Editing Telephone Free Landslide Victory

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Telephone Free Landslide Victory
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Camper Van Beethoven]]
| cover      = Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = June 1985
| recorded   = January–February 1985
| venue      =
| studio     = Sámurai Sound, [[Davis, California]]
| genre      = [[Alternative rock]], [[jangle pop]]
| length     = 39:37
| label      = [[Independent Project Records|Independent Project]]
| producer   =
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[II & III]]
| next_year  = 1986
}}

'''''Telephone Free Landslide Victory''''' is an album by [[music]]al group [[Camper Van Beethoven]], released on [[Independent Project Records]] and released in June 1985.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Popoff|first=Martin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Telephone+Free+Landslide+Victory%22+november+1985&pg=PA2133|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide|date=2009|publisher=[[Penguin Publishing|Penguin]]|location=New York City|isbn=978-1-4402-2916-9|language=en}}</ref> It featured the band's best known song, "[[Take the Skinheads Bowling]]". The album has sold over 60,000 copies.<ref>{{cite news|first=Chris|last=Heim|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/11/10/count-on-more-surprises-from-camper-van-beethoven/ |title=Count On More Surprises From Camper Van Beethoven |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=November 10, 1989 |access-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref>

==About==
The band's lineup at the time of recording was [[David Lowery (musician)|David Lowery]] (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), [[Jonathan Segel]] (violin, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), Chris Molla (guitar, backing vocals), [[Victor Krummenacher]] (bass, backing vocals), and [[kevtone|Anthony Guess]] (drums).  The album is the only Camper Van Beethoven record not to feature guitarist [[Greg Lisher]].  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 "[[Take the Skinheads Bowling]]", the [[country music|countrified]] [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]] cover "Wasted", the [[hardcore punk|hardcore]] send-up "Club Med Sucks", "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon", "Ambiguity Song", and several of the instrumentals.

The band originally intended 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".<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Fricke |first1=David |author-link1=David Fricke|date=19 May 1988|title=Camper Van Beethoven's Notes from the Underground |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/camper-van-beethovens-notes-from-the-underground-82927/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=8 November 2018 }}</ref>

==Reception==
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{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/telephone-free-landslide-victory-mw0000652585 |title=''Telephone Free Landslide Victory'' – Camper Van Beethoven |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=March 17, 2010 |last=Raggett |first=Ned}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_2084.html |title=Camper Van Beethoven: ''Telephone Free Landslide Victory'' / ''II & III'' / ''Camper Van Beethoven'' / ''Camper Vantiquities'' |magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] |volume=3 |issue=4 |date=May 2004 |access-date=January 6, 2023 |last=Wolk |first=Douglas |author-link=Douglas Wolk |pages=141–142 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040509061406/http://www.blender.com/reviews/review_2084.html |archive-date=May 9, 2004 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Camper Van Beethoven |last=Considine |first=J. D. |author-link=J. D. Considine |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York City |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/132 132–133]}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev4score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Camper Van Beethoven |last=Wyman |first=Bill |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |title-link=Spin Alternative Record Guide |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor1-link=Eric Weisbard |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |publisher=[[Vintage Books]] |location=New York City |year=1995 |isbn=0-679-75574-8 |pages=71–72}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev5score = A−<ref>{{cite news |url=https://robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv4-86.php |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |date=April 1, 1986 |access-date=April 11, 2019 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
}}

[[Michael Stipe]] named ''Telephone Free Landslide Victory'' one of his ten favorite albums of 1985 in a list he wrote for ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetorock00roug |url-access=registration |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |last=Buckley |first=Peter |date=2003 |publisher=[[Rough Guides]] |isbn=9781858284576 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetorock00roug/page/n120 1987] |location=London, England|language=en}}</ref>

==Track listing==

===Original 1985 version===

====Side one====
# "Border Ska" – 2:50
# "The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon" – 3:14
# "Wasted" – 1:59 ([[Greg Ginn]], [[Keith Morris]])
# "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 ([[The Tokens]])
#"[[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 – 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==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Chart (1986)
! scope="col" | Peak<br />position
|-
| [[UK Indie Chart]]<ref>{{cite book |first=Barry |last=Lazell |url=http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/c.htm |title=Indie Hits 1980–1989 |publisher=Cherry Red Books |date=1997 |accessdate=September 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605132906/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/c.htm |archivedate=June 5, 2011 }}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|30
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Camper Van Beethoven albums]]
[[Category:Independent Projects albums]]
[[Category:1985 debut albums]]
[[Category:I.R.S. Records albums]]
[[Category:Jangle pop albums]]