Clear Spot

by Captain Beefheart

Clear Spot cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 11 September 1972
  • Label: Reprise
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:19:28
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Teaming up with mainstream producer Ted Templeman, Captain Beefheart retained his wonderfully surreal edge while embracing a surprisingly accessible, heavily rhythmic blues-rock strut. 'Clear Spot' is an incredibly passionate, fiercely playful rock record, balancing delightfully dark, nocturnal swamp-blues riffs with beautifully raw, surprisingly melancholic grooves.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, rhythmic, Riff-Driven, funky, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Low Yo Yo Stuff (3:41)
  2. Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man (3:46)
  3. Too Much Time (2:50)
  4. Circumstances (3:14)
  5. My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains (2:55)
  6. Sun Zoom Spark (2:13)
  7. Clear Spot (3:39)
  8. Crazy Little Thing (2:38)
  9. Long Neck Bottles (3:18)
  10. Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles (2:57)
  11. Big Eyed Beans from Venus (4:23)
  12. Golden Birdies (1:36)
  13. Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man - Early Mix (4:00)
  14. Clear Spot (Rough Mix) - Instrumental (3:48)
  15. Crazy Little Thing (Rough Mix) - Instrumental (3:06)
  16. Dirty Blue Gene (Rough Mix) - Instrumental (3:43)
  17. Big Eyed Beans From Venus (Rough Mix) - Instrumental (4:41)
  18. Kiss Where I Kain't (2:45)
  19. Sun Zoom Spark (Rough Mix) - Instrumental (2:28)
  20. Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man (Rough Mix) - Instrumental (4:25)
  21. Little Scratch (2:57)
  22. Low Yo Yo Stuff (Rough Mix) - Instrumental (3:47)
  23. Dirty Blue Gene - Alternate Version 3 (3:03)
  24. Circumstances - Alternate Version 2 (3:23)

Credits

  • Captain Beefheart - primary artist
  • The Magic Band - primary artist
  • Ed Thrasher - art direction
  • Blackberries - backing vocals
  • Or茅jon - bass guitar
  • John And Barbara Casado - design
  • Ed Marimba - drums, percussion, other [tattoos]
  • Donn Landee - engineer [aka: mit]
  • Bill "Zoot Horn Rollo" Harkleroad - lead guitar [solo guitar], slide guitar [steel appendage & glass finger], mandolin
  • Milt Holland - percussion
  • Jim McCrary - photography by
  • Ted Templeman - producer, arranged by [horns]
  • Mark "Rockette Morton" Boston - rhythm guitar, bass guitar
  • Don Van Vliet - vocals, harmonica, effects [wings on singabus aka golden birdies], written-by, arranged by [horns]
  • Jerry Jumonville - arranged by [horns]
  • Russ Titelman - guitar

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