Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band – Best Batch Yet

Label:God's Golfball Records – DON-12981
Format:
2 x Vinyl, LP, Partially Unofficial
Country:US
Released:1981
Genre:Rock
Style:Blues RockAvantgarde

Tracklist

A1Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man3:40
A2I Wanna Find Me A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go1:57
A3Hot Head3:45
A4Ashtray Heart3:17
A5Dirty Blue Gene3:52
A6The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig)2:07
A7Sue Eygpt1:44
B1Best Batch Yet4:55
B2Safe As Milk3:44
B3One Red Rose That I Mean2:33
B4China Pig5:26
B5Spitball Scalped The Baby3:23
C1Doctor Dark2:39
C2Bat Chain Puller5:36
C3My Human Gets Me Blues2:41
C4Sugar 'N' Spikes2:26
C5Sheriff Of Hong Kong6:43
D1Kandy Korn4:38
D2Veteran's Day Poppy4:22
D3Big Eyed Beans From Venus5:21
D4Hard Workin' Man3:15
D5Light Reflected Off The Oceands Of The Moon4:48

Companies, etc.

Credits

Notes

This is a quality part-official* release, packaged in a regular card-weight gloss-print sleeve, with a photo of Vliet and one of his sketches on the cover - printed 3 color.

The back cover has a further waist-up pic of Vliet, with the label's logo & track-list.

*This is possibly an actual God's Golfball project, a concept/company belonging to Vliet for a short period. The apparently random cat# is actually the recording date. The quality of the package is also higher than for a regular 'bootleg'.

The 2 vinyls have blue & white labels, headed with "Don Van Vliet" rather than the band name.
Apart from the addition of the last 2 tracks, from difficult to acquire singles, this album is simply a live recording of the band's performance at The Country Club, Reseda, California on 29th January 1981. The credits give the recording source as those of Wally Heider Sound's remote facility, which explains the sound quality.

Country of release is very likely USA.

The singles tracks D4 & D5 can also be found as track 10 & 21 respectively on CD2 of "The Dust Blows Forward" anthology. Both are studio recordings.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (A-Side run-out, hand-etched): DON 12981-A
  • Matrix / Runout (B-Side run-out, hand-etched): DON 12981-B
  • Matrix / Runout (C-Side run-out, hand-etched): DON 12981-C
  • Matrix / Runout (D-Side run-out, hand-etched): DON 12981-D