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al group

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, released on Independent Project Records and released in June 1985. It featured the band's best known song, "

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". The album has sold over 60,000 copies.

About

The band's lineup at the time of recording was David Lowery (lead vocals, rhythm guitar),

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(violin, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), Chris Molla (guitar, backing vocals), Victor Krummenacher (bass, backing vocals), and

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(drums). The album is the only Camper Van Beethoven record not to feature guitarist

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. 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 "

", the countrified Black Flag cover "Wasted", the

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send-up "Club Med Sucks", "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon", "Ambiguity Song", and several of the instrumentals. The band originally intended for 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".

Reception

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named ''Telephone Free Landslide Victory'' one of his ten favorite albums of 1985 in a list he wrote for ''

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Track listing

Original 1985 version

Side one

# "Border Ska" - 2:50 # "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon" - 3:14 # "Wasted" - 1:59 (

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) # "Yanqui Go Home" - 2:41 # "Oh No!" - 1:54 # "9 of Disks" - 2:36 # "Payed Vacation: Greece" - 1:52 # "Where The Hell is Bill?" - 2:06 # "Vladivostok" - 2:22

Side two

#"Skinhead Stomp" - 1:48 #"Tina" - 1:37 #"

Take The Skinheads Bowling "Take the Skinheads Bowling" is the signature song of Santa Cruz, California alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven, written by David Lowery and released on their 1985 album '' Telephone Free Landslide Victory''. The song (as covered by the ...

" - 2:32 #"Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China" - 1:59 #"I Don't See You" - 2:23 #"Balalaika Gap" - 2:13 #"Opi Rides Again - Club Med Sucks" - 3:55 #"Ambiguity Song" - 2:29

2004 CD reissue

#"The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon" - 3:14 #"Border Ska" - 2:56 #"Wasted" - 1:55 #"Yanqui Go Home" - 2:41 #"Oh No!" - 1:54 #"9 of Disks" - 2:36 #"Payed Vacation: Greece" - 1:52 #"Where The Hell is Bill?" - 2:05 #"Wasting All Your Time" - 2:59 #"Epigram #5" - 0:09 #"At Kuda" - 2:14 #"Epigram #2" - 0:21 #"Cowboys From Hollywood (Original Version)" - 1:41 #"Colonel Enrique Adolfo Bermudez" - 2:09 #"Vladivostock" - 2:22 #"Skinhead Stomp" - 1:47 #"Tina" - 1:37 #"Take The Skinheads Bowling" - 2:32 #"Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China" - 1:59 #"I Don't See You" - 2:23 #"Balalaika Gap" - 2:13 #"Opi Rides Again" - 0:50 #"Club Med Sucks" - 3:05 #"Ambiguity Song" - 2:30 #"Heart (Remix)" - 3:07 (Hidden Track) *Track 9 is a previously unreleased studio outtake. *Tracks 10-14 originally released on the ''Take the Skinheads Bowling'' EP.

Personnel

;Camper Van Beethoven * David Lowery - lead vocals, guitars, drums * Jonathan Segel - violin, backing vocals, keyboards, mandolin, noises * Chris Molla - guitars, backing vocals, drums * Victor Krummenacher - bass, backing vocals * Anthony Guess - drums

Charts

References

{{Authority control Camper Van Beethoven albums Independent Projects albums 1985 debut albums I.R.S. Records albums Jangle pop albums