Relatively restrained arrangement.

He does deserve a lot of respect for his complex vocal range and flexible abilities.

Track 11 - Suction Prints.

Protracted fade out.

Spritelier start.

Silly noises + bottleneck guitar.

Is this another instrumental?

Seems like it's going to be another challenging one.

Sax.

Cool bit.

Is this like Beefheart letting his original band do what the fl*p they like cos of all the psychological abuse he put them through a decade or so previously?

Last track - Apes-Ma.

ma.

Now what's he on about?

It is over.

It was enthusiastic but too arch and mannered for my liking.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.

Hmm...

What to think I liked it.

I shall give it 3 stars.

I'm getting this confused with his next album which is in my to listen too pile.

Or was it the one after that?

It's the first of his final three three albums with the reassembled Magic Band.

Shiny Beast, then Doc at the Radar Station, then Ice Cream For Crow.

The last two I get mixed up, as in I can't remember which was penultimate or which was last.