Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Best Batch Yet (2xLP, P/Unofficial) (Very Good Plus (VG+))

Media Condition:  Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Country:    US  
Released:  1981
Genre:       Rock
Style:         Blues Rock, Avantgarde

Comments:
near mint cover except for a 1.5" bent corner in upper left. discs are also very near to mint, say M-.
 

Notes:

This is a quality part-official* release, packaged in a regular card-weight gloss-print sleeve, with a photo of Vliet and one of his sketches on the cover - printed 3 color. 

The back cover has a further waist-up pic of Vliet, with the label's logo & track-list. 

*This is possibly an actual God's Golfball project, a concept/company belonging to Vliet for a short period. The apparently random cat# is actually the recording date. The quality of the package is also higher than for a regular 'bootleg'.

The 2 vinyls have blue & white labels, headed with "Don Van Vliet" rather than the band name.
Apart from the addition of the last 2 tracks, from difficult to acquire singles, this album is simply a live recording of the band's performance at The Country Club, Reseda, California on 29th January 1981. The credits give the recording source as those of Wally Heider Sound's remote facility, which explains the sound quality.

Country of release is very likely USA.

The singles tracks D4 & D5 can also be found as track 10 & 21 respectively on CD2 of "The Dust Blows Forward" anthology. Both are studio recordings.

 

A1. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man 3:40
A2. I Wanna Find Me A Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go 1:57
A3. Hot Head 3:45
A4. Ashtray Heart 3:17
A5. Dirty Blue Gene 3:52
A6. The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig) 2:07
A7. Sue Eygpt 1:44
B1. Best Batch Yet 4:55
B2. Safe As Milk 3:44
B3. One Red Rose That I Mean 2:33
B4. China Pig 5:26
B5. Spitball Scalped The Baby 3:23
C1. Doctor Dark 2:39
C2. Bat Chain Puller 5:36
C3. My Human Gets Me Blues 2:41
C4. Sugar 'N' Spikes 2:26
C5. Sheriff Of Hong Kong 6:43
D1. Kandy Korn 4:38
D2. Veteran's Day Poppy 4:22
D3. Big Eyed Beans From Venus 5:21
D4. Hard Workin' Man 3:15
D5. Light Reflected Off The Oceands Of The Moon 4:48

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout DON 12981-A
Matrix / Runout DON 12981-B
Matrix / Runout DON 12981-C
Matrix / Runout DON 12981-D

 

Recorded At The Country Club
Engineered At Wally Heider Recording

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