'' is the eleventh and
Penultimate Album by
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band. It was released in 1980 to generally favorable reviews. The striking album cover is painted by Don Van Vliet.
Despite Beefheart's own protests that he found the and new wave musicians such as
Devo ,
Pere Ubu and
Public Image Ltd acknowledged their debt to his work of a decade previous. The 39-year-old Beefheart--his age being a detail commented upon in the reviews on the right hand side of this page--belied this debt in his lyrics for "Ashtray Heart":
:Another day, another way
:Somebody's had too much to think
:Open up another case of the punks
All tracks written by
Don Van Vliet
#"Hot Head" - 3:23
#"Ashtray Heart" - 3:25
#"A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond" - 1:38
#"Run Paint Run Run" - 3:40
#"Sue Egypt" - 2:57
#"Brickbats" - 2:40
#"Dirty Blue Gene" - 3:51
#"Best Batch Yet" - 5:02
#"Telephone" - 1:31
#"Flavor Bud Living" - 1:00
#"Sheriff of Hong Kong" - 6:34
#"Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee" - 3:11
- Captain Beefheart - Vocals , Chinese Gongs , Harmonica , Soprano Saxophone , Bass Clarinet
- Jeff Moris Tepper - Slide Guitar , Guitar , nerve guitar
- Eric Drew Feldman - Synthesizer , Bass , Mellotron , Grand Piano , Electric Piano
- Robert Arthur Williams - Drums
- Bruce Lambourne Fowler - Trombone
- John French - slide guitar, guitar, Marimba , bass, drums
- Gary Lucas - guitar, French Horn
