Señor Smoke

Señor Smoke
Studio album by Electric Six
Released	February 14, 2005
Genre	Rock
Length	43:02
Label	WEA
Producer	Peters & Peters
Electric Six chronology
Fire (2003) Señor Smoke (2005) Switzerland (2006)
Singles from Señor Smoke
"Vibrator" Released: 18 October 2004 "Radio Ga Ga" Released: 13 December 2004

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(58/100) [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Drowned In Sound	(1/10)[3]
Robert Christgau	[4]
Entertainment.ie	[5]
NME	(3/10) [6]
The A.V Club	(B)[7]
Pitchfork Media	(4.4/10)[8]
PopMatters	(6/10)[9]
Prefix Magazine	[10]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[11]
The Village Voice	(ambivalent)[12]

Señor Smoke (2005) is the second album from Electric Six, following Fire in 2003. It was released in the UK February 14, 2005 by Warner Music imprint Rushmore Records. Due to complications with Electric Six's former record label, Rushmore did not release the album in North America.

In December 2005, the band announced a new partnership with Metropolis Records that resulted in Señor Smoke's North American release on February 7, 2006.

Señor Smoke was ravaged by the UK press upon its 2005 release. However, the response to the album has been much more enthusiastic in America, with several positive reviews, including one from the March 2006 issue of Blender Magazine that claims that the album (which received four stars) is so good that "[it] achieves an advance modern medicine has long pursued: it restores virginity."

Track listing

All lyrics written by Tyler Spencer except "Radio Ga Ga" by Roger Taylor; all music composed by Tyler Spencer except where noted.

1. "Rock and Roll Evacuation" (3:36)
2. "Devil Nights" (Spencer/Zach Shipps/Christopher Tait/Chris Peters) (2:56)
3. "Bite Me" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:57)
4. "Jimmy Carter" (3:27)
5. "Pleasing Interlude I" (0:47)
6. "Dance Epidemic" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (2:48)
7. "Future Boys" (3:08)
8. "Dance-A-Thon 2005" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:29)
9. "Be My Dark Angel" (3:17)
10. "Vibrator" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (2:31)
11. "Boy Or Girl?" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:26)
12. "Pleasing Interlude II" (0:27)
13. "Radio Ga Ga" (Taylor) (3:55)
14. "Taxi to Nowhere" (1:39)
15. "Future Is in the Future" (Spencer/Shipps/Tait/Peters) (3:37)

Trivia

• The album's title honors Aurelio López, a former relief pitcher of the Detroit Tigers.^[13][14]
• "Vibrator" was released as a free download-only single on the 18th of October 2004 to help promote the album. This was later revealed to be a "Download Mix" as opposed to the album version.
• The song "Bite Me" borrows the line "[I] have accountants pay for it all" from the Joe Walsh song, "Life's Been Good".
• The song "Jimmy Carter" humorously borrows the line "Backstreet's back alright" from "Everybody" by Backstreet Boys.
• The song "Dance-A-Thon 2005" was retired from the band's live performances after 2005, however it returned in 2009 with the words changed to "Dance-A-Thon 2009".
• The song "Dance-A-Thon 2005" reprises the lines "I want to reach into the fire of your heart, I want to program all those beats right from the start, have you ever been to New York City? New York City!" from "Improper Dancing", a song on Electric Six's previous album "Fire".
• The song "Taxi to Nowhere" originated from the band's days as "The Wildbunch".

References

1. http://www.metacritic.com/music/senor-smoke
2. "Allmusic review".
3. "Drowned in Sound review".
4. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=5144&name=Electric+Six
5. "Entertainment.ie review".
6. February 16, 2005
7. "The Onion review".
8. "Pitchfork Media review".
9. "PopMatters review".
10. "Prefix Magazine review".
11. "Tiny Mix Tapes review".
12. "The Village Voice review".
13. Interview: "How Do You Rock So Hard?" — Electric Six, Blogcritics.org, February 22, 2006, by Tiffany Leigh.
14. Electric Six: Interview with Dick Valentine, Artrocker, by Kaoru Sato.