You're Welcome! (Electric Six album)
You're Welcome! is a double-album by Electric Six with disc one being the band's fifteenth studio album, composed entirely of cover songs (a sequel to their previous covers album Mimicry), and disc two consisting of the live performance given by the band at the Oxford O2 Academy on 22 April 2017. It was funded through a Kickstarter campaign and self-released directly to the campaign's backers.
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| Released | September 2017 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | Disc 1: 52:17 - Disc 2: 69:55 - Total: 122:12 | |||
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Production
The band launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $30,000 in order to fund the album. It was successful with a total of $77,000 being raised.[1]
One specific pledge reward as part of the Kickstarter campaign was to choose a song to be covered on the album. The four songs chosen by fans through this method were "Young Americans" by David Bowie, "Vow" by Garbage, "Nightclubbing" by Iggy Pop, "Magic Dance" by David Bowie, "Rasputin" by Boney M., "Seminole Bingo" by Warren Zevon and "Last Night I Had a Dream" by Randy Newman.
As stretch goals, the project's backers were given the option to vote for songs to be included in the live set recorded for the second half of the album. The songs selected by this method were "Dance Pattern", "I Invented the Night" and "Randy's Hot Tonight". As additional stretch goals, funds were secured to produce music videos for songs from the band's previous album, Fresh Blood for Tired Vampyres. These were "I'll Be In Touch" and "I Got the Box".
By coincidence, the final album contained two covers of songs by Bowie, with a further cover of a song co-written by Bowie. The band previously covered Bowie's "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" on their first cover album, Mimicry and Memories, and had also covered "Blue Jean" on the tribute album A Salute to the Thin White Duke: The Songs of David Bowie.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Kids In America" (Originally recorded by Kim Wilde) | Marty Wilde and Ricky Wilde | 3:33 |
| 2. | "Rasputin" (Originally recorded by Boney M.) | Frank Farian, George Reyam and Fred Jay | 2:46 |
| 3. | "Union of the Snake" (Originally recorded by Duran Duran) | Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor and Nick Rhodes | 4:23 |
| 4. | "Drenched in Blood" (Originally recorded by Turbonegro) | Turbonegro | 3:20 |
| 5. | "Animal Day" (Originally recorded by Wall of Voodoo) | Wall of Voodoo | 2:56 |
| 6. | "Dirty Laundry" (Originally recorded by Don Henley) | Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar | 5:38 |
| 7. | "Magic Dance" (Originally recorded by David Bowie) | David Bowie | 4:09 |
| 8. | "Seminole Bingo" (Originally recorded by Warren Zevon) | Carl Hiaasen and Warren Zevon | 3:06 |
| 9. | "Last Night I Had a Dream" (Originally recorded by Randy Newman) | Randy Newman | 2:07 |
| 10. | "Vow" (Originally recorded by Garbage) | Garbage | 4:34 |
| 11. | "Nightclubbing" (Originally recorded by Iggy Pop) | Iggy Pop and David Bowie | 3:43 |
| 12. | "Young Americans" (Originally recorded by David Bowie) | David Bowie | 5:09 |
| 13. | "Making Progress (Dubai Bros. Remix)" (Remix of song originally featured on Flashy) | Tyler Spencer | 3:14 |
| 14. | "Transatlantic Flight (Dubai Bros. Remix)" (Remix of song originally featured on Flashy) | Tyler Spencer | 4:30 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 15. | "Rock and Roll Evacuation" (Originally from Señor Smoke) | Tyler Spencer | 3:44 |
| 16. | "Countdown To the Countdown" (Originally from Zodiac) | Tyler Spencer | 3:13 |
| 17. | "I'm the Bomb" (Originally from Fire) | Tyler Spencer | 4:30 |
| 18. | "Skin Caboose" (Originally from Fresh Blood for Tired Vampyres where it was stylised "(Be My) Skin Caboose") | Tyler Spencer and John Nash | 3:33 |
| 19. | "The New Shampoo" (Originally from Mustang) | Tyler Spencer | 4:00 |
| 20. | "I Invented the Night" (Originally from Fire) | Tyler Spencer | 3:15 |
| 21. | "When Cowboys File for Divorce" (Originally from Bitch, Don't Let Me Die!) | Tyler Spencer | 3:01 |
| 22. | "Randy's Hot Tonight" (Originally from I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master) | Tyler Spencer and John Nash | 3:26 |
| 23. | "Night Vision" (Originally from Switzerland) | Tyler Spencer | 3:54 |
| 24. | "Big Red Arthur" (Originally from Bitch, Don't Let Me Die!) | Tyler Spencer | 3:06 |
| 25. | "Adam Levine" (Originally from Mustang) | Tyler Spencer | 2:46 |
| 26. | "Who the Hell Just Call My Phone?" (Originally from Human Zoo, where it was stylised "(Who the Hell Just) Call My Phone") | Tyler Spencer | 3:27 |
| 27. | "I'll Be In Touch" (Originally from Fresh Blood for Tired Vampyres) | Tyler Spencer | 3:51 |
| 28. | "Newark Airport Boogie" (Originally from Kill, where it was stylised "The Newark Airport Boogie") | Tyler Spencer | 2:40 |
| 29. | "Future Boys" (Originally from Señor Smoke) | Tyler Spencer | 3:10 |
| 30. | "After Hours" (Originally from Zodiac) | Tyler Spencer | 2:41 |
| 31. | "MC Sucka DJ" (Previously unrecorded song from live performances during Electric Six's time as The Wildbunch, originally stylised "The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ") | Tyler Spencer | 2:49 |
| 32. | "The Afterlife" (Originally from Human Zoo) | Tyler Spencer | 4:06 |
| 33. | "Dance Pattern" (Originally from I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master) | Tyler Spencer | 3:44 |
| 34. | "Germans in Mexico" (Originally from Switzerland) | Tyler Spencer | 5:41 |
Personnel
- Dick Valentine - vocals
- Tait Nucleus? - synthesizer
- Johnny Na$hinal - guitar
- Da Ve - guitar
- Rob Lower - bass
- Todd Glass - drums (tracks 5, 7-10)
- Ray Kubian - drums (Live in Oxford)
- Nickey Winkelman - background vocals (tracks 2, 7)
- Scott Weinert - bass (track 3)
- Daniel Ohlson - trumpet (track 3), background vocals (track 7)
- Mel Caceres - background vocals (tracks 6, 23)
- Sabina Alteras-Honig - drums (track 6)
- Matt Tompkins - drums (track 6)
- Benton Redmann - background vocals (track 10)
- Benjamin Hurd - bass (track 10)[2]
References
- "You're Welcome! by Electric Six". Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- https://www.discogs.com/Electric-Six-Youre-Welcome/release/10912150