Doc at the Radar Station

Doc at the Radar Station is the eleventh studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in August 1980 to favorable reviews. The painting on the album cover is by Don Van Vliet himself. It was placed at number forty-nine on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Album Covers. Although about half of the album's songs are based on old musical ideas, Mike Barnes states that "most of the revamping work built on skeletal ideas and fragments that would have mouldered away in the vaults had they not been exhumed and transformed into full-blown, totally convincing new material." In 2011, 4 Men With Beards released a 180-gram version of the album that is being distributed by City Hall Records. All tracks written by Don Van Vliet