E Talking
"E Talking" is a song by Belgian electronic music duo Soulwax. It was released as the second single from their third studio album, Any Minute Now (2004), on 17 January 2005. It reached number 27 on the UK Singles Chart in 2005. A snippet of the song is featured on their 2005 album Nite Versions, through a hidden track in the pregap.
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| Single by Soulwax | ||||
| from the album Any Minute Now | ||||
| Released | 17 January 2005 | |||
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| Label | PIAS | |||
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| Producer(s) | Mark "Flood" Ellis | |||
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Song
Mixmag described the song as a "Bangin’ electro-rocker with bags of attack and a driving riff."[1]
Samples
The high pitched electronic sample used during parts of the song is a modified sample from the end guitar riff from "Always the Sun" by The Stranglers.
Music video
The music video for the song is set in a nightclub, cycling through various club-goers and listing the drugs they are on. The video goes through the entire "drug alphabet," beginning with A for Acid and ending in Z for Zoloft. It was filmed on location in London's Fabric nightclub. The video was restricted to night-time play because of its drug content.
The video was directed by Evan Bernard and was nominated for a MVPA Award.[2]
Drug alphabet
An alphabet of drugs is listed as:
- A - Acid
- B - Barbiturates
- C - Cocaine
- D - DMT
- E - Ecstasy
- F - Fizzies
- G - GHB
- H - Heroin
- I - Ice
- J - Jumbos
- K - Ketamine
- L - Lithium
- M - Mushrooms
- N - Nitrous Oxide
- O - Opium
- P - PCP
- Q - Quaaludes
- R - Rohypnol
- S - Steroids
- T - Tetracycline
- U - Uppers
- V - Viagra
- W - Whiskey
- X - XTC
- Y - Yayo
- Z - Zoloft
Charts
| Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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| Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[3] | 6 |
| Belgium Dance (Ultratop Flanders)[4] | 3 |
| Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[5] | 16 |
| Belgium Dance (Ultratop Wallonia)[6] | 3 |
| UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[7] | 27 |
Reception
The BBC included the song on its list of "Songs that shaped dance music" crediting the song with bringing the genre of EBM (Electronic body music) into the mainstream and the praising duo for merging "punk, electro, techno, indie and classic rock to create something that can’t be pigeonholed."[8]
In film
The song was used in the 2019 film Hustlers.[9]
References
- THOMAS H GREEN (5 May 2017). "10 of the Best Songs Celebrating Ecstasy". Mixmag.
- Steven Gottlieb (March 18, 2005). "NEWS: MVPA Award Nominees Announced (Updated)". VideoStatic.
- "Ultratop.be – Soulwax – E Talking" (in Dutch). Ultratip. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- "Ultratop.be – Soulwax – E Talking" (in Dutch). Ultratop Dance. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- "Ultratop.be – Soulwax – E Talking" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- "Ultratop.be – Soulwax – E Talking" (in French). Ultratop Dance. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- "Soulwax: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- Jack Needham (21 August 2019). "BBC - 30 tracks that shaped dance music over the last 30 years". BBC.
- Borge, Jonathan (September 9, 2019). "All 38 Songs Featured in J.Lo's Hustlers, from "Gimme More" to "Birthday Cake"". O, The Oprah Magazine. Retrieved January 10, 2020.