Track list
- Sugar Bowl
- The Past Sure Is Tense
- Happy Love Song
- The Floppy Boot Stomp
- Blue Jeans and Moonbeams
- Run Paint Run Run
- This Is the Day
- Tropical Hot Dog Night
- Observatory Crest
- The Host, the Ghost, the Most Holy-O
- Harry Irene
- I Got Love on My Mind
- Pompadour Swamp
- Love Lies
- Sheriff of Hong Kong
- Further Than We’ve Gone
- Candle Mambo
- Light Reflected off the Oceands of the Moon
- A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond
Album overview from Graham Johnston
Compilation of mid-to-late / Virgin-era Beefheart with a track list which seems to have been chosen at random. Just to completely spoil whatever redeeming qualities the collection may have, it also features snippets of dialogue edited into tunes where they just do not belong.
One to skip, especially now that The Dust Blows Forward has been released which is a far superior package.
Releases
1993 UK CD A CARROT IS AS CLOSE AS A RABBIT GETS TO A DIAMOND Insert says COMPILATION AND SLEEVENOTES BY SIMON HOPKINS 1993 – tracks from Virgin’s 5 Albums and 1 EP (’82 “OCEANDS”) “OCEANDS” cut from the ’82 EP appears in digital form for the first time. The CD itself is an art-CD featuring an alarming close-up of Don Vliet’s 1974 moustache.
A small closeup taken from a larger picture inside the CD:
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