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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band is a group from the US, active from 1965.

Group US 1965–1982 psychedelic rock experimental rock blues rock
TOTAL PLAYS
567
SONGS PLAYED
152
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2006-05-03 22:30 · 6 Music — "Suction Prints"
LAST PLAYED
2 weeks ago · 6 Music — "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2006 — 2026
50 38 25 13 0
'06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 544 96%
Radio 2 16 3%
Radio 1 7 1%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 20:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Big Eyed Beans from Venus 34 2025-10-06
2 Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles 26 2025-06-22
3 Zig Zag Wanderer 23 2025-08-26
4 Tropical Hot Dog Night 23 2025-05-19
5 Electricity 23 2022-09-21
6 Yellow Brick Road 18 2024-01-08
7 Observatory Crest 17 2024-02-25
8 My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains 16 2026-05-05
9 Clear Spot 15 2022-11-24
10 Too Much Time 13 2025-09-18
11 The Floppy Boot Stomp 13 2024-12-09
12 Diddy Wah Diddy 13 2023-05-09
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-05 13:48 My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains 6 Music
2026-01-31 19:52 Sure 'nuff 'n Yes I Do Radio 2
2025-11-23 21:44 Veteran's Day Poppy 6 Music
2025-11-23 20:42 When Big Joan Sets Up 6 Music
2025-11-23 20:38 Pachuco Cadaver 6 Music
2025-11-23 20:20 Moonlight on Vermont 6 Music
2025-11-23 20:17 Ella Guru 6 Music
2025-11-23 20:16 Frownland 6 Music
2025-11-20 02:55 Gimme Dat Harp Boy 6 Music
2025-11-09 20:55 The Blimp 6 Music
2025-10-06 20:34 Big Eyed Beans from Venus 6 Music
2025-09-18 12:58 Too Much Time 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

152 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
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A Carrot is as Close a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond — 1 ▶
A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Geets To A... — 1 ▶
A Carrot Is As Close As a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond — 3 ▶
Abba Zaba — 5 ▶
Abba Zabba — 1 ▶
Abba Zabba (John Peel 04/02/1968) — 1 ▶
Abba Zabba (Radio 1 Session, 4 Feb 1968) — 8 ▶
Ah Feel Like Ahcid — 1 ▶
Ah Feels Like Ahcid — 1 ▶
Ant Man Bee — 1 ▶
Any man bee — 1 ▶
Ashtray Heart — 2 ▶
Autumn Child — 1 ▶
Autumn's Child — 5 ▶
Bat Chain Puller — 6 ▶
Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 4 Feb 1968) — 4 ▶
Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones (Radio 1 Session, 4 Feb 1968) — 2 ▶
Bellerin' Plain — 1 ▶
Best Batch Yet — 1 ▶
Big Eyed Beans from Venus — 34 ▶
Blue Jean And Moon Beams — 1 ▶
Blue Jeans and Moonbeams — 1 ▶
Bluejeans and Moonbeams — 1 ▶
Brickbats — 1 ▶
Call On Me — 8 ▶
Call on Me (1965 acetate demo) — 1 ▶
Candle Mambo — 5 ▶
China Pig — 1 ▶
Clear Spot — 15 ▶
Click Clack — 1 ▶
Dachau Blues — 2 ▶
Diddy Wah Diddy — 13 ▶
Dirty Blue Gene — 2 ▶
Doctor Dark — 1 ▶
Drop-Out Boogie — 2 ▶
Dropout Boogie — 9 ▶
Electricity — 23 ▶
Electricity (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 4 Feb 1968) — 5 ▶
Electricity (Radio 1 Session, 4 Feb 1968) — 2 ▶
Electricity - John Peel session 04/02/1968 — 1 ▶
Ella Guru — 4 ▶
Evening Bell — 1 ▶
Evil Is Going On — 1 ▶
Flash Gordon's Ape — 1 ▶
Flower Pot — 1 ▶
Frownland — 2 ▶
Frying Pan — 3 ▶
Full Moon Hot Sun — 1 ▶
Further Than We’ve Gone — 1 ▶
Gimme Dat Harp Boy — 12 ▶
Golden Birdies — 1 ▶
Grow Fins — 2 ▶
Hair Pie-Bake 2 — 1 ▶
Happy Love Song — 5 ▶
