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Electric Crayon posted:After Hours and Love Song For Myself are divine. I just wish they'd come to Savannah on their tour. I don't want to drive four hours round trip to Jacksonville 
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Anyone here agree that Zodiac is up there with Fire and Senor Smoke?
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The end of "Tables and Chairs" forced a smile onto my face that made my day. This album is gold.
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I'm obsessed with Talking Turkey. The line "Happy Thanksgiving, baby" keeps rolling in my head and has done all week. One of the best album finale's they've ever done.
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How can you not love every E6 album? They're all variations on a theme and I think one is as good as all the others. Fire always struck me, actually, as a little weaker and less creative than the others. Just cock-rock (with great lyrics, of course). Haven't listened to the new one enough to really judge yet, but I've loved I Shall Exterminate, Flashy and Kill all equally. "Dirty Ball" and "I Belong in a Factory" don't get enough love. "Thank God my ball will never hate you" sends me into a freakish paroxysm of giggles every time.
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Question for anyone that's seen them live recently. Have they been playing anything off Zodiac at their recent shows? I'd kill to see them to the Rubberband Man cover live next week in Nashville (or failing that, have Dick put on the mustache and suspenders and pull out Radio Ga Ga).
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RedneckwithGuns posted:Question for anyone that's seen them live recently. Have they been playing anything off Zodiac at their recent shows? I'd kill to see them to the Rubberband Man cover live next week in Nashville (or failing that, have Dick put on the mustache and suspenders and pull out Radio Ga Ga). I've been to three or four shows now and my experience has been that they typically play the hits and two to three songs from their newest album.
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RedneckwithGuns posted:Question for anyone that's seen them live recently. Have they been playing anything off Zodiac at their recent shows? I'd kill to see them to the Rubberband Man cover live next week in Nashville (or failing that, have Dick put on the mustache and suspenders and pull out Radio Ga Ga). They played It Ain't Punk Rock, Jam it in the Hole, and Rubberband Man at the show in Boston a couple weeks ago. Maybe another one, I forget I was drunk and also being moshed to death (in a good way).
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I remember it being more like dancing that occasionally bumped into each other than moshing.
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dxt posted:why the gently caress do people mosh to Electric Six? I mostly go to metal shows so moshing itself isn't a problem for me, but during Eletric Six its annoying as hell. There are a noticeably large amount of goony sperg types that go to Electric Six. I don't know why, maybe it's because they got popular on the internet first or something. It's like the Electric Six show is the only reason they've ever come out of their mom's basement and they have no idea how to behave at a social function like a show. One neckbeard's idea of dancing was jumping up and down in the air, doing something with his knees so he'd stomp upon landing. It was really funny at first, but it got old. There's at least one guy like that at every E6 show, without fail. I go to other bands' shows pretty often and I've never seen this happen anywhere else.
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emoltra posted:There are a noticeably large amount of goony sperg types that go to Electric Six. I don't know why, maybe it's because they got popular on the internet first or something. It's like the Electric Six show is the only reason they've ever come out of their mom's basement and they have no idea how to behave at a social function like a show. One neckbeard's idea of dancing was jumping up and down in the air, doing something with his knees so he'd stomp upon landing. It was really funny at first, but it got old. There's at least one guy like that at every E6 show, without fail. I go to other bands' shows pretty often and I've never seen this happen anywhere else. The last couple times they've played at the Middle East in Cambridge there has been like 5 super spergin douches who don't realize what they're doing is awful as they hump someone in the back and start kicking people and throw beer everywhere. Once some tiny 5 foot tall chick got tired of one of them and just turned around and started punching him in the face after telling him to cut it out multiple times. Comparatively, the last few shows they've played on a boat have had awesome crowds without massive douches. Just kinda a uniform movement wave through the crowd. I even made beer runs in the middle of the set and the crowd even parted so I could deliver them to my friends near the front. Good times.
