Best/Favourite Beefheart Studio Album (Poll ends May 1st 2007)

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Trout Mask Replica (1969)	9
Doc at the Radar Station (1980)	8
Clear Spot (1972)	6
Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)	5
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (1978)	5
The Spotlight Kid (1972)	4
Bluejeans & Moonbeams (1974)	1
Safe as Milk (1967)	1
Strictly Personal (1968)	1
Ice Cream for Crow (1982)	1
Unconditionally Guaranteed (1974)	0
Mirror Man (1971)	0

― Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

Can I vote for a different album in this poll?

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

yes.

― Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

"No Mark, I'll stick with my first choice..."
"OK, 'Doc At the Radar Station' you are the Best/Favourite Beefheart Studio Album", goodbye..."

― Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

This poll is a going concern.

― Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

I better vote Clear Spot after moaning about it not being in the other poll! ( Safe As Milk would be my 2nd choice and I voted that in other poll)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for starting this. I almost did it yesterday.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Fairly productive 5 years from '67 to '72 from the Captain, I'd say. "Trout Mask."

― ellaguru, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

(A sad tedious pedantic Beefheart fanatic writes) But you still haven't included Bat Chain Puller, Mark! You said you were going to include [all] the studio albums this time, not just the ones that got officially released!

Perhaps we should do third poll with just the albums that Don has never sought to disown - i.e. miss out Strictly Personal, Mirror Man, (maybe we could replace those two with Brown Star / It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper or whatever it was he intended to call the double album that he originally wanted to release from those sessions?) Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams?

― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

C'mon, Doc at the Radar station already!

― baaderonixx, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

Experience would suggest that Doc At The Radar Station is only going to be in with a realistic chance if we can come up with a pretext for a poll that specifically excludes both Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off Baby (or maybe if a large proportion of the respondants haven't actually heard Decals) - and even then it's going to be facing some pretty stiff competition from Safe As Milk, Clear Spot and Shiny Beast.

Actually a poll to find people's favourite Beefheart album with a title that doesn't actually include either the word "Trout" or the word "Decals" might be quite interesting, if potentially a bit long title-wise.

― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:21 (eighteen years ago)

Doc's my fave with or without Trouts and Decals.

― baaderonixx, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

Stewart! Oh it's people accessible albums!

"Bat Chain Puller" I don't got! and my guess is you don't either (discounting "dust sucker")

My vote, given a big world version, might well have been for the Revenant box, but hey!

Now you lot! Shuttup, or I'll make a "beefheart singles poll"!

― Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

""Bat Chain Puller" I don't got! and my guess is you don't either (discounting "dust sucker")"

Actually you bet wrong. In fact, despite all the bullshit about Roger Eagle on the sleeve, I think I was probably inadvertently the source of the tape from which Dust Sucker was mastered - as well as being directly and personally responsible for the fact that the first couple of seconds of the opening track are missing.

I hope that Beefheart singles poll is going to include promos and overseas releases (although that will inevitably leave me somewhat torn between that French release of "Pachuco Cadaver" / "Wild Life" and those US DJ-only promos of "Click Clack" / "Glider" and "Too Much Time" / "Low Yo Yo Stuff")

― Stewart Osborne, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

white flag!

I vote my nice Pye International copy of "Yellow Brick Road" and that's it.

― Mark G, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

Last Chance is today!

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

Ice Cream For Crow.

― xhuxk, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

I only own Trout Mask Replica so that has to be it.

― NYCNative, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

You need Safe As Milk and Clear Spot.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 30 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

And Lick My Decals Off and Doc At the Radar Station.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 30 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Right...pretending that we live in a world where Lick My Trout Mask Off, Baby never existed (a world where I wouldn't want to live), it only takes me a few seconds to vote for Clear Spot. 's got the best production of any Beefheart album (thanx to Ted Templeman) and "Big Eyed Beans From Venus", maybe the man's finest moment.

That's my choice. (But "Doc" and "Shiny Beast" and "Safe As Milk" are all worthy choices.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 30 April 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Safe As Milk, by far

His other stuff is good too, but SAM is an incredible (white boy) blues record, and Ry Cooder's guitar playing alone is amazing.

― Erock Zombie, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

T'was close, then, in the end!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 08:20 (eighteen years ago)

That Top 4 is spot on! "Safe As Milk" and "Strictly Personal" both deserve more than 1 vote! "The Spotlight Kid" doesn't deserve 4!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 08:58 (eighteen years ago)

What eejit voted for Bluejeans & Moonbeams???

― Stewart Osborne, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

I find "Unconditionally" a fine album, and I guess "BJ&MB" is next...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

I was right - the one album I own is best.

― NYCNative, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

I like a lot of "Bluejeans"!

― Tom D., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

So Clear Spot was added in the end? I'd have voted for it over Troutmask.

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Why didnt my "Safe As Milk" vote get counted ? It should be at 2, not 1

It needs any edge it can get against those other 0 and 1 albums

― Erock Zombie, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

So Clear Spot was added in the end? I'd have voted for it over Troutmask.

A different, more inclusive poll thread was created.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Safe As Milk deserved a lot more votes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I'm sayin'. Not even the votes it DID get counted, seemingly.

Makes me wanna go whip out my LP of it and stun the neighbours

― Erock Zombie, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

wait till next march and add the votes from the other poll.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:31 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think that will work, though. Next March will be 2008, not 2007. So the other Beefy poll will probably never close.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

I suspect Safe as Milk might have been a popular second choice...

― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

LET's START A "Second Favourite Beefheart" poll!

(With all the albums, naturally)

― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

IT'S LIKE FLORIDA AND OHIO IN THE THREAD!!!

― NYCNative, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

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