Name: Safe As Milk
SKU: 1008737

'Brilliant. You just gotta hear these records'. - Kurt Loder, MTV News

'A blues-obsessed desert rat, Captain Beefheart re-imagined rock by fashioning a furious amalgam of garage punk and faux-Delta weirdness...a great musical maverick at work... A - ' Entertainment Weekly, June 25,1999

'A still unmatched standard for avant-garde gnarliness in rock'.- Newsweek, 7/12/99

'The Captain and his so-called Magic Band raised a joyfully tumultuous ruckus that was utterly unique in pop music annals. Nothing quite like it had been heard before, and precious little of what's come along since has packed anything approaching the same sonic wallop' - Raygun, May 99

'If psychedelia is about releasing the mind to push back musical frontiers, these mutant blues take some beating. In an era of many a putative freak, he was the business.' Safe As Milk in the essential dozen Psychedelic albums of all time, Q Magazine, August 1999

'On Safe As Milk the Magic Band inject the blues with theremin, counterpoint and an irregular pulse. Thoroughly researched and compiled, The Mirror Man Sessions corrects past errors by realizing Beefheart's original plan for these 1968 recordings: a sprawling, angular double LP. Both it and Safe As Milk feature outstanding bonus cuts. - Alternative Press, August 1999

'Avant-rock's mystical master. Beefheart fans will revel in these rarities and reissues. Safe As Milk rates as Beefheart's most commercially viable record...' - New York Daily News, Sunday 7/18/99

'Buddha Records is to be commended for its current reissue series bringing back such classics as Captain Beefheart's Safe As Milk and The Mirror Man Sessions.' - Billboard, June 26th, 1999

'These two records - especially Safe As Milk, which trashed the blueprints of rock 'n' roll and stupefied critics in 1967- are every bit the boundary benders they were then.' - San Diego Union Tribune, August 19, 1999

'Safe As Milk is a garage-rock classic, full of gruff, bluesy vocals, scratchy guitars and stomping beats that never relent.' - Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 14, 1999

'...the most fully realized 'future blues' ever recorded. Safe as Milk is a superb example of harnessing the power of the blues, and taking it somewhere else'" - Guitar Player, June 1999

'Safe as Milk is the most exciting re-release in years. You really do need the music of Captain Beefheart.' - Salon.Com