''El Presidente'' is the self-titled debut
album
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from
Scottish
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*Scottish English
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band
El Presidente, released 24 October 2005. The album was also released on 8 February 2006 in
Japan
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with two extra tracks, a new recording called "Lies" and a cover of
Prince
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's "Raspberry Beret", which was also included as a
B-side
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to "
Turn This Thing Around". In total four singles have been released from the album, "
Rocket
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", "
100 MPH", "
Without You" and "
Turn This Thing Around".
The current line up of El Presidente is not actually featured on the album. It was recorded by
Dante Gizzi and his brother Guiliano (Who played with Dante in the band
Gun
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). Other guests on the album are
Liam Nugent and
Ross Galloway, who played synths and performed backing vocals respectively on the single "Rocket".
Emma Murphy also performs backing vocals on "If You Say You Love Me", "Hanging Around" and "Old Times".
Alan Thornton (also a former Gun member) drums on all tracks apart from the opening 3 tracks, and track 10. In the album's booklet it claims that Alan did indeed drum on the tenth track, but a recent investigation showed that the booklet was misprinted, and
Dawn Zhu was the drummer. Zhu also plays on the opening three tracks.
Track listing
Deluxe Edition
''El Presidente (Deluxe Edition)'' was released with a bonus DVD.
Track listing
# "Without You"
# "Rocket"
# "100 MPH"
# "Turn This Thing Around"
# "Count on Me"
# "If You Say You Love Me"
# "Hangin' Around"
# "I Didn't Really"
# "Old Times"
# "Keep on Walking"
# "Honey"
# "Come on Now"
# "Lies"
# "Raspberry Beret"
# "Sushi and Wine"
# "How Many Roads"
# "Hold On"
Bonus DVD
# "Without You" (video)
# "Rocket" (video)
# "100 MPH" (video)
# "Turn This Thing Around" (video)
# The making of "Turn This Thing Around"
# "Rocket" (live)
References
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2005 debut albums
El Presidente (band) albums