“Do not eat or drink anything past midnight prior to your appointment- NO FOOD, NO LIQUID”. Non-sensical, un-user friendly, at times half finished. Camper Van Beethoven’s second album II & III saw the folk-punk of the band’s debut LP morphing into an even wider melting pot of stylistic influences and (un)ironic contradictions, all rolled up into a coherently incoherent collection of some of the band’s most defining songs. Originally released in 1986, the follow up to Telephone Free Landslide Victory did much to develop an already iconoclastic Camper Van Beethoven idiom.

II & III ranges from alt-country ballads (“Sad Lovers’ Waltz”) to call-backs to the European folk instrumentals of the debut (“No Krugerrands For David”, “4 Year Plan”). Also featured is the band’s bluegrass-Americana take on Sonic Youth’s “I Love Her All the Time”, feeding their appetite for cover songs.

This Limited Edition Teal Vinyl Reissue features a newly revisited collage version of the artwork plus a reproduced 11”x11” insert designed by Victor Krummenacher using original photos, lithograph prints, lyrics and leaflets.

A1. Abundance
A2. Cowboys From Hollywood
A3. Sad Lovers' Waltz
A4. Turtlehead
A5. I Love Her All The Time
A6. No Flies On Us
A7. Down And Out
A8. No Krugerrands For David
A9. (Don't You Go To) Goleta
A10. 4 Year Plan
B1. (We're A) Bad Trip
B2. Circles
B3. Dustpan
B4. Sometimes
B5. Chain Of Circumstance
B6. ZZ-Top Goes To Egypt
B7. Cattle (Reversed)
B8. Form Another Stone
B9. No More Bullshit