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Camper Van Beethoven was founded around 1983 in Santa Cruz, California as an alternative rock, new wave music, and punk rock group. Camper Van Beethoven mixed elements of pop, ska, punk rock, folk, country, and acid rock into an eclectic, catchy formula years before a guide rock movement spring. A class action's trademark violin-coated melodies & ironic, Frank Zappa-influenced lyrics put them a single step out of existence a novelty work in a eyes of numerous critics, however the band experienced never again from either silly to experimental by using the intricate, psychedelic popular meanderings of their self-titled third album. Fallowing signing to Virgin Records around 1988 and releasing ii eclecticist eventually slightly further accessible LPs, it disbanded in 1990; singer David Lowery went on to encountered a band Cracker, while a more members - guitarists Greg Lisher and David Immerglück, bassist Victor Krummenacher and drummer Chris Pedersen - devoted themselves full-whale to the Monks of Doom, which had begun many years earliest as a non-Lowery side task. Violinist Jonathan Segel went on to play by using Dieselhed, Hieronymus Firebrain, Jack & Jill and has more recently been involved in experimental music, including collaborations with Fred Frith and Joelle Leandre. Krummenacher & Segel put together start their have record label Magnetic. Around 2000, ex-members regrouped to compile a experimental rarity set Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead. Long Live Camper Van Beethoven. Around 2002, they freed Tusk. Allegedly recorded around 1987, it had however tracks when a Fleetwood Mac album of the same title, & the parody of the original album's handle art. The series of reunion tour dates followed sustaining numbers of of the band's previous members. A class action officially reformed inside 2004 to record New Roman Times, their first official studio album inside Xv years. The survive concert disc was besides discharged entitled In The Mouth of the Crocodile, capturing a 2004 reunion performance within Seattle. Likewise, segments of the 2004 performance within Chicago were freed the as punishment season as a collection simply available at a limited total of record places. This disc was known as Discotheque CVB: Live In Chicago. CVB's 1985 staple "Take the Skinheads Bowling" was covered by Teenage Fanclub and used when a title track for the 2002 Michael Moore film Bowling for Columbine. The part of the original Camper Van Beethoven recording may be heard as an introduction to the DVD release of the film. A song has besides been covered by numerous creative person. Members of Camper Van Beethoven collaborated by having Eugene Chadbourne on a total of records under a title Camper Van Chadbourne.
Discography
Compilations & Special Releases
Singles
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| 1989
| "Pictures of Matchstick Men"
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| #One (Three weeks)
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| Key Lime Pie
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Trivia
Bass streaming video player Victor Krummenacher is now Art Director of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
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Yahoo Groups: CamperVan-Etc Discussion group for the band and related artists. CrackerWeb Information, complete discographies, official photographs, lyrics, tablature, and MP3s from Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker and related bands. Camper Van Beethoven Official site includes discography and MP3s. Camper Van Beethoven Discography with lyrics, articles and interviews. Cooking Vinyl: Camper Van Beethoven Label site with audio streams and information about the "Tusk" album. PopMatters: "Camper Van Beethoven is Dead - Long Live Camper Van Beethoven" Dan Moos' review of the album: "If you are a Camper Van Beethoven geek, you're gonna love this. And if you're not, you still should buy this CD to play for the stranger moments of each day." |
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