ARTiST: Electric Six
ALBUM: I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The
BiTRATE: 226kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Metropolis
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 86.27 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 50min 25sec total
RiP DATE: 2007-10-05
STORE DATE: 2007-10-09
Track List:
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01. It's Showtime! 1:53
02. Down At Mcdonnellzzzzz 4:01
03. Dance Pattern 3:41
04. Rip It! 3:37
05. Feed My Fuckin' Habit 2:11
06. Riding On The White Train 2:48
07. Broken Machine 3:16
08. When I Get To The Green 3:54
Building
09. Randy's Hot Tonight! 3:04
10. Kukuxumushu 3:51
11. I Don't Like You 2:53
12. Lucifer Airlines 2:49
13. Lenny Kravitz 3:06
14. Fabulous People 2:27
15. Sexy Trash 2:08
16. Dirty Looks 4:46
Release Notes:
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The title of Electric SixÆs fourth album, I Shall Exterminate Everything Around
Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master, is borrowed from a drawing by an
artist named George Grosz. The drawing portrays the gluttony and excess of
Berlin in the interwar period.
Now, Electric Six has never been to Berlin, and will never live in an ôinterwar
periodö as war is now everywhere and totally going to keep going for a really
long while... But we know a thing or two about excess. Excessive compulsive fans
plague us. Excessive mean-spirited journalists write an excess of mean things
about us. Excess baggage enters our hotel rooms. And the time has come to do
something excessive about it.
Electric Six has plenty of access to excess. Upon embarking on this recording
journey, Electric Six had an excess of free time. We purchased an excess of
foodstuffs from Trader JoeÆs and hunkered down and recorded...excessively.
The album is excessive in its exploration of excess. Every song in one way or
another is the result of excessive access to excess. The jazzy cabaret-ish album
opener ôItÆs Showtime! ô explores what happens to a band when it plays in excess
of 250 shows a year in front ofà..people. HereÆs a hint: excessive resent and
anger at...people. It is followed by the piano-raga grooviness of ôDown at
McDonnellzzzzzö a real time documentation of the erosion of American youth
culture at the hands of excess trans fats and supersized shareholder profits at
the expense of excessive burgers.
The album is heretofore and previously referred to as ôThe Albumö since the
title, I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The
Master, is, in and of itself...excessive.
The anchor track of the album is the radio-ready Coldplayish ôWhen I Get To The
Green Building,ö a beautifully textured musical tribute to DominoÆs Farms in Ann
Arbor, Michigan. How is this excessive you ask? See what happens to you when you
sell that many pizzas! YouÆd probably think you have a hotline to God too! And
thatÆs the sort of thing we in Electric Six deem...a tad excessive.
The album closes with a triumphant new wave/stoner rock big bang in the
magnificent ôDirty Looks,ö an exploration of the ôbig pictureö in three parts.
The most Shakespearian of the E6 catalogue, the album of excess closes in such
an accessible way.
When itÆs all said and done, Electric Six feels that theyÆve done a good job at
weaving fun, good times and high-octane pleasure into the fabric of this crazy
world, damned by its excess. At 16 songs, the album is Electric SixÆs most
excessive in terms of number of songs. The band rehearses excessively and will
take its act on the road in the fall of 2007 on the ItÆs Showtime! Tour coming
to an American town near youà.that is, if you havenÆt already been crushed by
the weight of your own access.
NOTE:
Had to rename the 00- because they were too long.