- Audio CD (7 Aug 2006)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Label: EMI Records
- ASIN: B000FDJ2VU
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 42,180 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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2006 remastered reissue of much-loved 1980 album inc. 'Hot Head', 'Brickbats' & 'Ashtray Heart'.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The best Beefheart "comeback" album after his mid-70s slump is "Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)" (to my ears at least).
This one is a guitar-only affair, stripped of the pretty aural baubles of the previous album, which did actually lend Beefheart a touch of mad avuncular charm.
This one is more direct. The songs are no less enjoyable, from the bouncing alliteration of "Hot Head" to the shouty nod to Van Vliet's future career "Run Paint Run Run."
Other tracks are in the challengingly unmelodious "Trout Mask Replica" mould, such as the ear-bleeding five-minute aural assault "Best Batch Yet" or the whopping migraine of the brilliant "Sheriff of Hong Kong."
Other tracks teeter-totter on melody and audience enjoyment such as the hilarious "Ashtray Heart" (where Beefheart shows his age, losing the gusto behind his growl) and the patchwork madness of the impressively weird "Sue Egypt" (my favorite track).
Instrumentals are surprisingly touching for Beefheart, and returning band member John French lends a great contribution.
The last track "Making Love to a Vampire With a Monkey on My Knee" is riddled with expletives, which seems a little gimmicky, but Beefheart gets away with it because he gets away with everything.
Recommended for Beefheart fans only.
This one is a guitar-only affair, stripped of the pretty aural baubles of the previous album, which did actually lend Beefheart a touch of mad avuncular charm.
This one is more direct. The songs are no less enjoyable, from the bouncing alliteration of "Hot Head" to the shouty nod to Van Vliet's future career "Run Paint Run Run."
Other tracks are in the challengingly unmelodious "Trout Mask Replica" mould, such as the ear-bleeding five-minute aural assault "Best Batch Yet" or the whopping migraine of the brilliant "Sheriff of Hong Kong."
Other tracks teeter-totter on melody and audience enjoyment such as the hilarious "Ashtray Heart" (where Beefheart shows his age, losing the gusto behind his growl) and the patchwork madness of the impressively weird "Sue Egypt" (my favorite track).
Instrumentals are surprisingly touching for Beefheart, and returning band member John French lends a great contribution.
The last track "Making Love to a Vampire With a Monkey on My Knee" is riddled with expletives, which seems a little gimmicky, but Beefheart gets away with it because he gets away with everything.
Recommended for Beefheart fans only.
Format:Audio CD
Terrific record. Definitely the best of the late period Beefheart albums. I might even make it my second best on his overall career list, after the masterful Trout Mask Replica. (Or perhaps Decals should be second?!).
It's reasonably accessible too for anyone who is new to the whole Beefheart/Magic Band oeuvre. So if you haven't heard it already - go one, give it a try!!
It's reasonably accessible too for anyone who is new to the whole Beefheart/Magic Band oeuvre. So if you haven't heard it already - go one, give it a try!!
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Probably his best ever
25 Aug 2008
Format:Audio CD
This is the type of work i wish Beefheart would have done more of. This is a very special album for Beefheart because here he (and his band, which includes the great Trombone work of Bruce Fowler) found the perfect balance between rock weirdness and avant garde originality. Nothing elsewhere sounds like this blues guitar drenched gumbo...which is also mellotron spiced, harmonica fueled and poetry stabbed . The captain spewed a master piece for sure in Doc at the Radar Station. I consider this the most daring and 'progressive' work he ever did. Get it!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
BRING ME MY SCISSORS!!!
6 July 2008
Format:Audio CD
Don't be put off by the fact that this album was made toward the end of the Captain's career - Doc at the Radar Station is 100% essential, top quality Beefheart. It's harder and more aggressive than it's predecessor, Shiny Beast (an equally outstanding but very different album). It is very much a return to the Trout Mask Replica style of off-kilter poetry set to complex, dissonant music. The best songs on this album represent some of the best stuff he ever did. Hot Head, Sue Egypt, Dirty Blue Gene, and Best Batch Yet are some of my favorites, but there isn't a weak track on the album. Fans of the Captain will inevitably love Doc at the Radar Station
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Captain Ziggy
9 Dec 2007
Format:Audio CD
The best of the Captn. A smokin' band, some his best material ever, sort of an American Ziggy Stardust feel, filtered through pure Beefheart. An absolutely essential rock and roll album.
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