Best Camper Van Beethoven album

[Taverner]

Poll question: Best Camper Van Beethoven album

Remember these guys?

[Dora]

1. That was easy.

I've only ever listened to Key Lime Pie. Now I have earworms galore. Damn you.

[InternalDialogue]

2. Yes, I do remember them.

You just took me back to my days as a DJ at the college radio station. CVB were one of the groups I latched onto personally and played all I could. My influence resonated strongly within the approximately 200-foot radius across which we broadcast.

And cyclist Andy Hampsten was a devoted fan. That's what turned me on in the first place.

If only he'd been able to win the Tour de France, Camper Van Beethoven might have been the most glorious and beloved rock band ever...

[ceile]

3. I thought there was a chick in the band.

Am I remembering wrong?

[Taverner]

4. They replaced their violinist with a female for a while

On their final tour.

They just got back together with the original band.

[blondeatlast]

5. Damn, does that bring back memories!

They're cuter since they got older, too. :evilgrin:

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. "Take off that jumpsuit...

you look like Grace Slick!"

[Okiojira]

7. Key Lime Pie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9yyvzQs-Qo

"And does she ever whisper in his ear all her favorite fruit
And all the most exotic places they are cultivated?"

[enigmatic]

8. II&III

Even the throwaway stuff is great. "Sad Lover's Waltz" was on mixtapes of mine for years...

[driver8]

9. I haven't heard those -- I'll have to check them out.

I saw Camper Van Beethoven open for 10,000 Maniacs in Richmond, Virginia...they were absolutely amazing!! (Key Lime Pie had just come out so they played a lot of songs off of that record.).

[Hissyspit]

10. I saw that tour, too. n/t

[taterguy]

11. Don't forget Camper Van Chadbourne

And the follow-up album: Eugene Chadbourne and some guys so famous we can't even mention them on the album cover. (I think it actually said that on the album cover)