Rarely Heard: Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

Camper Van Beethoven is something like the ultimate alternative rock band before the term was invented. They are so much so that they are just as well hated as loved for sticking to their otherness. Not simply a rock group but not anything else, they pulled off a series of entertaining fusions: Eastern European folk, tropical grooves, post-punk atmospherics, country laid-back good times, psych/garage band aesthetics, lyrics about Mao, Greece, and more.