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Doc at the Radar Station
 
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Doc at the Radar Station
~ Captain Beefheart (Artist)
5.0 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews (3 customer reviews)

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

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Recorded and released relatively late in his career, DOC ATTHE RADAR STATION finds Beefheart in characteristically fine, freakish and musically-accelerated form. Echoing the freneticism and jump-cut aesthetic of some of his earlier work, the album is propelled by wiry guitar work, explosive, syncopated drumming and warped, raunchy blues riffs all calibrated by highly skilled musicians to sound as close to chaos as possible.
Beefheart's loveable gravely vocals (which sound like they belong to a deranged, boozed-up lecher), strain into ecstasy on "Sue Egypt", tumble pell-mell through "Run Paint Run Run", and rollick over the humps of Sheriff of HongKong". His lyrics veer from poetry to psycho-babble, as in "Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee") featuring the good Captain's poignant lyrical facility ("Her neck broke open and glistened in the dew"). As always, the music is an amalgam of neck-breaking changes, comic and high-brow sensibilities and melodies which have been broken, spliced and reconstituted but manage to remain, somehow, accessible.

 
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Overview Of A Classic, 30 Oct 2000
This was the second of the last three great Beefheart albums before the painting took over and is probably the finest. Recorded in Los Angeles produced and arranged by the Captain himself it starts of with the stuttering quirkiness of 'Hot Head', which owes more than a slight nod to Televisions Marque Moon, 'Ahstray Heart' is a mad urban blues with the good Captain spitting the lyrics like venom,The instramentle 'A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond' is the only weak track and is followed by classic after classic. There is the punk swing of 'Run Paint Run Run',the staccatto 'Sue Egypt' with its freefall slide guitar, 'Bickbats','Dirty Blue Gene' & 'Best Batch Yet' catch the Captain at the peak of his powers, snarling,shouting and screaming at the madhouse walls. 'Telephone', 'Flavor Bud Living' and the 'Sheriff of Hong Kong' are mini marvels of the twisted short story style that is pure Beefheart. The album closes with the fantasticly over the top 'Making love to a Vampire with a Monkey On My Knee'. A must for anyone starting off a serious Beefheart Collection.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius unmatched, 30 Nov 2002
By P. Neylan-Francis "Patrick Neylan" (Orpington, Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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After the genius of Shiny Beast, Beefheart gets a little more inaccessible - indeed, until the rhythms start making sense, this is un-music, although never as impenetrable as Trout Mask Replica, or Doc's successor Ice Cream for Crow. But when it does make sense, it is an experience unmatched in popular music. So why does my eight-year old daughter like it?
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the new batch (yet), 4 Dec 2000
By 2rb1 (Denmark) - See all my reviews
Of the three latest records made by C.B. this is the best one. Compared to the "Trout Mask Replica" period this one is much more tight and funky (and the sound quality is much better). If you buy this along with the "Trout..." and "Safe as Milk" you have three of the best records from each of the different periods of the band. The only records to avoid (of the original ones) are "Unconditionally Guaranteed" ! and "Bluejeans and Moonbeams". Enjoy :-)
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