| Electric Six discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 16 |
| Soundtrack albums | 1 |
| Live albums | 4 |
| Compilation albums | 2 |
| Singles | 14 |
| Video albums | 2 |
| Music videos | 23 |
| Kickstarter | 4 |
| The Wildbunch discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 1 |
| Live albums | 2 |
| Singles | 3 |
This article catalogues the releases of the American band Electric Six.
Discography as Electric Six
Official canon studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK |
FRA |
IRE |
US Dance | |||
| Fire | 7 | 150 | 22 | 5 |
| |
| Señor Smoke |
|
105 | — | — | — | |
| Switzerland |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master |
|
— | — | — | 5 | |
| Flashy |
|
— | — | — | 14 | |
| Kill |
|
— | — | — | 20 | |
| Zodiac |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| Heartbeats and Brainwaves |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| Mustang |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| Human Zoo |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| Bitch, Don't Let Me Die! |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| Fresh Blood for Tired Vampyres |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| How Dare You? |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| Bride of the Devil |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| Streets of Gold |
|
— | — | — | — | |
| Turquoise |
|
— | — | — | — | |
Kickstarter campaign and self-released studio albums
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Mimicry |
|
| Roulette Stars of Metro Detroit |
|
| You're Welcome! |
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| A Very Electric SiXmas |
|
Soundtrack albums
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Roulette Stars of Metro Detroit |
|
Live albums
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Absolute Pleasure |
|
| You're Welcome! (Live in Oxford) |
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| Chill Out! |
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| Live in Liverpool! |
|
Compilations
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Sexy Trash | |
| Memories |
|
Singles
| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS |
BEL |
IRE |
NLD |
SCO |
UK |
UK Indie | |||||
| "Danger! High Voltage" | 2003 | 67 | 41 | 15 | 81 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
|
Fire | |
| "Gay Bar" | — | — | 32 | — | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| |||
| "Dance Commander" | — | — | — | — | 39 | 40 | 5 | ||||
| "Vibrator" | 2004 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Señor Smoke | ||
| "Radio Ga Ga" | — | — | 44 | — | 16 | 21 | — | ||||
| "I Buy the Drugs" | 2006 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Switzerland | ||
| "Jam it in the Hole" | 2010 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Zodiac | ||
| "Interchangeable Knife" (Dubai Bros. Remix)" | 2011 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Heartbeats and Brainwaves | ||
| "Eye in the Sky" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| "Danger! High Voltage (Re-Recorded)" | 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Streets of Gold | ||
| "Gay Bar (Re-Recorded)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Yah Mo B There" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Take Me to the Sugar" | 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Turquoise | ||
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||
Music videos
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | "Danger! High Voltage" | Tom Kuntz & Mike Maguire | Released to promote "Danger! High Voltage!" and Fire |
| 2003 | "Gay Bar" | Tom Kuntz & Mike Maguire | Released to promote "Gay Bar" and Fire |
| "Dance Commander" | Ruben Fleischer | Released to promote "Dance Commander" and Fire | |
| 2005 | "Radio Ga Ga" | Tom Kuntz & Mike Maguire | Released to promote Señor Smoke |
| 2006 | "I Buy the Drugs" | Anthony Ernst Garth | Released to promote Switzerland and part of Electric Six's project to create a music video for every song on the album |
| "Mr. Woman" | Kris Kaczor | ||
| "There's Something Very Wrong with Us, So Let's Go Out Tonight" | Justin Lowe | ||
| "Rubber Rocket" | |||
| "Chocolate Pope" | |||
| 2007 | "Infected Girls" | Digitelio | |
| "Down at McDonnelzzz" | Zac Holman | Released to promote I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master | |
| "It's Showtime!" | |||
| "Randy's Hot Tonight!" | |||
| 2008 | "Pulling the Plug on the Party" | Released to promote Switzerland and part of Electric Six's project to create a music video for every song on the album | |
| "Formula 409" | Anthony Ernst Garth | Released to promote Flashy | |
| "Making Progress" | |||
| 2009 | "Body Shot" | Nabil Elderkin | Released to promote Kill |
| 2011 | "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" | A live-performance video produced as part of the "Holiday Undercover" series for The A.V. Club. | |
