Flashy


Flashy is the fifth album by Detroit rock band Electric Six, released on October 21, 2008, through Metropolis Records.
The album was accompanied by a music video for track "Formula 409", which appeared online on July 30, 2008. A claymation video for the track 'Making Progress' was also released.

Artwork

The album artwork is taken from a painting called Hellcat by Detroit-based artist Ron Zakrin, who also created the artwork used for the band's previous album I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Tyler Spencer; all music composed by Spencer except where noted.

CD version

  1. "Gay Bar Part Two" – 2:42
  2. "Formula 409" – 3:43
  3. "We Were Witchy Witchy White Women" – 3:55
  4. "Dirty Ball" – 3:40
  5. "Lovers Beware" – 3:19
  6. "Your Heat Is Rising" – 3:32
  7. "Face Cuts" – 3:15
  8. "Heavy Woman" – 3:14
  9. "Flashy Man" – 2:04
  10. "Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart" – 3:58
  11. "Graphic Designer" – 4:36
  12. "Transatlantic Flight" – 4:02
  13. "Making Progress" – 2:59

LP version

Side One

  1. "Gay Bar Part Two" – 2:42
  2. "Formula 409" – 3:43
  3. "Dirty Ball" – 3:40
  4. "Lovers Beware" – 3:19
  5. "Your Heat Is Rising" – 3:32
  6. "Face Cuts" – 3:15
  7. "Flashy Man" – 2:04

Side two

  1. "We Were Witchy Witchy White Women" – 3:55
  2. "Heavy Woman" – 3:14
  3. "Watching Evil Empires Fall Apart" – 3:58
  4. "Graphic Designer" – 4:36
  5. "Transatlantic Flight" – 4:02
  6. "Making Progress" – 2:59
"Gay Bar Part Two" is a response to the band's fame stemming from "Gay Bar". The line "soft steaming shits demanding Gay Bar Part 2" is an indication of resentment over their most popular and often only song they are recognized for. Many people pushed the band to write 'another Gay Bar' and none of their later work was as successful at breaking into the mainstream. The song also features references to the band's other songs "Danger! High Voltage", "There's Something Very Wrong with Us, So Let's Go Out Tonight", "Be My Dark Angel" and "She's White".

Personnel

  • Dick Valentine – vocals
  • Tait Nucleus? – synthesizer, other
  • The Colonel – guitar, autoharp
  • – guitar, synthesizer
  • Percussion World – drums, timbales
  • Smörgåsbord – bass
  • Christian Doble – saxophone, trumpet
  • Kevin Bayson – trumpet

''Sexy Trash''

The band promoted Flashy in the US, the UK and Spain on their Hitting the Walls and Working the Middle tour. A 30 track album of demos and previously unreleased material, titled Sexy Trash, was released and made available at those shows.
The 30 tracks contain demos, B-sides and rarities, covering the band's career from 1996 to 2007, and the album also includes brief liner-notes from lead singer Dick Valentine. While initially only available at gigs making up Flashy's tie-in tour in the United States, it has subsequently been sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain as well as at later gigs by the band and as a reward for pledgers of their Kickstarter project campaigns.
The title of the album comes from a track on the band's fourth album I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master.

Track listing

All tracks recorded as Electric Six, except where otherwise stated.
  1. "Immolate Me" ' – 4:36
  2. "I Know Karate" ' – 2:40
  3. "Baby Vs. Baby" ' – 2:28
  4. "My Baby Is a Nuclear Winter" ' – 2:07
  5. "One More Time" ' – 2:31
  6. "Antisocial Sex Boy Hit Machine" ' – 3:27
  7. "Future Girls" ' – 3:25
  8. "I Thought You Was Dead" ' – 3:47
  9. "Strike While the Iron is Hot!" ' – 2:30
  10. "Turn It Up!" ' – 2:41
  11. "Telephone Conversation" ' – 2:40
  12. "Serious Help" ' – 3:34
  13. "Future Police" ' – 2:48
  14. "Living On The Sexy Planet" – 3:16
  15. "Be My Dark Angel" ' – 3:30
  16. "Devil Nights" ' – 2:52
  17. "Another Song About the Devil" ' – 3:10
  18. "Self Destruct" ' – 1:26
  19. "Bite Me" ' – 0:57
  20. "Stepsister" ' – 0:33
  21. "Filthy Blankets" ' – 0:16
  22. "I'm On A Diet" ' – 0:50
  23. "People Like You " ' – 2:05
  24. "Into the Roppongi" ' – 2:13
  25. "The World's Smallest Human Being" ' – 1:42
  26. "I Wish This Song Was Louder" ' – 2:31
  27. "I Buy the Drugs" ' – 3:33
  28. "Down at McDonnelzzz" ' – 0:23
  29. "I Don't Like You" ' – 2:52
  30. "Cold Future" – 4:05