| Captain Beefheart Discography |
| Beefheart Covers Collection |
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A large and diverse number of bands have attempted covering Don's songs with varying degrees of success. Some of these efforts have had a legitimate release while others have only turned up on radio sessions or live tapes. These are the ones I know of - if you've come across others please email me at steve@beefheart.com. These are all songs Don has written although I have stretched the point a bit to include 'Willie The Pimp' and 'Hard Workin Man' which are closely associated with him but are not his compositions. There are some songs out there that are not strictly speaking cover versions but have just sampled or quoted lyrics. I have listed these separately in section called 'A Beefheart Connection'. Click the artist name for more info and cover scans. **NEW** If you prefer, you can take a look at the list arranged by song title |
| The 012 |
| Blabber 'n' Smoke |
| 25 Suaves |
| Dachau Blues |
| A Warm Palindrome |
| Orange Claw Hammer |
| Nel Aspinal |
| Sugar 'n' Spikes |
| Azalia Snail |
| Abba Zaba |
| Baby Woodrose |
| Dropout Boogie |
| Balancing Act |
| Zig Zag Wanderer |
| Les Bandits du Vidourle |
| Frying Pan |
| The Barely Works |
| Tropical Hot Dog Night |
| Tom Barman & Guy Van Nueten |
| Harry Irene |
| Basketcase |
| Ashtray Heart |
| The Beasts of Bourbon |
| Hard Work Drivin' Man |
| The Beat Poets |
| Gimme Dat Harp Boy Sun Zoom Spark |
| Beck |
| Grow Fins |
| Beware |
| Ashtray Heart |
| Big Eyed Beans From Venus |
| Abba Zaba Electricity Ellaguru Hair Pie Bake 2 Pachuco Cadaver |
| Big Mess Orchestra |
| Run Paint Run Run |
| Black & Farrell |
| Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do |
| Black Gang |
| A carrot is as close ... |
| Black Keys |
| Here I Am (I Always Am) I'm Glad |
| Blacktop |
| Here I Am I Always Am |
| Bonedaddys |
| Crazy Little Thing |
| Janet Bressler |
| I'm Glad |
| Bright |
| Korn Ring Finger |
| Brokeback |
| A carrot is as close ... |
| Edgar Broughton Band |
| Dropout Boogie |
| Buckwheat Zydeco |
| Too Much Time |
| Buzzcocks |
| I Love You You Big Dummy |
| Bwana 3 |
| Grow Fins |
| David Byrne |
| Well |
| C Cat Trance |
| Orange Claw Hammer |
| Dez Cadena |
| Apes Ma |
| Eugene Chadbourne
& Jimmy Carl Black |
| The Blimp Buggy Boogie Woogie Clear Spot Dropout Boogie The Dust Blows Forward... I'm Gonna Booglarise You Baby Neon Meate Dream Of An Octafish Pachuco Cadaver The Past Is Tense Sheriff Of Hong Kong Steal Softly Through Snow Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do Veterans' Day Poppy Willie The Pimp |
| Eugene Chadbourne w/ Doctor Dark |
| Doctor Dark The Dust Blows Forward... I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby Moonlight on Vermont Orange Claw Hammer Pachuco Cadaver Plastic Factory Smithsonian Institute Blues Steal Softly Thru Snow Veteran's Day Poppy |
| Jean Chaine |
| Ashtray Heart |
| Clawhammer |
| Moonlight On Vermont |
| Coati Mundi |
| Tropical Hot Dog Night |
| Combo Nangi |
| Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do |
| Pascal Comelade |
| Dali's Car |
| The Come Ons |
| Blushing (aka Kiss Me My Love / Three Tears In A Haystack) |
| Hugh Cornwell |
| When It Blows Its Stacks |
| Los Coronados |
| Zig Zag Wanderer |
| The Cramps |
| Hard Working Man |
| The Cruel Sea |
| Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do |
| Da Willys |
| Frying Pan |
| Dapper |
| Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones |
| The Deadpan Tractor |
| Big Eyed Beans From Venus |
| Demon Jr |
| I'm Glad |
| Brian Dewan |
| The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back |
| Sandy Dillon |
| This Is The Day |
| Sandy Dillon & Hector Zazou |
| Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles | Dimthingshineon |
| Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin Stones |
| Doctor Dark |
|
Bat Chain Puller |
| Doctor Dark w/ Eugene Chadbourne |
| Doctor Dark The Dust Blows Forward... I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby Moonlight on Vermont Orange Claw Hammer Pachuco Cadaver Plastic Factory Smithsonian Institute Blues Steal Softly Thru Snow Veteran's Day Poppy |
