Youth Is Wasted on the Young

The Twelve Caesars, Caesars | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 8, 1998)
• Original Release Date: December 8, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Minty Fresh
• ASIN: B00000FY84
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #343,022 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sort It Out

2. Let's Go Parking Baby

3. (I'm Gonna) Kick You Out

4. You're My Favourite

5. My Abduction Love

6. Optic Nerve

7. The Cannibals

8. Anything You Want

9. She's a Planet

10. Suzy Creamcheese

11. You Are My Favourite 2

12. You Don't Mean a Thing to Me

13. Out of My Hands

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Miss this at your own risk, January 11, 2003

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Douglas Cornell (Corunna, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Youth Is Wasted on the Young (Audio CD)

If you think the Hives are something special, then do yourself a favor and check out The Twelve Caesars. Like the Hives, the Caesars are from Sweden, and both bands infuse gobs of energy into the classic garage rock formula. But the Caesars go one better by incorporating infectious melodies into the 13 three minute gems on Youth Is Wasted On the Young. Oh, and if you've seen the SMIRNOFF ICE(tm) commercial - the one where the guys start a party in a laundromat - then you've heard The Twelve Caesars.

Youth starts out with a mild paring of acoustic guitar and piano, but seconds later the guitars are kicked up to eleven as the singer rants, "I wanna smoke crack/ 'cuz your never coming back/I wanna shoot speed balls/ bang my head against the wall/I wanna sniff glue /'cuz I can't get over you." I've played this album for my 18-year-old daughter Caitlin, and even though she's been riding the modern rock bandwagon, she asked me to burn her a copy because "that song ROCKS."

The fun continues with fast, melodic rockers like "Lets Go Parking Baby" and "I'm Gonna Kick You Out." The exuberant melodies and garage-style enthusiasm continues with the angry rant, "You're My Favorite." Yes, all these songs are of the boy-meets-girl variety, but here the boy isn't afraid to tell the girl that she's "always my second choice" and that she's "older than my mother." Try not to smile while listening to the chorus of "She's a planet." Good fun.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, January 8, 2006

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Sparky (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Youth Is Wasted on the Young (Audio CD)

Caesar's Palace, The Caesars, The Twelve Caesars - they're all the same group. They go by different names depending on location - Twelve Caesars in most of Scandinavia, The Caesars in North America, and Caesar's Palace in Sweden, most of europe, and the rest of the world.

They currently have five albums:
39 Minutes of Bliss (as The Caesars)
Paper Tigers (as The Caesars)
Youth Is Wasted On The Young (as The Twelve Caesars)
Cherry Kicks (as Caesar's Palace)
Love For The Streets (as Caesar's Palace)

I hope this helps clarify some things.

I give EVERY SINGLE ALBUM five out of five stars - great vocals, great leads, great base, great melodies, great everything. If you like rock, don't pass this up.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Snotty and Real, October 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Youth Is Wasted on the Young (Audio CD)

It's a shame that this band goes unnoticed. With all the nonsense on the airwaves thank God for Minty Fresh and their A&R people.