Doc at the Radar Station [Import]

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At first listen, Doc at the Radar Station is cacophonous, atonal, and jagged. It's the same after repeated listenings, but by then the whimsical humor, blissful invention, melodic turnabouts, and even warmth shine through. Doc at the Radar Station was the follow-up to the Captain's big comeback record for the punk and new-wave crowd, 1978's merely OK Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller). Some of the songs on the disc were originally written in between Beefheart's two strongest records, 1969's mind-blowing Trout Mask Replica and 1970's merrymaking Lick My Decals Off, Baby. Doc at the Radar Station was made with a newly energized, younger Magic Band featuring Eric Drew Feldman, Robert Williams, and Gary Lucas. With their help, old man Beefheart was blowing chunks of lyrical beauty ("Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee") and mystical, rollicking, blues-baked skronk ("Run Paint, Run, Run") with the same force as PIL, Pere Ubu, or any other postpunks of the day that adulated the man. --Mike McGonigal

Product Description
Import edition of 1980 album that's currently out-of-print domestically. This Five star album features 12 tracks including 'A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond'.

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Doc at the Radar Station [Import]

Average customer rating:

Doc at the Radar Station Captain Beefheart Manufacturer: Astralwerks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Ice Cream for Crow Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) The Mirror Man Sessions Live at the Fillmore East ASIN: B000FDJ2VU Release Date: 2006-10-03

Tracks:

1. Hot Head
2. Ashtray Heart
3. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
4. Run Paint Run Run
5. Sue Egypt
6. Brickbates
7. Dirty Blue Gene
8. Best Batch Yet
9. Telephone
10. Flavor Bud Living
11. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
12. Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee

Album Description

2006 digitally remastered reissue of this 1980 album. This album was harder and more powerful than its predecessor, Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), and was widely regarded as the strongest album of his latter years. Features extensive liner notes written by Beefheart expert Mike Barnes. 12 tracks. Virgin.

Album Details

Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band Recorded Thirteen Albums Over Fifteen Years Which, Given their Frequency, Chart One of the Most Fertile Musical Minds of the Late Twentieth Century. One of the Five Studio-albums in this Re-mastered Series, "Doc at the Radar Station", was Release in 1980 and Followed the Release of Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller).

Average customer rating: Long Live the Captain! Second to last album, but one of the best WHY? I hope Don gets the winning ticket when the race is done Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee...

Doc at the Radar Station Captain Beefheart Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classic Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Ice Cream for Crow Safe as Milk Strictly Personal The Mirror Man Sessions ASIN: B000025JS6 Release Date: 2001-06-05

Tracks:

1. Hot Head
2. Ashtray Heart
3. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
4. Run Paint Run Run
5. Sue Egypt
6. Brickbats
7. Dirty Blue Gene
8. Best Batch Yet
9. Telephone
10. Flavor Bud Living
11. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
12. Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee

Amazon.com essential recording

At first listen, Doc at the Radar Station is cacophonous, atonal, and jagged. It's the same after repeated listenings, but by then the whimsical humor, blissful invention, melodic turnabouts, and even warmth shine through. Doc at the Radar Station was the follow-up to the Captain's big comeback record for the punk and new-wave crowd, 1978's merely OK Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller). Some of the songs on the disc were originally written in between Beefheart's two strongest records, 1969's mind-blowing Trout Mask Replica and 1970's merrymaking Lick My Decals Off, Baby. Doc at the Radar Station was made with a newly energized, younger Magic Band featuring Eric Drew Feldman, Robert Williams, and Gary Lucas. With their help, old man Beefheart was blowing chunks of lyrical beauty ("Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee") and mystical, rollicking, blues-baked skronk ("Run Paint, Run, Run") with the same force as PIL, Pere Ubu, or any other postpunks of the day that adulated the man. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description

Import edition of 1980 album that's currently out-of-print domestically. This Five star album features 12 tracks including 'A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond'.

Album Details

The Good Captain's Second Opus for Virgin Records Stands as One of the Most Bizarre and Most Interesting Records of his Career! Just Throw on "Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee"! Not for the Faint of Heart...you Just have to Keep Listening!

Customer Reviews:

Long Live the Captain!.......2006-04-19

well I have had many records by the Captian this one was dissapointing hot head ashray heart great tracks but then he goes totaly manic not with all the tracks but some are out there I still feel that clear spot was his finest album ever great tracks all the way through.

