Camper Van Beethoven - II & III [LP - Teal]

Release Date: May 29, 2026
Label: Cooking Vinyl

“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 melting pot 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 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.

Tracklist

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