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And should I go see them live next Sunday (with the WAR over they are now man enough to cross the Atlantic)?

I like their Danger! High Voltage! song. I suspect they have no others.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

According to Spencer Chow they're great live and they apparently have a great gay bar song. You may take this under advisement.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It is urgent and key that you all go watch this. The problem is, if anyone who is receiving my crush CD listens to it, it ruins the great surprise of the wonder that is "Gay Bar".

Also, that link involves kittens so it'd be urgent and key anyway.

They're fucking awesome, anyhow. "Danger! High Voltage!" is one of the best singles for a long, long time...

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The album's probably one of the best albums of the year, too.

― chuck, Monday, 28 April 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm having a hard time tracking down the album, is it actually out yet? I've gotten about half of it, I think, on MP3.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard "Danger High Voltage" last night and thought it was just sorta "meh."

― hstencil, Monday, 28 April 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That's because you've got no taste.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, clearly that must be it.

― hstencil, Monday, 28 April 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

There's no sex in their live set, which disappointed the fuck out of me.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

it would surely be worth going to the gig for the "danger! high voltage!" song alone.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

That song gets better every time I hear it.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. You have to see them live, even though they only have a couple of good songs (Danger High Voltage and Gay Bar) but they do a great Queen cover. Saw them back in January, just after DHV came out and the gig was just one big party.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 28 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

here's a couple random reasons to like them.

first, this news item from their website:

"After Repeated Requests, Dick Valentine Passes the Courvoisier

April. 26, 2002--It's been a long time coming, but reports that Dick Valentine had finally passed the Courvoisier were confirmed earlier today.

"Initially I wasn't going to do it," says Valentine. "But after being asked so many times I finally just figured, you know, 'Fine, here it is. Take it. I'll go get my own.'"

(sure it's sub-Onion lame, but funny, no?)

and if that didn't convince you, here's their keyboardist:

http://electric6.com/graph/tour2/darth.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 April 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

God, that pass the Courvoisier joke is fucking classic. Oh my god.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I just heard the song, and it's great.

However, someone needs to let whoever made that flash video in on a little secret, MAKING FLASH VIDEOS WITH RANDOM THINGS MOVING AROUND REALLY FAST TO A SONG IS NOT FUCKING FUNNY ANY MORE.

― David Allen, Monday, 28 April 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but the song!

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I am going to the gig, I am not responsible for what I do when they play Danger! High Voltage!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I get really crazy during the ending of that song. FIRE IN THE DISCO! FIRE IN THE DISCO! FIRE IN THE...TACO BELL!

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

When they play it live it ain't at all disco, though, Ronan. It's ham-fisted rawk.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer the Jacques Lu Cont Thin White Duke remix to be honest.

Obviously as Ally says the Fire In The Disco part is the best and at one point in the remix you think it's over before this weird static buildup just escalates and he screams "FIRE IN THE DISCO" and all the music comes back in. Hence, that remix is better.

I heard they do Radio Ga Ga live aswell. Dublin gig prices are a ripoff and I am seeing Ashley Beedle DJ on Saturday but I'd still be tempted.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Thin White Duke remix best too, partially for the reason you state.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I am the only skeptic on ILM, then. I heard the song last night on a comp a friend made for me, and just thought it was kind of a novelty song.

Fire away.

― hstencil, Monday, 28 April 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

What is novelty about it? Anyway, it sounds like Tom Jones doing a duet with a hopped up chihuahua-monkey hybrid, over a mash-up of "You Sexy Thing" and an AC/DC track, how can you find this "meh"?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Not hamfisted live at all, as far as I could see -- they sounded like Foreigner or Bad Company, both of whom had really good rhythm sections; a fuckuva lot less hamfisted than, I dunno, !!! or whoever. Anyway, even without sax (tho Yancey above says withhout sex!), it was one of the most entertaining shows I saw all year. The Queen and Roxy Music covers were wonderful. And anybody who thinks they only have one or two songs is wrong, wrong, wrong -- Might change my mind somewhere down the line, but right now, I'd take their album (which I just got an advance of last week, and which comes out next month, though six or seven songs have been floating around on two promo EPs since the beginning of the year) over *Elephant.* Not over *ARE Weapons,* though the latter band was MUCH worse live -- after seeing their bullshit at Knitting Factory Friday night, I finally understood why people who seen A.R.E. before (like Yancey) were so aghast when I first told them how amazing the album is. But big deal -- it's not the first time a electronic or hip-hop band who sound great on record turn out to look like a half-assed high school talent show skit live, and it won't be the last. It's been happening to me at least since the Beastie Boys in 1987. Maybe I'm just a total rockist when it comes to live music, who knows? Still. Electric Six live was DANCE music. Just like Brooks and Dunn or something. Almost as good, too!

p.s.) The remix sounds wimpy, if you ask me. Thin and white is right.

