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T'neet! B, DB and Al take a deep dive into Captain Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot—two albums that still split opinion among fans. Coming after the wild, angular chaos of Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off, Baby, Beefheart dialled back some of the avant-garde madness in favour of heavier grooves, tighter songs and a slightly more approachable sound. For some, that made these records a disappointment. For others, it was a beautiful left turn that produced some of the finest music he ever recorded.

The lads rank every song from both albums: I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby, White Jam, Blabber 'n Smoke, When It Blows Its Stacks, Alice in Blunderland, The Spotlight Kid, Click Clack, Grow Fins, There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage, Glider, Low Yo Yo Stuff, Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man, Too Much Time, Circumstances, My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains, Sun Zoom Spark, Clear Spot, Crazy Little Thing, Long Neck Bottles, Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles, Big Eyed Beans from Venus and Golden Birdies.

Expect strong opinions, a few surprises, plenty of praise for the Magic Band, and the usual disagreements as they try to put 22 great songs into some kind of order. 🎙️🐟

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T,neet 

A Figure Walks vs Cosmos 7!!! 

All Leave Cancelled vs Dedication not medication

Winter vs Backdrop

Big boys vs mid boys vs how they still here boys!!.. Join Dan, Al & B to decide the worst possible outcome of all of these votes.

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T'neet. The genius follow-up to Trout Mask Replica that is "Lick My Decals Off, Baby." Is it a mature Don, or a man all at sea?

All of its tracks are pored over, discussed, and ranked alongside those from the somewhat cash-in Mirror Man Sessions which, while technically a fifth LP, was a world away from where Don and the Magic Band were at the time.

Join DB, AL, and Brendan as they decide which tracks from Decals and Mirror Man deserve to make it into the final 32 head-to-head showdown, all in an effort to declare, once and for all:

What is the greatest Beefheart track of all time?

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Just in case your Wikipedia is broken, here's what's going head to heed!!

Lick My Decals Off, Baby, Doctor Dark, I Love You, You Big Dummy, Peon, Bellerin' Plain, Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop, Japan in a Dishpan, I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have to Go, Petrified Forest, One Red Rose That I Mean, The Buggy Boogie Woogie, The Smithsonian Institute Blues (Or the Big Dig), Space-Age Couple, The Clouds Are Full of Wine (Not Whiskey or Rye), Flash Gordon's Ape, Tarotplane, Kandy Korn, 25th Century Quaker & Mirror Man!

Tneet..as if we needed to tell you!
Early days of Channel Fuhrer vs Lucifer Over Lancashire 
4 ½ inch vs  Midnight in Aspen
Das Boat vs No Christmas for JQ

How did any of them (JQ aside) even get through to Round 3, you ask! We don't know! Don't blame us! Plough on wayward songs..plough on!

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Tneet..as there are som amny goawd dang songs on this behemoth, the crew ranks these gems; Frownland, The Dust Blows Forward ’n the Dust Blows Back, Dachau Blues, Ella Guru, Hair Pie: Bake 1, Moonlight on Vermont, Pachuco Cadaver, Bills Corpse, Sweet Sweet Bulbs, Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish, China Pig, My Human Gets Me Blues, Dali’s Car, Hair Pie: Bake 2, Pena, Well, When Big Joan Sets Up, Fallin’ Ditch, Sugar ’n Spikes, Ant Man Bee, Orange Claw Hammer, Wild Life, She’s Too Much for My Mirror, Hobo Chang Ba, The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica), Steal Softly Thru Snow, Old Fart at Play, Veteran’s Day Poppy! Give us yer thougths 

 

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T'neet..
Going to Spain vs Oleano
Paintwork vs Jawbone and the Air Rifle
Fibre Book Troll vs Lie Dream of Casino Soul 

and joined by Tim from Prolapse! Good times.

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T'neet! A detour from our usual F.A.L.L.O.U.T. podcast to pit the songs from the first two Beefheart LPs up against each other. Al, Brendan & Dan tell it like it is.... Play along at home...how would you rank these tunes ?
What's the top pop pick and what deserves to be left in a fallin' ditch?

Safe as Milk (1967) & Strictly Personal (1968)
Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do, Zig Zag Wanderer, Call on Me, Dropout Boogie, I'm Glad, Electricity, Yellow Brick Road, Abba Zaba, Plastic Factory, Where There's Woman, Grown So Ugly, Autumn's Child, Ah Feel Like Ahcid, Safe as Milk, Trust Us, Son of Mirror Man - Mere Man, On Tomorrow, Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones, Gimme Dat Harp Boy and Kandy Korn!

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T'neet..were back and it's like we never went away..

theme From Sparta FC vs Mike Love’s Xexagon    
Marquis Cha-Cha vs Service     
Spector Vs Rector vs Middle mass

big boy show down part 777!

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T'neet! Rejoice he 'as risen'!

Fantastic Life vs Weather Report
Sons of Temperance vs Frenz 
Hittite Man vs Smile
joined by the man, the legend that is THE SNARE!

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'ave it!

T'neet we’re chatting with Michael Pollard, (one of) the artist(s!) behind the cover of This Nation's Saving Grace. We talk about how the artwork came together, working around The Fall, and how the sleeve ended up becoming one of the band’s most iconic images.

Michael also shares stories about being part of the Manchester scene in the early ’80s and the creative vibe of the city at the time.

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