Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart

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Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Studio album by Camper Van Beethoven
Released	May 24, 1988
Recorded	Summer/Fall 1987
Genre	Alternative
Length	41:53
Label	Virgin
Producer	Dennis Herring
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Camper Van Beethoven chronology
Vampire Can Mating Oven (1987) Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (1988) Key Lime Pie (1989)

Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart is a 1988 album by Camper Van Beethoven, released on Virgin Records. It was the band's first major-label album, and was produced by Dennis Herring, the first time the band had used an outside producer.

The lineup on the album included David Lowery on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Jonathan Segel on violin, mandolin, keyboards, guitar and backing vocals, Victor Krummenacher on bass and backing vocals, Greg Lisher on lead guitar, and Chris Pedersen on drums. It was the first Camper Van Beethoven album not to feature founding guitarist/drummer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Molla.

The album featured the band's trademark eclectic mix of musics, including folk, ska, Eastern European music, Americana, psychedelic rock, and Middle-Eastern music. Despite this, it has a considerably smoother and more mainstream sound than the band's previous, more garage-rock oriented albums, largely due to Herring's production. The more mainstream sound was criticized by some fans on the album's release. However, the album has stood the test of time, and in retrospect has become their most critically acclaimed work. The reunited Camper Van Beethoven features a number of tracks from the album in its setlists, including most of the first side, as well as Waka, Tania, and Life is Grand from the second side.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Eye of Fatima (Part One)"
2. "Eye of Fatima (Part Two)"
3. "O Death"
4. "She Divines Water"
5. "Devil Song"
6. "One of These Days"
7. "Turquoise Jewelry"
8. "Waka"
9. "Change Your Mind"
10. "My Path Belated"
11. "Never Go Back"
12. "The Fool"
13. "Tania"
14. "Life Is Grand"