Cover: 5 Pot Leaves out of 10.
I don't know what this is. I think it's a take off of the movie "To Mock A Killingbird" but I'm not sure. Probably one of the reasons they didn't sell more copies. The back on the CD has the band all wearing pig masks, something Nikki Sixx would borrow for "Generation Swine."

Booklet: 6 Pot Leaves out of 10.
The background for the booklet is all pot leaves. It has lyrics and some artsy photos of each band member in water. They are also pictued on the back on the CD wearing animal masks, including a pig mask, which is something Motley Crue would borrow 5 years later.

Songs: 7 Pot Leaves out of 10.
This was produced by Tom Werman who pretty much produced all the played out hair bands. Pariah actually had some good songwriting and some depth. I listened to this CD recently and it's pretty good, just a day late and a dollar short. There aren't even any power ballads on the CD, but they do have some slow, darker songs like "Letter To Myself." The song "Powerless" is heavy song with distorted vocals and "Anesthesia" is about pot. If I was Tom Mathers, I would say their sound is "Dangerous Toys meets Skid Row style."

Comments: These guys were around for quite a while before they got a big deal on Geffen, but by the time their album came out in 1992 it was about 2 years too late and nobody cared. When the scene changed, Pariah should have been able to survive, but unfortunately they didn't. The bass player, Sims Ellison, commited suicide in 1995. (Note: Sims' girlfriend was a local girl named Renee Zellweger who went on to become the Hollywood actress) His brother Kyle, who played guitar, and the drummer Shandon Sahm ended up in the Meat Puppets.