Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

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Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) cover
Studio album by Captain Beefheart
Released 1978
Recorded The Automatt, San Francisco 1978
Genre Alternative rock
Progressive rock
Length 47:20
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer Don Van Vliet & Pete Johnson
Professional reviews
Captain Beefheart chronology
Bluejeans & Moonbeams
(1974)
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
(1978)
Doc at the Radar Station
(1980)

Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) is the tenth album by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. Originally released in 1978, it is considered to be Beefheart's comeback album following 1974's poorly received efforts, Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams, and is the first of his three critically acclaimed final albums.

Contents

[edit] Bat Chain Puller

Many of the tracks were originally recorded for Frank Zappa's DiscReet Records in 1976 for an album that was to be titled simply Bat Chain Puller - namely the title track, "Harry Irene", "The Floppy Boot Stomp", "Owed t'Alex" and the poem "Apes-Ma". This album, however, was never commercially released, owing to legal complications among the Discreet bosses, which meant that the tracks that appear on Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) had eventually to be re-recorded in 1978.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Don Van Vliet except where noted

[edit] Side one

  1. "The Floppy Boot Stomp" – 3:51
  2. "Tropical Hot Dog Night" – 4:48
  3. "Ice Rose" – 3:37
  4. "Harry Irene" – 3:42
  5. "You Know You're a Man" – 3:14
  6. "Bat Chain Puller" – 5:27

[edit] Side two

  1. "When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy" – 5:03
  2. "Owed t'Alex" (Van Vliet, Herb Bermann) – 4:06
  3. "Candle Mambo" – 3:24
  4. "Love Lies" – 5:03
  5. "Suction Prints" – 4:25
  6. "Apes-Ma" – 0:40

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