Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot CD (album) cover   Captain
Beefheart    3.88 | 47 ratings  From Progarchives.com, the
ultimate progressive rock music website  4 stars The best
"accessible" Beefheart album  Picking up where The Spotlight Kid
left off, this excellent album, featuring major-league
production by Ted Templeman (Little Feat, Van Halen) gives fans
a good taste of what a radio-friendly Captain Beefheart might
sound like. Far from being a sell-out, though, this is a tough
bluesy rock record that keeps the weirdness reigned in to
strategically acceptable levels.  "Low Yo Yo Stuff" and
"Nowadays a Woman's Got to Hit a Man" (nice titles both) kick
off the album with propulsive blues-rock - just off-center
enough to hold your attention but well grounded in standard
blues rock language. "Too Much Time" comes as a bit of a shock,
a soulful pop ballad with female backup vocals, like something
Al Green might have done. Instead of embarrassing himself
though, Beefheart handles the piece with poise and impressiv