Second to last album, but one of the best.......2005-10-13

"Doc At The Radar Station" was the second to last original Beefheart album before Don Van Vliet went into self-imposed exile, focusing exclusively on painting (one example of which adorns the album cover). Depending on who you ask, this is either one of the good captain's last hurrahs or a futile attempt to endear himself to the "mainstream" (okay, New Wave) rock audience. While it's more focused and concise than his masterpiece, "Trout Mask Replica" (the one that seperates the freaks from the poseurs when it comes to weirdo-rock) and generally abides by "traditional" song structures (i.e., songs with choruses, sometimes), this is still one prickly pear. While "Hot Head" could almost be mistaken for a song you might hear on the radio, free associative rants like "Sue Egypt" and "Brickbats" are the perfect synthesis of free jazz and rock, with one of the Captain's best version of the Magic Band ably keeping up with the surrealistic anti-poetry, dodging and weaving at the drop of the proverbial dime, and sometimes even coalescing into the kind of "groove" that only an epileptic could dance to. No one will ever mistake this stuff for a (groan) "jam band," however. This is music that can put even the most baked of potheads into a bad mood, and will convince "normal" folks that must have some sort of mental illness just for hearing it. Actually, since the mentally ill can be some of the most, er, obsessive listeners out there, they've made the perfect audience for Mr. Van Vliet. Since listening to Captain Beefheart is a lot less crazy than, say, believing in god, "Doc at the Radar Station" might even be a cure for all kinds of psychological problems. Heck, it's cheaper than a prescription of Haldol, or so I've been told.

WHY?.......2005-09-30

Why do other reviewers describe this music as an acquired taste? I loved it the first time I heard it, and I still love it. It's musical and atonal simultaneously, it's wild and controlled at the same time. I am a big fan of Captain Beefheart, and love almost all of the stuff he recorded, (but not all of it). And I don't get how some reviewers are calling this his "punk" or "new wave" phase music, his stuff all sounds original, can't be categorized, and the ultimate litmus test is that he has his own "sound" no matter when he recorded any of his albums, you hear it, you know it's him. As for each individual song, it's better to just listen to the CD in its' entirety, instead of going into individual reviews of each song, 'cause its' all of the same ilk. Quirky rhythms, offbeat poetry, swamp blues, Beefheart madness.

I hope Don gets the winning ticket when the race is done.......2004-10-16

I can't say enough good things about this one. To say that the Magic Band is not an aquired taste is an understatement- You either get it or you don't- and this is never more true than on this disc. The Captain is at his songwriting and vocal screeching finest, and the band never sounded tighter.
I have had DATRS since it was first released in 1982 and it still sounds as fresh and innovative as ever. The CD version is great- my album has so many scratches it is difficult to listen to. Buy it!!!!!

Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee..........2004-07-19

I remember the first time I heard this album I was simultaneously confused, and intrigued. My little stoned teenage brain couldn't comprehend the good Captain's music. Was this for real? Was it a joke? Yes to both questions. The music to be found on this album is absurd, polyrhythmic, complex, yet melodic and humorous. Its one of the only albums to make me laugh out loud with bemused joy.

Beefheart has a childlike delight in words for their own sake. The lyrics are very imagistic, "God please f--k my mind, for good" (as opposed to evil), sometimes nonsensical, and are delivered with all the styles in Beefhearts vocal arsenal. He moans, he screams, does his best Howling Wolf imitation, speaks his wickedly funny and clever lyrics and even sings a bit. Unlike much of his truly groundbreaking material like Trout Mask Replica or Lick My Decals Off Baby the music and lyrics are completely integrated. They compliment one another to a degree not found in any other Beefheart album. Enough praise can not be given The Magic Band for they are truly magically sympathetic to Beefhearts eccentric vision. This may well be Captain Beefhearts best album. Certainly its his funniest and most entertaining. As the Captain says "I think this is the best batch yet"

Here are some lyrics from "Ashtray Heart"

"Each pillow is counted out like a rock
The Mother-father figure
Somebody had too much to think!
Send your mother home your navel
Case of the punks!

Stood behind the curtain while they crushed me out
You used me like an ashtray heart"

With lyrics like that you know its gotta be good Beefheart.

Average customer rating: Long Live the Captain! Second to last album, but one of the best WHY? I hope Don gets the winning ticket when the race is done Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee...

Doc at the Radar Station Captain Beefheart Manufacturer: Caroline ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classic Rock | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Progressive | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Ice Cream for Crow Safe as Milk Strictly Personal The Mirror Man Sessions ASIN: B000000HZU Release Date: 1992-03-13

Tracks:

1. Hot Head
2. Ashtray Heart
3. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond
4. Run Paint Run Run
5. Sue Egypt
6. Brickbats
7. Dirty Blue Gene
8. Best Batch Yet
9. Telephone
10. Flavor Bud Living
11. Sheriff Of Hong Kong
12. Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee

Amazon.com essential recording

At first listen, Doc at the Radar Station is cacophonous, atonal, and jagged. It's the same after repeated listenings, but by then the whimsical humor, blissful invention, melodic turnabouts, and even warmth shine through. Doc at the Radar Station was the follow-up to the Captain's big comeback record for the punk and new-wave crowd, 1978's merely OK Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller). Some of the songs on the disc were originally written in between Beefheart's two strongest records, 1969's mind-blowing Trout Mask Replica and 1970's merrymaking Lick My Decals Off, Baby. Doc at the Radar Station was made with a newly energized, younger Magic Band featuring Eric Drew Feldman, Robert Williams, and Gary Lucas. With their help, old man Beefheart was blowing chunks of lyrical beauty ("Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee") and mystical, rollicking, blues-baked skronk ("Run Paint, Run, Run") with the same force as PIL, Pere Ubu, or any other postpunks of the day that adulated the man. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description

Import edition of 1980 album that's currently out-of-print domestically. This Five star album features 12 tracks including 'A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond'.

