| Vampire Can Mating Oven | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | Camper Van Beethoven |
| Cover: | Vampire Can Mating Oven.jpg |
| Released: | 1987 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock |
| Length: | 21:48 |
| Label: | Pitch-A-Tent |
| Producer: | Camper Van Beethoven, Wally Sound, Harry Parker[1] |
| Prev Title: | Camper Van Beethoven |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
Vampire Can Mating Oven is an EP of rarities and unreleased songs by the alternative rock band Camper Van Beethoven, released in 1987 in the US on their own Pitch-A-Tent Records label.[2] [3]
The EP includes satirical liner notes relating false stories behind the songs. "Photograph" and "Never Go Back" were taken from a BBC Radio One session recorded in March 1987 for the Janice Long show. A re-recorded version of "Never Go Back" was included the following year on the band's major label debut, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart.
The UK edition on Rough Trade Records featured an extra track on Side 1 - "Good Guys & Bad Guys" from their self-titled 1986 album Camper Van Beethoven.
Billboard called the EP "typically funny and provocative."[1] Trouser Press deemed it "enjoyable odds and ends," and praised the "jolly" cover of "Photograph".[4]