Grow Fins: Rarities 1965–1982 is a 5-CD box set compiled from previously unreleased recordings by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band.
The featured material spans the band's entire career, but focuses
mainly on their work up to the late-1960s and the sessions for
Beefheart's best-known album, Trout Mask Replica (1969).
Disc one: "Just Got Back From the City (1965-67)"
Disc two: "Electricity, 1968"
Disc four: "Trout Mask House Sessions Pt. 2"
Disc five: "Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Grow Fins (1969-81)"
Disc one: "Just Got Back From the City (1965-67)"
- "Obeah Man" (1966 demo) – 2:46
- "Just Got Back from the City" (1966 demo) – 1:55
- "I'm Glad" (1966 demo) – 3:43
- "Triple Combination" (1966 demo) – 2:50
- "Here I Am I Always Am" (early 1966 demo) – 3:17
- "Here I Am I Always Am" (later 1966 demo) – 2:33
- "Somebody in My Home" (live Avalon Ballroom '66) – 3:03
- "Tupelo" (live Avalon Ballroom '66) – 4:15
- "Evil" (live Avalon Ballroom '66) – 2:33
- "Old Folks Boogie" (live Avalon Ballroom '67) – 3:15
- "Call On Me" (1965 demo) – 3:04
- "Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do" (1967 demo) – 2:11
- "Yellow Brick Road" (1967 demo) – 1:45
- "Plastic Factory" (1967 demo) – 2:57
Disc two: "Electricity, 1968"
- "Electricity" (live at Cannes 1968) – 3:42
- "Sure Nuff" (live at Cannes 1968) – 3:00
- "Rollin n Tumblin" (Kidderminster 1968) – 11:10
- "Electricity" (Kidderminster 1968) – 3:42
- "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" (Kidderminster 1968) – 6:28
- "Kandy Korn" (Kidderminster 1968) – 4:23
- "Korn Ring Finger" (1967 demo) – 7:23
- "Hobo Chang Ba" and "Dachau Blues" tuning up – 4:59
- 'bush recording' – 8:18
- "Hair Pie: Bake 1" – 5:04
- "Hair Pie: Bake 2" – 2:44
- 'noodling' – 1:05
- "Hobo Chang Ba" – 2:02
- "Hobo" practice – 1:58
- "Hobo Chang Ba" take 2 – 3:08
- "Dachau Blues" – 2:06
- "Old Fart at Play" – 1:23
- 'noodling' – 1:01
- "Pachuco Cadaver" – 4:08
- "Sugar 'n Spikes" – 2:40
- 'noodling' – 1:01
- "Sweet Sweet Bulbs" – 2:31
- "Frownland" (take 1) – 2:51
- "Frownland" – 1:52
- 'noodling' – 1:11
- "Ella Guru – 2:33
- 'silence' – 0:09
- "She's Too Much for My Mirror" – 1:30
- 'noodling' – 0:36
- "Steal Softly thru Snow" – 2:22
- 'noodling' – 1:52
- "My Human Gets Me Blues" – 2:54
- 'noodling' – 1:06
- "When Big Joan Sets Up" – 4:32
- 'silence' – 0:05
- "Candy Man" – 0:57
- "China Pig" – 4:15
Disc four: "Trout Mask House Sessions Pt. 2"
- "Blimp" playback – 5:09
- 'Herb Alpert' – 1:07
- 'Septic tank' – 0:51
- 'We'll overdub it 3 times' – 5:26
Disc five: "Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Grow Fins (1969-81)"
- "My Human Gets Me Blues" (live Amougies '69) – 3:56
- "When Big Joan Sets Up" (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) – 6:13
- "Woe Is Uh Me Bop" (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) – 2:46
- "Bellerin Plain" (live 'Detroit Tubeworks' 1971) – 3:26
- "Black Snake Moan I" (KHSU '72) – 1:04
- "Grow Fins" (live Bickershaw '72) – 5:12
- "Black Snake Moan II" (WBCN '72) – 1:52
- "Spitball Scalped Uh Baby" (live, Bickershaw '72) – 9:15
- "Harp Boogie I" (WBCN '72) – 1:35
- "One Red Rose That I Mean" (Town Hall '72) – 1:48
- "Harp Boogie II" (WBCN '72) – 0:56
- "Natchez Burning" (WBCN '72) – 0:46
- "Harp Boogie III" (1972 radio phone in) – 0:53
- "Click Clack" (Paris, '73) – 2:53
- "Orange Claw Hammer" ('75 from radio with Zappa on acoustic guitar) – 4:39
- "Odd Jobs" (Don piano demo, '76) – 5:13
- "Odd Jobs" (full band demo '76) – 5:12
- "Vampire Suite" (1980 worktapes / live) – 3:49
- "Mellotron Improv" (live '78) – 1:25
- "Evening Bell" (Don piano demo '81) – 0:57
- "Evening Bell" (Lucas worktape '81) – 2:18
- "Mellotron Improv" (live '80) – 2:23
- "Flavor Bud Living" (live '81) – 1:17