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The Electric Six

Keith Whitener · 2005-09-15 01:24:22

The Electrix Six are great. Their new album is high quality even though it's not getting a lot of push by their label. If you're unfamilier with them, the E6 are like a combination of Fear of Music era Talking Heads and 1984 era Van Halen. Dick Valentine is as good a lyracist as Richey James of the Manic Street Preachers,…

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Keith Whitener

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The Electrix Six are great. Their new album is high quality even though it's not getting a lot of push by their label. If you're unfamilier with them, the E6 are like a combination of Fear of Music era Talking Heads and 1984 era Van Halen. Dick Valentine is as good a lyracist as Richey James of the Manic Street Preachers, except Dick writes about dancing, fire, and nuclear War.

There's a great interview with them here:
http://onetrickpony.ws/electric_excellence

Anyone seen them live? I hear Dick is quite a madman on stage.

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Keith Whitener wrote:

Dick Valentine is as good a lyracist as Richey James of the Manic Street Preachers

my arse!

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Don't think much of them. Outside of their oh-so-clever novelty songs everything turns to ****e. And live they're not great either. Bit of fun, but nothing special.

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