Electricity

by Captain Beefheart

Electricity cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1998-01-01
  • Label: Camden
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:15:18
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A compilation of Captain Beefheart's recordings centred on his late 1960s work with the Magic Band. Fractured blues forms, Howlin' Wolf inflected singing and tightly drilled ensemble playing define the selection.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, rhythmic, guitars, bluesy, acoustic, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes, I Do (2:16)
  2. Zig Zag Wanderer (2:39)
  3. Dropout Boogie (2:30)
  4. I'm Glad (3:29)
  5. Electricity (3:05)
  6. Yellow Brick Road (2:25)
  7. Abba Zaba (2:41)
  8. Plastic Factory (3:07)
  9. Trust Us (7:15)
  10. Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones (3:10)
  11. Moody Liz (4:31)
  12. Big Black Baby Shoes (4:49)
  13. Gimme Dat Harp Boy (3:35)
  14. Dirty Blue Gene (2:40)
  15. Tarotplane (19:04)
  16. Kandy Korn (8:02)

Credits

  • Ry Cooder - arranged by

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