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Doc At The Radar Station,Captain Beefheart

- Doc At The Radar Station
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Captain Beefheart
Released 1980

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- Hot Head
- 03:20
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- 2
- Ashtray Heart
- 03:23
- 1,307 plays

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- A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
- 01:37
- 867 plays

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- Run Paint Run Run
- 03:36
- 849 plays

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- Sue Egypt
- 02:56
- 795 plays

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- Brickbats
- 02:40
- 734 plays

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- Dirty Blue Gene
- 03:47
- 771 plays

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- Best Batch Yet
- 04:59
- 697 plays

- 9
- Telephone
- 01:31
- 690 plays

- 10
- Flavor Bud Living
- 01:00
- 658 plays

- 11
- Sheriff Of Hong Kong
- 06:33
- 713 plays

- 12
- Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee
- 03:09
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album review

Generally acclaimed as the strongest album of his comeback, and by some as his best since Trout Mask Replica, Doc at the Radar Station had a tough, lean sound owing partly to the virtuosic new version of the Magic Band (featuring future Pixies sideman Eric Drew Feldman, New York downtown-scene guitarist Gary Lucas, and a returning John "Drumbo" French, among others) and partly to the clear, stripped-down production, which augmented the Captain's basic dual-guitar interplay and jumpy rhythms with extra percussion instruments and touches of Shiny Beast's synths and trombones. Many of the songs on Doc either reworked or fully developed unused material composed around the time of the creatively fertile Trout Mask sessions, which adds to the spirited performances. Even if the Captain's voice isn't quite what it once was, Doc at the Radar Station is an excellent, focused consolidation of Beefheart's past and then-present. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide