Camper Van Beethoven - II & III (40th Anniversary Edition)

“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 (un)ironic 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 Toothpaste Splatter Vinyl Reissue features a newly revisited collage version of the artwork, plus a reproduced 11”x11” insert, designed by Victor Krummenacher using original photos, lithograph prints, lyrics and leaflets. We are required to tell you it does not taste like toothpaste.

Disc 1

Track List

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