| 2012 | "Psychic Visions" | Justin Lowe | Given that it was the band's first music video in 3 years and that it was released a year after the release of Heartbeats and Brainwaves, it is likely that this video represented a creative project that the band wished to undertake as opposed to a means of promoting the album. |
| 2017 | "I'll Be in Touch" | Dillon Vaughn | Produced as part of a stretch goal for Electric Six's You're Welcome! Kickstarter campaign. |
| "I Got the Box" | Andre Bennet | ||
| 2020 | "Panic! Panic!" | Music video produced for the band's demo version of "Panic! Panic!" shot and released during the Coronavirus pandemic. | |
| 2021 | "Ya Mo B There" | Music video produced to promote the release of the single and the release of the corresponding album Streets of Gold. | |
| 2022 | "Nuclear War (On the Dancefloor)" | An official upload to the band's YouTube channel featuring Tait Nucleus and stock footage produced during the COVID pandemic. |
Films
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Writer | Producers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Absolute Treasure | John Anderson | Dick Valentine, Tait Nucleus?, Johnny Na$hinal, Percussion World, Smörgåsbord, Da Ve | Tyler Spencer | Mel Caceres, Phil Crossland, Pat Divis, Sharon Iles, Peter Schofield & Niles Stanbery | A concert film of the band's performance at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit, Michigan on September 7, 2013. |
| 2016 | Roulette Stars of Metro Detroit | Tom Lehrer & Tom Nahas | Dick Valentine, Tait Nucleus?, Johnny Na$hinal, Percussion World & Da Ve | Tyler Spencer | Chris Fuller | A mockumentary film starring members of the band as fictional versions of themselves. |
| 2018 | Chill Out: Electric Six Unplugged | Tyler Spencer | Chris Fuller | A live broadcast of the gig performed for the band's Chill Out! live album. | ||
| 2019 | Electric Six: Live in Liverpool! | Tom Lehrer & Tom Nahas | Tyler Spencer | Chris Fuller | Concert film of the band's performance in Liverpool, UK in May 2019 shot and released as part of a Kickstarter campaign. | |
| 2020 | Electric Six: Live from Quarantine | Tom Lehrer & Tom Nahas | Tyler Spencer | Chris Fuller | A live-streamed concert film showcasing the band's first socially-distant gig during the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. | |
| 2020 | Electric Six: Halloween Spooktacular | Tom Lehrer & Tom Nahas | Tyler Spencer | Chris Fuller | A Halloween-themed live-streamed concert film of the band performing a socially-distant show during the Coronavirus pandemic. | |
| 2020 | It's the Most Wonderful Time... of the Least Wonderful Year | Tom Lehrer & Tom Nahas | Tyler Spencer | Chris Fuller | A Christmas-themed live-streamed concert film of the band performing a socially-distant show during the Coronavirus pandemic. | |
| 2021 | Electric Six: Mood Is Improving | Tom Lehrer & Tom Nahas | Tyler Spencer | Chris Fuller | A live-streamed concert film of the band performing a socially-distant show during the Coronavirus pandemic with the theme of optimism surrounding the pandemic soon being over. |
Splits
- Rockshow (7" split with Peaches)
Kickstarter commissions
The band routinely offer the option for backers of their frequent Kickstarter campaigns to commission them to record an original song or cover version of a song by another artist. Although these are usually only made available to the backer, many have been made available online by their backer, leaked online or subsequently included on releases by the band.
| Year | Title | Original artist | Related Kickstarter campaign | Release status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | "Gary's in the Park" | Gary Wilson | Absolute Treasure | Made available online by backer |
| "Maneater" | Hall & Oates | |||
| "2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx" | Rush | |||
| "Pokémon Theme" | Jason Paige | Leaked online | ||
| "Rock DJ" | Robbie Williams | |||
| "She Drives Me Crazy" | Fine Young Cannibals | Made available online by backer | ||
| unknown cover | unknown | Still unreleased | ||
| "Ziggy" | Electric Six | Subsequently, included on Mimicry and Memories | ||
| unknown original song | Electric Six | Still unreleased | ||
| 2015 | "Turn Me Loose" | Loverboy | Mimicry and Memories | Released on Mimicry and Memories |
| "Rockets" | ||||
| "Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White" | "Weird Al" Yankovic | |||
| "Cat People" | David Bowie | |||
| "The Caveman Diet" | Electric Six | Made available online by backer | ||
| 2016 | "All Night Long" | Rainbow | Roulette Stars of Metro Detroit | Released on Roulette Stars of Metro Detroit soundtrack album |
| "Obsession" | Animotion| | |||
| "When the Lights Go Out" | Oingo Boingo | |||
| 2017 | "Rasputin" | Boney M. | You're Welcome! | Released on You're Welcome! |
| "Magic Dance" | ||||
