![]() before them, are not in the business of satire. ![]() If only there wasn't that lingering sense of vacuous sincerity. Granted, it's not all as sophomorically abominable as "Gay Bar" some of it's actually even kinda funny, in a Men Without Hats sorta way ("Radio message from HQ/ Dance commander, we love you"), but let's be direct: these guys mention "fire" in nearly every song (that, or "going to war" on the dancefloor), and the subject of "Naked Pictures" is none other than- whoa-ho-ho!- your mother.Ĭlunky power-chord progressions, tinny percussion, and distant synths complete the gruesome aura of kitsch surrounding Fire- and that wouldn't be so bad if we could at least dismiss it as pure novelty. ![]() When snarling frontman Dick Valentine subjects me to lyrics like, "I've got something to put in you/ At the gay bar," I just wonder if, upon the crazy success of their incredible disco/rock hybrid, "Danger! High Voltage", these guys simply decided it was easier to just give up than to try topping it. Is it that I don't "get" the Electric Six? Believe me, I get it it's just that once I got it, I started looking for a way to get rid of it.
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