Lick My Decals Off, Baby is the fourth studio album by American musician Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) and the Magic Band, released in December 1970 by Straight and Reprise Records.
Captain Beefheart performs vocals, harmonica, and woodwinds on the album, joined by Bill "Zoot Horn Rollo" Harkleroad on guitar; Mark "Rockette Morton" Boston on bass guitar; Art "Ed Marimba" Tripp, late of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, on marimba, drums, and percussion; and John "Drumbo" French on drums and percussion.
Van Vliet ejected French from the group—both figuratively and literally, by allegedly throwing him down a flight of stairs—shortly after Trout Mask Replica was completed, and these roles passed to Harkleroad.
Critic Robert Christgau said of the record: "Beefheart's famous five-octave range and covert totalitarian structures have taken on a playful undertone, repulsive and engrossing and slapstick funny."
Lester Bangs noted the maturation of Beefheart’s previous musical and lyrical concerns, writing that "even though the sonic textures are sometimes even more complex and angular than on Trout Mask...his messages are universal and warm as the hearth of the America we once dreamed of".