1. Low Yo Yo Stuff
2. Nowadays a Woman's Gotta Hit a Man
3. Too Much Time
4. Circumstances
5. My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains
6. Sun Zoom Spark
7. Clear Spot
8. Crazy Little Thing
9. Long Neck Bottles
10. Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
11. Big Eyed Beans from Venus
12. Golden Birdies

Justin Sherill:

This is probably the most accessible Beefheart album, and the only album I've been able to get my girlfriend to enjoy. A few of the songs have been covered by other people (Joan Osborne, for instance) and is a good starting point. Unless the music you listen to must be inaccessible, buy this. The double version, noted below, is probably the only version in stores at this point.

Graham Johnston:

While his guitar work on his other Beefheart albums may well be more complicated, for me this album is Zoot Horn Rollo's finest hour. Just listen to him zip up and down his guitar! It also contains his now infamous long lunar note in the song "Big Eyed Beans From Venus" - a tune guaranteed to bring a smile to the most sullen of faces.

All these songs are very tight, catchy and punchy, and there isn't anything especially odd about them, though having said that, there isn't anything particularly normal about them either. If you want a gentle but utterly captivating introduction to the Magic Band then this is it.

• Spotlight Kid / Clear Spot by Jim Washburn, from 12th January 1995 Los Angeles Times.
• Clear Spot by Bob Palmer, from 31st December 1972 Rolling Stone.
• Getting Closer To The Captain - Clear Spot. This excellent piece was written by Lester Bangs and first appeared in January 1973's Creem.
• Clear Spot by Robert Sandell, from 9th February 1997 Sunday Times.

• 1972 UK Original on Reprise K54007 - clear plastic sleeve with black on white printed insert.
• 19?? UK Re-package on Reprise K54007 - normal printed sleeve
• 1972 German Original on Reprise REP54007
  • White Label Trade Sample with "Unverkäufl" (not for sale) "Warenprobe ohne Wert" (sample without value) "Echantillon gratuit" (free sample in French) on centre label - in clear plastic sleeve with Clear Spot - w/insert sheet printed in England
  • standard issue - clear plastic sleeve
• 1972 US Original on Reprise MS-2115
  • 1972 US Original on Reprise MS-2115 White Label Promo with PROMOTION NOT FOR SALE printed on centre label and over stamped -> N.T.I.<- on centre label (side 2 only) - clear plastic sleeve
  • standard issue - clear plastic sleeve
• 1972 US Reel-to-Reel on Warner/Reprise catalogue number: RST-2115. Seven and one half inch per second Magtec tape in card box. White paper cover stuck on box front and back

• 2000 180gm audiophile vinyl release from Scorpio Records, catalogue number: MS 2115.

• 1975(?) South African vinyl on Reprise RRD 11703. 'Double Dynamite. 2 Originals' in white on the cover
• 19XX US on BMI 9 26249-2? Clear Spot/Spotlight Kid double CD - very nice design.

This is the Clear Spot/Spotlight Kid CD BMI 0 26249-2

• 1990 German CD combination on WEA 7599-26249-2
• 1990 USA CD combination on Reprise 26249-2 - with US "long box
• 1990? US on BMI 26249-2DJ (Number on disc only) promo release with no difference from the US double CD except for the CD artwork:

Promo BMI 26249-2DJ

• 1993 Japanese CD on Warner Music Japan WPCP5740 - with Japanese liner notes by ICHIKAWA Tetsushi.

If anyone is able to complete or update any of the information above, then please do get in touch.