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n. One who or that which paralyzes
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"Paralyzer" is the first single from Canadian rock band Finger Eleven's fifth album, Them vs. You vs. Me. It was released in March 2007. Finger Eleven's frontman Scott Anderson has said that the single has a feel distinct from the rest of Finger Eleven's music, possessing more of a funk rock or dance-rock sound. However, the song has also been characterized as alternative rock.
The song received high airplay in both the United States and Canada, and was performed live on the March 14, 2007 episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and again ten months later on January 9, 2008, in a testament to the longevity of the single's success. The song has surpassed " One Thing" to be Finger Eleven's most successful single.
The single has three versions. One is the original CD version, while the other two are radio edit versions, in which the line containing the word " shitty" is either censored or replaced with shady. The song alludes to the band's prior hit " One Thing" with the lyric "I should just stay home, if one thing really means one"; in addition, the recurring guitar riff quotes The Cars' " Moving in Stereo."
The style of the song has been compared to (though inspired by) " Take Me Out", a 2004 single by indie rock band Franz Ferdinand. Finger Eleven occasionally performed "Take Me Out" during the middle of Paralyzer in live performances as a part of a medley along with " Trampled Under Foot" by Led Zeppelin and " Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" by Pink Floyd.
The song is played during the New York Islanders warm-ups at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. It has been featured on the television series Gossip Girl and Greek. It is also a playable song in the rhythm game Rock Revolution by Konami; although the game's producers have stated that all songs will be covers, the song is one of two for which the game uses the original master recording (the other being " Given Up" by Linkin Park). The song is also a playable song in the rhythm game Band Hero by Activision. This song is even on the Rock Band Network, and was recently introduced as DLC into Rocksmith by Ubisoft.
Paralyzer or paralyser may also refer to:
Usage examples of "paralyzer".
He aimed his paralyzer at the men around the altar and squeezed the button, swinging it from one to another and knocking them down with a bludgeon of inaudible sound.
Most of them carried ultrasonic paralyzers, eighteen-inch batonlike things with bulbous ends.
A good many were trampled and hurt in the rush to escape, and it became necessary to use paralyzers to clear a way.
Immediately, the ultrasonic paralyzers of the advancing paratimers went into action, and the mercenaries began dropping.
A couple of policemen in green uniforms, with ultrasonic paralyzers dangling by thongs from their left wrists and bolstered sigma-ray needlers like the one on the desk inside the dome, were kidding with some girls in vivid orange and scarlet and green smocks.
The policemen grasped their paralyzers, drew their needlers, and hurried into the dome.
It had no effect whatever on any material structure and could be used inside an activated conveyer without deranging the conductor-mesh, as, say, a bullet or the vibration of an ultra-sonic paralyzer would do, and it was instantly fatal to anything having a central nervous system.
For the ambush of Nebu-hin-Abenoz's gang and the capture of the conveyer, use anything you want to—sleep-gas, paralyzers, energy-weapons, antigrav-equipment, anything.
Lying naked on a bed, his hands and feet locked in steel paralyzers, was a situation that--under different circumstances-might have afforded Raoul a certain amount of pleasure.
He had, in fact, been given a meal, watched over by an extremely ugly man, who had removed the paralyzers long enough to permit Raoul to spoon down something that seemed to be an excuse for soup.
Accepting this with philosophical indifference, the ugly man had replaced the paralyzers, taken the food, and left the room, sealing the door shut behind him.
Crossing the room to the bed, he removed the paralyzers that bound Raoul's ankles and wrists.
If they showed hostilityand they could scarcely be blamed if they didthe paralyzers would be used at once.