In 1985, the band reduced its name to Camper Van Beethoven, replaced West with Anthony Guess, and recorded their debut album, Telephone Free Landslide Victory . The record featured their first successful single, ” Take the Skinheads Bowling “, the lesser hit “The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon”, and an experimental country-influenced cover version of Black Flag’s “Wasted”. The album featured songs with humorous lyrics, often simultaneously celebrating and mocking 1980s counterculture, and instrumental tracks featuring ska-beats and Eastern European, Mexican or Spaghetti-Western influenced guitar or violin lines.
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