Like You Like an Arsonist

Like You Like an Arsonist Artist: Paris Texas
Label: New Line Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 794043903021
EAN: 0794043903021
ASIN: B00023B1EY


Release Date: 2004-07-13

Like You Like an Arsonist


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Tracks:

  1. Bombs Away
  2. Action Fans! Help Us!
  3. Like You Like An Arsonist
  4. Rebel Radio
  5. White Eyes
  6. Your Death
  7. Strike My Heart
  8. One Hot Coma
  9. Hip Replacement
  10. Better Off For Being Worse
  11. Gemini

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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. <I>--Aidin Vaziri</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Awesome disk, great songs!.......2007-02-09

Imagine if the musicians of Rush came of age in the 90's and listened to U2, Van Halen, and a steady diet of Punk & Grunge- oh without the Ayn Rand references and the castrato voice- this is the band you would have. They are like Bob Mould's Sugar on steroids. Bombs Away, Arsonist, and Hip Replacement are still in heavy rotation on my I-pod. It's all killer, no filler. The musicianship, song writing, & vocals are excellent.

4 out of 5 stars Light up!.......2006-08-03

"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.

5 out of 5 stars long live sour mouth.......2006-04-08

great album. great band. scott is the shiznit. he should hook up with klueless though and make some great music.

5 out of 5 stars Buy this.......2005-01-04

I had NO idea who this band was until i heard the song "bombs away" on the Blade: Trinity soundtrack, so i bought this album, it is amazing, buy it now

5 out of 5 stars This is a great album.......2004-12-22

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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