1. I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby
2. White Jam
3. Blabber 'N Smoke
4. When It Blows Its Stacks
5. Alice in Blunderland (instrumental)
6. The Spotlight Kid
7. Click Clack
8. Grow Fins
9. There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage
10. Glider

Justin Sherill:

This album is much in the same vein as Clear Spot, but lacks the same tight feeling. Still very accessible, and a good purchase if you like Clear Spot. (Almost a moot point, since they both come on one CD now.)

Graham Johnston:

Spotlight Kid contains some very heavy, slow and spacious blues. Although seen as a disappointment by many on its release, due to its very restrained nature, it really shines through today as being another Beefheart classic, containing some of his most beautiful songs, such as Glider and Grow Fins, and a few live favourites, such as Alice In Blunderland and Click Clack. The killer opening tune, I'm Gonna Booglarize Ya Baby, never fails in its mission, no matter how many times you've been booglarized before.

You can view the paintings and poems contained on the sleeve here.

• Spotlight Kid by Colman Andrews, from March 1972 Phonograph Record Magazine.
• Spotlight Kid by Lester Bangs, from 30th March 1972 Rolling Stone.
• Spotlight Kid from June 1972 Stereo Review.
• Spotlight Kid / Clear Spot by Jim Washburn, from 12th January 1995 Los Angeles Times.

• 1972 UK Original on Reprise K44162 - w/lyric sheet
• 1972 German Original on Reprise REP44162 - high gloss cover.
  
  
  • 1972 German Original on Reprise REP44162 - White Label Trade Sample with "Unverkäufl" (not for sale) "Warenprobe ohne Wert" (sample without value) "Echantillon gratuit" (free sample in French) on centre label - w/lyric sheet
  • standard issue - w/lyric sheet
    
    
• 1972(?) Australian Original on Reprise(?) MS 2050 by CBS Records Australia Ltd(?). (CBS MX 166199/200) - White Label Sample Record with NOT FOR SALE SAMPLE RECORD Any person offering this record for sale renders himself liable to prosecution under the Copyright Act 1912-1950 printed in violet on centre label (side 1) and on back cover. MS 2050 and CAPTAIN BEEFHEART hand written in black felt tip on centre label - standard cover has Manufactured and Distributed under Licence centre bottom on back with no company details - clear plastic inner.
• 1972 US Original on Reprise MS 2050- White Label Promo with PROMOTION NOT FOR SALE printed on centre label and over stamped -> N.T.I.<- on centre label (side 2 only) - w/lyric sheet.
• 1972 US Reel-to-Reel on Warner/Reprise. Seven and one half inch per second Magtec tape in card box. Full colour front cover and black on white back cover stuck on box.

  
  
  
  
  

  

• 2000 180gm audiophile vinyl release from Scorpio Records, catalogue number REPRISE 2050.

• 1975(?) South African vinyl on Reprise RRD 11703. 'Double Dynamite. 2 Originals' in white on the cover
• 19XX US CD 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
• 199? Russian CD combination on Ars Nova AN-20313. Print on front cover says "Ars Nova selections 500 COPIES"
• 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

• The Spotlight Kid/Lick My Decals Off Baby Double:
• 1977 UK Reissue of TSK/LMDOB on Reprise K84006

• 1972(?) US Reel-to-Reel Radio Spots for the album's release. Incorrectly listed as 'The Spotlite Kid'! A single :60 second spot on seven and one half inch per second tape.