Strictly Personal

Strictly Personal is the second album by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. It was originally released in October 1968 as the first album on the Blue Thumb Records label. It was composed primarily of material that had been previously recorded for an aborted double-LP entitled It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper. Those recordings were shelved by Buddah Records, and the band were forced to hastily re-record that material months later for Blue Thumb. Producer Bob Krasnow added phasing and reverberation effects to the recordings, which were later disavowed by Beefheart. These effects have since been the topic of much discussion among music fans and critics. Alternate recordings from the original Buddah sessions were released on 1971's Mirror Man and 1999's The Mirror Man Sessions, as well as the deluxe reissue of Safe as Milk.