AllMusic: You Can Still Rock In America CD Review
By Karen E. Graves
The 13 tracks on A Planet for Texas' 2000 debut LP bring to mind everything that is great and fun about rock & roll: big riffs, kick-ass attitude, humor, and silly stage names (the best being "Reasonable Steve Texas"). Plus, they have their own theme song, the appropriately titled "Theme From a Planet for Texas." When done properly, theme songs are one of the coolest things a rock & roll band can do, and APFT does it well.
Mean, gritty vocals and equally vicious riffage on tracks like "Amphetamine" and "Big Cornbred Sonovabitch" call to mind Motörhead/Lemmy (on "Crop Rotation" APFT pulls a sample from Airheads, a movie which, in a different scene, declares Lemmy is God). While the boys have a firm handle on tough-guy posturing and mile-a-minute tongue-twisting punk anthems, it is their ability to write an inescapable hook and vocal melody that really sets them apart from their punk rock comrades.
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