Official video: “Life is Grand”, the final cut on Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, contrasts nicely with “Come On Darkness”, the final track off of their next album, Key Lime Pie. Clearly, things were going pretty good for the band from … Continue reading
Live in 2005: Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart ends with a spectacular 1-2 punch. “Tania” would be punch #1. I probably played this more than any other track from this album when I was a DJ at WRBC for two reasons: … Continue reading
Fan video: “The Fool” is a surf guitar influenced instrumental that is probably much better live than on album. The major issue with this song is that the production makes the drums sound fake. Indeed, the production in general doesn’t … Continue reading
Let’s take this one from The Last FM. You can also hear the original versions of the last two CVB tracks at The Last FM, but I like Archive.org. There’s nothing essentially wrong with the song “Never Go Back”. There … Continue reading
Again, live in ’87 from archive.org. 20 years of listening to Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart and I still barely recognize that this song has extensive lyrics. I’m sure this song seemed like a good idea at the time, but it … Continue reading
Live in ’87 at archive.org Side two of Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart loses some steam, though it still contains a couple of absolute classic tracks. It also includes a trio of tracks that, in my opinion, are merely “meh.” Normally, … Continue reading
Time Lapse video: From one of Camper Van Beethoven’s best singles to what is arguably their finest instrumental. It is interesting listening to this piece after listening to the Brandenberg Concertos a couple weeks back. One of the things that … Continue reading
Official video: Live in ’87: Come down from your tree house condominium And start driving around that station wagon with the wood on the side Take off that jumpsuit, you look like Grace Slick Stayin’ up all night an’ drinkin’ … Continue reading
Fan video: Segel’s violin work is one of the main pleasures of the mellow “One Of These Days”, particularly at the end of the song. The lyrics suggest to me that the singer doesn’t actually believe that the person they … Continue reading
Fan video: “Devil Song” is, in some ways a more “traditional” Camper Van Beethoven song. That is not to say that it is traditional, but to say that it sounds more like a song from one of their previous albums. … Continue reading