Grow Fins: Rarities 1965–1982

Grow Fins: Rarities 1965–1982
Box set by Captain Beefheart
Released May 18, 1999
Recorded 1965–1982
Genre Rock
Length 234:12
Label Revanant
Captain Beefheart chronology
The Legendary A&M Sessions
(1984)
Grow Fins
(1999)
I'm Going to Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father's Place 1978
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Grow Fins: Rarities 1965–1982 is a 5-HDCD box set compiled from previously unreleased recordings by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band. The featured material spans the band's entire career, but focuses mainly on their work up to the late 1960s and the sessions for Beefheart's best-known album, Trout Mask Replica (1969).

Track listing

Disc one: Just Got Back From the City (1965-67)
No. Title Length
1. "Obeah Man" (1966 demo) 2:46
2. "Just Got Back from the City" (1966 demo) 1:55
3. "I'm Glad" (1966 demo) 3:43
4. "Triple Combination" (1966 demo) 2:50
5. "Here I Am I Always Am" (early 1966 demo) 3:17
6. "Here I Am I Always Am" (later 1966 demo) 2:33
7. "Somebody in My Home" (live Avalon Ballroom '66) 3:03
8. "Tupelo" (live Avalon Ballroom '66) 4:15
9. "Evil" (live Avalon Ballroom '66) 2:33
10. "Old Folks Boogie" (live Avalon Ballroom '67) 3:15
11. "Call On Me" (1965 demo) 3:04
12. "Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do" (1967 demo) 2:11
13. "Yellow Brick Road" (1967 demo) 1:45
14. "Plastic Factory" (1967 demo) 2:57
Disc two: Electricity, 1968
No. Title Length
1. "Electricity" (live at Cannes 1968) 3:42
2. "Sure Nuff" (live at Cannes 1968) 3:00
3. "Rollin n Tumblin" (Kidderminster 1968) 11:10
4. "Electricity" (Kidderminster 1968) 3:42
5. "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" (Kidderminster 1968) 6:28
6. "Kandy Korn" (Kidderminster 1968) 4:23
7. "Korn Ring Finger" (1967 demo) 7:23
Disc three: "Trout Mask House Sessions, 1969
No. Title Length
1. "Hobo Chang Ba" and "Dachau Blues" tuning up"   4:59
2. "'bush recording'"   8:18
3. "Hair Pie: Bake 1"   5:04
4. "Hair Pie: Bake 2"   2:44
5. "'noodling'"   1:05
6. "Hobo Chang Ba"   2:02
7. ""Hobo" practice"   1:58
8. "Hobo Chang Ba" (take 2) 3:08
9. "Dachau Blues"   2:06
10. "Old Fart at Play"   1:23
11. "'noodling'"   1:01
12. "Pachuco Cadaver"   4:08
13. "Sugar 'n Spikes"   2:40
14. "'noodling'"   1:01
15. "Sweet Sweet Bulbs"   2:31
16. "Frownland" (take 1) 2:51
17. "Frownland"   1:52
18. "'noodling'"   1:11
19. "Ella Guru"   2:33
20. "'silence'"   0:09
21. "She's Too Much for My Mirror"   1:30
22. "'noodling'"   0:36
23. "Steal Softly thru Snow"   2:22
24. "'noodling'"   1:52
25. "My Human Gets Me Blues"   2:54
26. "'noodling'"   1:06
27. "When Big Joan Sets Up"   4:32
28. "'silence'"   0:05
29. "Candy Man"   0:57
30. "China Pig"   4:15
Disc four: "Trout Mask House Sessions Pt. 2
No. Title Length
1. "Blimp" playback"   5:09
2. "'Herb Alpert'"   1:07
3. "'Septic tank'"   0:51
4. "'We'll overdub it 3 times'"   5:26
Disc five: "Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Grow Fins (1969-81)
No. Title Length
1. "My Human Gets Me Blues" (live Amougies '69) 3:56
2. "When Big Joan Sets Up" (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) 6:13
3. "Woe Is Uh Me Bop" (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) 2:46
4. "Bellerin Plain" (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) 3:26
5. "Black Snake Moan I" (KHSU '72) 1:04
6. "Grow Fins" (live Bickershaw '72) 5:12
7. "Black Snake Moan II" (WBCN '72) 1:52
8. "Spitball Scalped Uh Baby" (live, Bickershaw '72) 9:15
9. "Harp Boogie I" (WBCN '72) 1:35
10. "One Red Rose That I Mean" (Town Hall '72) 1:48
11. "Harp Boogie II" (WBCN '72) 0:56
12. "Natchez Burning" (WBCN '72) 0:46
13. "Harp Boogie III" (1972 radio phone in) 0:53
14. "Click Clack" (Paris, '73) 2:53
15. "Orange Claw Hammer" ('75 from radio with Zappa on acoustic guitar) 4:39
16. "Odd Jobs" (Don piano demo, '76) 5:13
17. "Odd Jobs" (full band demo '76) 5:12
18. "Vampire Suite" (1980 worktapes/live) 3:49
19. "Mellotron Improv" (live '78) 1:25
20. "Evening Bell" (Don piano demo '81) 0:57
21. "Evening Bell" (Lucas worktape '81) 2:18
22. "Mellotron Improv" (live '80) 2:23
23. "Flavor Bud Living" (live '81) 1:17

Notes

  1. Unterberger, Richie. Allmusic review

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