Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years

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Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years
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Released2002
Genre Alternative rock
Length226:51
Label Cooking Vinyl
Camper Van Beethoven chronology
Camper Van Beethoven Is Dead. Long Live Camper Van Beethoven Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years In the Mouth of the Crocodile – Live in Seattle
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Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years is a five-disc compilation album by American alternative rock group Camper Van Beethoven released in 2002 on the label Cooking Vinyl. It includes the band's first three studio albums ( Telephone Free Landslide Victory , II & III , Camper Van Beethoven ); the rarities compilation Camper Vantiquities ; and a new live CD, Greatest Hits Played Faster, mostly recorded in 1990.

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