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Length
  
43:02

Artist
  
Electric Six

Producer
  
Peters & Peters

Genre
  
Rock music

Señor Smoke (2005)
  
Switzerland (2006)

Release date
  
14 February 2005

Label
  
Rush Records

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Released
  
February 14, 2005 (2005-02-14)

Similar
  
Electric Six albums, Rock music albums

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Señor Smoke (2005) is the second album from Electric Six, following Fire in 2003. It was released in the UK February 14, 2005 by Warner Music imprint Rushmore Records. Due to complications with Electric Six's former record label, Rushmore did not release the album in North America.

Contents

In December 2005, the band announced a new partnership with Metropolis Records that resulted in Señor Smoke's North American release on February 7, 2006.

Señor Smoke was ravaged by the UK press upon its 2005 release. However, the response to the album has been much more enthusiastic in America, with several positive reviews, including one from the March 2006 issue of Blender Magazine that claims that the album (which received four stars) is so good that "[it] achieves an advance modern medicine has long pursued: it restores virginity."

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Track listing

All lyrics written by Tyler Spencer except "Radio Ga Ga" by Roger Taylor; all music composed by Tyler Spencer except where noted.

  1. "Rock and Roll Evacuation" (3:36)
  2. "Devil Nights" (Spencer/Zach Shipps/Christopher Tait/Chris Peters) (2:56)
  3. "Bite Me" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:57)
  4. "Jimmy Carter" (3:27)
  5. "Pleasing Interlude I" (0:47)
  6. "Dance Epidemic" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (2:48)
  7. "Future Boys" (3:08)
  8. "Dance-A-Thon 2005" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:29)
  9. "Be My Dark Angel" (3:17)
  10. "Vibrator" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (2:31)
  11. "Boy Or Girl?" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:26)
  12. "Pleasing Interlude II" (0:27)
  13. "Radio Ga Ga" (Taylor) (3:55)
  14. "Taxi to Nowhere" (1:39)
  15. "Future Is in the Future" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:37)

Trivia

  • The album's title honors Aurelio López, a former relief pitcher of the Detroit Tigers.
  • "Vibrator" was released as a free download-only single on the 18th of October 2004 to help promote the album. This was later revealed to be a "Download Mix" as opposed to the album version.
  • The song "Bite Me" borrows the line "[I] have accountants pay for it all" from the Joe Walsh song, "Life's Been Good".
  • The song "Jimmy Carter" borrows the line "Backstreet's back alright" from "Everybody" by Backstreet Boys.
  • The song "Dance-A-Thon 2005" was retired from the band's live performances after 2005, however it returned in 2009 with the words changed to "Dance-A-Thon 2009".
  • The song "Dance-A-Thon 2005" reprises the lines "I want to reach into the fire of your heart, I want to program all those beats right from the start, have you ever been to New York City? New York City!" from "Improper Dancing", a song on Electric Six's previous album "Fire".
  • The song "Taxi to Nowhere" originated from the band's days as "The Wildbunch".

    • Songs

    1Rock and Roll Evacuation3:37
    2Devil Nights2:56
    3Bite Me3:58

    References

    Señor Smoke Wikipedia
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