| Doctor Nerve |
| When It Blows Its Stacks |
| The Dog Faced Hermans |
| Zig Zag Wanderer |
| Doug & The Mystics |
| Too Much Time Willie The Pimp |
| Aynsley Dunbar |
| Willie The Pimp |
| Terry Edwards & The Scapegoats |
| Ice Cream For Crow |
| Erik 4-A |
| Frying Pan Frying Pan (instrumental) Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do |
| Everything But The Girl |
| My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains |
| The Ex Orkest |
| Suction Prints (live) |
| Ex Post Facto |
| Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles (live) |
| Nancy Falkow |
| My Head is My Only House Unless It Rains |
| The Fall |
| Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin Stones |
| Fast 'n' Bulbous |
| A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond Abba Zaba The Blimp Dali's Car Evening Bell Click Clack Ice Cream For Crow Infra Grams (poem) Kandy Korn Pachuco Cadaver Suction Prints Sugar 'N' Spikes Tropical Hot Dog Night Veteran’s Day Poppy When Big Joan Sets Up When I See Mommy I Feel Like A Mummy When It Blows Its Stacks Willie The Pimp |
| Fat Slim |
| Gimme Dat Harp Boy |
| Don Fleming |
| Three Months In The Mirror |
| The Fourfathers |
|
A carrot is as close... |
| John French |
| Abba Zaba (live) Abba Zaba (studio) Bat Chain Puller (live) Bat Chain Puller (studio) Hair Pie One Thousandth Day Of The Human Totem Pole P K Ro P Beat (live) P K Ro P Beat (studio) Steal Softly Thru Snow |
| Jane Gilday |
| Sugar Bowl |
| Girl Trouble |
| Who Do You Think You're Fooling? |
| Global Transmission |
| Witch Doctor Life |
| Go To Blazes |
| Zigzag Wanderer (live) |
| David Gogo |
| Click Clack Crazy Little Thing |
| Golden Seals |
| Frownland |
| Good and Gone |
| Harry Irene |
| The Grandmothers |
| Neon Meate Dream Of An Octafish Willie The Pimp |
| Grow Fins |
| Grow Fins |
| Guppies Eat Their Young |
| My Head Is My Only House |
| Alvin Youngblood Hart |
| Ice Rose |
| Hardy Hepp |
| Mirror Man Me |
| Arno Hintjens |
| Gimme Dat Harp Boy Hot Head |
| Robyn Hitchcock |
|
Big Eyed Beans From Venus |
| Hobo Chang |
| Love Lies |
| Hoi Polloi |
| Zigzag Wanderer |
| Hoppy The Frog |
| Safe As Milk |
| Horenslerps |
| You Should Know By The Kindness Of Uh Dog... |
| Benjamin Horrendous |
|
A Carrot Is As Close ... |
| Jad Fair w/ Daisy Cooper |
| Too Much Time |
| Jonestown |
| I Love You You Big Dummy |
| Bob Jordan |
| My Head Is My Only House |
| Juicy Lucy |
| Willie The Pimp |
| Henry Kaiser |
| A Carrot Is As Close... Alice In Blunderland Dali's Car Flavor Bud Living I Love You You Big Dummy Japan In A Dishpan Mirror Man |
| Kill Me Tomorrow |
| Hot Head |
| The Kills |
| Dropout Boogie |
| The King Of Luxembourg |
| Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles Long Necked Bottles |
| King of Siam |
| Orange Claw Hammer |
| Kiss Kiss Kill |
| Lick My Decals Off Baby |
| Albert Kuvezin & Yat Kha |
| Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles |
| Kyra |
| Here I Am I Always Am |
| Mark Lanegan Band |
| Clear Spot |
| Andrew Lange |
| Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do |
| Last Fair Deal |
| Harry Irene |
| The Levellers |
| Plastic Factory |
| Matthew Lewis |
| Electricity Hot Head Ice Rose I'm Glad Kandy Korn Lick My Decals Off Baby Little Scratch My Human Gets Me Blues Obeah Man Tarotplane Tropical Hot Dog Night 25th Century Quaker Upon The My Oh My Who Do You Think You're Fooling? |
| Lill Lindfors |
| Bluejeans & Moonbeams (in Swedish) |
| Lisa Christ Superstar |
| Plastic Factory |
| Lithium X-mas |
| Zig Zag Wanderer |
| Gary Lucas |
| A carrot is as close... Evening Bell Hard Werkin' Fucked Over Man Oat Hate Suction Prints Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do |
| Magazine |
| I Love You You Big Dummy |
| Magoo |
| Big Eyed Beans From Venus |
| Mallard |
| Peon |
| Quincy McLean & The Smooth Bastards |
| I Love You You Big Dummy |
| Brian McMahon |
| I Got Love On My Mind |
| Tolan McNeil |
| Cardboard Cutout Sundown |
| The Membranes |
| Ice Cream For Crow |
| Men & Volts |
| [unknown] |
| Mercury Rev |
