- Key Lime Pie · 1989
- Key Lime Pie · 1989
- Telephone Free Landslide Victory · 1985
- Camper Van Chadbourne · 1987
- Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty · 1993
- Camper Van Chadbourne · 1987
- Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart · 1988
- Camper Van Beethoven · 1986
- Camper Van Beethoven · 1986
- Key Lime Pie · 1989
- Key Lime Pie · 1989
- Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty · 2008
- El Camino Real (Bonus Track Edition) · 2014
- 1989
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About Camper Van Beethoven
Camper Van Beethoven has always sounded like the band having the most fun, jumping between a variety of styles—jangle pop, ska punk and Eastern European folk, to name a few—with a sense of humour and abandon. After forming in 1983, the California band became college-rock favourites with irreverent tracks like “Take the Skinheads Bowling” from their 1985 debut album, Telephone Free Landslide Victory. The satirical mix of continent-spanning sounds was just the tip of their ambitions, though. Over their next four albums, the band dabbled in psychedelia, bluegrass, acid rock, post-punk, raga and more, highlighted by Jonathan Segel’s virtuosic violin jamming and frontman David Lowery’s wry irreverence. After a prolific '80s, the band broke up in 1990, and Lowery formed Cracker (who scored a hit with “Low” in 1994). But by the end of the decade, Camper Van Beethoven had reformed, coming back with a vengeance on 2004’s heavier, prog-leaning New Roman Times and later with a pair of concept albums dedicated to their home state: 2013’s La Costa Perdida, a loose, lively homage to Northern California, and 2014’s El Camino Real, a decidedly darker—but just as eclectic—ode to Southern California.
- ORIGIN
- Redlands, CA, United States
- FORMED
- 1983
- GENRE
- Alternative