Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip
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{{Infobox album|
| name = Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip
| type = studio
| artist = Jucifer
| cover = Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1998
| recorded = 1995–1997
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = *Sludge metal
| length = 45:06
| label = Crack Rock (1998) Capricorn (2000)
| producer =
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = I Name You Destroyer
| next_year = 2002
}}
Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip is the debut studio album by the American band Jucifer.{{cite news |last1=Makin |first1=Robert |title=Jucifer, 'Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip' |work=Courier News |date=20 Jan 2000 |page=E10}}{{cite magazine |last1=Fox |first1=Darrin |title=Jucifer |magazine=Guitar Player |date=Mar 2000 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=47–48}} It was released in 1998 through the independent label Crack Rock Records and then in 2000 after have signed to Capricorn Records label.{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandoweekly.com/music/sugar-and-sludge-2258508|last=Perez|first=Omar|title=Sugar and sludge|website=Orlando Weekly|date=2003-02-06}} 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, and was part of their sound during the 2000s, until the release of Throned in Blood in 2010.
Critical reception
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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." 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."{{cite web|url=https://lollipopmagazine.com/2000/04/jucifer-calling-all-cars-on-the-vegas-strip-review/|last=Regala|first=Craig|title=Jucifer - Calling all Cars on the Vegas Strip Review|website=Lollipop Magazine|date=2000-04-01}}
Track listing
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| all_writing = Jucifer
| title1 = Code Escovedo
| length1 = 3:23
| title2 = Long Live the King
| length2 = 2:16
| title3 = Superman
| length3 = 3:03
| title4 = Malibu
| length4 = 3:40
| title5 = To the Plate
| length5 = 1:44
| title6 = 44: Dying in White
| length6 = 3:29
| title7 = Nickel to Roll
| length7 = 3:04
| title8 = Glamourspuss
| length8 = 2:05
| title9 = A More Luminous Skin
| length9 = 3:01
| title10 = Hero Worship
| length10 = 2:16
| title11 = Rain and Pink Chiffon
| length11 = 4:49
| title12 = Model Year Blowout
| length12 = 4:14
| title13 = The Movement of Swallows
| length13 = 5:29
| title14 = Japanese and Lovely
| length14 = 2:33
}}
Personnel
- Amber Valentine – guitar, Vocals, organ, vibraphone
- Edgar Livengood – drums, horns, violin, vocals