"Doing That Scrapyard Thing" is a song from British group Cream's 1969 farewell album, Goodbye.
Composed by the band's bassist, Jack Bruce, with lyrics by Pete Brown, the song, alongside Eric Clapton's "Badge" and Ginger Baker's "What a Bringdown," was one of Cream's final studio recordings.
According to Pete Brown, Jack Bruce approached him to write the lyrics of the song in a telephone call: A funny thing happened with Goodbye.
We were told by Atlantic [Records] that we didn't really have enough live stuff to release on the Goodbye album that was acceptable.
AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised the song as "an overstuffed near-masterpiece filled with wonderful, imaginative eccentricities.