''Give Me Fire!'' is the fifth studio album by Swedish band

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, produced by Salla Salazar of hip hop group The Latin Kings and his brother Masse. The album was released in Sweden on 13 February 2009. One of Mando Diao's roadies knew the hip hop producing brothers and introduced Gustaf Norén to them. Norén says he originally approached The Salazar Brothers as he is a massive Latin Kings fan and wanted to get an autograph, but the visit ended with a recorded song. After sitting on the song for a while he played it for the other members of the band and they decided to record more tracks with Salle & Masse. Björn Dixgård says that the band has been inspired by movies and television with this album and cites

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''. He also says that the producers' record collection has been a source of inspiration as well. This album is a danceable album with a strong focus on drums, bass and percussion. The final mix of the album was done in

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. Mastering was done by Mats "Limpman" Lindfors at Cuttingroom in Stockholm. It reached number one on the Swiss, the Austrian and the German album charts, while reaching number 2 in Sweden, only beaten by

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''. The band played a special version of the album's first single entitled "Fight with Somebody" live at

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in Gelsenkirchen for

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's fight versus

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on 20 June 2009. Ahead of its UK release on 6 November 2009, ''Give Me Fire!'' was available in full on the UK music site ClashMusic.com alongside a photo gallery of the band on tour. The song "Mean Street" is featured in the game, '' Need for Speed: Shift''. The album was released in the

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on 31 May 2011.

Track listing

Differences with United States release

* "Alone with Molly/In the Valley" (8:00) is featured as track 6 instead of "Maybe Just Sad". * "The Shining" is (3:17) instead of (19:22). * An additional track, "Nothing Without You" (3:41), is listed as track 14.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Authority control Mando Diao albums 2009 albums Albums with cover art by Klaus Voormann