User:AndrewAntle/Won't You Dance With This Man?

We Are the Romans was the seminal third album by Botch, and was released in a digipak in the US. It was released by Hydra Head Records on January 1, 2000, and subsequently re-released on September 11, 2007.

"C. Thomas Howell as the 'Soul Man'" has been described by the band as satirizing Racetraitor and "other bands with these very lofty political ideals that seemed like more a marketing tool for the genre of political hardcore rather than a sincere agenda" (Brian Cook). Bassist Brian Cook, who determined many of the song titles, credits J. G. Ballard's book The Atrocity Exhibition as inspiring themes of "the human body as a landscape, and the way that culture and environment sort of dictates the human body and vice versa."

Track listing

 * 1) "To Our Friends in the Great White North" – 5:10
 * 2) "Mondrian Was a Liar" – 2:41
 * 3) "Transitions from Persona to Object" – 6:04
 * 4) "Swimming the Channel Vs. Driving the Chunnel" – 4:30
 * 5) "C. Thomas Howell as the "Soul Man"" – 4:44
 * 6) "Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb" – 3:04
 * 7) "Frequency Ass Bandit" – 4:26
 * 8) "I Wanna Be a Sex Symbol on My Own Terms" – 3:35
 * 9) "Man the Ramparts" – 10:50
 * 10) "Thank God for Worker Bees (Remix)" – 7:27 (hidden track)

Disc 2 (Remastered Deluxe Edition)
 * 1) To Our Friends in the Great White North (demo)
 * 2) I Wanna Be a Sex Symbol on My Own Terms (demo)
 * 3) Transitions from Persona to Object (demo)
 * 4) Mondrian Was a Liar (demo)
 * 5) Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb (demo)
 * 6) C. Thomas Howell As the “Soul Man” (demo)
 * 7) Man the Ramparts (demo)
 * 8) Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb (live)
 * 9) Vietmam (live)
 * 10) Transitions from Persona to Object (live)
 * 11) Hutton’s Great Heat Engine (live)

Band members

 * Brian Cook – Bass Guitar
 * Dave Knudson – Guitar, art direction, design
 * Dave Verellen – vocals
 * Tim Latona - drums

Other personnel

 * Matt Bayles – production, engineer, mixing
 * Ed Brooks – mastering
 * Carrie Whitney – photography