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My fave Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band listens are:

Safe As Milk (features a young Ry Cooder on guitar)

Trout Mask Replica

Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

Lick My Decals Off, Baby

Clear Spot

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I believe it was in the liner notes for Safe as Milk that I read John Lennon had something like seven copies and that it was his favorite new album at the time of its release.

Cooder has some interesting stories about why he parted ways with Vilet.

Not a surprise, given Lennon's (and the Beatles') interest in avant-garde, musique concrete and Stockhausen.

One of the reasons Lennon had seven copies (besides liking the album a lot) was that I think it included stickers:

http://www.beefheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/john-len...

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