Track Listings (13) - Disc #1| All Artists: Camper Van Beethoven Title: Camper Van Beethoven is Dead. Long Live Camper Van Beethoven. Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Pitch a Tent Original Release Date: 4/25/2000 Release Date: 4/25/2000 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, American Alternative Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 656605911625 |
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Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead, Long Live Camper Van Beethoven began as a simple discussion between the ex-members about how to put out a CD of Camper Van Beethoven oddities without it sounding like a hodgepodge of well...le... more » |
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Album Description Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead, Long Live Camper Van Beethoven began as a simple discussion between the ex-members about how to put out a CD of Camper Van Beethoven oddities without it sounding like a hodgepodge of well...leftovers. There were many interesting live tracks, radio broadcasts, audience tapes, a few unreleased demos, a couple rarities, and a bunch of half-finished songs. Fortunately in the 10 years since Camper Van Beethoven disbanded, digital technologies have revolutionized the way recordings are made. It was resolved that they would essentially sample themselves. The performance became the act of assembling, manipulating, and editing all of this into a CD (done by Victor Krummenacher, David Lowery, and Jonathan Segel Dec. 5-8, 1999, at Sound of Music Richmond, VA). And after all, wasn't this in keeping with the spirit of Camper Van Beethoven? Perhaps if the band were formed today this is how they would have made music anyway. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsMad Scientiests on a Studio Bender WrtnWrd | Northridge, CA USA | 08/19/2000 (3 out of 5 stars) "Careful not to bilk their loyal cult, Camper Van Beethoven put out five records from 1985-1989, and one posthumous rarities collection in 1993. That's it. Eleven years after their last full-length comes CVB Is Dead, Long Live CVB, a set of live tracks, oddities, and deconstructed snippets that's not exactly for fans of the band. Though CVBID, LLCVB shares the surreal pan-cultural experimentalism of the early stuff, it's not the work of an operative band but mad studio scientists on an inspired weekend bender. Weird thing is, the disparate elements cohere, so that what starts as odds-and-ends comes to organic fruition, the Mothers of Invention (covered here) dabbling in world music, say, or Captain Beefheart produced by Brian Eno. It's the damnedest CD. It is and isn't Camper Van Beethoven. If you want to know about them, check out Telephone Free Landslide Victory or CVB III. If you like discordant, avant-garde music, check this out. All others, you've been forewarned." A terrific addition to the CVB legacy. Pen Name? | 04/29/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "Many of these songs had been included in the band's live shows and perhaps didn't make it onto an lp due to the band's break-up. But what we have here is no mere outtakes compilation, but a fully developed and cohesive new album. The campers were not content to string just any old tracks together, but worked hard at remastering and remixing old tracks, adding new elements and arranging a track order that flows very well. All of the classic CVB elements are included here from masterful ethnic dance tunes ("L'aguardiente"&"Balalaika Gap(demo)") to wacked out ska with backwards backing vocals ("We're all wasted") Zappa-esque insanity ("Who are the Brain Police") beautiful Key Lime Pie style psychedelia-laced ballads ("Tom Flower's", "Klondike"&"All Her Favorite Fruit") and the definitive S.P.37957/Hava Nagila/Dazed and Confused medley...plus more songs that no CVB fan should be without. CVB is Dead is a much better effort than the seemingly thrown together "Camper Vantiquities" collection. Hopefully there will be more projects like this offered from the band. Camper Van Beethoven was just too good and too unique to be forgotten or ignored. It seems that the band members still feel the same way, having been disbanded for a decade there is no band quite like them." Long live the campers dvstevens@one.net.au | moonee ponds melbourne australia | 09/30/2000 (3 out of 5 stars) "Interesting album for camperphiles. Great addition for anyone wishing to round out their collection. The album gives an insight into a live cvb performance with the standout track for me being all her favourite fruit(orchestral version). The sounds of violin etc are great to have back, missing for much of the time on Cracker. (No hidden tracks on this one!) Probably not the best example for new listeners, I would recommend "key lime pie" for anyone interested in getting on board!"
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