Customer Reviews

Fire

5 star:		(40)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Every song on this album has a reference to fire and dancing, yet there is an unfathomable genius to Fire. The first track, "Dance Commander" makes you wanna do just that: Dance like a f*cking madman and play the air guitar. The rest of the album lives up to the kickass beginning. From the hard-rockin' songs (She's White, Naked Pictures) to the disco rock songs (Electric Demons In Love, I'm The Bomb, Danger! High Voltage) to the 80s synthesizer-driven beauty (Synthesizer) these guys rock every genre they touch on. It's one of my favorite albums ever and I'm sure people with a thing for disco or indie rock or just some fun stuff to dance to will like it also.

One of the best party cds ever. Also great for a road trip and more than a few laughs. Brilliant from beginning to end I can't wait for the next cd release!

It's a sad miscalculation to see this album as simply an extended joke, becuase the musicianship is strong, the hooks are perfection, and all this is sustained underneath a hilariously complex and near genius jumble of rock and roll stereotypes being both imitated and ridiculed. And, oh, by the way...it's great music!!! 70's rock is punctured while being executed better than most 70's rockers (Electric Demons--pronounced "Dee--MOHNs--In Love); 80's disco lyrics are dissected until you gag ("I invented the night"...come on, thats hilarious), and 90's Offspring-style hyperbeats are played perfectly ("Gay Bar", I DARE you to not headbang AND crack up).
Look, just get it, blast it, and see which of your friends actually has a sense of humor while you are loving the music.

Hooo-whee! This here CD by the Electric Six has got my hee-haw tied in a knot. I heard 'Gaybar' the other day, and I sweear to gawd that was the most I say the most cacciatore song I have heard in a long time. So I had to leave my woman, tell her I'm going down by the railroad tracks, to dig this electric-disco metal they call the Electric Six but what I like to call: the Electric Six. And boy, wuz I glad I got this sucka! Right from 'Dance Commander,' I was rocking like a beast. Y'all add to that gems like 'Synthesizer,' a perfect throwback to '80s pop that updates the db's 'Amplifier' for these here times, or 'Improper Dancing,' heck, it's all good! And when I heard 'Danger! High Voltage,' I done said to my baby I said 'These boys know how to fry a chicken!' So yes, Electric Six: this is the New Stuff, gentlemen.

Cannot speak highly of this album, which I must confess, I downloaded a month ago! I decided it was well worth the asking price so today I bought an official cd!

I've seen the band play live twice (both non-eventful) and, upon listening to this album (which by the way is GREAT). I feel fully obliged to applaud the producers behind this slab of musical joy. "Fire" has been produced to pop-rock perfection by Messer's Damien Mendis & Stuart Bradbury - aka SOULCHILD. A quick net check reveals previous productions such as Gorillaz, Brandy, Sugababes, Aaliyah, The Fugees, OPM & Foxy Brown/Jay-Z. A masterful stroke, then, for someone to engage these British 'hitmakers' with an, essentially, average "live" sounding Detroit garage-rock band! The payoff is high: Great sounds, styles mixed with infectious and energetic songs.

DANCE COMMANDER is the magnificent opener that manages to magically switch between New Wave (verses) & moshin' Nirvana (choruses)! NAKED PICTURES offers up another Nirvana-esque moment (intro guitar riff) into a satisfying bobbing drone with hilarious 'blackmailing' lyrics! NUCLEAR WAR is a short but sweet QOTSA/Foo Fighters moshin' romp - as is the more sinister sounding GETTING INTO THE JAM.

The white boy funk is omni-present throughout and no more than on IMPROPER DANCING. SHE'S WHITE (a single?) is one of the many other catchy 'sing-along' songs featured here. Sounding very much like KISS meets THE SWEET. Very Glam 'n' Glitzy! The hit debut single DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE featuring the screams of Jack White is not the only disco-flavored cut here on offer. No! I'M THE BOMB (think: Rod Stewart "D'ya Think I'm Sexy") & ELECTRIC DEMONS (don't think: dance).

GAY BAR is a hilarious surf-punk live favorite with pangs of Adam & The Ants, 50's rock 'n' roll, Hawaii 5-O & The Pixies all rolled into one 2 minute masterpiece. A classic and future hit, for sure. I INVENTED THE NIGHT is albums' "slowie" which, to my mind, drags a little bit. Although, interestingly eerie with its Tubeway Army/Gary Numan influence.

Saving the best 'til last: SYNTHESISER. Oh my God! What can I say? But, truly amazing! Coming off sounding like an 80's classic recorded in 2003. It evokes the feeling of so many favorite artists of that era, it's just too hard to pin point what! Anthemic. This HAS TO BE a single! For once, I don't feel short changed. You'll be laughing, dancing and singing...Money well spent! Impressive debut.

