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
Fire (2003) Señor Smoke (2005)
Singles from Fire
"Danger! High Voltage" Released: 6 January 2003 (2003-01-06) "Gay Bar" Released: 2 June 2003 (2003-06-02) "Dance Commander" Released: 13 October 2003 (2003-10-13)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Amazon.com	(positive)[2]
Dotmusic	(4/10)[3]
The Guardian	[4]
The A.V. Club	(positive)[5]
Pitchfork Media	(4.0/10)[6]
PopMatters	(NR)[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Spendid Magazine	(negative)[9]
Village Voice	(positive)[10]
Village Voice (Consumer Guide)	(A-)[11]

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

The album received generally positive critical reviews.^[12] Rolling Stone called the album "the summer's most brilliantly demented party record"^[13] and Blender hailed the music as "convincingly ferocious".^[14] Detractors of the album included Mike Baker of Splendid, who called the band "[a] novelty act, a misfire and a waste of time",^[15] and the reviewer for Uncut, who said that the album contains "little charm and less real humour".^[16]

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

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

Bonus DVD

• "Danger! High Voltage" music video
• "Gay Bar" music video
• "Dance Commander" music video

Charts

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

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.

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Amazon.com review
3. ^ Dotmusic review
4. ^ The Guardian review
5. ^ The A.V. Club review
6. ^ Pitchfork Media review
7. ^ PopMatters review
8. ^ Rolling Stone review
9. ^ Spendid Magazine review
10. ^ Village Voice review
11. ^ Village Voice (Consumer Guide) review
12. ^ Electric Six: Fire (2003) Reviews at MetaCritic.com.
13. ^ 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. 
14. ^ James Slaughter (May 20, 2003). "Fire". Blender. http://www.blender.com/guide/new/51878/fire.html. Retrieved October 22, 2009. 
15. ^ 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. 
16. ^ "Electric Six - Fire - Review". Uncut. http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/electric_six/reviews/5967. Retrieved October 22, 2009. 

"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.