The original Captain Beefheart track is called Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee and is from 1980's Doc At The Radar Station*.
This live version can be found on the Grow Fins - Rarities 1965 to 1982 album.

*DATRS was considered to be a return of form for Captain Beefheart by Beefheart fans as it was compared favourably to the Decals album of ten years prior. Decals was the follow up album to the subliminal Trout Mask Replica.
All Beefheart albums should be critiqued separately.

A typical musician's nest of thoughts filter through dust speakers...
the surface of a friend...
this high book a friend laid on me...
on the couch relaxing in the corner behind a still life pond with plenty of bugs and lily pads slurred in mud banks and boulders, tin cans and raisins warped by thought.
Strain on the spoon like a wheat check - check Bif - cotton popping out of his sleeve...
Poop hatch open - big poop hatch with a cotton hatch
now the sun can burn you but...

After forty years and after forty nights
Making some food for the Israelites
Out on a limb inside the Heights
Lies a machine out of sight
Not much air, breathing still
Sleeping mummy who did you kill?

They closed your eyes and left you to rust
Many prayed for you to turn to dust
You need a man from Hereabouts
To find where you are and dig you out

Wow, what a find!
JJ Burnel and Dave Greenfield (of The Stranglers) both appear on this album.
An excellent curio to add to my collection.

The musical pace of this album picks up on Baking The Wondertart. It transcends from 30's style jazz to almost a Be-Bop. And it is those last few tracks that stand out for me.
Whereas the 'Orange' album has pulsating 20's and 30's jazz rhythms which push the player through the game this 'Green' album is more what I would call music for a video game... more like background music, or character themed music.
Join Cuphead, Mugman (his brother) and their friend Miss Chalice for more DLC adventures.

Cuphead is a fiendishly difficult, but brilliant, game to play*. The characters (and sets) are all hand-drawn* in a early 1920's/30's style of animation and move in a 2D sideways motion. Due to it's excellent hand-drawn animation Cuphead took ten years to complete*.
The music is incredible and I would recommend listening to BBC 3's Sound Of Gaming on the BBC Sounds app where you can listen to an interview with composer Kristofer Maddigan.

*according to my son who thoroughly recommends Cuphead.

Jeff Cotton played guitar on three Captain Beefheart albums (Strictly Personal, Trout Mask Replica and Mirror Man).
After Beefheart, Jeff released three further albums with a band called MU, with (prior to Beefheart) collaborator Merrell Fankhauser.
After almost 50 years Jeff will release a solo project, The Fantasy Of Reality.

Jeff Cotton remains with high regard and fond affection from fans of Captain Beefheart.

Track 18 is called Mother Earth Needs Healing

Favourite Track is track 6.

Well, here we are... the Prove Your Humanity version.
The rules are located here, so have a go and submit.

What a brilliant concept from Chris Opperman and Kurt Morgan.
They have created a musical template of Are We Living In A Computer Simulation? which can be found in the accompanying album*.
They invite artists to play over the tracks in any way, shape or form they wish and then upload the result which could be included on the album.
There are rules to this so please study the notes to the accompanying* #ProveYourHumanity version of the album.

Have fun, create then upload.

Even though I had problems receiving this album after I had bought it as a pre-order (I complained twice to the Bandcamp admin) it turns out to be a very good live album.

Gary's guitar work is brilliant, as it always is. Take Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro for instance. It is an incredible piece of guitar playing. And Billy Ficca's drumming on this track is great too.
After a 40+ year career in music Gary has left a stellar legacy. So many albums, collaborations and, of course, Captain Beefheart.

Certainly a curio from the JJ Burnel camp.
The track is from a John Lennon tribute album that was originated by Kloot Per W who played bass with Polyphonic Size, a band that JJ has produced in the past.
The tribute album is a little hit and miss (and that's being polite). There are only two tracks that I like. This one and Strawberry Fields by John Bosco.
I decided to buy this track before it gets lost in the ethernet of miscellany.
Hugh Cornwell has Totem And Taboo on Bandcamp.

The moon was a drip on a dark hood
And they were driving around and around.
Tush tush,
You lose your push
When you beat around the bush.
And Circles don't fly, they float.

My spirit's made up of the ocean,
The sky, the sun and the moon
And all my eyes can see.
I cannot go back to your world of gloom,
Where black jagged shadows
Remind me of the coming of your doom.
I want my own land.
Take my hand and come with me.
It's not too late for you,
It's not too late for me
To find my homeland
Where a man can stand by another man
Without an ego flying
With no man lying
and no-one dying by an earthly hand.
Take my hand.
My smile is stuck.
I cannot go back to your Frownland.

Well my cigarette died when I washed my face.
Dropped some drops in an ashtray, hit a wrong place.
Open up my blinds to see spiders spinning nines.
It's as SAFE AS MILK.
I never heard it put quite that way.
The shape I'm in is worn away.
They called a day. They called a day.
Yesterday's papers headlines approach rain gutter.
Pop up toaster crackling.
Aluminium rhythm and sound.
Electric bulb been out for years.
I may be hungry but I sure ain't wierd.