CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - II and III - 40th Anniversary Edition (Deluxe Edition) CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN
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“Do not eat or drink anything past midnight prior to your appointment, no food, no liquid”. Non-sensical, un-user friendly, at times half finished. Camper Van Beethoven’s second album II & III saw the folk-punk of the band’s debut LP morphing into an even wider array of stylistic influences and ironic and unironic contradictions, all rolled up into a coherently incoherent collection of some of the band’s most defining songs. Originally released in 1986, the follow up to Telephone Free Landslide Victory did much to develop an already iconoclastic Camper Van Beethoven idiom.
II & III ranges from alt-country ballads (Sad Lovers’ Waltz) to call-backs to the European folk instrumentals of their earlier work (No Krugerrands For David, 4 Year Plan). Also featured is the band’s bluegrass-Americana take on Sonic Youth’s I Love Her All the Time, satiating their appetite for cover songs.
This limited edition teal vinyl reissue features a newly revisited collage version of the artwork, plus a reproduced 11” x 11” insert, designed by Victor Krummenacher using original photos, lithograph prints, lyrics and leaflets.
Track List
Vinyl
1. Abundance
2. Cowboys From Hollywood
3. Sad Lovers' Waltz
4. Turtlehead
5. I Love Her All The Time
6. No Flies On Us
7. Down And Out
8. No Krugerrands For David
9. (Don't You Go To) Goleta
10. 4 Year Plan
11. (We're A) Bad Trip
12. Circles
13. Dustpan
14. Sometimes
15. Chain Of Circumstance
16. ZZ-Top Goes To Egypt
17. Cattle (Reversed)
18. Form Another Stone
19. No More Bullshit
2CD, Disk 2: Live In Nebraska 1986
1. Abundance
2. Cowboys From Hollywood
3. Sad Lovers' Waltz
4. Turtlehead
5. I Love Her All The Time
6. No Flies On Us
7. Down And Out
8. No Krugerrands For David
9. Goleta
10. 4 Year Plan
11. (We're A) Bad Trip
12. Circles
13. Dustpan
14. Sometimes
15. Chain Of Circumstance
16. ZZ Top Goes To Egypt
17. Cattle (Reversed)
18. Form Another Stone
19. No More Bullshit
20. (A Very Weird DJ Intro)
21. Abundance
22. (I Was So) Wasted
23. Heart
24. Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China
25. We're a Bad Trip
26. Processional (featuring spoken word fromour roadie)
27. Sad Lovers' Waltz
28. (Madonna conspiracy theory stage banter)
29. Take The Skinheads Bowling
30. The Day Lassie Went to the Moon
31. (First attempt to calm the audience)
32. ZZ Top Goes to Egypt
33. Careful With That Axe Eugene/Interstellar Overdrive
34. We Love You
35. (Michael Stipe attempts to calm the audience)
36. I'm Not Like Everybody Else