Tyrants in Therapy

about

The Tyrants formed after a chance meeting by Michael J and Abbe Kanter in a Hollywood acting class. The tyranny began in local punk and new wave clubs with songs like “3 People Nude Below the Waist” and "In the Shadow of Hitler." But in 1986, they released "Too Tuff to Cry," an ultra sincere disco track that blew up into a club smash from East L.A. to Mexico City. TIT still was still unsatisfied. "We had evolved beyond Dance into strange new territory…even for us," says AbbeAbbe, the female Tyrant. "After shows, fans were asking where they could buy our new stuff, so it seemed natural to form a label and release a full length disc." They named the label Emotional Coathanger Records, and their new songs morphed into something they dubbed "Punk Cabaret," a freewheeling style that gives full rein to the Tyrants' multiple personalities. A slew of originals included the glistening “Om Shanti Om,” written with Trans-X's Pascal “Living on Video” Languirand, “Down In Flames Together,” the epic “Twisted Life, “and the fashionista cool of “Sex Is Back.” TIT also covered some of the songs they loved growing up. They had fun deconstructing Serge Gainsbourg's heavy breathing classic “Je T'aime (Moi Non Plus),“ bending the gender in Arthur Alexander's “Anna,” and Rolfing Slade's skinhead anthem “Them Kinda Monkeys Can't Swing” into a Rocky Horror Show romp. To help out on the disc, the Tyrants corralled a crew of talented session aces including Bobby Robles and Romeo Prado (Thee Mid

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albums

Meet The Tyrants in Therapy

The Original 12" Extended Club Mixes! Dance With the Tyrants, Vol. 2

Dance with the Tyrants - Classic Dance Hits, Vol. 1

Dance the Night Away (The Original 12" DJ Mixes)

High Class Trash

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Party-Keller Vol.1

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ABC...Euro-Italo-Disco vol.010

Om Shanti Om

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partykeller

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Party Keller Vol. 1

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Party-Keller Vol. 1

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