| "Seminole Bingo" | Warren Zevon | |||
| "Last Night I Had a Dream" | Randy Newman | |||
| "Vow" | Garbage | |||
| "Nightclubbing" | Iggy Pop | |||
| "Young Americans" | ||||
| "A Song About Skeletons" | Electric Six | Made available on Dick Valentine's Patreon | ||
| unknown | ||||
| unknown | ||||
| 2018–2019 | "Christmas Wrapping" | The Waitresses | A Very Electric SiXmas and Chill Out! | Included on A Very Electric SiXmas |
| "Same Old Lang Syne" | Dan Fogelberg | |||
| "Christmas at K-Mart" | Root Boy Slim | |||
| "Don't Shoot Me Santa" | The Killers | |||
| "Christmas Vacation" | Mavis Staples | |||
| "The Night Santa Went Crazy" | "Weird Al" Yankovic | |||
| "Cold Blooded Christmas" | Jon Lajoie | |||
| "Santa Claus Is Watchin' You" | Ray Stevens | |||
| "Ghost of Christmas Past" | ||||
| "Dead Puppies" | Ogden Edsl | Included in the band's 2019 subscription club package | ||
| "Goodbye Horses" | Q Lazzarus | |||
| "Heart-Shaped Box" | Nirvana | |||
| "Ride Like the Wind" | Christopher Cross | |||
| "The Safety Dance" | Men Without Hats | |||
| "Smoke from a Distant Fire" | Sanford Townsend Band | |||
| "Soul Pressure" | Mark Mallman | |||
| "Twilight Zone" | Golden Earring | |||
| "Un-Reborn Again" | Queens of the Stone Age | |||
| "We All March On" | Scott Buckley-Hewitt | |||
| "You Little Fool" | ||||
| unknown | Electric Six | Unreleased | ||
| unknown |
Discography as The Wildbunch
Albums
- An Evening with the Many Moods of the Wildbunch's Greatest Hits... Tonight! (8-track) (Uchu Cult) (1996)
- Don't Be Afraid of the Robot: Live at the Gold Dollar (CD) (Off Woodward Productions, GD-101) (1998-07-25)
- "Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)"
- "Speak English"
- "Naked Pictures"
- "The Model"
- "Computer"
- "The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ"
- "Clones (We're All)"
- "Immolate Me"
- "Taxi to Nowhere"
- "Don't Be Afraid of the Robot"
- "Breaking Up"
- "I'm on Acid"
- "R U Afraid of the Devil?"
- "Meat the Band"
- "I Am the Knife"
- "I Am Detroit"
- "I Lost Control"
- "Freshman"
- "I'm a Demon"
- "Tiny Little Men"
- "Take Off Your Clothes"
- "Gay Bar"
- "I Know Karate"
- Rock Empire (CD) (Uchu Cult) (1999-07-??)
- "Don't Be Afraid of the Robot"
- "Remote Control (Me)"
- "Gay Bar"
- "TV"
- "Getting Into the Jam"
- "Take Me to Your Leader"
- "Animal Attraction"
- "Dancing Like an Idiot"
- "Synthesizer"
- "I Am the Knife"
- "Naked Pictures (Of Your Mother)"
- "R U Afraid of the Devil?"
- "I'm on Acid"
- "Computer"
- "Christian Radio Manchester"
- "I Am Detroit"
- "Honolulu"
- "I'm a Demon"
- "Gay Bar (Remix)"
- "Persona vs. Wildbunch"
Singles
- "I Lost Control (Of My Rock'n' Roll)" (7") (Uchu Cult, SC 001) (1996)
- 500 copies
- "I Lost Control (Of My Rock and Roll)"
- "Tiny Little Men"
- "Gay Bar"
- "I Know Karate"
- "The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ" (7") (Flying Bomb Records, FLB-105) (1997)
- "Take Off Your Clothes"
- "Nuclear War (On the Dancefloor)"
- "The Ballade of MC Sucka DJ"
- "Danger! High Voltage" (7") (Flying Bomb Records, FLB-117) (2001)
- recorded by Jim Diamond
- "Danger (High Voltage)"
- "Neurocameraman"
- "She's Guatemala"
Compilations
- "X-Mas Surprise Package" (7") (Flying Bomb Records, FLB-106) (1997)
- "X-Mas Xorcismus (Ho Ho Ho)"
- Clear green or black vinyl
- Troy Gregory's Sybil (CD) (Fall of Rome Records, FOR 1005) (2002)
- "Dealin' in Death N' Stealin' in the Name of the Lord"
- Recorded by Jim Diamond
References
- Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 181. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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- Peak chart positions in Scotland:
- "Danger! High Voltage": "2003-01-18 Scottish Singles Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
- "Gay Bar": "2003-06-14 Scottish Singles Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
- "Dance Commander": "2003-10-25 Scottish Singles Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
- "Radio Ga Ga": "2004-12-25 Scottish Singles Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
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- Modell, Josh (November 21, 2011). "Electric Six covers "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"". The A.V. Club.
- "You're Welcome!". Kickstarter.
- "Nuclear war". YouTube. December 29, 2022.
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- dannydesktop (February 22, 2014). "Electric Six - She Drives Me Crazy". Archived from the original on December 15, 2021 – via YouTube.
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- "Mimicry And Memories". Kickstarter.
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- ^ "Update 14: Final track listing for "Mimicry And Memories" · Mimicry And Memories". Kickstarter.
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External links
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| Compilations | |
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