Doc at the Radar Station

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Doc at the Radar Station
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Length
12 tracks, 39:53
Release Date
1 January 1980
Doc at the Radar Station is the eleventh studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in August 1980 to critical acclaim. 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 … would have mouldered away in the vaults had they not been exhumed and transformed into full-blown, totally convincing new material" The album cover was painted by Don Van Vliet. It was placed at number forty-nine on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Album Covers.… read more
Doc at the Radar Station is the eleventh studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in August 1980 to critical acclaim. Although … read more
Doc at the Radar Station is the eleventh studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in August 1980 to critical acclaim. Although about half of the album's songs … read more

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1 Play track Hot Head
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 3:46 10,397 listeners
2 Play track Ashtray Heart
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 3:16 11,666 listeners
3 Play track A Carrot Is As Close As a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond
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 1:37 8,705 listeners
4 Play track Run Paint Run Run
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 3:36 7,533 listeners
5 Play track Sue Egypt
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6 Play track Brickbats
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7 Play track Dirty Blue Gene
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8 Play track Best Batch Yet
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9 Play track Telephone
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10 Play track Flavor Bud Living
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11 Play track Sheriff Of Hong Kong
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12 Play track Making Love to a Vampire With a Monkey on My Knee
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 3:09 5,265 listeners

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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "-". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodies, shambolic instrumentation, idiosyncratic, unbound timings, the growls and shrieks of Beefheart's vocals and his surreal, poetic lyrics. Throughout their career, the band's musical direction was tightly controlled by Don Van Vliet (1941 - 2010), aka Captain Beefheart, who subjected the band to intense regimes of rehearsal; this tension combined with poor salary contributing to the bre… read more
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band was an American band who created music that has occasionally been dubbed "-". Their music was characterized by bluesy melodi… read more
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