- El Presidente (album)
Infobox Album |
Name = El Presidente
Type =Album
Artist = El Presidente
Released =24 October 2005
Recorded = Late 2004-Early 2005
Genre = Rock
Length = 44:26
Label = Sony BMG
Producer = El Presidente
Reviews =
*The Observer (4/5) [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/reviews/story/0,13875,1644679,00.html link]
Last album =
This album = "El Presidente" (2005)
Next album ="El Presidente" is the self-entitled debut
album from Scottish band El Presidente, released 24th October,2005 . The album was also released on 8th of February inJapan with two extra tracks, a new recording called "Lies" and a cover of Prince's "Raspberry Beret", which was also included as a B-side to "Turn This Thing Around ". In total four singles have been released from the album, "Rocket", "100 MPH ", "Without You" and "Turn This Thing Around ".The current line up of El Presidente is not actually featured on the album. It was recorded by
Dante Gizzi and his brother Guiliano (Who played with Dante in the band Gun). Other guests on the album areLiam Nugent andRoss Galloway , who played synths and performed backing vocals respectively on the single "Rocket".Emma Murphy also performs backing vocals on "If You Say You Love Me", "Hanging Around" and "Old Times".Alan Thornton (also a former Gun member) drums on all tracks apart from the opening 3 tracks, and track 10. In the album's booklet it claims that Alan did indeed drum on the tenth track, but a recent investigatian showed that the booklet was misprinted, and in factDawn Zhu was the drummer. Zhu also plays on the opening three tracks.Track listing
#"Without You"
#"Rocket"
#"100 MPH "
#"Turn This Thing Around "
#"Count On Me"
#"If You Say You Love Me"
#"Hanging Around"
#"I Didn't Really"
#"Old Times"
#"Keep On Walking"
#"Honey"
#"Come On Now"
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