Album Details

The Good Captain's Second Opus for Virgin Records Stands as One of the Most Bizarre and Most Interesting Records of his Career! Just Throw on "Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee"! Not for the Faint of Heart...you Just have to Keep Listening!

Customer Reviews:

Long Live the Captain!.......2006-04-19

well I have had many records by the Captian this one was dissapointing hot head ashray heart great tracks but then he goes totaly manic not with all the tracks but some are out there I still feel that clear spot was his finest album ever great tracks all the way through.

Second to last album, but one of the best.......2005-10-13

"Doc At The Radar Station" was the second to last original Beefheart album before Don Van Vliet went into self-imposed exile, focusing exclusively on painting (one example of which adorns the album cover). Depending on who you ask, this is either one of the good captain's last hurrahs or a futile attempt to endear himself to the "mainstream" (okay, New Wave) rock audience. While it's more focused and concise than his masterpiece, "Trout Mask Replica" (the one that seperates the freaks from the poseurs when it comes to weirdo-rock) and generally abides by "traditional" song structures (i.e., songs with choruses, sometimes), this is still one prickly pear. While "Hot Head" could almost be mistaken for a song you might hear on the radio, free associative rants like "Sue Egypt" and "Brickbats" are the perfect synthesis of free jazz and rock, with one of the Captain's best version of the Magic Band ably keeping up with the surrealistic anti-poetry, dodging and weaving at the drop of the proverbial dime, and sometimes even coalescing into the kind of "groove" that only an epileptic could dance to. No one will ever mistake this stuff for a (groan) "jam band," however. This is music that can put even the most baked of potheads into a bad mood, and will convince "normal" folks that must have some sort of mental illness just for hearing it. Actually, since the mentally ill can be some of the most, er, obsessive listeners out there, they've made the perfect audience for Mr. Van Vliet. Since listening to Captain Beefheart is a lot less crazy than, say, believing in god, "Doc at the Radar Station" might even be a cure for all kinds of psychological problems. Heck, it's cheaper than a prescription of Haldol, or so I've been told.

WHY?.......2005-09-30

Why do other reviewers describe this music as an acquired taste? I loved it the first time I heard it, and I still love it. It's musical and atonal simultaneously, it's wild and controlled at the same time. I am a big fan of Captain Beefheart, and love almost all of the stuff he recorded, (but not all of it). And I don't get how some reviewers are calling this his "punk" or "new wave" phase music, his stuff all sounds original, can't be categorized, and the ultimate litmus test is that he has his own "sound" no matter when he recorded any of his albums, you hear it, you know it's him. As for each individual song, it's better to just listen to the CD in its' entirety, instead of going into individual reviews of each song, 'cause its' all of the same ilk. Quirky rhythms, offbeat poetry, swamp blues, Beefheart madness.

I hope Don gets the winning ticket when the race is done.......2004-10-16

I can't say enough good things about this one. To say that the Magic Band is not an aquired taste is an understatement- You either get it or you don't- and this is never more true than on this disc. The Captain is at his songwriting and vocal screeching finest, and the band never sounded tighter.
I have had DATRS since it was first released in 1982 and it still sounds as fresh and innovative as ever. The CD version is great- my album has so many scratches it is difficult to listen to. Buy it!!!!!

Making love to a vampire with a monkey on my knee..........2004-07-19

I remember the first time I heard this album I was simultaneously confused, and intrigued. My little stoned teenage brain couldn't comprehend the good Captain's music. Was this for real? Was it a joke? Yes to both questions. The music to be found on this album is absurd, polyrhythmic, complex, yet melodic and humorous. Its one of the only albums to make me laugh out loud with bemused joy.

Beefheart has a childlike delight in words for their own sake. The lyrics are very imagistic, "God please f--k my mind, for good" (as opposed to evil), sometimes nonsensical, and are delivered with all the styles in Beefhearts vocal arsenal. He moans, he screams, does his best Howling Wolf imitation, speaks his wickedly funny and clever lyrics and even sings a bit. Unlike much of his truly groundbreaking material like Trout Mask Replica or Lick My Decals Off Baby the music and lyrics are completely integrated. They compliment one another to a degree not found in any other Beefheart album. Enough praise can not be given The Magic Band for they are truly magically sympathetic to Beefhearts eccentric vision. This may well be Captain Beefhearts best album. Certainly its his funniest and most entertaining. As the Captain says "I think this is the best batch yet"

Here are some lyrics from "Ashtray Heart"

"Each pillow is counted out like a rock
The Mother-father figure
Somebody had too much to think!
Send your mother home your navel
Case of the punks!

Stood behind the curtain while they crushed me out
You used me like an ashtray heart"

With lyrics like that you know its gotta be good Beefheart.

Average customer rating:

Doc at the Radar Station Captain Beefheart ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000A2PS6Y Release Date: 2001-06-13

Album Description

Import edition of 1980 album that's currently out-of-print domestically. This Five star album features 12 tracks including 'A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond'.

Average customer rating:

Doc at The Radar Station Captain Beefheart Manufacturer: Msi Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000N0UN4A Release Date: 2006-08-07

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