The Spotlight Kid
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| The Spotlight Kid | ||
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| Studio album by Captain Beefheart | ||
| Released | 1972 | |
| Recorded | 1972 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 35:54 | |
| Label | Reprise | |
| Producer(s) | Captain Beefheart | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Captain Beefheart chronology | ||
| Mirror Man (1971) |
The Spotlight Kid (1972) |
Clear Spot (1972) |
The Spotlight Kid is the sixth album by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, originally released in 1972. Often cited as the most commercial of Beefheart's albums, it is solidly founded in the blues but also introduces such exotic instruments as marimba and what the liner notes list as jingle bells.
Although it did not chart as high in the US or UK as Beefheart's preceding two albums (owing to John Peel moving on from Beefheart to other avant-garde artists), The Spotlight Kid was the first Captain Beefheart album to appear in the Billboard Top 200. Its peak of #131 remains the highest attained by any Beefheart album. The album is now available only as a "two for one" CD along with Beefheart's follow-up album, Clear Spot. Separately, the two albums are only available as vinyl LP reissues.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Captain Beefheart
[edit] Side one
- "I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby" – 4:33
- "White Jam" – 2:55
- "Blabber 'n Smoke" – 2:46
- "When It Blows Its Stacks" – 3:40
- "Alice in Blunderland" – 3:54
[edit] Side two
- "The Spotlight Kid" – 3:21
- "Click Clack" – 3:30
- "Grows Fins" – 3:30
- "There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage – 3:11
- "Glider" – 4:34
[edit] Personnel
- Captain Beefheart - vocals, harmonica, jingle bells
- Zoot Horn Rollo (Bill Harkleroad) - guitar, slide guitar
- Rockette Morton (Mark Boston) - bass, guitar
- Drumbo (John French) - drums, percussion
- Ed Marimba (Art Tripp) - drums, percussion, marimba, piano, harpsichord
- Winged Eel Fingerling (Elliot Ingber) - guitar
- Rhys Clark - drums
- Ted Cactus - drums
