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Switzerland (album)

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Recorded
  
November 2005

Artist
  
Electric Six

Producer
  
Peters & Peters

Genre
  
Rock music

Length
  
42:15

Release date
  
12 September 2006

Label
  
Metropolis Records

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Released
  
September 12, 2006 (2006-09-12)

Switzerland (2006)
  
I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master (2007)

Similar
  
Electric Six albums, Rock music albums

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Switzerland is the title of the third album by Detroit rock band Electric Six.

Contents

The album consists of thirteen new tracks. The band commented that:

A music video for the song "I Buy the Drugs" was recorded on July 1, 2006 and was released on their MySpace site in early August. A digital download of the track followed on August 15, 2006.

The album was released on September 12, 2006 in the United States and was followed by releases in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Tyler Spencer; all music composed by Tyler Spencer except where noted.

  1. "The Band in Hell" – 3:19
  2. "I Buy the Drugs" – 3:22
  3. "Mr. Woman" – 2:52
  4. "Night Vision" – 4:03
  5. "Infected Girls" (Peters/Shipps) – 3:29
  6. "Pulling the Plug on the Party" – 2:54
  7. "Rubber Rocket" (Tait) – 3:37
  8. "Pink Flamingos" – 2:42
  9. "I Wish This Song Was Louder" – 3:14
  10. "Slices of You" (John Nash) – 4:17
  11. "There's Something Very Wrong With Us, So Let's Go Out Tonight" – 4:23
  12. "Germans in Mexico" – 3:01
  13. "Chocolate Pope" – 1:02

The Australian release of the album under label Inertia Records contains a fourteenth track, a Midnight Juggernauts remix of "The Future Is in the Future" from the band's album Señor Smoke.

Music videos

Lead singer Dick Valentine stated in an interview that the band intends to record a video for every song on the album, "a lot of them...low budget". Seven official videos were released:

  • "I Buy the Drugs" on YouTube
  • Dick Valentine's commentary on the video
  • "Chocolate Pope" on YouTube
  • "Mr. Woman" on YouTube.
  • "Pulling the Plug on the Party" on YouTube
  • "There's Something Very Wrong With Us So Let's Go Out Tonight" on YouTube
  • "Rubber Rocket" on YouTube.
  • "Infected Girls" on YouTube

    • In addition to the official videos released by the band, Electric Six also hosted a contest for the best fan video for the first single on the album, "I Buy the Drugs." Several winning videos were posted on the band's MySpace page but have since been removed.

    Trivia

  • Roughly at 1:50 mark of the track "Infected Girls" there is a speech of the girl telling the story from "Pleasing Interlude I" (a track from the band's second album, Señor Smoke) in Russian in the end in Lithuanian.
  • Lead singer Dick Valentine has stated that the name Switzerland was chosen because he had never been there, and hoped that the band would be invited to tour. As of February 2009, Electric Six is scheduled to tour Switzerland in March.
  • The album was dedicated to the Swiss tennis player Roger Federer.

    • Songs

    1The Band in Hell3:19
    2I Buy the Drugs3:22
    3Mr Woman2:53

    References

    Switzerland (album) Wikipedia
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