Fire (Electric Six album)

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Fire
Studio album by Electric Six
Released May 20, 2003
Genre Dance-punk, hard rock, funk rock, comedy rock
Length 38:05
Label XL Recordings
Producer Damien Mendis and Stuart Bradbury
Electric Six chronology
Fire
(2003)		 Señor Smoke
(2005)
Singles from
Fire
  1. "Danger! High Voltage"
    Released: 6 January 2003 (2003-01-06)
  2. "Gay Bar"
    Released: 2 June 2003 (2003-06-02)
  3. "Dance Commander"
    Released: 13 October 2003 (2003-10-13)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (70/100) [1]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[2]
Robert Christgau (A-) [3]
Amazon.com (positive)[4]
Dotmusic (4/10)[5]
The Guardian 3/5 stars[6]
The A.V. Club (positive)[7]
Pitchfork Media (4.0/10)[8]
PopMatters (NR)[9]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[10]
Spendid Magazine (negative)[11]
Village Voice (positive)[12]

Fire is the debut album of Electric Six, released in 2003.

The album received generally positive critical reviews.[13] Rolling Stone called the album "the summer's most brilliantly demented party record"[14] and Blender hailed the music as "convincingly ferocious".[15] Detractors of the album included Mike Baker of Splendid, who called the band "[a] novelty act, a misfire and a waste of time",[16] and the reviewer for Uncut, who said that the album contains "little charm and less real humour".[17]

Three singles were released from the album: "Danger! High Voltage", which reached #10 in the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart and #2 in the UK Singles Chart; "Gay Bar", which reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart; and "Dance Commander", which reached #40 in the UK Singles Chart.

Fire went gold in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2003. Later that year, the album was re-released with a bonus DVD containing the music videos for all three singles from the album.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All lyrics written by Tyler Spencer; all music composed by Tyler Spencer except where noted.

  1. "Dance Commander" – 2:37
  2. "Electric Demons in Love" – 3:06
  3. "Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)" – 2:11
  4. "Danger! High Voltage" (Joe Frezza/Steve Nawara/Anthony Selph/Tyler Spencer) – 3:34
  5. "She's White" – 3:16
  6. "I Invented the Night" – 3:17
  7. "Improper Dancing" – 3:14
  8. "Gay Bar" – 2:20
  9. "Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)" – 1:16
  10. "Getting Into the Jam" – 2:14
  11. "Vengeance and Fashion" – 2:46
  12. "I'm the Bomb" – 4:18
  13. "Synthesizer" – 4:00

[edit] Japanese bonus tracks

  1. "Don't Be Afraid of the Robot" – 1:40
  2. "Remote Control (Me)" – 2:21
  3. "I Lost Control of My Rock & Roll" – 1:47

[edit] Bonus DVD

[edit] Charts

Chart (2003) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Electronic Albums 5
U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums 38
UK Albums Chart 7

[edit] Reception and use

  • As the single "Gay Bar" was released around the time of the American invasion of Iraq, radio airplay changed a line from "Let's start a war, start a nuclear war, at the gay bar" to "Let's do an edit, do a radio edit, at the gay bar!". In the UK and in the official music video for the song, the words nuclear and war were censored by a 'whip' sound effect.
  • The album track "Gay Bar" has been used in the art film Allah ho Gaybar by artist Sooreh Hera. The film has been taken down from YouTube and stopped from showing in the Netherlands. During a showing in Sweden, the film also provoked attacks by Muslims against artist Lars Vilks during a lecture.
  • The album track "Dance Commander" was used in the film '"Stick It'" starring Missy Peregrym and Jeff Bridges.

[edit] References

 This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (September 2009)
  1. ^ http://www.metacritic.com/music/fire
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=5144&name=Electric+Six
  4. ^ Amazon.com review
  5. ^ Dotmusic review
  6. ^ The Guardian review
  7. ^ The A.V. Club review
  8. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  9. ^ PopMatters review
  10. ^ Rolling Stone review
  11. ^ Spendid Magazine review
  12. ^ Village Voice review
  13. ^ Electric Six: Fire (2003) Reviews at MetaCritic.com.
  14. ^ Rob Sheffield (June 26, 2003). "Electric Six: Fire : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/electricsix/albums/album/289480/review/5941765/fire. Retrieved October 22, 2009. 
  15. ^ James Slaughter (May 20, 2003). "Fire". Blender. http://www.blender.com/guide/new/51878/fire.html. Retrieved October 22, 2009. 
  16. ^ Mike Baker (July 16, 2003). "Splendid Magazine reviews Electric Six: Fire". Splendid Magazine. http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=3266412646121794. Retrieved October 22, 2009. 
  17. ^ "Electric Six - Fire - Review". Uncut. http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/electric_six/reviews/5967. Retrieved October 22, 2009. 
Electric Six
Tyler Spencer · Zach Shipps · John Nash · Keith Thompson · Christopher Tait · Mike Alonso
Anthony Selph · Joe Frezza · Steve Nawara · Cory Martin · Chris Peters · Mark Dundon
Studio albums
Compilations
Singles
"Danger! High Voltage" · "Gay Bar" · "Dance Commander" · "Vibrator" · "Radio Ga Ga" · "I Buy the Drugs" · "Jam It in the Hole"
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"Credited as John s. O'Leary, Jack White provides the "female" backing to the single Danger! High Voltage." From the September 2007 issue of Q.

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