| Observatory Crest |
| Meridian Arts Ensemble |
| A Carrot Is As Close... Apes Ma Dropout Boogie Ice Rose Suction Prints When I See A Mommy... |
| Miss Murgatroid |
| Neon Meate Dream Of An Octafish |
| The Mock Turtles |
| Big Eyed Beans From Venus |
| Essra Mohawk with EDO |
| The Party Of Special Things To Do |
| Monotract |
| Ink Mathematics |
| The Mongrels |
| Plastic Factory |
| The Motor Boys |
| Grow Fins |
| Moy |
| Yellow Brick Road |
| The Muffin Men |
| Dropout Boogie Plastic Factory (live) Plastic Factory (studio) Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do Willie The Pimp |
| Native & Silencers |
| ZigZag Wanderer |
| Nectarine No.9 |
| Frownland |
| Nou Ra with Interplay |
| Well |
| Old Farts At Play |
| Electricity I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby Willie The Pimp |
| Old Time Relijun |
| Wild Life |
| Ortho |
| Apes Ma |
| Joan Osborne |
| His Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles |
| John Oswald |
| Lick My Decals Off Baby |
| John Oswald & Henry Kaiser |
| One Red Rose In Flash Gordon's Dishpan |
| Painted Willie |
| Clear Spot |
| Pilafian Project |
| Dali's Car |
| Plank |
| Grow Fins |
| Pontiak |
| Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles |
| The Primevals |
|
China Pig |
| Pro Forma |
| Hot Head |
| Pubic Fringe |
| Sure Nuff 'n Yes I Do Willie The Pimp Zig Zag Wanderer |
| Puttanesca |
| Lick My Decals Off Baby |
| Hugo Race |
| Clear Spot |
| Racebannon |
| Electricity |
| The Radiators |
| Grow Fins (live) |
| Radio Eris |
| Apes Ma |
| Radio I Ching |
| Abba Zaba |
| Susheela Raman |
| Love Lies |
| Red Hot Chilli Peppers |
| Peon |
| The Rogers Sisters |
| Zig Zag Wanderer |
| Rosa Ensemble |
| The 1010th Day Of The Human Totem Pole A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond Alice In Blunderland Apes ma Bat Chain Puller Blabber 'n' Smoke Dr Dark Frownland Neon Meate Dream Of An Octafish |
| Roger Ruskin Spear |
| Dropout Boogie |
| The Scientists |
| Clear Spot |
| The Screaming Dizbusters |
| Frying Pan |
| Secret 999 |
| China Pig |
| Ty Segall |
| Dropout Boogie |
| Serious Solid Swineherd |
| Peon |
| Sexy Death Soda |
| Plastic Factory |
| Shortstack |
| Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles |
| Shusha |
| This Is The Day |
| Frank Sidebottom |
| Mirror Man Gimme Dat Harp Boy |
| Roger Hurricane Smith |
| Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do |
| Sonic Youth |
| Electricity |
| Soundgarden |
| Dropout Boogie |
| Chris Spedding |
| Click Clack |
| Stackwaddy |
| Sure Nuff 'n' Yes I Do Willie The Pimp |
| Stamp Out 50Hz Hummingbirds |
| Gimme Dat Harp Boy |
| Steeplejack |
| Kandy Korn |
| Suburban Terror Project |
| Ashtray Heart |
| Swedish Tribute Band |
| A Carrot Is As Close... Bat Chain Puller Big Eyed Beans From Venus China Pig Floppy Boot Stomp Grow Fins Harry Irene Ice Cream For Crow Lick My Decals Off Baby Nowadays A Woman's... Sun Zoom Spark Too Much Time Tropical Hot Dog Night When It Blows Its Stacks |
| Sweetie |
| Where There's Woman |
| Lewis Taylor |
|
Bill's Corpse |
| That Petrol Emotion |
| Hot Head Zig Zag Wanderer |
| The Three Johns |
| Moonlight on Vermont |
| Throwing Muses |
| Circumstances |
| The Titanics |
| Out Of The Frying Pan |
| Treat Her Right |
| Hit A Man |
| Truman's Water |
| Hair Pie Bake 2 |
| The Tubes |
| Gimme Dat Harp Boy (live) My Head Is My Only House... |
| Unknown Cases |
| I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby |
| Silvain Vanot |
| Bluejeans & Moonbeams |
| Vig ESP |
| Willie The Pimp |
| Voices of Africa |
| Abba Zaba |
| Freddie Wadling |
| Grow Fins Moonlight on Vermont |
| Denny Walley |
| China Pig (live) |
| Mike Watt |
| Dirty Blue Gene My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains |
| Weasel Walter |
| Flash Gordons Ape |
| Whipped Cream |
| Observatory Crest |
| White Stripes |
| Ashtray Heart China Pig Party of Special Things To Do |
| Roger Hurricane Wilson |
| Sure Nuff N Yes I Do |
| Winterbrief |
| The Past Sure Is Tense |
| Working Week |
| Too Much Time |
| XTC |
| Ellaguru |
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