Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station (1980) {Virgin} 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip plus Redbook CD Version

is the eleventh studio album by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, released in August 1980 to favorable reviews. The painting on the album cover is by Don Van Vliet himself. It was placed at number forty-nine on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Album Covers. 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." Professional ratings Allmusic 4.5/5 stars Rolling Stone 4.5/5 stars Down Beat 4.5/5 stars

Track listing
All tracks written by Don Van Vliet

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

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

Released August 1980
Recorded June 1980 at Sound Castle Recording Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 38:52
Label Virgin
Producer Don Van Vliet

Personnel

* Don Van Vliet (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