Here's some irony - Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart and/or music's most notorious troublemaker, early in his career made Safe as Milk, one of the most likable albums of all time. What makes this such a likable album? The answer is shockingly simple: He made really engaging, provocative experimental music built of the backbone of blues, doo-wop, and early rock 'n' roll. This band had little patience for the pretentious, faux-artsy baroque pop going on around them at the time, ...
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