Ice Cream for Crow

Ice Cream for Crow
Studio album by
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
ReleasedSeptember 1982
RecordedMay–June, 1982
StudioWarner Brothers Studios, North Hollywood, California
Length37:29
LabelVirgin (UK), Virgin/Epic (US)
ProducerDon Van Vliet
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band chronology
Doc at the Radar Station
(1980) 		Ice Cream for Crow
(1982) 		The Legendary A&M Sessions
(1984)
Singles from Ice Cream for Crow
  1. "Ice Cream for Crow"
    Released: August 1982

Ice Cream for Crow is the twelfth and final studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, released in September 1982. After it was recorded, Don Van Vliet retired from music to devote himself to a career as a painter.[1] It spent two weeks in the UK album charts, reaching number 90,[2] but failed to make the Billboard Top 200.

  1. ^ Rense, Rip (8 Jan 1989). "In tune with art: Today Captain Beefheart aims to make the canvas sing". Tempo. Chicago Tribune. p. 3.
  2. ^ Rice, Tim; Rice, Jonathan; Gambaccini, Paul (1990). Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums. Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness World Records and Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0-85112-398-8.