After two botched boards and four-year break, put Beefheart 1978 plate in front that made back hope. "Shiny Beast" is his most versatile, most playful, but also unentschlossenste plate. The makings of classics only "Floppy Boot Stomp" and "When I See Mummy", the opener of the two LP sides, pointing to the successor "Doc at the Radar Station".