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I love this album as much as I love all the others. There are a small handful of songs I skip when listening to the lot (Sexy Trash nooo) but they haven't released a single album without at least three or four amazing songs on, and that just doesn't happen with any other band. Table and Chairs is possibly my favourite from Zodiac, but drat it's hard to choose.
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I love every Electric Six album, even Flashy has some really good stuff on it. I went to see them play this summer. The nearby show sold out so my friends and I drove six hours to see them at a tiny Mexican themed bar. It was so packed in there that I spent the whole concert dancing on a table with a bunch of girls, and afterwards the entire floor was covered with a layer of broken glass. Everyone was singing along and going nuts, and Dick Valentine had to throw a couple people off the stage. Go see them live. You will not regret it. I don't think Zodiac is as good as Kill (which was awesome, especially after Flashy), but it's pretty good. For some reason it takes me a while to figure out if I like each E6 album.
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Yes, they kick rear end live. At their Madison show earlier this year, there was probably the first Duany Duany reference made since he actually went to the Final Four. Additionally, there was a couple months where I personally made Gay Bar a top 3 played song at my bar's jukebox.
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Yay, gonna see them for the 2nd time ever, in Amsterdam in december. E6 is such an awesome band, and dick valentine is perhaps the most awesome dude ever. Saw them a year and a half ago or something, and it was an awesome show. I fondly remember him wearing 2 capes and poo poo. The new album is OK I guess. I like their more recent piano-driven songs like Flashy Man(from Flashy), and After Hours. e: and this is THE BEST PERFORMANCE of a modern rock song in the history of man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB0_EKS5H2s Samopsa fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Oct 14, 2010 |
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Samopsa posted:e: and this is THE BEST PERFORMANCE of a modern rock song in the history of man My god, that is terrifying. I love it.
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I thought Flashy was pretty bad and I probably haven't heard half the song on kill since I got it and thy all kind of blended together for me because it was honestly terrible to me. I think Señor Smoke was probably their best followed by Exterminate. Is Zodiac for me?
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Oh my god I'm addicted to Señor Smoke, I forgot how great that CD was.
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Samopsa posted:Yay, gonna see them for the 2nd time ever, in Amsterdam in december. 
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/\/\/\/\/\/\ yay for the melkweg!  E6 really seemed to enjoy themselves last year in Eindhoven.Oh poo poo Canada posted:I thought Flashy was pretty bad and I probably haven't heard half the song on kill since I got it and thy all kind of blended together for me because it was honestly terrible to me. I think Señor Smoke was probably their best followed by Exterminate. Just listen to it one or two times and you'll know. Highlights for me are Love Song For Myself, After Hours and Countdown to the Countdown.
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RedneckwithGuns posted:They cancelled the Nashville show. Same with Seattle, I was actually hoping I could finally see them live. I'm liking Zodiac a lot, Clusterfuck! and Jam it in Hole are amazing. I didn't even know they released a new album until I saw this thread. edit: looks like they're rescheduling the shows for March 2011, poo poo a family emergency was the reason for cancellation. Hopefully everything is cool with those guys. Cattywampus fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Oct 23, 2010 |
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I saw them years ago in Detroit, after Flashy, and it might just be the best live show I've been to, ranking up there with Gogol Bordello where Hutz hopped on a security guard's back and rode him around stage, or Iggy Pop, where he called for everyone in the front rows to just jump on the stage. But Dick Valentine manages to put on an incredible show without any major gimmick. Even when dealing with jackasses in the audience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBUeN5g3IvQ I mean, what better way to deal with a heckler than to dismantle his douchiness and spin it into a positive message? All at some little dive in Ohio with what looks like less than 50 people in the crowd. I'd love to see them again but will have to wait at least until their next tour when I'll be back in the US. Until then I really love Kill and Zodiac. Anybody else fans of Body Shot, American Cheese, or Doom and Gloom?
