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Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
1970

From one weirdo to the other. I post this the day after Don Glen Vliet Van Vliet died. I'd been sippin' on the Captain again, thanks to an old Wire (magazine) primer of the Trouted One. "Trout Mask Replica" was great double album of ass-numbing tunes, buuuut, "Lick my decals off, BABY" was the distillation of that record. Tighter, more coherent-ish, Rock (dam)N Roll. I'm privy to "the Buggy Boogie Woogie"

Oh that buggy boogie woogie sweeps me off my feet
What this world needs is a good retreat
What this world needs is a good two dollar room
'n a good two dollar broom
One day I was sweepin' down by the wall
I bumped a mama spider 'n the babies begin' to fall
Off o' my broom
Now I gotta keep on sweepin' 'n sweepin'
'fore they fill the room
Now that buggy boogie woogie sweeps me off my feet
I gotta keep on sweepin' 'n sweepin'
Seems like I could keep on sweepin' 'n sweepin'
'n there's still too many feet.

All to the beat of a broom....