Telephone Free Landslide Victory - Camper Van Beethoven (1985)

Not sure why I picked the first, fairly uneven CVB album, except that their two undisputed classics are mostly unavailable on Spotify because some record company contract that nobody remembers still thinks they can make more money if i can’t play Eye Of Fatima on Spotify

The band hadn’t really decided on a sound yet. You get some goofy off-kilter Devo-style absurdist rock, some psych country, some college-kid ska, something that wants to sound like Jonathan Richman, some janglepop, and even some latin flavor.

All that, plus Take The Skinheads Bowling, one of the band’s signature songs and one of their best.