Vampire Can Mating Oven by Camper Van Beethoven

Vampire Can Mating Oven, a 1987 Camper Van Beethoven EP, came out on the band's own Pitch-A-Tent Records, and it's a clear-out of rarities and unreleased songs from a band who never met a genre they wouldn't throw in the blender. It's the band's usual stew of pop, ska, punk, folk and country, served with the deadpan iconoclasm and do-it-yourself spirit that made them so influential on the indie underground.

The sleeve is part of the joke: the liner notes spin made-up stories about where the songs came from. "Photograph" and "Never Go Back" were lifted from a BBC Radio One session cut in March 1987 for Janice Long's show, and "Never Go Back" came back re-recorded the following year on Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, their first record for a major label after signing to Virgin. "Seven Languages" was the track that made the countdowns. British buyers of the Rough Trade edition also got "Good Guys & Bad Guys" from the band's self-titled 1986 album.

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