― chuck, Monday, 28 April 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

your second sentence answers the first, Ally.

I'd like A.R.E. Weapons a lot better if their name was pronounced "Hairy Weapons."

― hstencil, Monday, 28 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

wimpy? I thought it was almost vitalicesque!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

P.s.s.) the video w/ the moose and lighted-up codpiece is hilarious. (I don't even know what "flash" videos are, and I'm not sure I care.)

― chuck, Monday, 28 April 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

See I heard Foreigner and Bad Company (two bands I gots no beef with) when I saw them too (this was last year), but not in the good way that you describe. Maybe it's that the earnestness was delivered with a smirk, like they were in on the joke? (thinking about the singer mainly here) That's something that Foreigner or Bad Company would NEVER do. Cuz they believe that their rawk saves lives and all that shit, and the Electric 6 seemed to merely believe that their rawk might get them laid (which, admittedly, is a more worthwhile endeavor as far as I'm concerned). It just seemed like there should be grandiose ideas behind such a fucking brazen song, but the idea is just to make a really fucking brazen song and that's it (which is why ARE Weapons' "Don't Be Scared" is a MUCH better song -- it's EVEN MORE brazen AND it wants to save the world AND it's supposed to get them laid AND they don't care if you know it AND they have every confidence that it'll work).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah watch the video h. you might 'get it' a bit more.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

My first two ideas don't match up. Lemme rectify: They did sound like Foreigner and Bad Company, but they seemed to treat that fact with some ironic distance, which rendered it moot in my mind.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

stence, the two aren't necessarily hand-in-hand, why is sounding like that description novelty? Is Tom Jones novelty?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, there's something about it that made me think "novelty." And there's nothing wrong with novelty per se, it's just not what I go for all that often (which sez way more about me than them, of course). Tom Jones has made a career of turning the novel into the not-so, i.e. he has somehow found some sort of staying power, I guess. Well at least people know who he is, even if he hasn't had a hit in years. And in the battle of the novelties, I'd take his version of "Kiss" over "Danger! High Voltage!" but then again I've heard the former twenty bazillion times more.

The main thing I could think of while listening to this track was mainly just wondering how/where people hear this stuff, because it didn't seem to be that radio-friendly in our age of ClearChannel. I guess the internet has changed everything (NEWSFLASH!!! I know...).

― hstencil, Monday, 28 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Yancey, I think Foreigner and Bad Company were probably more cynical than you give them credit for. Also funnier. I don't care what Electric Six's *intentions* are; I care how much it rocks me when they rhyme "fire" with "desire." (not "rawks", jeez -- where did that dumb spelling come from, anyway? My guess is it was some guitar-hating British indie morons making fun of Midwestern accents or something. Yuck.) Though then again, I'm not saying Electric Six have any songs as good as "Starrider" or "Headknocker" or "Dirty White Boy" or "Urgent," of course. (Hiring Junior Walker for their sax solos might help a little, if he's still alive. I wonder if that means in a couple years they'll be hiring the New Jersey Mass Choir?) Bad Company, who as far as I know never made a very consistent album, aren't really in the running here. Though Free might be.

― chuck, Monday, 28 April 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, why is having a sense of humor bad? I don't get it. Rock'n'roll *started* as novelty music. You don't think lots of Foreigner fans thought Foreigner were funny at the time?? (You don't have to read their mind to know what they had in mind. Honey, you oughta know.) And if Foreinger and Bad Company weren't being "ironic," whatever that means, well, Blue Oyster Cult sure were. And the Dictators. And, um, the Ramones. It never stopped any of them (from whatever it was that they did -- don't ask me).

