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Cigarettes & Carrot Juice - The Santa Cruz Years
Before Camper Van Beethoven, no "punk" band would've thought to blend Eastern European folk rhythms with Tex-Mex, ska, reggae, psych-rock, punk-rock, pop-rock and...well, whatever else was out there. This five-disc box set features all the early CVB albums on compact disc. Their first outing, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, sounds as unique and fresh today as it did in 1985. Mostly remembered for the sublimely ridiculous "Take the Skinheads Bowling" and their take on Black Flag's "Wasted," it set the bar high for subsequent releases. The band followed the oddball masterpiece with more cleverness and irresistible charm on II & III. Dabbling in Mekons country-punk turf for the first half, they slid into a wry psychedelia in the second. It really is two albums in one. The band's self-titled third outing found the California boys scratching their heads out loud, wondering exactly what to do next, and not arriving at a consensus. It's an adventurous jumble, with a few really outstanding tracks. Also in the box is the Vantiquities collection of various 1980s recordings, originally released in 1993 after their two-record stint with Virgin Records and a live collection, Greatest Hits Played Faster, which opens with a magisterial "All Her Favorite Fruit" and ends, appropriately, with a sad-sounding "One of These Days." --Lorry Fleming
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Tracks| 1 | Border Ska | | 2 | The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon | | 3 | Wasted | | 4 | Yanqui Go Home | | 5 | Oh No! | | 6 | 9 Of Disks | | 7 | Payed Vacation: Greece | | 8 | Where The Hell Is Bill? | | 9 | Vladivostock | | 10 | Skinhead Stomp | | 11 | Tina | | 12 | Take The Skinheads Bowling | | 13 | Mao Reminisces About His Days In Southern China | | 14 | I Don?t See You | | 15 | Balalaika Gap | | 16 | Opi Rides Again-Club Med Sucks | | 17 | Ambiguity Song | | 18 | Abundance | | 19 | Cowboys From Hollywood | | 20 | Sad Lovers Waltz | | 21 | Turtlehead | | 22 | I Love Her All The Time | | 23 | No Flies On Us | | 24 | Down and Out | | 25 | No Krugerrands For David | | 26 | (Don?t You Go) Goletca | | 27 | 4 Year Plan | | 28 | (We?re A) Bad Trip | | 29 | Circles | | 30 | Dust Pan | | 31 | Sometimes | | 32 | Chain Of Circumstance | | 33 | ZZ Top Goes To Egypt | | 34 | Cattle (Reversed) | | 35 | Form Another Stone | | 36 | No More Bullshit | | 37 | Good Guys & Bad Guys | | 38 | Joe Stalin?s Cadillac | | 39 | Five Sticks | | 40 | Lulu Land | | 41 | Une Fois | | 42 | We Saw Jerry?s Daughter | | 43 | Surprise Truck | | 44 | Stairway To Heaven (sic) | | 45 | The History Of Utah | | 46 | Still Wishing To Course | | 47 | We Love You | | 48 | Hoe Yourself Down | | 49 | Peace & Love | | 50 | Folly | | 51 | Interstellar Overdrive | | 52 | Shut Us Down | | 53 | Heart | | 54 | Never Go Back | | 55 | Seven Languages | | 56 | Axe Murderer Song | | 57 | Sp37597 | | 58 | Crossing Over | | 59 | Guardian Angels | | 60 | I?m Not Like Everybody Else | | 61 | A.C. Cover | | 62 | Porpoise Mouth | | 63 | (We Workers Do No Understand) Modern Art | | 64 | We Eat Your Children | | 65 | Six More Miles To The Graveyard | | 66 | Ice Cream Everyday | | 67 | Processional | | 68 | Photograph | | 69 | Om Eye (Sweet Isthmus) | | 70 | All Her Favorite Fruit (Orchestral) | | 71 | Sweethearts | | 72 | Tania | | 73 | Eye of Fatima pt l | | 74 | Eye of Fatima pt ll | | 75 | My Baby Just Got Outta Jail | | 76 | Borderline | | 77 | Turquoise Jewelry | | 78 | She Divines Water | | 79 | L?aguardiente | | 80 | Life Is Grand | | 81 | When I Win The Lottery | | 82 | James River | | 83 | One Of These Days |
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