The Magic BandDust Sucker

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Rock

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Avantgarde

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Tracklist

Bat Chain Puller 5:04
Seam Crooked Sam 3:12
Harry Irene 3:28
81 Poop Hatch 2:36
Flavor Bud Living 1:53
Brickbats 4:24
Floppy Boot Stomp 3:58
A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond 1:39
Owed T'Alex 3:25
Odd Jobs 5:13
1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole 5:49
Apes-Ma 0:40
Bat Chain Puller 5:19
Harry Irene 4:07
Flavor Bud Living 1:18
Floppy Boot Stomp 4:25
Owed T'Alex 5:58
Well Well Well 1:59
My Human Gets Me Blues 3:32

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Notes

"The Captain's own tapes of the legendary 'Bat Chain Puller' studio sessions plus rare bonus tracks."
Sequel volume: Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Son Of Dust Sucker.

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    Cover of Dust Sucker, 2002-03-18, CD Dust Sucker
    CD, Album
    Milksafe Productions – BF6003 UK 2002 UK2002
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    Cover of Dust Sucker, 2002, CD Dust Sucker
    CD, Album
    Ozit Records – OZITCD 6003 UK 2002 UK2002
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    Cover of Dust Sucker, 2002, CD Dust Sucker
    CD, Album, Remastered
    Milksafe Productions – BF6003 Japan 2002 Japan2002
    New Submission
    Cover of Dust Sucker, 2007, Vinyl Dust Sucker
    2×LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered
    Ozit-Morpheus Records – LP8006 UK 2007 UK2007
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    Cover of Dust Sucker, 2008-06-27, Vinyl Dust Sucker
    2×LP, Album, Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue, Green
    Ozit Records – OZITLP 8006 UK 2008 UK2008
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    Cover of Dust Sucker, , CD Dust Sucker
    CD, Album, Remastered, Repress
    Milksafe Productions – BF6003 UK UK
    Recently Edited

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    Reviews

    • Freeman2321's avatar
      Freeman2321
      Edited 3 months ago
      These guys heads must be filled with sawdust. This sounds great and is a great mix of demos and live recordings. There are plenty of bad sounding recordings but this isn’t one of them. Recordings like this have a special vibe to them but you just can’t compare this to anything. Take it how it is. If you think this is bad try rough raw and amazing. Which I still think sounds great. Sounds like it’s at the end of a room. It’s not just about your ears when putting on captain.
      • heroinsaves69's avatar
        heroinsaves69
        One of the worst sounding records I have ever owned. Not even worth having for the Beefheart completist. Just a warning on this to not go out of your way to try to find this... even the PVC envelope it came in smells bad. I think there are boot vinyls cut from the
        Vaulternative CD out there, plus that CD is still floating around out there in quite a fine mastering. Take a look at all the official albums under the Captain Beefheart name... and look at this hideous sleeve... I'm venting here simply because I find this LP so offensive. I ended up trading my copy in a big pile of Records I didn't want or need, at a local used record store... a couple weeks later they had it on display and they wanted 50 bucks for it... (insert quizzical smiley emoticon here)
        • heroinsaves69's avatar
          heroinsaves69
          Horrendous. Poorly pressed and badly mastered. Off speed on some tracks, huge volume differences between tracks, sounding like 9th generation copies... I had the green vinyl version. Emphasis on the word "had".... Don't know how this is even legit to sell, I really don't think it came from "the Captain's original tapes"... pretty much anything on this label is extraordinarily sketchy... I'm only posting here to warn people away from wasting money... A good deal of this stuff has been reissued in far better quality elsewhere...if I'm not mistaken, the same group behind this label is also issuing a whole bunch of live stuff by the Fall... You can usually tell because it looks like the graphics and cover designs were thrown together with zero regard for aesthetic quality... In fact this may be their "best" cover design and, well, just take a look at it...ugh.
          • stixvoll's avatar
            stixvoll
            It was great to hear this stuff for the first time, even though the sound quality SUCKS. Nice pretty green vinyl though (one opaque, one translucent) though the extra tracks are somewhat..extraneous. If this sounded like it wasn't recorded on a portable four-track I'd give it a four...I have a bit of a conspiracy theory regarding this release which I will expound upon on my "Son OF Dust Sucker" review...generally I would say avoid; if you want the Bat Chain Puller material on vinyl go for the latter or seek out a decent quality boot (the plain brown purple-stamped cover in various vinyl hues is okay too though the mastering engineer seems to have fallen asleep whilst mastering the title track; it seems a little quieter than the rest of the LP)...anyway, this release is probably really only for Beefheart completists, to be honest.

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