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Camper Van Beethoven
Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength & Beauty
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon
2. Border Ska
3. Take The Skinheads Bowling
4. Pictures Of Matchstick Men
5. Skinhead Stomp
6. Opie Rides Again/Club Med Sucks
7. Eye Of Fatima Parts 1 & 2
8. ZZTop Goes Egypt
9. Sad Lovers' Waltz
10. When I Win The Lottery
11. The History Of Utah
12. Seven Languages
13. All Her Favortie Fruit
14. Good Guys And Bad Guys
15. Circles
16. One Of These Days
17. Aimbiguity Song
18. Shut Us Down

CD Details

All Artists: Camper Van Beethoven
Title: Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength & Beauty
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 6/24/2008
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, American Alternative
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 711297486520

Synopsis

Album Description

Popular Songs features 18 tracks, 5 of which have been re-recorded specifically for this release. Explains Camper Van Beethoven band spokesperson, Col. Jack 'Cheese' Sandwich (ret.) of Limone sul Garda, Italy : 'We endeavored to present an enticing set of popular songs from the much-acclaimed, secondary and tertiary recording periods of the band, 1985-1990. We were, however, thwarted in this effort by a certain recording company which had released the later (tertiary) output of these original recordings. We made offers to buy back our own catalog, but they were rebuffed. Hence, still owning the publishing rights, we decided to re-record a few of these later songs.'

CD Reviews

You Wish Your Band Was This Cool

Schmuddude | VP, IL USA | 11/11/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A fine primer for the uninitiated, or the perfect compilation for your cocktail party or condo association's elevator. This collection offers a taste of many of the things that made and make CVB such a pleasure; songcraft that ranges from punk to folk to rawk to ethnic to dissonance to savage beauty to subversively stupid and funny, often in a single song. No doubt the non-subliminal messages throughout this album will cause you and your friends to run out and buy all their other albums and concert t-shirts and pile their myspace pages full of inane comments. Don't say I didn't warn you."