Search - Caesars :: 39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World)

Heated garages in Sweden?

William E. Pierce IV | Mount Laurel, NJ USA | 02/13/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"OK...as someone who hungrily bought almost every new garage band single as it got airplay on WIBG in Philly during the 60's, I can say that The Caesars' music is just as exciting as those "hits" were way back when AM radio and transistor radios were all the rage. In the tradition of The Standells, The Hondells, The Trashmen, The Blues Magoos, The Knickerbockers, Bobby Fuller Four, The Nazz, and on an on, these guys have the raw energy, the infectious beats, the Farfisa, the pretensions of psychedelia -- everything they need to make an eminently popular POP tune. The difference between this collection vs. the 60's bands -- this "greatest hits" compilation has a good number of 60's-era-style hits. So you've heard it all before? Sure. But that hasn't stopped you from buying The Hives, The Vines, The Strokes, White Stripes, Inspiral Carpets, Jet, The Black Crows, Early Elvis Costello -- or, if you think about it, almost any other band's CD over the past 40 years. Everyone borrows from everyone. Yet, the music is still fun! Go buy it!"

Great

Sparky | Washington, D.C. | 01/08/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."

Hail, Hail!

Gianmarco Manzione | Tampa, FL USA | 04/16/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"How embarrasing! I had to catch a whiff of this band's existence from a frickin' iPod commercial! But there's something about these monstrous grooves and riffs that makes it easy to swallow my pride and dig in. Merely to label these guys a 60s retro act is, I think, a dismissive and narrow-minded appraisal of an album that explores much wider terrain. Beyond a few tricks on the organ that evoke the genius of Alan Price (the great organ player for the great Animals) and some blistering rockers that recall a young Dave Davies slashing his amps to find a sound that mattered, Caesars revise rather than revisit the influences they honor. No 60s band made rockers that punched as hard as "I'm Gonna Kick You out" or "You Don't Mean A Thing To Me," and the album's appealingly lo-fi production helps the material come alive in a way that makes rock 'n' roll sound new all over again. Of course the iPod hit "Jerk It Out" packs more fun into three minutes than most people have in a lifetime, but the festivities only begin there, trundling through the at once gorgeous and fierce "Only You" and the surprisingly atmospheric and melancholy "Since You Been Gone." There's a lot more to these guys than the era that made them possible, and I eagerly await the release of their new album on April 26.



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