Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip

Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip is the debut studio album by the American band Jucifer.[2][3] It was released in 1998 through the independent label Crack Rock Records and then in 2000 after have signed to Capricorn Records label.[4] The album contains a mixture of metal, punk, hardcore, doom, sludge, alternative elements and scratch disk sound effects between track to track. This style wasn't explored by many bands in the late 1990s,[1] and was part of their sound during the 2000s, until the release of Throned in Blood in 2010.

Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip
Studio album by
Released1998
Recorded1995–1997
Genre
Length45:06
LabelCrack Rock (1998) Capricorn (2000)
Jucifer chronology
Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip
(1998)
I Name You Destroyer
(2002)

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [1]

Steve Huey for AllMusic said that the album overall "draws on the grungy noise of early alternative metal...and the loud, trashy sometimes industrial-tinged scuzz rock that preceded it."[1] Craig Regala for Lollipop Magazine called the album an "interesting combination of sludgy and grungy riffs smut backed by real straight-up, small-kit drumming and a focus on rough-cut songs."[5]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Jucifer

No.TitleLength
1."Code Escovedo"3:23
2."Long Live the King"2:16
3."Superman"3:03
4."Malibu"3:40
5."To the Plate"1:44
6."44: Dying in White"3:29
7."Nickel to Roll"3:04
8."Glamourspuss"2:05
9."A More Luminous Skin"3:01
10."Hero Worship"2:16
11."Rain and Pink Chiffon"4:49
12."Model Year Blowout"4:14
13."The Movement of Swallows"5:29
14."Japanese and Lovely"2:33

Personnel

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  • Amber Valentine – guitar, Vocals, organ, vibraphone
  • Edgar Livengood – drums, horns, violin, vocals

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Huey, Steve. "Jucifer - Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip". AllMusic.
  2. ^ Makin, Robert (20 January 2000). "Jucifer, 'Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip'". Courier News. p. E10.
  3. ^ Fox, Darrin (March 2000). "Jucifer". Guitar Player. Vol. 34, no. 3. pp. 47–48.
  4. ^ Perez, Omar (6 February 2003). "Sugar and sludge". Orlando Weekly.
  5. ^ Regala, Craig (1 April 2000). "Jucifer - Calling all Cars on the Vegas Strip Review". Lollipop Magazine.