Camper Van Beethoven - II & III + Live in Nebraska 1986 (40th Anniversary Edition) (2026)

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 array 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 their earlier work (“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”, satiating their appetite for cover songs.

This deluxe double CD set brings together the original II & III album with a 17 track live album of material from Camper Van Beethoven shows supporting REM on their Life’s Rich Pageant tour. This audio was mostly recorded at the Lincoln, Nebraska show on October 10th, 1986, but is supplemented with audio from other shows of the tour.

Tracklist
1. Camper Van Beethoven - Abundance
2. Camper Van Beethoven - Cowboys From Hollywood
3. Camper Van Beethoven - Sad Lovers' Waltz
4. Camper Van Beethoven - Turtlehead
5. Camper Van Beethoven - I Love Her All The Time
6. Camper Van Beethoven - No Flies On Us
7. Camper Van Beethoven - Down And Out
8. Camper Van Beethoven - No Kruggerands For David
9. Camper Van Beethoven - (Don't You Go To) Goleta
10. Camper Van Beethoven - 4 Year Plan
11. Camper Van Beethoven - (We're A) Bad Trip
12. Camper Van Beethoven - Circles
13. Camper Van Beethoven - Dustpan
14. Camper Van Beethoven - Sometimes
15. Camper Van Beethoven - Chains Of Circumstance
16. Camper Van Beethoven - ZZ Top Goes To Egypt
17. Camper Van Beethoven - Cattle (Reversed)
18. Camper Van Beethoven - Form Another Stone
19. Camper Van Beethoven - No More Bullshit
20. Camper Van Beethoven - (A Very Weird DJ Intro) (Live in Nebraska 1986)
21. Camper Van Beethoven - Abundance (Live in Nebraska 1986)
22. Camper Van Beethoven - (I Was So) Wasted (Live in Nebraska 1986)
23. Camper Van Beethoven - Heart (Live in Nebraska 1986)
24. Camper Van Beethoven - Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China (Live in Nebraska 1986)
25. Camper Van Beethoven - (We're A) Bad Trip (Live in Nebraska 1986)
26. Camper Van Beethoven - Processional (featuring spoken word from our roadie) (Live in Nebraska 1986)
27. Camper Van Beethoven - Sad Lovers' Waltz (Live in Nebraska 1986)
28. Camper Van Beethoven - (Madonna conspiracy theory stage banter) (Live in Nebraska 1986)
29. Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling (Live in Nebraska 1986)
30. Camper Van Beethoven - The Day Lassie Went to the Moon (Live in Nebraska 1986)
31. Camper Van Beethoven - (first attempt to calm the audience) (Live in Nebraska 1986)
32. Camper Van Beethoven - ZZ Top Goes to Egypt (Live in Nebraska 1986)
33. Camper Van Beethoven - Careful With That Axe Eugene/Interstellar Overdrive (Live in Nebraska 1986)
34. Camper Van Beethoven - We Love You (Live in Nebraska 1986)
35. Camper Van Beethoven - (Michael Stipe attempts to calm the audience) (Live in Nebraska 1986)
36. Camper Van Beethoven - I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Live in Nebraska 1986)

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