Fire (Electric Six album)

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Fire

Studio album by Electric Six
Released	May 20, 2003
Genre	Indie rock
Length	38:13
Label	XL Recordings
Producer(s)	Damien Mendis and Stuart Bradbury
All Music Guide link Amazon.com (positive) link Dotmusic link The Guardian link Metacritic (68/100) link The A.V. Club (positive) link Pitchfork Media (4.0) link PopMatters (NR) link Rolling Stone link Spendid Magazine (negative) link Village Voice (positive) link Village Voice (Consumer Guide) (A-) link
Electric Six chronology
	Fire (2003)	Señor Smoke (2005)

Fire is the debut album of Electric Six, released in 2003. It spawned three singles, the first charting ("Danger! High Voltage") in the US, the second getting heavy video play on MTV ("Gay Bar") and the third being "Dance Commander".

The album received genereally positive critical reviews.^[1] Rolling Stone called the album a "brilliantly demented party record" and Blender hailed the music as "convincingly ferocious." Detractors of the album such as Splendid called the album "a misfire and a waste of time."

[edit] Track listing

"Dance Commander" – 2:37
"Electric Demons In Love" – 3:06
"Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)" – 2:11
"Danger! High Voltage" – 3:34
"She's White" – 3:16
"I Invented the Night" – 3:17
"Improper Dancing" – 3:14
"Gay Bar" – 2:20
"Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)" – 1:16
"Getting Into the Jam" – 2:14
"Vengeance And Fashion" – 2:46
"I'm The Bomb" – 4:18
"Synthesizer" – 4:00
"Don't Be Afraid of the Robot" – 1:40 *
"Remote Control (Me)" – 2:21 *
"I Lost Control of My Rock & Roll" – 1:47 *

*Bonus tracks of the Japanese edition

[edit] Miscellanea

According to an interview, lead singer Dick Valentine is the man featured on the cover of the album.^[2]
The woman featured in the "Danger! High Voltage" video is Tina Kanarek. She is an actress from Toronto in Canada and was 70 at the time of the video shoot.^[3]