Electro Glide in Blue is a 1997 album by the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 band Apollo 440

Apollo 440

Apollo 440 are an English band formed in Liverpool in 1990. Apollo 440 have written, recorded and produced four albums, collaborated with and produced other artists, remixed as Apollo 440 and as ambient cinematic alter-ego Stealth Sonic Orchestra, and created music for film, television,...

. The album features Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...

, Billy Mackenzie

Billy Mackenzie

William MacArthur "Billy" Mackenzie was a Scottish singer, with a distinctive falsetto voice best known as a member of The Associates.- Biography :...

 and a tribute to Gene Krupa

Gene Krupa

Gene Krupa was an American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.-Biography:...

; all three of whom had become deceased by the time of the album's release. On the day that Princess Diana died, BBC Radio One suspended its regular schedule out of respect and spent the day playing more understated music; the track Stealth Mass in F#m was played several times on this day. The soundtrack for the American comedy thriller film, Homegrown

Homegrown (film)

Homegrown is a 1998 comedy / thriller film. It was directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and starred Billy Bob Thornton, John Lithgow, and Hank Azaria.-Plot:...

 featured Electro Glide in Blue. The title of the album, and of the song, is a reference to the movie Electra Glide in Blue

Electra Glide in Blue

Electra Glide in Blue is a 1973 film starring Robert Blake as a motorcycle cop in Arizona and Billy Green Bush as his partner. The name stems from the Harley-Davidson Electra Glide motorcycle issued to traffic cops....

.

Track listing

1. "Stealth Overture" – 1:00 (Trevor Gray/Elizabeth Gray/Noko)
2. "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub
   Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub
   Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub is a song by Apollo 440 from the album Electro Glide in Blue released in 1997. It samples Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love by Van Halen and reached #7 in the UK Singles Chart and #4 on the Norwegian chart, VG-lista....
   
   " – 4:30 (Edward Van Halen/Alex Van Halen
   Alex Van Halen
   Alexander Arthur "Alex" Van Halen is a Dutch-born American musician, best known as the drummer and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen. Originally, his brother Eddie had taken lessons for drums, while Alex practiced guitar...
   
   /Michael Anthony
   Michael Anthony
   Michael Anthony Sobolewski , known professionally as Michael Anthony, is an American musician who is currently the bass player in the rock supergroup Chickenfoot...
   
   /David Lee Roth
   David Lee Roth
   David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. Roth was ranked nineteenth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Singers of All Time....
   
   /Noko)
3. "Altamont Super-Highway Revisited" – 6:33 (Noko)
4. "Electro Glide in Blue" – 8:36 (T.Gray/Howard Gray/Ewan MacFarlane)
5. "Vanishing Point" – 7:27 (Noko)
6. "Tears of the Gods" – 6:18
   Dialogue: Charles Bukowski
   Charles Bukowski
   Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
   
   (Noko/T.Gray/H.Gray/Dr. John Creaux
   Dr. John
   Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...
   
   )
7. "Carrera Rapida" (Theme from "Rapid Racer") – 6:48 (Noko/T.Gray/H.Gray/Ian Hoxley)
8. "Krupa
   Krupa (song)
   "Krupa" is a 1996 song by the British techno/rock band Apollo 440.The song is a homage to the Polish-American drummer Gene Krupa and is almost completely instrumental. The only lyrics in the entire song are Yeah yeah and Now back to the Gene Krupa syncopated style , which are only repeated a couple...
   
   " – 6:15 (Noko/T.Gray/H.Gray)
9. "White Man's Throat" – 4:54 (Noko/H.Gray/Hoxley)
10. "Pain in Any Language" – 8:40
    Vocals: Billy Mackenzie
    Billy Mackenzie
    William MacArthur "Billy" Mackenzie was a Scottish singer, with a distinctive falsetto voice best known as a member of The Associates.- Biography :...
    
    (Noko/Billy MacKenzie)
11. "Stealth Mass in F#m" – 6:35 (T.Gray/E.Gray)
12. "Raw Power" - 3:50 Not available on some releases. (Noko/T.Gray/H.Gray/I.Hoxley)

Release history

Region	Release date	Label	Format	Catalogue	Notes
UK	3 March 1997	Stealth Sonic Recordings	CD	SSX2440CD	Does not include "Raw Power"
			2×LP Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	SSX2440LP
			MC Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	SSX2440C
	30 June 1997	Stealth Sonic Recordings/Epic	CD	SSX2440CDR
			MC	SSX2440CR
			MD MiniDisc The disc is permanently housed in a cartridge with a sliding door, similar to the casing of a 3.5" floppy disk. This shutter is opened automatically by a mechanism upon insertion. The audio discs can either be recordable or premastered. Recordable MiniDiscs use a magneto-optical system to record...	SSX2440MDR
USA	9 September 1997	550 Music	CD	BK 68513