would you call this?

Early Techno ;)

His music defies categorisation...this album has a lot of blues influence, but still manages to be quite eccentric at the same time. A genius.

BEEFHEART

Gotta understand beefheart

oddstuff123
Good place to start

Impossible. Just enjoy the music.

no understanding needed, listen and feel

If you got ears, you gotta listen

My God.....1967 was an amazing year for music.

Am I the only one who prefers this to Sgt. Pepper?

1968 is when Sabbath formed.

@Eyeship Beefheart for one.

and the beef never attended school respect respec and respect

1969 was an AMAZING PINNACLE FOR MUSIC, i mean honestly, 1969 was a magical year in western music

Wannabe yah giddy up

Nuff said moors boo yah wouldn't want to be yah

 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Remix https://soundcloud.com/geyserbastion/i-always-play-as-vikings-cuz-im-sweedish

In reply to davidrosenak, check out the New, New Minglewood Blues on the Grateful Dead's first LP, released the same year (1967) and gigged relentlessly during 1966, the same time the Rising Sons were recording 44 blues. Beefheart and Taj Mahal do better blues vocals than Bob Weir, but the Dead stick pretty closely to the lyrics to a traditional blues song, whereas Don van Beefheart takes - surprise, surprise - some poetic license! 

this is a pretty good cover of it
https://soundcloud.com/chasedrummerband/sure-nuff-n-yes-i-do-beefheart

Anyone interested in "Safe As Milk" and in this track in particular should check out "44 Blues" by the Rising Sons, an LA band that featured a young Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal.  My understanding is that Beefheart recruited Cooder for the Magic Band after hearing him with the Rising Sons.  Well, compare the Sons' "44 Blues" (which came first) to "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" and Cooder's very strong influence on Beefheart is strikingly clear.  It's not just the guitar (which Cooder played on both tracks) but the whole arrangement (and, for that matter, compare Taj Mahal's singing to Beefheart's).  I first heard "44 Blues" after listening to "Safe As Milk" for about 30 years and I was stunned by the similarity.

Thanks!

@davidrosenak Both songs are based on Rollin' and Tumblin' by Hambone Willie Newbern first recorded in 1929 and made most famous perhaps by Muddy Waters. I Feel Like Ahcid from Strictly Personal is based on Son House's Death Letter Blues and Gimme Dat Harp Boy from the same album is based on Willie Dixon's Spoonful made famous by Howlin' Wolf. Some of the other songs have more original musical ideas but Don didn't truly break free from his influences and develop a completely original style until Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off, Baby.

+Abel Ashes I like his quoting that little Son House line, "how do you reckon it read…"

Thanks brother !

Hi. Just a small point. If I remember correctly, the Rising Sons album was never released back in the day. Obviously, it's available now (like everything is. lol), but it's doubtful Beefheart would have heard it, although Ry's influence is obvious and he might've had a copy of the unreleased record to play for Don. More likely, Don had the song and when Ry joined the band he adapted what he played on "44 Blues" and made it sound like the same song. Every Blues song sounds like another Blues with different lyrics anyway, right?

The Dumbest comments on one of the masterpieces of 60's whatever genre. RIP' 'Capt'n Beefheart'? Don is Gone. Beefheart stays. Idiots!

I recently bought this on vinyl.Sundaze Records re-issued it in the original Mono version.Sounds excellent.

rockerbop1 not to be s prick but the sundazed mono is actually a repurposed stereo combo. It's not a true mono.

real groovy version of r and t. one of my favorites.

yessssss capn!

why did you laugh so hard in that comment?

dis sho am good!

it is the same music, it just has different lyrics, the magic band use to cover rollin and tumblin a lot also

the dead weather intro song <3

Anri Gogitauri I would definitely go see them live just hear this blast from the PA

...alternatively one could read the description for this clip above...

The music has been around since about 1928 - for further details Wikipedia is your friend...

this sounds a lot like Rollin' & Tumblin' by r.l burnside off of Burnside on Burnside

Robert Johnson – If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day

@witchdoctor66 it became stupid and corporate and evil. Fuck evil corporate music

@Traydon3211 every blues based song sounds like another blues based song dude.its just nature of the genre.(not trying to patronise you or anything)

Not just, nearly perfect .. Meter.

i can not stop moving to this song!

stopped yet?

RIP Cap`n Beefheart

no dislikes... i like this...

Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band [Glendale, California] - 1967 - "AMG Pick. The album is heavily influenced by the Delta blues, and this is apparent from the opening bars of the first track, "Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do", which is based on the 'Rollin' and Tumblin'' tune made famous by Muddy Waters." - Safe As Milk (Buddha Records)-1999

OMG, rest in peace, Captain. Thank you...

@WhiskeyDeadMan And then he dies!

@Traydon3211 haha totally. then again, blues isn't usually about originality, mainly about being FUCKING AWESOME

love this album art

music sure don' get much bettah;)