Take “Rock and Roll Evacuation”, where Valentine takes the chorus and pushes it way past 11, evoking the Sweet’s insane falsetto harmonies, somehow salvaging the song which seems like an excuse to use the word “evil” as many times as possible. Dick Valentine’s shrill vocals might be difficult to handle in some contexts, but it often works wonders in the parodic context of the songs. The Electric Six have a knack for incorporating the right “wrong” elements into their strange synth-pop/punk/metal/disco sound. Senor Smoke, luckily, is catchy and fun enough that the lyrics don’t entirely sink the album. And, even then, it’s only funny if you give the band the benefit of the doubt and assume that it means it as a satire on the onslaught of politically naÔve rock and rollers who have gone on to record anti-Bush chants.
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President I don’t like you / You don’t know how to rock”. There’s only one line on the entire album that I found funny, which comes in the opener “Rock and Roll Evacuation”: “Mr. However, this music is in service to crippling lame joke songs about fast food and vibrators. If you avoid listening to the lyrics, Senor Smoke is a hilarious dance-punk riff where pristine recording techniques are used to capture the sound of the cheapest keyboards available. Well, the Electric Six’s sophomore album Senor Smoke is chock full of songs that have the honor of sharing that dubious category. Somebody, and I want to say it was Rolling Stone‘s Rob Sheffield, once remarked that the Bloodhound Gang’s eurotrash rip “The Bad Touch” was one of the few songs that was funny in spite of its lyrics, not because of them.