Harry Irene — 5 ▶
Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles — 26 ▶
Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat — 1 ▶
Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat — 1 ▶
Hot Head — 4 ▶
I Got Love on My Mind — 1 ▶
I Love You Big Dummy — 1 ▶
I Love You, You Big Dummy — 6 ▶
I'm Glad — 6 ▶
I'm Glad (1966 Demo) — 1 ▶
I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby — 4 ▶
Ice Cream for Crow — 11 ▶
Ice Rose — 1 ▶
Icecream For Crow — 1 ▶
Ink Mathematics — 1 ▶
Japan Is A Dishpan — 1 ▶
Kandy Korn — 12 ▶
Kandy Korn (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 12 May 1968) — 4 ▶
Kandy Korn - BBC Session 12/05/1968 — 1 ▶
Lick My Decals Off, Baby — 1 ▶
Long Neck Bottles — 3 ▶
Love You Big Dummy — 1 ▶
Low Yo Yo Stuff — 4 ▶
Magic Be — 2 ▶
Mirror Man — 2 ▶
Moon Child — 1 ▶
Moonchild — 1 ▶
Moonlight in Vermont — 1 ▶
Moonlight on Vermont — 5 ▶
My Head is My Only House Unless It Rains — 1 ▶
My Head Is My Only Heart Unless It Rains — 1 ▶
My Head Is My Only Home — 1 ▶
My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains — 16 ▶
My head is my own house unless it rains — 3 ▶
My Human Gets Me Blues — 3 ▶
Nuff Said And Yes I Do — 1 ▶
Observatory Crest — 17 ▶
One Red Rose That I Mean — 1 ▶
Orange Claw Hammer — 1 ▶
Pachuco Cadaver — 1 ▶
Pena — 2 ▶
Plastic Factory — 1 ▶
Rollin' N Tumblin'/Electricity — 1 ▶
Run Paint Run Run — 2 ▶
Safe As Milk — 1 ▶
Safe As Milk (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 12 May 1968) — 2 ▶
Safe As Milk - BBC Session 12/05/1968 — 1 ▶
Somebody In My Home — 1 ▶
Steal Softly Thru Snow — 2 ▶
Stealing Softly Through Snow — 1 ▶
Suction Prints — 2 ▶
Sue Egypt — 1 ▶
Sun Zoom Spark — 6 ▶
Sure 'nuff 'n Yes I Do — 10 ▶
Sure 'Nuff 'n Yes I Do (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 4 Feb 1968) — 4 ▶
Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes, I Do — 1 ▶
Sure 'Nuff 'N' Yes I Do — 1 ▶
Sure 'Nuff 'n' Yes I Do (Radio 1 Session, 4 Feb 1968) — 2 ▶
Sure 'Nuff 'n' Yes I Do - BBC Session 04/02/1968 — 2 ▶
Sure 'Nuff 'N' Yes I Do - Bbc Session 04/02/1968 — 2 ▶
Sure 'Nuff And Yes I Do — 1 ▶
Sure 'Nuff' and Yes I Do — 1 ▶
Sure Nuff 'n Yes I Do — 1 ▶
Sure Nuff and Yes I Do — 9 ▶
Sweet Sweet Bulbs — 2 ▶
The Blimp — 2 ▶
The Clouds Are Full of Wine (Not Whiskey or Rye) — 1 ▶
The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back — 2 ▶
The Dust Blows Forward 'n' the Dust Blows Back — 1 ▶
The Floppy Boot Stomp — 13 ▶
The Host The Ghost The Most Holy-O — 1 ▶
The Little Drummer Boy — 1 ▶
The Spotlight Kid — 4 ▶
The Thousandth and Tenth Day of the Human Totem Pole — 2 ▶
There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evening Stage — 2 ▶
There Aint No Santa On The Midnight Stage — 1 ▶
This Is the Day — 1 ▶
Too Much Time — 13 ▶
tropical hot dog — 1 ▶
Tropical Hot Dog Night — 23 ▶
Tropical Hotdog Night — 3 ▶
Trust Us — 1 ▶
Trust Us (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 12 May 1968) — 2 ▶
Trust Us - BBC Session 12/05/1968 — 1 ▶
Tupelo/Evil Is Going On — 1 ▶
Two Rips In A Haystack/Kiss Me My Love — 1 ▶
Upon the My-O-My — 3 ▶
Veteran's Day Poppy — 1 ▶
When Big Joan Sets Up — 2 ▶
When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy — 3 ▶
Where There's Woman — 2 ▶
Yellow Brick Road — 18 ▶
Yellow Brick Road (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 4 Feb 1968) — 3 ▶
Yellow Brick Road (Radio 1 Session, 4 Feb 1968) — 3 ▶
Yellow Brick Road - BBC Session 04/02/1968 — 2 ▶
Yellow Brick Road - John Peel session 04/02/1968 — 1 ▶
You Know You're a Man — 4 ▶
Zig Zag Wanderer — 23 ▶