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Electric Six's m.o. of inflating rock clichés to grotesque proportions, adding a dash of tongue-in-cheek pomposity, and then laughing at the results can generate more than just a great single. Granted, that single is still the reason to own Fire, but fans of that song probably won't feel burned by the rest of the album.
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Electric Six is the most exciting band to come tumbling out of Detroit since Kiss.
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BlenderTwo things save Electric Six from becoming the alt-rock Weird Al: Their jokes hit home and their music is convincingly ferocious. [#17, p.134]
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MojoThe result is ZZ Top's Eliminator meets The Best of Chic. [Jun 2003, p.112]
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OutburnThe Electric Six have a knack for mixing a dash of Saturday Night Fever with a whole lot of MC5 and just a smidgen of Jack Black. [#23, p.87]
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If you're bored of 'Danger! High Voltage' like us, there's plenty to plunder, though ultimately you'll be filing this album away in your "don't play anymore" library after Echobelly and before Electric Soft Parade.
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The summer's most brilliantly demented party record.
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Fires not something well remember for long, but it is a surprisingly good album, with highlights that simply need to be heard.
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To a certain extent, Fire sounds like a joke, but a pointed one that approaches rock less as a conceit than as a directive, something to drag into its cultural surroundings rather than a trope to fall back on.
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UrbIt's a raucous rave-up of arena rock riffs over funky disco beats, the kind of freaky dance-rock jams that belong on the jukebox in every gay biker bar in America. [Jul 2003, p.91]
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This is the funniest hard-rock album I've ever heard; also, the hardest-rocking funny album I've ever heard, since if you take away the jokes you've still got the power of the music.
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They exist only to rock your world. If you don't let them, you're the stupid one.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 28
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Mixed: 0 out of 28
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Negative: 3 out of 28
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Oct 11, 2012
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Feb 12, 2017
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MichaelCJul 21, 2006Any critic that gave this less than 80, is deaf. Also a liar. This album changed mt life. Buy it or regret it forever