― chuck, Monday, 28 April 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

They probably are, but I've had the (dis)pleasure of talking to members of those bands' current incarnations and there's that sort of attitude (but then again you've gotta have something to convince you to don pleather for the 13,000th straight night, I guess). And yeah, I don't care what E6's intentions are either, but when something I dislike about their performance leads me to believe there's something fishy going on, I'm not gonna refute my right to crinkle my nose and leave disappointed. (none of this changes that it's a great song, of course)(the first Bad Company album's pretty consistent)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Just saw yr second post: Having a sense of humor is not at all bad, but I generally don't like music that tries to be funny (in the They Might Be Giants/Barenaked Ladies sense of "funny," but then again their music pisses me off so whadda I know?)(Ramones "funny" is great though). And I'm not arguing against a cynical distance from yr own work, Chuck! I encourage it! But just because I like the idea in general doesn't mean that it always works. And all I'm arguing is that at the one E6 performance that I saw it did NOT work in a big way, and based on that I can't imagine them being able to play the song the way that they should.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 28 April 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Danger! High Voltage! kicks my ass daily (they actually remind me of Roxy Music more than anyone else). The other songs on the EP don't do as much for me.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck it is possible to find some things funny, without finding all things funny.

― hstencil, Monday, 28 April 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I'm obviously no wearing-a-lampshade-your-head-for-is-own-sake music fan, either. But honestly, what I mostly hate about They Might Be Giants and Barenaked Ladies (and lots of look-at-us-we're-playing'-70s-er-"rawk" idiots lately, for that matter) is how they SOUND. And Electric Six, from their single on down, get the sound RIGHT. Which is to say the voice, and the rhythm. I thought the singer ACTED more Bryan Ferry than Lou Gramm or Paul Rodgers live, but I'm just not sure that's such a bad thing. And I also really think that stuff about how those old bands "believe that their rawk saves lives and all that shit" is probably a myth. (Even though maybe sometimes it does, and maybe "Danger! High Voltage!" does, too.) As for the first Bad Company album, it's always sounded more leaden than people have always pretended. (Electric Six sound more like *Desolation Angels,* anyway -- which is to say, Bad Company ripping off Foreginer's Bad Company ripoffs then tossing in disco-cum-new wave synth stuff.)

― chuck, Monday, 28 April 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant wearing a lampshade ON your head. (Among other typos, I'm sure.)

― chuck, Monday, 28 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just about to mention how you've claimed to hate Mojo Nixon and Rev. Horton Heat cuz of their "attempted" funniness.

I gen-yoo-wine-ly like High Voltage. Especially since on Wednesday nights after work I'm either at the disco or at Taco bell. And my desire sets fires.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 28 April 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually think all their stuff about starting nuclear wars and so on can certainly be taken (by me, or unsuspecting audience members as well) in an unironic way in this day and age, too. (Just like ARE Weapons's war stuff can. And like "Commmando" or "Search and Destroy," back in days of yore.) So they're not MERELY funny. Which I agree, would suck. And probably not be funny at all. (I mean, I wouldn't like the Holy Modal Rounders' first album or "Bringing It All Back Home* or *Licensed to Ill* or *Devil Without a Cause* so much if they didn't also MOVE me, deeply. But that doesn't mean I don't still think they're some of the most hilarious things on earth.)

― chuck, Monday, 28 April 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Listening to the album right now and it does 'Sound' great. And whatever the joke is, it definitely appeals to me. I think it's funny in a Tenacious D way, but more fully realized musically - as in, Electric Six could actually make a compelling hit single, and there's nothing "novel" about that to me (espcially the bass line). "Naked Pictures" from the album had me laughing (I mean it's really funny) and wanting to dance.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 April 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil, you're not comparing them to A.R.E. Weapons are you?

For what it's worth, Danger! High Voltage! got old after three or four listens for me. Do I hate fun? Yes, I probably do.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

fire in the disco!
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008VAJE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 April 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I love 'em. they seem like what the Hives would be if they imitated the Stones c. '78 rather than c. '64 (or the Stooges). also, let's face it, the punk kittens RULE.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 28 April 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

No I'm not comparing them to Hairy Weapons. I don't think I was even the first person to bring up the latter.

To be fair, maybe why I don't like it so much is that it's followed by a Le Tigre song on this comp. Anyway, I'm listening to it now, and I'll keep trying, if only outta something to do.