The thing with a humour is this, if you try to explain it then automatically it becomes unfunny. You either 'get it' or you don't and that's what I feel about this album.
People mistake humour especially in rock music as taboo. Why is that? Sometimes people can take themselves a little too seriously you know. Lighten up, have some fun, pass me a beer while I go-go dance in my hot pants to this album while you look all moody in the corner.
Listen to how Dick Valentine by sheer force of will tries to convince you he is hotter than fire! how the laydeez will be in for a good time. Count the times he says fire! it's a good rock word afterall.
If A Night At The Roxbury had been a good film this would have been the soundtrack.
Saturday Night Fever attitude meets the Airplane disco scene meets power chords and synths.

Hooo yeah. This album just kicks the crap out of everything. It's so stupid it's great. Here's the rundown: A weird mix of disco and heavy metal with a lead singer who looks like a young Kelsey Grammar. The lyrics to every song are about sex, fire, nuclear war, and dancing all rolled into one. This album is hilarious, but it also delivers some truly excellent riffs and really catchy songs. Plus, "Danger! High Voltage" has guest vocals from a certain John S. O'Leary, alter ego of The White Stripes' Jack White. This album breaks all the rules, and is a great kick in the ass for anyone who listens to hip hop or emo. The Electric Six are a strange bunch, but they have the ability to create excellent music.

"Fire" by Electric Six is easily the best album I have bought in the past year. As a music fanatic who won't take mainstream for an answer, "Fire" blew me away with its mixture of disco and Hives-type punk rock from the first track to the last. When I first heard "Fire" I was reminded of the tunes of Spinal Tap, the vocal cords of Tom Jones, the power rock sounds of Andrew WK, and the talent of the new wave of true rock such as The White Stripes and countless other bands. "Fire" completely rocks on every track with amazing talent, talented sleaziness, and sleazy humor reminiscent of acts like Van Halen, Kiss, and, dare I say it, maybe a very little bit of the BeeGees. Tracks like "She's White" and "Danger! High Voltage" resound with sounds that will rejuvenate even the most ill-fed ears and bring a smile to faces tired of linear mainstream hits. Even after listening to the entire album at least ten times I find myself enticed by songs I didn't enjoy before. If you're looking for some rock with a new flavor other than just plain vanilla, this is the album to buy. If you're debating between buying this album and a Nickleback, Korn, or even the Hives' hyped "Veni Vidi Vicious", don't waste your time or money: buy this album. What a truly great album does is hook you with its hit singles and overall sound. Then, after you tire of the hits a little bit, the complexities and quirks of the other songs show themselves and the CD ends up sitting in your stereo system for weeks on end. This could be one of those CDs. This is one of those CDs.

Like so many of the recent garage bands, Electric Six wear their influences on their respective sleeves. These guys must have a great record collection, since they seem to have more influences stretching across more genres than their contemporaries. The idea that a band could combine the pop-metal sensibilities of 70's-era Kiss, the camp-cheese of Tom Jones (!), the funk/sex in Studio 54 disco and post-modern punk, and make it work, is pretty astonishing. Lord knows, you've heard the songs on "Fire" somewhere, (the Stones' 1978 classic "Shattered" comes to mind), but that doesn't make them any less fun. My guess is that Electric Six will never sustain a career, but this album may be enough. The fact that the band landed "Danger! High Voltage!", which was already a hit in the U.K., on the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle soundtrack, is especially appropriate considering that, like the movie, it's instantly forgettable, but when you're there, you are fully immersed in the moment, and, well, isn't that what great rock n' roll is all about?

Dick Valentine (the lead vocalist) must hold some sort of record for his liberal use of the word "fire", I swear it's in every song on this fantastic debut, appropriately titled "Fire". Of course anyone buying this album will do so for the tremendous single "Danger! High Voltage", which is without a doubt one of the best singles in years, but this album's got plenty more to offer. Electric Six sure won't go down as any sort high coceptual musicians (well, you could call this a concept album, about fires and discoes, dancing and war on the dance floor), but this music is pure fun, highly polished disco-garage-rock performed with passion to spare (something most garage rock groups are seriously lacking in). The one-two punch of "Dance Commander" and "Electric Demons in Love" open the album with a bang, and the album pretty much maintains this momentum all the way through. "She's White" is full of classic lines, this song gets extra bonus points for "YEAH!" chant and actually using the word "junta" in a pop song, and no matter how many times I hear it, Valentine's emphatic "CONTINUE!" during the pause in "Improper Dancing" causes me to lose it every time. "Gay Bar" is a fine 2nd single and a bit closer to sound of the actual album than "Danger! High Voltage" is. 13 songs in just over 38 minutes, this is a quick satisfying listen and one of the most fun records I've heard in a long time. If you enjoyed "Danger! High Voltage" (and you did) then you can't go wrong with this album, especially at this price!