01. Ah Feel Like Ahcid - 3:05				play
02. Safe As Milk - 5:26
03. Trust Us - 8:08
04. Son Of Mirror Man - Mere Man - 5:19
05. On Tomorrow - 3:35
06. Beatle Bones 'N' Smokin' Stones - 3:09					play
07. Gimme Dat Harp Boy - 5:02
08. Kandy Korn - 5:04

- Don Van Vliet - vocals, mouth-harp, arranger
- Alex St. Clair - guitar
- Jeff Cotton - guitar
- Jerry Handley - bass
- John French - drums

Considered by many to be a substandard effort due to the circumstances of its release (producer Bob Krasnow, the owner of Blue Thumb, the label which debuted with this album, remixed the album while Don Van Vliet and crew were off on a European tour, adding extraneous sound effects like heartbeats and excessive use of psychedelic-era clichés like out-of-phase stereo panning and flanging), 1968's Strictly Personal is actually a terrific album, every bit the equal of Safe As Milk and Trout Mask Replica. Opening with "Ah Feel Like Ahcid," an a cappella blues workout with its roots in Son House's "Death Letter," the brief (barely 35 minutes) album is at the same time simpler and weirder than Safe As Milk had been. Working without another songwriter or arranger for the first time, Captain Beefheart strips his idiosyncratic blues down to the bone, with several of the songs (especially "Son of Mirror Man/Mere Man") having little in the way of lyrics or chords beyond the most primeval stomp. Krasnow's unfortunate sound effects and phasing do detract from the album at points, but the strength of the performances, especially those of drummer John French, make his efforts little more than superfluous window dressing. Strictly Personal is a fascinating, underrated release. --- Stewart Mason, allmusic.com

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01. Frownland - 1:39
02. The Dust Blows Forward 'N The Dust Blows Back - 1:52
03. Dachau Blues - 2:21
04. Ella Guru - 2:26
05. Hair Pie: Bake 1 - 4:58
06. Moonlight On Vermont - 3:55
07. Pachuco Cadaver - 4:38
08. Bills Corpse - 1:48
09. Sweet Sweet Bulbs - 2:21				play
10. Neon Meate Dream Of A Octafish - 2:25
11. China Pig - 4:00
12. My Human Gets Me Blues - 2:45
13. Dali's Car - 1:24
14. Hair Pie: Bake 2 - 2:23
15. Pena - 2:33
16. Well - 2:06
17. When Big Joan Sets Up - 5:18
18. Fallin' Ditch - 2:07
19. Sugar 'N Spikes - 2:30				play
20. Ant Man Bee - 3:54
21. Orange Claw Hammer - 3:34
22. Wild Life - 3:08
23. She's Too Much For My Mirror - 1:40
24. Hobo Chang Ba - 1:59
25. The Blimp (mousetrapreplica) - 2:04
26. Steal Softly Thru Snow - 2:16
27. Old Fart At Play - 1:51
28. Veteran's Day Poppy - 4:29

- Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) – vocals, tenor & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, simran horn (10,20),
 musette oboe (10,20), arranger
- Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo) – glass finger guitar (slide guitar using a glass slide), flute
- Jeff Cotton (Antennae Jimmy Semens) – steel-appendage guitar (slide guitar using a metal slide), vocals (15,25),
 french horn (04)
- Victor Hayden (The Mascara Snake) – bass clarinet, additional vocals
- Mark Boston (Rockette Morton) – bass guitar, narration (10,27)
- John French (Drumbo) – drums, percussion
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- Doug Moon – guitar (11)
- Frank Zappa – producer

Trout Mask Replica is Captain Beefheart's masterpiece, a fascinating, stunningly imaginative work that still sounds like little else in the rock & roll canon. Given total creative control by producer and friend Frank Zappa, Beefheart and his Magic Band rehearsed the material for this 28-song double album for over a year, wedding minimalistic R&B, blues, and garage rock to free jazz and avant-garde experimentalism. Atonal, sometimes singsong melodies; jagged, intricately constructed dual-guitar parts; stuttering, complicated rhythmic interaction -- all of these elements float out seemingly at random, often without completely interlocking, while Beefheart groans his surrealist poetry in a throaty Howlin' Wolf growl. The disjointedness is perhaps partly unintentional -- reportedly, Beefheart's refusal to wear headphones while recording his vocals caused him to sing in time with studio reverberations, not the actual backing tracks -- but by all accounts, the music and arrangements were carefully scripted by the Captain (aided by John "Drumbo" French), which makes the results even more remarkable. As one might expect from music so complex and, to many ears, inaccessible, the influence of Trout Mask Replica was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point. However, its inspiring reimagining of what was possible in a rock context laid the groundwork for countless future experiments in rock surrealism, especially during the punk/new wave era. --- Steve Huey, allmusic.com

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