Captain Beefheart-Clear Spot

The second album released in 1972. Another great album, I like this better than Spotlight Kid.Once again every song is good and shows a diversity in their music.”Too Much Time” sounds like a Motown hit and”My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains” shows a rare mellow side of the band.”Low Yo Yo Stuff”,”Crazy Little Thing” and “Big Eyed Beans From Venus” were played on FM radio,the latter two making it onto my “Mix” tapes I made in the early 70’s.I had a cheap portable Sears tape recorder that I would take the microphone and put it between a set of headphones and record songs I liked from the radio. I had about five or six of such tapes. They are long gone but I wish I could listen to them now. There were some songs I remember on them that I still don’t know who made them.Anyway Beefheart made records until the early 80’s when he retired from the music business. I haven’t heard any of his records made after this one. An interesting artist, he died in 2010

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