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dxt posted:no wonder they hate ohio so much It's a Michigan thing, most people here latch onto the only nearby state that can be considered worse, and for someone driving South, the lovely speed limits in Ohio (like 55 on I-75) and the fact that it seems exactly the same as Michigan from said highway makes people hate it 
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Carti posted:Definitely in my diary to see these guys play Brighton in December after an awesome show last year in Hastings. The new album sounds promising. Wait, you were at the Crypt last year? I loved that despite being totally munted Dick threw out a great performance. The Brighton gig was much better than last year's as well. It's a shame Jam It In The Hole doesn't really translate well live, Clusterfuck! more than made up for it though. Onto Zodiac, personally I'm over the moon with it, barring Punk Rock every song gets me going and it's got a great energetic feel through it. Kill and Zodiac have marked a big upturn from the 'decent, but nothing special' feel of Swizerland and Exterminate. I honestly can't believe a band can be so prolific and still strike gold most of the time. Aggro Craig posted:I mean, what better way to deal with a heckler than to dismantle his douchiness and spin it into a positive message? All at some little dive in Ohio with what looks like less than 50 people in the crowd. Damnit man, I was going to post that link. I mean, he equates himself with Jesus Christ and assures a moron he will gently caress him up in a cage match before triumphantly finishing off one of their best songs. Wonderful.
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I just got into these guys a few months ago so... more for me without the wait! sweet!
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From http://www.electricsix.com/quote:We are very happy to announce that Dick Valentine (in conjunction with Will Bates of Fall On Your Sword, who also happens to be Dick's partner in Evil Cowards) has written original material, 5 songs in all, which feature as the soundtrack to a brand new original webseries produced by Machinima.com. The series is entitled "Bite Me" (though the E6 song of that name does not feature) and the synopsis is as follows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJmEfO2yNI You can hear a bit of one of the songs at 2:57. Hopefully, they make the whole song available somewhere.
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I just found this band out back in March while listening to my iPod on shuffle in my car. Rubber Rocket came on and I'm just questioning "what in the world is this"? I look at my iPod, find out the artist, listen to all of their albums and slowly become more and more obsessed with them and I'm still obsessed with them til this day. I've already seen them once in concert and I want to see them again. They are my absolute favorite band to this date and I listen to A LOT of music. I was pretty impressed with Zodiac and I thought it was a lot better than KILL (my least favorite album).
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M1TCH3LL posted:Saying that, they're already working on their NEXT album for 2011, apparently called "Man vs. Internet." So who knows. According to when they usually put out their albums...only four more months.
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They're album-pumping machines. What I don't understand is how they keep getting better. Nice of them to jump across the pond every year to tour as well.
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"Last year we played at a little place called the Gaelic club, this year we're at the Metro, next year? OPERA HOUSE!" - Dick Valentine in Sydney 2005. Lying bastard.
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Shunkymonky posted:"Last year we played at a little place called the Gaelic club, this year we're at the Metro, next year? OPERA HOUSE!"
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I love the stuff Dick spouts when he's on stage. "We're a political band that's from...Saudi Arabia."
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I know this thread's a bit out of date, it's probably time to make a new one, but here's some news regarding the next album which nobody in the 11 known dimensions (which incidentally all contain Electric Six) could have ever predicted would be released in the latter quarter of the year:quote:BROOKLYN, NY, June 22 -- The following can be attributed to Dick Valentine:
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gently caress yes. Seeing them in November again, in Amsterdam. this poo poo is going to own balls.
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"Hello. Hope your summer is hot and humid. I, like you, am waiting for our eighth album entitled 'Heartbeats and Brainwaves' to come out this October so we can all sing along together. However, this is still the summer and October is a season away." Awww...Man Vs Internet is such a better name!
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PeppermintEgo posted:"Hello. Hope your summer is hot and humid. I, like you, am waiting for our eighth album entitled 'Heartbeats and Brainwaves' to come out this October so we can all sing along together. However, this is still the summer and October is a season away." I don't think Dick's ever used the real name for an album until about September. There's still time for it to change back.
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