"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 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 the debut ("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", feeding their appetite for cover songs. This deluxe double CD set brings together the original II & III album with a 17 track live album of material from Camper Van Beethoven shows supporting REM on their Life's Rich Pageant tour. This audio was mostly recorded at the Lincoln, Nebraska show from October 10th, 1986, but is supplemented with audio from other shows of the tour.

Tracklist:

Abundance
Cowboys from Hollywood
Sad Lovers' Waltz
Turtlehead
I Love Her All the Time
No Flies on Us
Down and Out
No Krugerrands for David
Goleta
4 Year Plan
(We're a) Bad Trip
Circles
Dustpan
Sometimes
Chain of Circumstance
ZZ Top Goes to Egypt
Cattle (Reversed)
Form Another Stone
No More Bullshit
(A Very Weird DJ Intro)
Abundance
(I Was So) Wasted
Heart
Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China
We're a Bad Trip
Processional (Featuring Spoken Word Fromour Roadie)
Sad Lovers' Waltz
(Madonna Conspiracy Theory Stage Banter)
Take the Skinheads Bowling
The Day Lassie Went to the Moon
(First Attempt to Calm the Audience)
ZZ Top Goes to Egypt
Careful with That Axe Eugene/Interstellar Overdrive
We Love You
(Michael Stipe Attempts to Calm the Audience)
I'm Not Like Everybody Else

UPC: 711297468885
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Release Date: 5.29.26
Format: CD

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