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- Artist: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
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- Release Date: 1980
- Total Time: 38:31
- Genre: Rock
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 GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Hot Head | Captain Beefheart | (3:22) | |
| Ashtray Heart | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (3:26) |
| A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (1:38) |
| Run Paint Run Run | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (3:39) |
| Sue Egypt | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (2:57) |
| Brickbats | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (2:43) |
| Dirty Blue Gene | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (3:51) |
| Best Batch Yet | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (5:01) |
| Telephone | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (1:31) |
| Flavor Bud Living | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (1:00) |
| Sheriff of Hong Kong | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (6:33) |
| Making Love to a Vampire With a Monkey on My Knee | Captain Beefheart, |
Captain Beefheart | (3:10) |
