Like You Like an Arsonist

Paris Texas (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Watertower Music
• ASIN: B00023B1EY
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #370,680 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the wait!, July 16, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Like You Like an Arsonist (Audio CD)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Light up!, August 2, 2006

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Luke Rounda "ThreeStarSmash.com" (Lawrence, KS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Like You Like an Arsonist (Audio CD)

"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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great album, December 21, 2004

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Silvertone (MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Like You Like an Arsonist (Audio CD)

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.