21 years ago, Fire, the debut album by Detroit’s Electric Six was granted Gold Record status after the band exploded onto the scene and broke dancefloors everywhere. Yet no one knows who they were, what they were doing or what the hell that was all about. Only one thing is certain: the 2003 release contained hit singles ‘Danger! High Voltage!’ with rumoured backing vocals by Jack White, and the iconic ‘Gay Bar’ which was an instant classic.
Set for release today is Fire, the original album, remastered by Warren Defever at Third Man, available on CD or LP . The cd contains 5 bonus tracks.
Fire was assembled in 2002-2003 at Detroit’s White Room Studios as well as London’s Abbey Road and Olympic Studios. The first single, ‘Danger! High Voltage’ created a terrifying cultural traffic jam, disrupted the course of countless innocent lives and was quickly followed by a second hit single in the form of ‘Gay Bar’. The indelicate and controversial video featured a collection of Abraham Lincoln look-alikes frolicking in the White House and “Video Of The Year” awards from both Q and Kerrang helped it rise to #5 on the UK charts. ‘Dance Commander’, the album’s third single followed, and with it came another epic video which was directed by Reuben Fleisher who would go on to be an acclaimed film director.
Praise for Electric Six
Electric Six are “The rock equivalent of a duty-bound pack of Wild West outlaws who’ve spent the last 25 years on Mars and are now returning to right the musical wrongs of us puny Earth creatures. ” – THE DETROIT METRO TIMES
“the summer’s most brilliantly demented party record” – ROLLING STONE
“A guilty pleasure” – UNDER THE RADAR
“They exist only to rock your world. If you don’t let them, you’re the stupid one” – VILLAGE VOICE
“It’s a raucous rave-up of arena rock riffs over funky disco beats, the kind of freaky dance-rock jams that belong on the jukebox in every gay biker bar in America. ” – URB
TRACK LISTING
A1 Dance Commander
A2. Electric Demons In Love
A3. Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)
A4. Danger! High Voltage
A5. She’s White
A6. I Invented the Night
B1. Improper Dancing
B2. Gay Bar
B3. Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)
B4. Getting into the Jam
B5. Vengeance & Fashion
B6. I’m the Bomb
B7. Synthesizer
CD BONUS TRACKS
Neurocameraman (7-inch release, 2001)
I Know Karate (7-inch release, 1996)
Danger! High Voltage (Original 1994 4-track Demo)
I’m On Acid (Live at Old Miami Aug 24, 1996)
Christian Radio (Manchester) (Unreleased, 1997)
