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Rating: Autumn 2001: In a local club-disco in my city, people go literally crazy when the DJ plays "Song 2" by Blur, and I comment to a friend, "I've heard a really great song that I'm sure would cause a sensation, and it kind of resembles, with its 'u-uh', 'Song 2' by Blur." I was talking about "Bohemian Like You" by the Dandy Warhols.
Summer 2002: The same song is used for a famous commercial, and it starts being heard *everywhere* and *all the time*, with the result of becoming tiresome...
The Dandy Warhols are on everyone’s lips, but in the end, what have they done? One successful song, a couple of other decent songs, but they haven't left a "mark".
What does all this have to do with anything? Be a little patient, we're getting there!
For a month now, I've been listening to a song that to call compelling is an understatement: "Danger! High Voltage". I would describe the genre as "garage-rock-dance", and the band is called Electric Six.
I look for information online but find little to nothing: I only discover that it's a very popular track in English clubs and that the video is sufficiently crazy to become "the-video-where-the-man's-'package'-and-the-woman's-boobs-light-up".
Then the album comes out, preceded by the second single "Gay Bar", with an equally strange and provocative video (set in the White House, featuring muscular men in briefs with sideburns à la old American presidents) and some more information comes to light: the album's release, initially planned for early 2003, has been postponed due to continuous references in the lyrics to bombs, fire, nuclear wars... and it doesn't matter that there is nothing political about it but that they refer to the "dancefloor": there's a war ongoing and certain things can't be said... well... whatever...
It turns out that Electric Six are from Detroit, like the White Stripes, and it seems that the slightly hysterical second voice in the refrain of "Danger! High Voltage" is indeed Jack White. It also seems that the sax solo was played by former President Clinton, but nothing is certain.
Here's the thing, the problem is exactly this: it feels like this band is "hyped up".
One hit song (still genuinely great), a couple of attention-grabbing videos, some scattered mysteries here and there to pique people's curiosity, a common origin with another "trendy" band like the White Stripes, leading to talk of a "Detroit movement", of a "breath of fresh air in the music scene" etc., etc.
To me, it feels more like a summer downpour, which when over, leaves it hotter than before... eventually, some advertiser will bet on the best song, we'll hear it to death in a commercial with Megan Gale, and in the end, Electric Six will meet the fate of the Dandy Warhols... Amen.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Dance Commander (02:37)
You must obey the dance commander
Givin' out the order for fun
You must obey the dance commander
You know that he's the only one
who gives the orders here,
alright
who gives the orders here,
alright
It would be awesome
if we could dance-a
It would be awesome, yeah
let's take the chance-a
It would be awesome, yeah
let's start the show
because you never know
you never know
you never know until you go
Alright
Alright
...who gives the orders here
Alright
...who gives the orders here
Alright
The lines are drawn, the orders are in
the dance commander's ready to sin
Radio message from HQ
Dance commander, we love you.
Let's get this party started right, y'all.
Let's get this party started right.
I went to the store to get more
fire... to start the war
Everybody in this club is whack
I feel like I'm headed straight for a heart attack
Girls are pretty
Girls are nice
Take your chances
roll the dice.
Take your chances...
It would be awesome
if we could dance-a
It would be awesome, yeah
let's take the chance-a
It would be awesome, yeah
let's start the show
because you never know
you never know
you never know until you go
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
I wanna make it last forever
Ooo, baby!
Alright
Alright
You must obey the dance commander
You must obey the dance commander
You must obey the dance commander
You must obey the dance commander
Come on!
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on...
03 Naked Pictures (of Your Mother) (02:11)
Well nobody wants to burn in Hell
but everybody's got a soul to sell.
When I was young my mama gave me some advice
She said Boy, don't you know everybody's got a price?
I make lots of money, I make more money than you
I drive around in my limo, that's what I was born to do
And I might like you better if we fucked together
If it's not to be you know that I got somethin' better for you:
Naked pictures of your mother
Naked pictures of your mother
Naked pictures of your mother GO
Solo!
I dropped a bomb on Japan
I was a hostage in Iran
I'm the ugly American
Now I'm a government man
A government man!
And I make lots of money, I make more money than you
I drive around in my limo, that's what I was born to do
And I might like you better if we fucked together
If it's not to be you know that I got somethin' better for you:
Naked pictures of your mother
Naked pictures of your mother
Naked pictures of your mother GO
04 Danger! High Voltage (03:34)
Fire in the disco
Fire in the taco bell
Fire in the disco
Fire in the gates of hell
Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?
It's my desire, It's my desire, It's my desire
Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?
It's my desire, It's my desire, It's my desire
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, When we kiss
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, when we kiss
when we touch
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, When we kiss
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, when we kiss
when we touch, when we kiss
Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?
It's my desire, It's my desire
Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?
It's my desire, It's my desire
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, When we kiss
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, when we kiss
when we touch
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, When we kiss
Danger! Danger! High Voltage!
When we touch, when we kiss
when we touch, when we kiss
lover!
