Doc At The Radar Station
by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band bestography
Doc At The Radar Station is ranked 4th best out of 31 albums by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band is Trout Mask Replica which is ranked number 272 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,020.
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Doc At The Radar Station track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/15/2026 13:52 | TitoVampir | 197 | 76/100 |
| ! | 04/04/2026 20:06 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,463 | 70/100 |
| ! | 01/09/2026 19:03 | Joost1223 | 35 | 82/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 16:12 | cicadelic | 13,664 | 73/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 15:32 | Araldo | 1,472 | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 72.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.5.
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teague 01/20/2021 19:15 | #264743 | TOP COMMENT
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Beefy boy makes the hits.
One of Don's best albums.
Amirkhosro 07/17/2014 10:00 | #116935 | TOP COMMENT
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Beefheart's late period masterpiece. One of rock's (and incidentally, punk's) greatest albums.
Following a relatively fallow creative period for the Captain, the master returned to form with the album 'Shiny Beast'. In my opinion, as great a record as this record is, his follow-up, 'Doc At The Radar Station', is even better. This album is a kind of distillation of 'Trout Mask' for the post-punk generation. It is a record in which the Captain controlled many of the excesses of the former, but nevertheless lost none of his ascerbic wit and visceral brilliance. It's a though the master was purposely playing his post-punk students at their own game while simultaneously maintaining a respectful creative distance. Although the Captain had laid the template for the next generation a decade before, many uninformed observers might reasonably be mistaken for believing that with 'Doc', he was an immitator rather than an innovator. This ranks as one of the Captain's greatest ever achievements.
Facetious 02/28/2012 13:53 | #37572 | TOP COMMENT
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Personally, I love Trout Mask Replica very much, and it is just 2 spots behind this on my chart, but........nothing will ever truly beat this.
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