![]() Camper Van Beethoven wanted to be a Ukranian folk band, or at least be the surf-punk equivalent of a Ukrainian folk band. ![]() Most rock bands wanted to be The Beatles or Velvet Underground. (I’m keeping that sentence just to remind me why I don’t like writing band biographies-i.e., because I suck at them.) While MTV and mainstream radio were selling a message of Reagan-era prosperity and capitalist hedonism, the pirate radio broadcasts of Camper Van Beethoven, Pixies, Flaming Lips et al were reveling in the surreality of the current zeitgeist. The “alternative indie” bands of the eighties were an oasis in a dry wasteland of dance pop, hair metal and whatever Phil Collins was working on at the time. One of the coolest alternative-rock bands of the 80s, back when the label “alternative rock” actually meant something.
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