Telephone Free Landslide Victory

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Telephone Free Landslide Victory
Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory.jpg
Studio album by
Camper Van Beethoven
ReleasedJune 1985
RecordedJanuary–February 1985
StudioSámurai Sound, Davis, California
Genre Alternative rock, jangle pop
Length39:37
Label Independent Project
Camper Van Beethoven chronology
Telephone Free Landslide Victory
(1985)		 II & III
(1986)

Telephone Free Landslide Victory is an album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released on Independent Project Records and released in June 1985. [1] It featured the band's best known song, "Take the Skinheads Bowling". The album has sold over 60,000 copies. [2]

Contents

About

The band's lineup at the time of recording was David Lowery (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Jonathan Segel (violin, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), Chris Molla (guitar, backing vocals), Victor Krummenacher (bass, backing vocals), and Anthony Guess (drums). The album is the only Camper Van Beethoven record not to feature guitarist Greg Lisher. Lisher is actually listed in the album credits as a band member, but he did not join the band until after the album was recorded.

The reunited Camper Van Beethoven frequently features several of the album's songs in their set lists, including "Take the Skinheads Bowling", the countrified Black Flag cover "Wasted", the hardcore send-up "Club Med Sucks", "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon", "Ambiguity Song", and several of the instrumentals.

The band originally intended the album to be titled Telephone Tree Landslide Victory, but a friend who was producing advance copies of the LP on cassette mistakenly replaced "Tree" with "Free". [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 7/10 [7]
The Village Voice A− [8]

Michael Stipe named Telephone Free Landslide Victory one of his ten favorite albums of 1985 in a list he wrote for Rolling Stone . [9]

Track listing

Original 1985 version

Side one

  1. "Border Ska" – 2:50
  2. "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon" – 3:14
  3. "Wasted" – 1:59 (Greg Ginn, Keith Morris)
  4. "Yanqui Go Home" – 2:41
  5. "Oh No!" – 1:54
  6. "9 of Disks" – 2:36
  7. "Payed Vacation: Greece" – 1:52
  8. "Where the Hell Is Bill?" – 2:06
  9. "Vladivostok" – 2:22

Side two

  1. "Skinhead Stomp" – 1:48
  2. "Tina" – 1:37 (The Tokens)
  3. "Take the Skinheads Bowling" – 2:32
  4. "Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China" – 1:59
  5. "I Don't See You" – 2:23
  6. "Balalaika Gap" – 2:13
  7. "Opi Rides Again – Club Med Sucks" – 3:55
  8. "Ambiguity Song" – 2:29

2004 CD reissue

  1. "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon" – 3:14
  2. "Border Ska" – 2:56
  3. "Wasted" – 1:55
  4. "Yanqui Go Home" – 2:41
  5. "Oh No!" – 1:54
  6. "9 of Disks" – 2:36
  7. "Payed Vacation: Greece" – 1:52
  8. "Where the Hell Is Bill?" – 2:05
  9. "Wasting All Your Time" – 2:59
  10. "Epigram #5" – 0:09
  11. "At Kuda" – 2:14
  12. "Epigram #2" – 0:21
  13. "Cowboys From Hollywood (Original Version)" – 1:41
  14. "Colonel Enrique Adolfo Bermudez" – 2:09
  15. "Vladivostock" – 2:22
  16. "Skinhead Stomp" – 1:47
  17. "Tina" – 1:37
  18. "Take the Skinheads Bowling" – 2:32
  19. "Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China" – 1:59
  20. "I Don't See You" – 2:23
  21. "Balalaika Gap" – 2:13
  22. "Opi Rides Again" – 0:50
  23. "Club Med Sucks" – 3:05
  24. "Ambiguity Song" – 2:30
  25. "Heart (Remix)" – 3:07 (Hidden Track)

Personnel

Camper Van Beethoven

Charts

Chart (1986)Peak
position
UK Indie Chart [11] 30

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