― hstencil, Monday, 28 April 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I will say that they do sound more "jokey" to me than the Hives or some other groups. Mainly because the lyrics are pretty sloganeery rather than an actual story or coherent viewpoint. But it's definitely one of the better novelty songs I've heard in ages (probably behind "Go With The Flow" and "All The Things She Said" as my favorite singles I've heard so far this year). I hope the album sets up more of an actual perspective for the band then "High Voltage" does.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, it also reminds of the Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 28 April 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The album is really good fun - nothing else on the level of the first single, but 'Dance Commander' and a couple of the slower tracks (forget their names?) are cool too.

― Mil, Monday, 28 April 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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these new tracks are 10 kinds of heat.

― mobb dee (djdee2005), Friday, 4 February 2005 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

wow how great is "Future is in the Future"? CANT SIT DOWN CUZ I'M A DANCER.

― mobb dee (djdee2005), Friday, 4 February 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the rest of the album anything like 'Radio gaga'? As I thought that was shark jumping of olympian proportions.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 4 February 2005 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The album drops on Valentine's Day in the UK! No word on the states.

track listing:
1. Rock And Roll Evacuation
2. Devil Nights
3. Bite Me
4. Jimmy Carter
5. Pleasing Interlude No. 1
6. Dance Epidemic
7. Future Boys
8. Dance-A-Thon 2005
9. Be My Dark Angel
10. Vibrator
11. Boy or Girl?
12. Pleasing Interlude No.2
13. Radio Ga Ga
14. Taxi To Nowhere
15. Future Is In The Future

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0007M2XLK.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally got around to listening to these...fucking wow. And an oblique Don DeLillo reference in "Jimmy Carter"! My pomo nerd buttons, they are PUSHED.

― Telephone Thing, Saturday, 12 February 2005 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

LISTEN TO SENOR SMOKE ONLINE! (requires easily bullshittable registration.

from the first track:

"there's a man on the television telling me to the listen to the radio/there's a man on the radio saying no! no! no! no! no! no! no! no!"

"MR. PRESIDENT, I DON'T LIKE YOU!"

― anthony miccio, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

suppose I should log in.

i'm on track 2...GIMME LIGHTS! GIMME LIGHTS!

YOU OWE ME MON-AYYYY!!!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i got the link from Jason Gross's blog but I won't link to it because he says their the disco spinal tap and he can eat one dick. They're the crunk roxy music.

ok actually he was saying "GIMME NIGHT!" fuckin' a.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ARE YOU READY TO BITE ME?!!?!?!!!!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

They're the crunk roxy music.

Hmmm. (Not to the crunk part.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

play "Editions Of You," "do the strand," "virginia plain," "Street Life," etc and call me back, ok?

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not doubting the *volume* part of Roxy Music being invoked, you silly man!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, we know you don't like them, ok?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ok. "pleasing interlude 1" is not pleasing in the slightest. I have to assume this is intentional.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, we know you don't like them, ok?

Spencer, upthread I say how I like some of the new songs! There's no all-or-nothing going on here unless you want to insist there is! Jeepers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't grabbed by "radio gaga" when I saw the video (never liked the original), but I'm feeling the cover in this context.

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

and I should specify that they remind me of the roxy music that I enjoy, which tend to be the singles. I think Valentine's lyrics are just as colorful and profound and if these guys are less proggy, well, good!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and i'm not saying they're necessarily "profound," just as profound as anything Ferry came up with. and if Valentine is less pretentious and willing to have you take it as mere shits'n'giggles, well, good!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Be My Dark Angel" should be the next single. Jesus christ.

WHEN BAD GIRLS START WRESTLING! EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE THE NEXT REFEREE!

THE RECORD IS SKIPPING! THE DANCE IS DISTURBING! THE JACKSONS ARE REUNITING! THEY'RE GOING ON TOUR!

AND I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

gay bar video w/ bush/blair was fun - dud

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

OK, so the Electric Six are playing my town with VHS or Beta.
Is this a must-see? It's only $10, which seems pretty cool.

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Seems like a fun enough time for ten bucks. I'd go.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen them, they're totally fun. The fans are fun too.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 24 March 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

fun fun fun fun fun...

i saw them at the siren fest last summer.

it was a lot of fun...more fun than trail of dead...

and you're 95% less likely to be blinded by a water bottle or something moronic flying from the stage.

