Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Paris Texas Title: Like You Like an Arsonist Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Watertower Music Release Date: 7/13/2004 Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 794043903021 |
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 | Paris Texas Like You Like an Arsonist Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
This Wisconsin band may still be scrambling to find its own identity, but that only adds to the excitement on its third full-length release. Part of the appeal is playing guess the influences: Are those big, sloppy melodie... more » |
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Amazon.com This Wisconsin band may still be scrambling to find its own identity, but that only adds to the excitement on its third full-length release. Part of the appeal is playing guess the influences: Are those big, sloppy melodies a nod to the Foo Fighters? Is singer Scott Sherpe mimicking Morrissey with his inscrutable wails? Are the jagged guitar riffs aping At The Drive-In--or is it Van Halen? Whatever is happening, Paris, Texas shakes off its emo tag with such conviction on firebrand rock songs like "Rebel Radio" and "Hip Replacement" that speculation soon gives way to the much more gratifying act of head-banging. --Aidin Vaziri Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsWorth the wait! 07/17/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "At long last the return of the most energetic and original rock band around. Scott Sherpe is the most compelling frontman since Diamond Dave. Obviously, PTX have spent the last few years polishing their sound and it has completely paid off...check out "Bombs Away" and "One Hot Coma" and prepared to be floored." Light up! Luke Rounda | Lawrence, KS | 08/03/2006 (4 out of 5 stars) ""Like You Like An Arsonist" is like a Hollywood drama, full of one liners surrounded by explosions. Lines like the chorus of "One Hot Coma" ("I want to live in one hot coma, so I can spend all my days and nights in bed with you") pretty well describe the collision course Paris, Texas leads on this record, taking the soft, poetic introspection of singer-songwriters and pouring gasoline and testosterone all over it. The result is a grungy pop record that's extremely difficult to nail down into any one category except "hard rock," and in my book, that's a sign of a great hard rock record. The last band with this kind of grasp of rhythmic shifts and an undeniable underground appeal was Quicksand, but they couldn't be called contemporaries. You wouldn't find reverse guitar opening a Quicksand record, for instance, but "Bombs Away" blossoms from a reverse guitar line into an '80s style cricket dance symphony of guitar and finally into a thudding, bombastic singalong. "Like You Like An Arsonist" is first and foremost about the guitar, but Scott Sherpe is possessed of the vocal tract to complete Paris, Texas's signature sound. His swagger on tunes like "Action Fans Help Us" and the driving-on-drugs heart-thumper "White Eyes" makes these songs something out of the ordinary; rock posturing is easy, but posturing in an original way isn't. Sherpe has a voice and he knows how to use it. One can easily hear influence from the past three decades of music acting on all the musicians in this band, united under the umbrella of energized rock 'n' roll and saying something new in a language the popular culture can still understand. Lyrically, you just can't beat metaphors like "I feel like an arsonist, because you are my perfect match, and you light up everything around you," which help this band marry danger and infatuation in a way that hasn't been heard since Foreigner and the '70s. Sure, there are other bands around trying to pay homage to this sordid musical time period, but before you get left in The Darkness, take a trip to Paris, Texas, where decades collide." This is a great album Silvertone | MA | 12/21/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "Every song is excellent and distinct from the others. No lame ballads! I love to crank this disk at the gym. A solid rock disk.
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