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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Caesars |
| Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:23:42 -0500 |
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> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:17:51 -0500
> From: "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Caesars (Re: 80s reissues)
> Message-ID: <Law14-F25I1zABdoeWc00006a3e@hotmail.com>
>
> I looked at the track listing of this today -- the bulk of the album was
> recorded in 1998, and came out on Minty Fresh when the band was called (in
>
> the U.S.) Twelve Caesars. They've put out two full LPs since then in
> Sweden, under their actual name, Caesar's Palace, which I still need to
> get
> (still have the links kindly sent to me off-list by fellow Auditeers).
>
> New or not so new, Stewart has captured a lot of what makes their music so
>
> friggin' cool.
>
That Twelve Caesars release from '98, *Youth is Wasted on the
Young*, has never strayed far from my stereo in the five years that I've
owned it. And as cool as "I'm Gonna Kick You Out" is (Smirnoff commercial or
not), the two best songs on the album are the first two: "Sort It Out" and
"Let's Go Parking, Baby". "Sort It Out" was my favorite song of '98.
I've continually wondered what had happened to them since '98, as
none of my Swedish friends have ever heard of the Twelve Caesars (apart from
being the title of Suetonius's biography of the early Roman emperors, of
course). It never occurred to me that the band might be operating under a
different handle back home in Mother Svea. I'm guessing that there are
copyright issues involved in using the name "Caesar's Palace" here in the
States.
Too bad, as I had already thought up the perfect name for the second
Twelve Caesars album:
II. Sid
Gregory Sager
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