― mono.mono (mono.mono), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I'm listening to Sisters of Mercy now but I was listening to the Electric Six before and I forgot that I changed the record! '1959' sounds like 'Jimmy Carter'!!! hahah omg.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes yes yes, go see them.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Definitely.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 24 March 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Is everybody sort of "meh" on "Senor Smoke"? I sure haven't read much about it on ILM, and in some ways, I like it better than "Fire." It doesn't have an obvious UK single like "Gay Bar," but it does spit out some other solid tunes: "Dance Epidemic," "Bite Me," etc.
Personally, I'm not so hot on the Queen cover, but whatever.

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Future Is In The Future" is the best thing they've done, ever. But there aren't many other highlights.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Senor Smoke fucking rules. I'm not sure which I like more.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

highlights include: "Rock'n'Roll Evacuation," "Future Boys," "Bite Me," "Jimmy Carter," "Be My Dark Angel," "Radio GaGa" (in the context of the album I fucking LOVE this track - way better than the original) and "Future Is In The Future" (which is actually a weaker rewrite of the last album's "Synthesizer" but I still love it).

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I've trying to catch up and I bought Fire recently. I wished I liked this album more, but aside from "Dance Commander", there's just not much that's entertaining enough to be captivating.

Maybe this new album is the Electric Six album that's made for me?

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, probably not if you can't get past track one captivation-wise with Fire.

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

That said, I haven't listened to Fire enough to let it sink in enough.

And they're supposedlu playing a secret free live show in Seattle on April 16th (the same weekend as the Pop Conference 2005.. hmmmm)

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only heard three tracks from the new one: "Jimmy Carter," "Future" and "Dance Epidemic." "Carter" has emerged as my clear favorite. I liked their take on "Radio GaGa" when I heard it live in Tokyo in the fall of '03.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Does anyone know if theyr'e going to add any dates to their current US tour? Cos, like, I don't live anywhere near any of those cities listed on their website. :(

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

After checking the website, I am glad to see that my hunch about the source of the album's title is confirmed: the original "Senor Smoke" was '80s Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Aurelio Lopez.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 28 April 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Has anyone heard "Switzerland" yet? I'm going to catch E6 at the Black Cat in DC this Saturday.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 21 September 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_15973/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=2aSqqpfE

― dan m, Friday, 28 May 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)

Ha ha, awesome.

Anyway, while this is revived, here's something I wrote about their most recent album:

http://www.rhapsody.com/electric-six/kill#albumreview

And something I wrote about the one before that:

http://www.rhapsody.com/electric-six/flashy#albumreview

― xhuxk, Friday, 28 May 2010 18:14 (fifteen years ago)

five years pass...

so they have like 11 albums out now? anyone heard anything past Senor Smoke? (like the rest of this thread I loved "Future is in the Future", but promptly forgot about them)

― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:31 (ten years ago)

Their later stuff is kind of hit or miss, except for 2010's Zodiac which I think might be their strongest album.

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:45 (ten years ago)

"Kukuxumusu" from I Shall Exterminate... has become my favorite of their songs. I still always think of it as one of their newer songs, but jeez...that album's from 8 years ago now.

I check out each new album when it arrives (1 per year at the least), but they never hang together as much as I'd like. They'll have a killer best of compilation one day.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:49 (ten years ago)

Huh, they've had a few Kickstarters:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/e6absolutetreasure/mimicry-and-memories/description

― etc, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 08:48 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

oh man, "Escape from Ohio" is like the most on the money song about Ohio I've ever heard

― frogbs, Friday, 9 November 2018 14:32 (seven years ago)

like they should adopt it as their state song

― frogbs, Friday, 9 November 2018 14:32 (seven years ago)

I remember seeing them at Glastonbury and two of the first three songs they played were Danger High Voltage and Gay Bar. Obviously everyone immediately left and they played the remainder of their set to a nonexistant crowd.

― Matt DC, Friday, 9 November 2018 17:37 (seven years ago)

I saw them in July, 14 years and 16+ albums after the last time I saw them, and they played Gay Bar fifth. They ("they") were MUCH MUCH BETTER than last time, because he hadn't written Down At McDonalds or Infected Girls or I Buy The Drugs or (Who The Hell Just) Call My Phone? fourteen years ago.

also because the crowd wasn't full of shit-drunk suburban dickheads shoving people around to impress their girlfriends this time.

― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Friday, 9 November 2018 19:48 (seven years ago)

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