Fire (Electric Six album)

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
Rock Empire
(1999)		 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
SourceRating
Metacritic70/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Blender[3]
The Boston Phoenix[4]
The Guardian[5]
Pitchfork4.0/10[6]
Q[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
The Village VoiceA−[9]

Fire is the debut album of Electric Six, released in 2003. The album received generally positive critical reviews.[10] Rolling Stone called the album "the summer's most brilliantly demented party record"[11] and Blender hailed the music as "convincingly ferocious".[3] 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.

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

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

Bonus DVD

Personnel

  • Dick Valentine - vocals
  • Disco - bass
  • M. - drums
  • The Rock-N-Roll Indian - lead guitar
  • Surge Joebot - rhythm guitar
  • Jack White - background vocals (track 4), credited as "John S. O'Leary"[12]
  • Aran Ruth - musician
  • Deeanne Iovan - musician
  • Jim Diamond - musician
  • The Sheik - musician
  • Rachel Nagy - musician
  • Matt Ajian - musician
  • Kenny Tudrick - musician[13]

Charts

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

Legacy

The band recorded a sequel to "Gay Bar" entitled "Gay Bar Part Two" on their album "Flashy". It was less of a direct sequel and more of a satirisation of demand for them to write such a song.

The band performed the songs "Dance Commander", "Danger! High Voltage", "She's White", "Gay Bar" and "Synthesizer" on their live album "Absolute Pleasure".

The songs "Dance Commander", "Danger! High Voltage", "Gay Bar" and "Synthesizer" were performed by the band in the live concert film "Absolute Treasure".

The songs "I Invented the Night" and "I'm the Bomb" were performed on their second live album "You're Welcome!".

A "stripped down", acoustic version of "Synthesizer" and "She's White" were performed as part of Electric Six's upcoming live album Chill Out!.[14] "Synthesizer" was selected through a poll held for backers of the Kickstarter campaign used to fund the album.[15].

References

  1. ↑ "Reviews for Fire by Electric Six". Metacritic. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  2. ↑ Phares, Heather. "Fire – Electric Six". AllMusic. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  3. 1 2 Slaughter, James (June–July 2003). "Electric Six: Fire". Blender (17): 134. Archived from the original on September 13, 2005. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ Goldberg, Michael Alan (June 6–12, 2003). "Electric Six: Fire (XL/Beggars Banquet)". The Boston Phoenix. Archived from the original on April 1, 2004. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (June 27, 2003). "Electric Six: Fire". The Guardian. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  6. ↑ Carr, Eric (June 1, 2003). "Electric Six: Fire". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  7. ↑ "Electric Six: Fire". Q (204): 101. July 2003.
  8. ↑ Sheffield, Rob (June 26, 2003). "Electric Six: Fire". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 17, 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  9. ↑ Christgau, Robert (August 5, 2003). "Consumer Guide: Shadows in the Cave". The Village Voice. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
  10. ↑ Electric Six: Fire (2003) Reviews at MetaCritic.com.
  11. ↑ Rob Sheffield (June 26, 2003). "Electric Six: Fire : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120313062425/http://inweekly.net/wordpress/?p=1896
  13. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Electric-Six-Fire/release/1967177
  14. ↑ https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/electric-six/2018/smalls-bar-hamtramck-mi-33ef1499.html
  15. ↑ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/e6absolutetreasure/a-very-electric-sixmas-and-chill-out
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