Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
by Camper Van Beethoven
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 May 1988
- Label: Virgin
- Country: United States
- Length: 42:01
- Community rating: 3.9/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Greg Lisher, Jonathan Segel, C. "Dixie" Kupps, Victor Krummenacher, Katl B. Traler, Dave Costanza
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart' refines the band's eclectic, world-music-infused alternative rock into a more focused, melodic indie pop format. The major-label debut heavily utilizes violins and varied folk instrumentation to craft smart, highly textured, and rhythmically engaging songs.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, genre-blending, political, satirical, leftfield
Tracklist
- Eye Of Fatima - Pt. 1 (2:37)
- Eye Of Fatima - Pt. 2 (2:16)
- O Death (3:06)
- She Divines Water (3:52)
- Devil Song (1:58)
- One Of These Days (3:27)
- Turquoise Jewelry (3:07)
- Waka (2:45)
- Change Your Mind (3:03)
- My Path Belated (2:34)
- Never Go Back (3:25)
- The Fool (2:36)
- Tania (3:47)
- Life Is Grand (3:21)
Credits
- Camper Van Beethoven - primary artist, written-by, arranged by [arr.]
- Victor Krummenacher - bass
- Bruce Licher - design
- Chris Pedersen - drums [wood-tone]
- Dennis Herring - engineer, mixed by, producer
- John Beverly Jones - engineer, mixed by
- Milo - engineer [2nd at dustbowl]
- Claudio Ordenes - engineer [2nd at ground control]
- Joe Schiff - engineer [2nd at ocean way]
- Daryl Koutnik - engineer [2nd at smoketree]
- Edward Preciado - engineer [2nd at smoketree]
- Jim Dineen - engineer [2nd at the grey room]
- Greg Lisher - guitar
- David Lowery - guitar [black], vocals [the vox]
- Hammer Smith - harmonica [bitchin']
- C. "Dixie" Kupps - harmonica, sampler [sampling], bells
- David Snow - management
- Jackson Haring - management
- Doug Sax - mastered by, mastering
- Edie Winograde - photography by [photos]
- Melanie Nissen - photography by [photos]
- Jonathan Segel - strings, keyboards [casio], mandolin, mandolin [citern], guitar [red], piano
- Katl B. Traler - trombone
- Dave Costanza - trumpet
- Davey Faragher - vocals [4wd vox]
- Traditional - written-by
- Csaba Petocz - mixed by