Doc at the Radar Station

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Doc at the Radar Station
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
All Music Guide link Los Angeles Times (Favorable) 7/16/1994 New York Times (Favorable) 11/28/1980 Down Beat January 1981 Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992) ISBN 0-679-73729-4
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 1 Track listing 1.1 Side one 1.2 Side two 2 Personnel 3 External links 4 Notes

[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

• Don Van Vliet (AKA Captain Beefheart) - vocals, Chinese gongs, harmonica, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
• Jeff Moris Tepper - slide guitar, guitar, nerve guitar
• Eric Drew Feldman - synthesizer, bass, mellotron, grand piano, electric piano
• Robert Arthur Williams - drums
• Bruce Lambourne Fowler - trombone
• John French - slide guitar, guitar, marimba, bass, drums
• Gary Lucas - guitar, French horn

[edit] External links

• Lyrics, reviews and details at the Captain Beefheart Radar Station

[edit] Notes

v • d • e Captain Beefheart Main albums (discography) Safe as Milk · Strictly Personal · Trout Mask Replica · Lick My Decals Off, Baby · Mirror Man · The Spotlight Kid · Clear Spot · Unconditionally Guaranteed · Bluejeans & Moonbeams · Bongo Fury · Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) · Doc at the Radar Station · Ice Cream for Crow