Set Yourself on Fire

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Set Yourself on Fire
Set Yourself on Fire cover
Studio album by Stars
Released September 14, 2004 (Canada)
March 8, 2005 (U.S.)
Recorded 2003–2004
Genre Indie pop, indie rock
Length 53:07
Label Arts & Crafts International
Producer Stars, Tom McFall
Professional reviews
Stars chronology
Heart
(2003)		 Set Yourself on Fire
(2004)		 Do You Trust Your Friends?
(2007)
Alternate cover
Cover of European and vinyl editions
Cover of European and vinyl editions

Set Yourself on Fire is the third album by Canadian indie rock band Stars. It was released in 2004 on the Arts & Crafts International record label in Canada and the United Kingdom, and in 2005 in the United States.

The album's most notable single was "Ageless Beauty", the band's breakthrough hit in Canada. "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" has also garnered significant play in the United States, featured on the soundtrack of The O.C.

In 2005 Set Yourself on Fire was a Juno Award nominee for Alternative Album of the Year [1]. It lost to the album Let It Die by Feist, who is an occasional band-mate of Stars' Amy Millan, Torquil Campbell, and Evan Cranley in the indie rock band Broken Social Scene.

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[edit] Cover art

The cover art varies from North America to Europe. The Canadian and U.S. releases have the same artwork. The European edition, along with the Canadian and U.S. vinyl version, have alternate cover art that suggests the atrocities at Abu Ghraib. The change in cover art could be attributed to the original art's similarity to Explosions in the Sky's The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place.


The Songs One More Night and Calendar Girl appeared in Season Four of One Tree Hill in episodes 2 and 3 respectively.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" – 4:08
  2. "Set Yourself on Fire" – 5:39
  3. "Ageless Beauty" – 4:05
  4. "Reunion" – 3:41
  5. "The Big Fight" – 5:22
  6. "What I'm Trying to Say" – 3:22
  7. "One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Remains Dead)" – 5:18
  8. "Sleep Tonight" – 2:44
  9. "The First Five Times" – 3:00
  10. "He Lied About Death" – 5:12
  11. "Celebration Guns" – 3:05
  12. "Soft Revolution" – 3:16
  13. "Calendar Girl" – 4:07

[edit] Certifications

Country Certification Sales/shipments
Canada Gold[1] 50,000

[edit] References

  1. ^ CRIA Gold & Platinum certifications for December 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
v • d • e
Stars
Torquil Campbell | Amy Millan | Evan Cranley | Chris Seligman | Pat McGee
Former members
Steve Ramsay | Emily Haines | James Shaw
Studio albums
Nightsongs (2001) | Heart (2002) | Set Yourself on Fire (2004) | In Our Bedroom after the War (2007)
Other albums
EPs
Singles
"The Stars Are Out Tonight" (2001) | "My Radio" (2003) | "Elevator Love Letter" (2003) | "Petite Mort" (2004) | "Ageless Beauty" (2004) | "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" (2005) | "It's Alchemy!" (2005) | "Take Me to the Riot" (2007)
Record labels
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