Doc at the Radar Station

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Doc at the Radar Station
Doc at the Radar Station cover
Studio album by Captain Beefheart
Released 1980
Recorded Sound Castle Recording Studios, LA 1980
Genre Alternative rock
Avant-garde
Blues rock
Post-punk
Length 38:52
Label Virgin
Producer Don Van Vliet
Professional reviews
Captain Beefheart chronology
Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
(1978)		 Doc at the Radar Station
(1980)		 Ice Cream for Crow
(1982)

Doc at the Radar Station is the eleventh, and second to last, album by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band. It was released in 1980 to generally favorable reviews. The striking album cover is painted by Don Van Vliet.

Although about half of the album's songs are based on old musical ideas, Mike Barnes states that "most of the revamping work built on skeletal ideas and fragments that would have mouldered away in the vaults had they not been exhumed and transformed into full-blown, totally convincing new material." [1]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Don Van Vliet

[edit] Side one

  1. "Hot Head" – 3:23
  2. "Ashtray Heart" – 3:25
  3. "A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond" – 1:38
  4. "Run Paint Run Run" – 3:40
  5. "Sue Egypt" – 2:57
  6. "Brickbats" – 2:40

[edit] Side two

  1. "Dirty Blue Gene" – 3:51
  2. "Best Batch Yet" – 5:02
  3. "Telephone" – 1:31
  4. "Flavor Bud Living" – 1:00
  5. "Sheriff of Hong Kong" – 6:34
  6. "Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee" – 3:11

[edit] Personnel

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Barnes, Mike. Captain Beefheart: The Biography. London: Quartet Books, 2000.
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