Electric Six

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- Fire
- Released 2003

- Switzerland
- Released 2006

- Señor Smoke
- Released 2005

- I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master
- Released 2007

biography

Formerly known as the Wildbunch, the Detroit sextet Electric Six mix garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs like "Danger! High Voltage," which reached number two on the British charts early in 2003. Singer Dick Valentine, guitarists Rock and Roll Indian and Surge Joebot, bassist Disco, and drummer M. formed the Wildbunch in 1996 (keyboardist Tait Nucleus? joined the band later), releasing their debut single, "I Lost Control (Of My Rock & Roll)," and the eight-track An Evening with the Many Moods of the Wildbunch's Greatest Hits...Tonight! that year on Uchu Cult Records. They also released 1999's full-length on that imprint. The group switched to Flying Bomb for singles like 1997's "The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ," the Christmas single "Flying Bomb Surprise Package, Vol. 1," and 2001's "Danger! High Voltage," which became an underground hit, particularly in the U.K.

The following year the group signed to XL and re-recorded "Danger! High Voltage," this time adding backing vocals from the White Stripes' Jack White. After the re-release of the single in 2003, Electric Six issued their full-length debut album, Fire, later that spring. Just a few weeks after the album's release, Disco, Rock and Roll Indian, and Surge Joebot left the band and were replaced by Frank Lloyd Bonaventure, the Colonel, and Johnny Na$hinal. In 2004, the band got a new record deal with Rushmore, a British Warner Bros. imprint, and lost Bonaventure and M., whose bass and drum duties were filled by John R. Dequindre and Percussion World, respectively. The second Electric Six album, Señor Smoke, arrived in the U.K. early in 2005. It took another year for the album to be released stateside, on Metropolis Records. Switzerland arrived in fall of 2006 and I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master followed in October of 2007. Early in 2008, Valentine embarked on his American Troubador solo tour, which included stops in Hamtramck, MI, and Portland, OR; that spring, Electric Six recorded their fifth album, Flashy, in the Colonel's studio. Metropolis released Flashy that fall. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide

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  - - By Raiga39
    - 9/2/2009 22:30:33
  - Me and my friends are hooked on this sound. We are totally coming to see you in october. Flashy changed my life.
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- - Electric Six are brilliant
  - - By cs188
    - 4/11/2009 00:24:46
  - If you haven't seen the video for "Danger! High Voltage", I urge to to check it out. It's absolutely hilarious, if not a little disturbing:
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4gyJsY0mc
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- - /orgasm much?
  - - By Dream Bright
    - 3/23/2009 23:40:17
  - I first heard their song Gay Bar and was instantly hooked. Love this band. Can't have Dick's babies, but I would love something else of his. ;D
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- - flashy men
  - - By themizarkshow
    - 1/17/2009 13:17:40
  - this band can do no wrongs. they are the gods of weird and awesome party music.
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