Lick my decals off, baby

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its easy to find high quality downloads of this album

and its truly fabulous

― justsaying, Thursday, 9 February 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Lee: Buy a goddamned turntable. At the very least, most classic albums are much, much cheaper at your local used store on vinyl.

― js (honestengine), Friday, 10 February 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, but new vinyl usually costs the same as a new CD and I'm much more likely to find a specific title I want used on CD than I am on vinyl. Plus, vinyl elitists bug the shit out of me.

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Friday, 10 February 2006 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Both have their strengths and weaknesses but in this day and age a CD player is the essential, a turntable is a luxury.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 February 2006 09:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, yesterday I saw an ad of the "CaptBeefheart...Milk/Trout/Personal/Decals...£8.99" type in one of the music mags.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 February 2006 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Excellent news for everyone! Only drawback is that my own "Decals" CD is suddenly worth much, much less $ as an ebay item. (Not that I had any intention of selling.)

― Myonga Von Buggyboogiewoogie (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 10 February 2006 09:36 (eighteen years ago) link

On the contrary. Now is when you make yourself a copy (to listen to until the reissue) and sell your copy to someone who has not yet read the news.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Friday, 10 February 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Nope, I'm keeping it: Among other things, it's a souvenir of my visitation to New Orleans, where I bought it back in 1990.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll be keeping my CD as a souvenir of having spent an almost insane amount of money on a Japanese import.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 11 February 2006 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I was THIS close to starting a "Why the Hell Isn't Lick My Decals Off Baby" re released thread!! WELL, WILL IT EVER BE RE RELEASED!?!? I'M GONNA GO INSANE!!!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 11 February 2006 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never actually started a thread about it, but I have hurled tirades of abuse at Rhino about this on several occasions from the safety of several other threads.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 11 February 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link

jeeeez..... What's the point? I mean , What's the point of not having it available anymore???

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 11 February 2006 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

not really sure why I didn't buy the nice 180g pressing of this when I saw it cheap last year in sydney. good news nontheless!

― weekly handle change (haitch), Saturday, 11 February 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll be keeping my CD as a souvenir of having spent an almost insane amount of money on a Japanese import.
-- Stewart Osborne

Heh heh...shades of me paying $40 for an ebay video of "Koyaanisqatsi", only to see it re-released on DVD (and retailing for ten bucks!) less than a year later...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Geez. I didn't even realize this was so scarce.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 11 February 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not too hard to find on vinyl - but on CD it's been like hens teeth and rocking horse shit.

"Heh heh...shades of me paying $40...."

A mere $40? A mere bagatelle, a drop in the ocean. Iirc it cost me nearly $20 in P&P [sobs].

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Saturday, 11 February 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I had a friend who named his band "Koyaanisqatsi". I laugh just thinking about it, the dumbass thought he was being deep or something, and he couldn't even pronounce it!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Saturday, 11 February 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

"lick my decals off,baby" it is as "safe as milk" is. - semen, of course.

― hey joe, Monday, 27 February 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

There is no mention of these reissues on the Rhino site. Anyone have further information?

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Nope, but the DVD "Captain Beefheart - Under Review" which came out on Chrome Dream a week or too back has wildly exceeded my expectations.

Of course my expectations weren't particularly high - The Captain does seem to have been the subject / source of more than his fair share of pointless compliations and dodgy merchandise in recent months and Chrome Dreams previous contribution (a dodgy-sounding CD of an old interview) certainly didn't lead me to expect much - but just for a change this really is worth acquiring for all good little Beefheart obsessives.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000ENUL84.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I've also been hearing very good things about this:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000ELJ8PI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Suffice it to say however that Ozit's latest contribution "The Captain's Last Live Concert Plus" is inevitably of the same piss-poor quality as most of the other Beefheart material they've released, and is probably best avoided.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe I should sell my CD before this reissue deal comes out. I bought mine at the regular CD price in a regular record store back in the early '90s. It's the Rhino reissue. Now I see them being offered for $100 on Amazon Marketplace - though I don't know if people are actually buying them at that price.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Rhino folks didn't know anything about this when I feverishly inquired.

― imbidimts, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Instrumental-only tracks from the sessions, sans the Beef. Magic Band indeed.

http://halsprogressiverockblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/captain-beefheart-lick-my-decals.html

― Johnny Hotcox, Sunday, 9 November 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link

An interesting Syd Barrett one there too.

― Mark G, Sunday, 9 November 2008 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC77H20NPtM

― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 November 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuPz6GShajo

― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 October 2023 09:45 (seven months ago) link

Very nice. I once learned to play Flavor Bud Living, but One Red Rose.. is a whole other level.

― Duke, Sunday, 22 October 2023 14:53 (seven months ago) link

so it looks like this was finally released on CD... in 2015

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 22 October 2023 17:01 (seven months ago) link

it appears I took this thread to heart and sold my CD version in January 2007 for $34.77

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Sunday, 22 October 2023 17:10 (seven months ago) link

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