Tsar

Tsar | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hollywood Records
• ASIN: B00004TGWN
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,313 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shimmery Rock Saves the Future, July 25, 2000

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K. Layne (The Desert) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tsar (Audio CD)

Just when you thought rock didn't matter at all ... Hail Tsar, the outrageous LA punk-pop-rock band that makes you want to throw bricks through the police station windows and pound a hole in the dashboard. After more than a year of thrilling Hollywood, the band's debut LP is better than we could have imagined. Beautiful, savage songs, thick with hooks and searing guitars, locomotive bass and staggering drums. It sounds like a combination of Clash anthems, Ziggy Stardust scuz, Replacements' hope, Nirvana violence, T.Rex groove, ELO pop, Guns n Roses' swagger ... all processed and infected by some sort of Martian revolutionaries in 2057 and beamed back to a beach party that turns freakish, lasers and sirens and tidal waves and teen girls dancing around a bonfire of $100 bills. "Gurl Who Wouldn't Die" is the secret weapon, a final track of lush broken lust that will be the slow-dance prom song of 2001. Everything that comes before is huge, loud, from another time. This record will start 10,000 rock bands.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kind of like a soft banana, August 17, 2000

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Tod Brilliant (healdsburg, ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tsar (Audio CD)

I like Tsar because they make me wanna smile. I can't smile cuz my teeth are all cracked and fuzzy.

I like Tsar because their rock makes me tap my feet. The bottoms of my feet are all cracked and fuzzy, too - crank is a rough and tumble mistress!

I like Tsar cuz Danny-boy Kern is from Chico and it's about time a GREAT band (besides Deathstar, of course) emerged from the musical wasteland that is Chico, California.

I like Tsar becuz they rhyme with gee-tar. And that's just damned neat.

I like Tsar because they sing "la-la-la-la-la-la-la-LA" and bands don't do that much anymore.

I like Tsar because they have more noodles in their songs than I have (uncracked) teeth.

I like Tsar cuz when I listen to 'The Girl Who Wouldn't Die' it reminds me of playing the Journey game on my Atari when I was wee.

I like Tsar just because I like Tsar so there you ninnypants.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INSIDE THE BOY BRAIN! =) Loving the Tsar, July 29, 2000

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Christina Casey (Silverlake, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tsar (Audio CD)

Tsar! Buy it and listen. Return to rock. Listen to the symphonies of So CAL beaches, occult choirs, starry mirages of tangled constellations, the harps of a few boys crazed imaginations. These leaders/saviors of Post-modern Youth, both innocent and raging, re-pave and break apart the crashing plains of their very own Creations, tumultuous worlds! Of chaos and life! God and Satan at battle in a disc of colors spinning just above the head! Without this album many bands to come would not be allowed to explore the forgotten pathologies of a larger people, a pathology of love enforcement, grace through destruction, hypnotic surges, monstrosity and technology. The fantasies these boys cultivate DO INDEED contain that mysterious power which is precisely FREEDOM'S, GOD'S and AMERICA'S - a mysterious power which gives THE KIDS a new direction, a light and a sound forever exciting to the flesh of the heart. (! )