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Tsar
Tsar
Tsar
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
 
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Los Angeles's Silverlake district (and its vaunted power-pop renaissance) had its turn in the spotlight as the 1990s closed, with Tsar among the big-label signings, even if the "scene" seemed to largely evaporate. To their...  more »

     
   
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All Artists: Tsar
Title: Tsar
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Hollywood Records
Original Release Date: 7/25/2000
Release Date: 7/25/2000
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
Styles: Hardcore & Punk, Hard Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 720616222329, 720616222343

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Los Angeles's Silverlake district (and its vaunted power-pop renaissance) had its turn in the spotlight as the 1990s closed, with Tsar among the big-label signings, even if the "scene" seemed to largely evaporate. To their credit, this band of ex-Santa Barbara college misfits take their pop calling with an effervescent urgency--and a glammy/bubblegum sass that wears its Starwood '78-era pedigree proudly. Tsar may deliver a quotient of hooks, harmonies, and screaming, as well as mercifully efficient fret fireworks worthy of early Cheap Trick, but that's hardly the least of their Velvet Goldmine-era fetishism. Opening with the potent one-two punch of "Calling All Destroyers" and "I Don't Wanna Break Up," the 10 tracks here bound breathlessly from one anthemic, bigger-than-life pop conceit to the next with joyful abandon.. Jeff Whalen's sweet, infectious vocals belie the songs' wry, acerbic wit, fairly daring listeners to join in their often loopy sing-along choruses. Shoe-gazers beware--there's nary a dirge in sight. --Jerry McCulley

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Scott C. (scotso) from EAST ISLIP, NY
Reviewed on 3/7/2009...
this is a very underrated cd. ITs worth it for the Oasis sounding "Girl who wouldn't Die"!!

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Kind of like a soft banana
Tod Brilliant | healdsburg, ca USA | 08/17/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."
Shimmery Rock Saves the Future
K. Layne | The Desert | 07/26/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."