Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
Tracklist front / back album covers
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Side one
1. "Lick My Decals Off, Baby" 2:38
2. "Doctor Dark" 2:46
3. "I Love You, You Big Dummy" 2:54
4. "Peon" (instrumental) 2:24
5. "Bellerin' Plain" 3:35
6. "Woe-is-uh-Me-Bop" 2:06
7. "Japan in a Dishpan" (instrumental) 3:00
Side two
1. "I Wanna Find a Woman That'll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have to Go" 1:53
2. "Petrified Forest" 1:40
3. "One Red Rose That I Mean" (instrumental) 1:52
4. "The Buggy Boogie Woogie" 2:19
5. "The Smithsonian Institute Blues (or the Big Dig)" 2:11
6. "Space-Age Couple" 2:32
7. "The Clouds Are Full of Wine (not Whiskey or Rye)" 2:50
8. "Flash Gordon's Ape" 4:15
Captain Beefheart Band Members / Musicians
Captain Beefheart – vocals, bass clarinet, tenor sax, soprano sax, harmonica
Zoot Horn Rollo – electric guitar and glass finger guitar
Rockette Morton – bassius-o-pheilius
Drumbo – percussion, broom
Grant Gibb – personal management
Peacock Ink – album concept
Don Van Vliet – back cover painting
Ed Thrasher – photography and art direction
Lick My Decals Off, Baby is the 4th studio album by American rock band Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in December 1970 by Straight and Reprise Records. The follow-up to Trout Mask Replica (1969), it is regarded by some critics and listeners as superior, and was Van Vliet's favorite. Van Vliet said that the title was an encouragement to "get rid of the labels", and to evaluate things according to their merits rather than according to superficial labels (or "decals").
