Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart closed with Lowery singing about how "Life Is Grand" in pointed response to "those of you who have appointed yourselves to expect us to say something darker." So when Key Lime Pie came out, its moodier music and imagery, not to mention that soon after the fact the band fell apart on the tour for the album, led more than one person to think those darker times had finally arrived. As it is, the group had already gone through one major shake-up between the two a   [ read more ]

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New Roman Times is perhaps Camper Van Beethoven's most musically accomplished and conceptually ambitious effort to date. The album is a vivid, with a fanciful rock-opera storyline that's rife with parallels to America's current political landscape. The originators of 'surrealist absurdist folk' are back with NEW ROMAN TIMES, their first studio record in 15 years, a sci-fi quasi rock opera. These guys of CVB didn't want to get together and make the usual bad reunion album, so instead CVB has b   [ read more ]

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This collection also features five songs from CVB's critically acclaimed albums on Virgin Records - 1988's Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and 1989's Key Lime Pie. However, after the band tried to buy back the rights to the original masters for inclusion on Popular Songs, Virgin refused. So CVB have faithfully re-recorded these five tracks for this collection and, in doing so, have not only reclaimed their own music but have given a stiff middle finger to their former label in the process.

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Their debut album reissued with bonus tracks! Features songs from the long out-of-print "Take the Skinheads Bowling" EP and bonus tracks, including: "Epigram 5," "At Kuda," "Epigram 2," "Cowboys From Hollywood (Original Version)," "Colonel Enrique Adolfo Bermudez," and ?Wasting All Your Time" (a kit bash of two songs: "Take The Skinheads Bowling" and "Devil Song"). "They say 'never say never,' but it's still extremely unlikely something so goofily low-key, inventive, and fun will ever achieve cult status so   [ read more ]

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This collection also features five songs from CVB's critically acclaimed albums on Virgin Records - 1988's Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and 1989's Key Lime Pie. However, after the band tried to buy back the rights to the original masters for inclusion on Popular Songs, Virgin refused. So CVB have faithfully re-recorded these five tracks for this collection and, in doing so, have not only reclaimed their own music but have given a stiff middle finger to their former label in the    [ read more ]

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The band's out-of-print second album, reissued with bonus tracks! A more eclectic outing than their debut, "II & III" throws more musical modes into the pot and realizes a more focused folk-punk. Bonus tracks include "Chain of Circumstance? (a rockier version featuring Greg), "Form Another Stone (replacement version)" (with clearer vocals), and "(We're A) Bad Trip" (the original version).

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Camper Van Beethoven was one of the great, pioneering indie rock bands. When Spinart released the Cigarettes & Carrot Juice box in 2002, legions of Camper fans probably rushed out to pick up remastered versions of great albums that had been out of print for years. Two years later, when Spinart made the individual albums available again, this time augmented by bonus tracks (the box set contained just the original albums, as issued), those who bought the box most likely felt like they were b   [ read more ]

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Camper Van Beethoven were one of the great, pioneering indie rock bands. When Spinart released the Cigarettes & Carrot Juice box in 2002, legions of Camper fans probably rushed out to pick up remastered versions of great albums that had been out of print for years. Two years later, when Spinart made the individual albums available again, this time augmented by bonus tracks (the box set contained just the original albums, as issued), those who bought the box most likely felt like they were    [ read more ]

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With Lowery's by-now more sharply sung words up front and Segel's multi-instrumental abilities helping to lead the way, the quintet came up trumps more often than not. "Eye of Fatima (pt. 2)," for instance, could have easily fit in on most of the group's earlier records at the start. Even so, the addition of some screaming Lisher guitar solos on top of the measured reggae/hard rock/folk stew cooked up didn't feel anything like, say, Eddie Van Halen's drop-in on "Beat It." Distinctly nonroc   [ read more ]

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