Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
The Dust Blows Forward: An Anthology
Label:  Rhino 
Date:  8/17/1999
Length:  0:00
Format:  2CD
Genre:  Rock; Psychedelic
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Diddy Wah Diddy    
      2.  
      		 Frying Pan    
      3.  
      		 Electricity    
      4.  
      		 Abba Zaba    
      5.  
      		 Beatle Bones 'N Smokin' Stones    
      6.  
      		 Safe as Milk    
      7.  
      		 Moonlight in Vermont    
      8.  
      		 Ella Guru    
      9.  
      		 Old Fart at Play    
      10.  
      		 Sugar 'N' Spikes    
      11.  
      		 Orange Claw Hammer    
      12.  
      		 My Human Gets Me Blues    
      13.  
      		 China Pig    
      14.  
      		 Lick My Decals Off, Baby    
      15.  
      		 Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop    
      16.  
      		 I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have to Go    
      17.  
      		 The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or The Big Dig)    
      18.  
      		 I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby    
      19.  
      		 Click Clack    
      20.  
      		 Grow Fins    
      21.  
      		 When It Blows Its Stacks    
      22.  
      		 Little Scratch    
      23.  
      		 Big Eyed Beans from Venus    
      24.  
      		 Golden Birdies    
      25.  
      		 Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man    
      26.  
      		 Low Yo Yo Stuff    
      27.  
      		 Too Much Time    
      28.  
      		 My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains    
      29.  
      		 Clear Spot    
      30.  
      		 Upon the My-O-My    
      31.  
      		 Party of Special Things to Do    
      32.  
      		 Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top    
      33.  
      		 Debra Kadabra    
      34.  
      		 Hard Workin' Man (Main Title from Blue Collar)    
      35.  
      		 Bat Chain Puller    
      36.  
      		 The Floppy Boot Stomp    
      37.  
      		 Tropical Hot Dog Night    
      38.  
      		 Owed T'Alex    
      39.  
      		 Hot Head    
      40.  
      		 Ashtray Heart    
      41.  
      		 Sue Egypt    
      42.  
      		 Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee    
      43.  
      		 Ice Cream for Crow    
      44.  
      		 The Past Sure Is Tense    
      45.  
      		 Light Reflected off the Oceans of the Moon    
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      It's tempting to emphasize Captain Beefheart's eccentricities at the expense of his talent. We're talking, after all, of an art prodigy who emerged from the Mojave Desert in the '60s performing an unprecedented strain of Dadaesque blues (fortified with jazz, R&B, and Beat ingredients) and backed by his personally schooled Magic Band. But once you get past the fact that players dubbed Zoot Horn Rollo and the Mascara Snake were backing a headstrong fellow howling with ungodly range songs with names such as "Old Fart at Play," "My Head is My Only House Unless it Rains," and "Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man," you're confronted with...well, genius. The man born Don Van Vliet possessed a potent vision and the will to bring it to life on his own terms. This long-overdue two-disc retrospective presents 30 Beefheart tracks cut between 1966 and 1982 (when the Captain stepped away from the music world for the last time), including a smattering of rarities. Consider Dust an apt entree to the extraordinary creations of this outsider. --Steven Stolder