Released August 1980 Release date August 1980 Producer Captain Beefheart | Length 38:52 Label Virgin Records | |
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Recorded Sound Castle Recording Studios, LA June 1980 Doc at the Radar Station
(1980) Ice Cream for Crow
(1982) Artists Captain Beefheart, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band Genres Rock music, Blues rock, Experimental rock, Post-punk Similar Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band albums, Rock music albums | ||
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Doc at the Radar Station is the eleventh studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in August 1980 to favorable reviews.
Contents
- Hot head captain beefheart his magic band
- Packaging
- Song info
- Reissues
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
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."
Packaging
The album cover was painted by Don Van Vliet. It was placed at number forty-nine on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Album Covers.
Song info
The tracks "A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond", "Flavor Bud Living" and "Brickbats" were originally intended and recorded for the proposed album Bat Chain Puller but it wasn't released due to Frank Zappa owning the master tapes as DiscReet cofounders Herb Cohen and Zappa feuded over the production of the album, because Cohen funded the production with Zappa's royalty checks.
Former drummer of the Magic Band John French plays slide guitar, guitar, marimba, bass and drums on the tracks "Ashtray Heart" and "Sheriff of Hong Kong".
Reissues
In 2011, 4 Men with Beards released a 180-gram version of the album that is being distributed by City Hall Records.
Track listing
All tracks written by Don Van Vliet
Personnel
Songs
1Hot Head3:23
2Ashtray Heart3:25
3A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond1:39