Fire in the disco
Fire in the disco
Fire in the taco bell
Fire in the disco
Fire in the disco
Fire in the gates of Hell
Gates of Hell
05 She's White (03:16)
I was born a prisoner
in your dungeon of flesh
oh yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Solitary confinement underneath your dress
oh yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah)
But I broke those shackles
I bent those bars
I got out the van and drove away in my car
I got a new girl now
She dont understand me
but she's getting hot now
and she's white (white)
She is so white
she's white like the light
never like the night
She's white (white)
she is so white
I was born to excite her
she could never be whiter
toniiii-iight.
I was born a hunter
in your jungle of sin
oh yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah)
And our love was a sport
but she'd let me win
oh yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah)
And I shot those arrows
I flung those balls
But she returned my fire
and shot me in the heart
I got a new girl now
she dont understand me
but she's getting hot now
And she's white (white)
she is so white
she's white like the light
but never like the night
She's white (white)
she is so white
I was born to excite her
she could never be whiter
toniiii-iight
toniiii-iight
GO!
I was born a dancer
in your disco of fire
oh yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah)
And your love was the rhythm
elevating me higher
oh yeah (yeah, yeah, yeah)
But I scratched that record
I stopped that show
I got on the mic
and I let you know
I got a new girl
she's 6 feet tall
I got her number on the wall
And she's white (white)
she is so white
she's white like the light
never like the night
Shes white (white)
she is so white
I was born to excite her
she could never be whiter
toniiii-iight
toniiii-iight
toniiii-iight
08 Gay Bar (02:20)
YOU!*
I wanna take you to a gay bar,
I wanna take you to a gay bar,
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Let's start a war, start a nuclear war,
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Wow!
At the gay bar.
Now Tell me do ya...do ya have any money?
I wanna spend all your money,
at the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
I've got something to put in you,
I've got something to put in you,
I've got something to put in you,
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar.
Wow!
You're a superstar, at the gay bar.
You're a superstar, at the gay bar.
Yeah! you're a superstar, yeah at the gay bar.
You're a superstar, at the gay bar.
Superstar.
Super, super, superstar
11 Vengeance and Fashion (02:46)
I saw fire
when I looked in my lovers eyes
Woooaaahhhooo
I saw
the devil dressed up in disguise
Woooaaahhhooo
And you know it gets hotter than a microwave oven
When you and I commence the lovin'
And you like what I’m doin'
And I like what I'm doin' to you
And everybody’s happy
happy tonight
I'm a man
and I’m torn between vengeance and fashion
Woooaaahhhoooo
And I’m tryin' so hard
not to get caught up in the passion
Woooaaahhhooo
And you know that my suit
cost more than your house
I’m a scoundrel
a lover
a murderous mouse
And that looked good in your bed
And you think that I’m lookin' good
And everybody's happy
happy tonight
She's a girl
and she's got some really crazy ideas man
Woooaaahhhooo
She wants to push the button
and execute this innocent man
Woooaaahhhooo
And you know she's depressed in her wedding dress
She's gonna have her rings removed
And I like the way she's lookin'
Yeah she's lookin' like a hundred dollars
And everybody’s happy
happy tonight
12 I'm the Bomb (04:18)
Now who elected you judge and jury
in the body of a beautiful girl?
And I suspect heavy gerrymandering
at the single's bar
And now
I'm a man with conversation skills
and I'm a man with hundred dollar bills
and just a look my direction one time
is all it's gonna take now
Come on
I know you think I'm just another sucker perpetrator
livin' in the two-one-three.
And I don't care what you say about any of that, no
It don't matter to me, and
I see you drivin' the wheel in your fancy car
You're a superstar livin' in the three-one-oh
And I will freak you like you've never been freaked before, now
And I'm ready to go, yeah
Come on now
Three two one I'm the bomb
and I'm ready to go off on your ship
Three two one I'm the bomb
and I'm ready to go off on your ship
Three two one I'm the bomb
and I'm ready to go off
ready to go off, now
Hey girl, when I'm fuckin' you
It's like nothin' else matters.
Maybe we'll reach down between my legs
and ease the seat back.
Three-two-one I'm the bomb
and I'm ready to go off on your ship
Three-two-one I'm the bomb
and I'm ready to go off on your ship
Three-two-one I'm the bomb
and I'm ready to go off on your ship
Three-two-one I'm the bomb
and I'm ready to go off
ready to go off, now
13 Synthesizer (03:59)
You can shake it all around
You can go up and down
You can lose what you found
But you can't ignore my techno
You can go west or east
Confess your sins to a priest
You can slay the wicked beast
But you can't ignore my techno
You can go to the doctor
You can cough in his face
Infect the whole human race
But you can't ignore my techno
You can laugh you can cry
You can live you can die
Spend your days asking why?
But you can't ignore my techno
You can trip on my synthesizer
Electronic world for every boy and every girl
You can trip on my synthesizer
Alien technology onto the world that set us free
Be all that you can be
Just as long as you are free
You were blind and now you see
That which is my techno
You can trip on my synthesizer
Electronic world for every boy and every girl
You can trip on my synthesizer
Alien technology onto the world that set us free
You can trip on my
You can trip on my
You can trip on my
You can trip
You can trip
You can trip on my synthesizer
You can trip on my synthesizer
Let's go
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