Track Listing
DISC 1: NE FREE LANDSLIDE VICTORY:
1. Border Ska
2. Day That Lassie Went to the Moon, The
3. Wasted
4. Yanqui Go Home
5. Oh No!
6. 9 of Disks
7. Payed Vacation: Greece
8. Where the Hell Is Bill?
9. Vladivostock
10. Skinhead Stomp
11. Tina
12. Take the Skinheads Bowling
13. Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China
14. I Don't See You
15. Balalaika Gap
16. Opi Rides Again Club Med Sucks
17. Ambiguity Song
DISC 2: & III:
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, (Don't You Go to)
10. 4 Year Plan
11. Bad Trip, (We're A)
12. Circles
13. Dust Pan
14. Sometimes
15. Chain of Circumstance
16. Zz Top Goes to Egypt
17. Cattle (Reversed)
18. Form Another Stone
19. No More B*******
DISC 3: VAN BEETHOVEN:
1. Good Guys & Bad Guys
2. Joe Stalin's Cadillac
3. Five Sticks
4. Lulu Land
5. Une Fois
6. We Saw Jerry's Daughter
7. Surprise Truck
8. Stairway to Heavan (Sic)
9. History of Utah, The
10. Still Wishing to Course
11. We Love You
12. Hoe Yourself Down
13. Peace & Love
14. Folly
15. Intersteller Overdrive
16. Shut Us Down
DISC 4: VANTIQUITIES:
1. Heart
2. Never Go Back
3. Seven Languages
4. Axe Murderer Song
5. Sp37957
6. Crossing Over
7. Guardian Angels
8. I'm Not Like Everybody Else
9. A.C. Cover
10. Porpoise Mouth
11. Modern Art, (We Workers Do Not Understand)
12. We Eat Your Children
13. Six More Miles to the Graveyard
14. Ice Cream Everyday
15. Processional
16. Photograph
17. OM Eye (Sweet Isthmus)
DISC 5: T HITS PLAYED FASTER:
1. All Her Favorite Fruit - (Orchestral)
2. Sweethearts
3. Tania
4. Eye of Fatima Pts. 1&2
5. My Baby Just Got Outta Jail
6. Borderline
7. Turquoise Jewelry
8. She Divines Water
9. L'Aguardiente
10. Life Is Grand
11. When I Win the Lottery
12. James River
13. One of These Days
| Details | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This box set includes 4 previously released albums and 1 new live album: II & III(1986)/CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN(1986)/CAMPER VANTIQUITES(1993)/TELEPHONE FREE LANDSLIDE VICTORY(1985)/ GREATEST HITS PLAYED FASTER(2002).
Camper Van Beethoven: David Lowrey (vocals, guitar, drums); David Immergluck (guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, background vocals); Jonathan Segel (guitar, mandolin, violin, keyboards, background vocals); Chris Molla (guitar, drums, background vocals); Greg Lisher (guitar); Morgan Fichter (violin, background vocals); Victor H. Krummenacher (bass, background vocals); Chris Pederson (drums).
Includes liner notes by Dr. Jill Stauffer, Kacey Carmassi.
As a box set, CIGARETTES AND CARROT JUICE is somewhat baffling given that any Camper Van Beethoven devotee already probably owns the first three CVB albums, TELEPHONE FREE LANDSLIDE VICTORY, II & III, and CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, and the 1993 odds-and-sods comp CAMPER VANTIQUITIES. The previously unavailable disc, 1990 live set GREATEST HITS PLAYED FASTER, focuses on the group's Warner Bros. work, which came after the Santa Cruz years.
Nevertheless, as any CVB devotee already knows, the music--with its oft-smirking lyrics and kitchen-sink rock, punk, ska, Tex-Mex, and psychedelic stylings--is chaotically eclectic and frequently transcendent, as on the sublimely ridiculous alt-lite "Take the Skinheads Bowling" and on "Good Guys & Bad Guys," which incorporates reggae, folk, and country textures into its meditation on the liberating power of music on the radio. For the beginner, CIGARETTES AND CARROT JUICE is a great place to start.
Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - California's CVB were prototypical alt.rockers with a penchant for campfire punk, mutated folk-blues, ska, weird Slavic polka and absurdist lyrics...
Uncut (03/01/2003)
...One of the '80s' most consistently interesting bands... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (11/08/2002)
...[The album] shows Camper as a band who'd outgrown their silly shoes...
Mojo (12/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Collisions of ska beats and gypsy fiddling....The instrumentals are fresh and eclectic, the poppier songs...are sharp and funny...
Rolling Stone (01/23/2003)
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