Dance With Me

T.S.O.L. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 3, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Epitaph / Ada
• ASIN: B000001IRO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,867 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sounds of Laughter

2. Code Blue

3. The Triangle

4. 80 Times

5. I'm Tired of Life

6. Love Story

7. Silent Scream

8. Funeral March

9. Die for Me

10. Peace Through Power

11. Dance with Me

Editorial Reviews

Limited reissue on three different colors of vinyl. Nitro. 2007. --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great California Hardcore, December 6, 1999

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M. E. Leigh (Maryland/Washington DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dance With Me (Audio CD)

A must have for any punk rock! Probably the best hardcore record to come out of California. This is an '82-83 album, so it IS "old school" For those of us who were there, it was hard to find even then. The pace never slows down, and moves quickly from song to song. "Funeral March" sets the standard for this album, its impossible to sit still thru, definately not to drive with! Before you know it, the album is over and its time to listen to it again-you will never get sick of it.and there is no way you can listen to just one or two songs.Once you start, you must hear it all..Be glad its on CD so no flipping vinyl!. One of the top 10 punk rock albums ever made..along with Bad Brains and Bad Religion's "How Could Hell..". As a singer for a DC hardcore band I always wondered how this album came out of California at the same time the Dead Kennedys did! 16 years later and I still listen to this ALL THE TIME. BUY THIS NOW!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my top 5 favorite punk/hardcore albums, August 1, 2006

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Brewzerr "Brewzerr" (On the fault line, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dance With Me (Audio CD)

Sorry, but TSOL was never really a "Death Rock" or "Dark Punk" band. They did this album in that vein but it was just one phase of an evolution they took on. Christian Death were more of a true death-punk band, at least on their first album, but TSOL just dabbled with it for a brief period when this album was made.

The first EP was straight-up aggro beach hardcore with a political edge, but if you notice, Jack's in full death-rock mode on the cover of that one already. This album didn't sound that much different from the EP, except for a few tunes like "Silent Scream", I'm Tired", and "Dance With Me"... which were really just adding a little b-movie horror imagery to the hardcore stew, and of course there's the cover art. After this they did the amazing "Weathered Statues" EP, which was a perfect transition into the next LP, "Beneath The Shadows", which could be looked back on as possibly the very first psychedelic hardcore album. After that Jack split the scene and it went downhill into no original members and butt-rock for a while.

Bottom line: TSOL never recorded the same album twice, and that's why I've loved 'em for 20-odd years. I could have done without the cheese-metal period of the late 80's, but to me that was a different band using the TSOL name. This is my favorite proper TSOL album... always has been. The death rock schtick is fun and the aggro levels are high. I always come back to this one. Never gets old.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Deathcore Classic, May 31, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Dance With Me (Audio CD)

TSOL are tragically overlooked in the glut of early California punk bands. They never stayed with one style for long and some of their experiments just didn't work, but their best records are truly great. On the surface, this comes off as a california hardcore record in the tradition of the Adolescents, DI and Circle Jerks. All the characteristic youth, nihilism, and roughly melodic atonality are here. Closer inspection, however, reveals a starkly ambitious, gothic psychedelia struggling up through the primitive framework. Starting with the paranoia of 'Sounds of Laughter', through the necrophiliac 'Code Blue' and ending in the incantatory 'Dance with me', the whole record exudes a certain undead palor. They would pursue this sound even further on their next album, the equally brilliant (but much less 'punk') 'Beneath the Shadows', before sullying their names with mediocre glam metal. But this album still stands as a perfect middle ground between hardcore and death rock and should appeal to fans of the Misfits, 45 Grave and early Christian Death as well as classic california punk heads.