Editing Captain Beefheart (section)

=== ''Lick My Decals Off, Baby'' ===
''[[Lick My Decals Off, Baby]]'' (1970) continued in a similarly experimental vein. An album with "a very coherent structure" in the Magic Band's "most experimental and visionary stage",<ref>{{cite web |first=Graham |last=Johnston |url=http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/albums/official/decals.htm |title=The Captain Beefheart Radar Station – Lick My Decals Off Baby |work=Beefheart.com |access-date=February 11, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124020320/http://www.beefheart.com/datharp/albums/official/decals.htm |archive-date=January 24, 2010 }}</ref> it was Van Vliet's most commercially successful in the United Kingdom, spending twenty weeks on the [[UK Albums Chart]] and peaking at number 20. An early promotional music video was made of its title song, and a bizarre television commercial included excerpts from "Woe-Is-uh-Me-Bop", silent footage of masked Magic Band members using kitchen utensils as musical instruments, and Beefheart kicking over a bowl of what appears to be porridge onto a dividing stripe in the middle of a road. The video was rarely played but was accepted into the [[Museum of Modern Art]], where it has been used in several programs related to music.<ref name="ReferenceA">''[http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/47/962 Music Video: The Industry and Its Fringes]'', Museum of Modern Art, September 6–30, 1985</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">''[http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/47/956 Looking at Music]'', Museum of Modern Art, August 13, 2008 – January 5, 2009</ref>

On this LP, [[Art Tripp|Art Tripp III]], formerly of [[the Mothers of Invention]], played drums and marimba, along with a returning John French. ''Lick My Decals Off, Baby'' was the first record on which the band was credited as "''The''" Magic Band, rather than "''His''" Magic Band. Journalist [[Irwin Chusid]] interprets this change as "a grudging concession of its members' at least semi-autonomous humanity".<ref name="Chusid" /> Robert Christgau gave the album an A&minus;, commenting, "Beefheart's famous five-octave range and covert totalitarian structures have taken on a playful undertone, repulsive and engrossing and [[slapstick]] funny."<ref name="robertchristgau.com"/> Due to licensing disputes, ''Lick My Decals Off, Baby'' was unavailable on CD for many years, though it remained in print on [[vinyl record|vinyl]]. It was ranked second in ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' magazine's May 2010 list of ''The 50 Greatest Lost Albums''.<ref>''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' magazine, May 2010. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110428185601/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/uncut.htm#LostAlbums "The 50 Greatest Lost Albums"]}} www.rocklistmusic.co.uk Retrieved February 9, 2010.</ref>