Give Me Fire!

Give Me Fire!
Give Me Fire!
Studio album by Mando Diao
Released	13 February 2009
Recorded	2008 at Studio De la Santa & Redline Studio, Stockholm
Genre	Indie rock, garage rock
Length	71:36
Label	Universal Records
Producer	The Salazar Brothers & Mando Diao
Mando Diao chronology

Last updated June 29, 2022

Give Me Fire! is the fifth studio album by Swedish band Mando Diao, 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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Björn Dixgård says that the band has been inspired by movies and television with this album and cites Quentin Tarantino and Twin Peaks . He also says that the producers' record collection has been a source of inspiration as well.^{[ citation needed ]}

This album is a danceable album with a strong focus on drums, bass and percussion. The final mix of the album was done in Los Angeles.^[1]^[2] 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 Bruce Springsteen's Working on a Dream .

The band played a special version of the album's first single entitled "Fight with Somebody" live at Arena AufSchalke in Gelsenkirchen for Wladimir Klitschko's fight versus Ruslan Chagaev 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.^[3]

The song "Mean Street" is featured in the game, Need for Speed: Shift .

The album was released in the United States on 31 May 2011.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Blue Lining, White Trenchcoat"	4:02
2.	"Dance with Somebody"	5:18
3.	"Gloria"	4:17
4.	"High Heels"	3:48
5.	"Mean Street"	4:32
6.	"Maybe Just Sad"	4:05
7.	"A Decent Life"	1:45
8.	"Give Me Fire"	4:01
9.	"Crystal"	6:11
10.	"Come On Come On"	4:13
11.	"Go Out Tonight"	4:53
12.	"You Got Nothing on Me"	5:07
13.	"The Shining / Leave My Fire"	19:22

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 and certifications

Country	Certifications	Sales/Shipments^[4]
Germany	Platinum ^[5]	200,000+

Year-end charts

Year-end Charts (2009)	Position
German Albums Chart^[6]	17
Swiss Albums Chart ^[7]	38

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References

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↑ "Mando Diao + Latin Kings = Sant". Nyheter24.se. 17 August 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
↑ "Mando Diao - Give Me Fire!". Clashmusic.com. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
↑ Certification for every country in the world Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine IFPI . Retrieved 29 December 2008.
↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank ('Give Me Fire')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
↑ Archived 12 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Swiss Year-End Charts 2009". Media Control . Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2009.

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[1] ""Det var som att åka hem"". Aftonbladet.se. 5 January 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2012.

[2] "Mando Diao + Latin Kings = Sant". Nyheter24.se. 17 August 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2012.

[3] "Mando Diao - Give Me Fire!". Clashmusic.com. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2012.

[4] Certification for every country in the world Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine IFPI . Retrieved 29 December 2008.

[5] "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank ('Give Me Fire')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.

[6] Archived 12 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine

[7] "Swiss Year-End Charts 2009". Media Control . Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2009.

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v t e Mando Diao
Mats Björke Björn Dixgård Carl-Johan Fogelklou Gustaf Norén
Studio albums	Bring 'Em In Hurricane Bar Ode to Ochrasy Never Seen the Light of Day Give Me Fire! Infruset Ælita Good Times Bang I soldnedgången
Live albums	Above and Beyond – MTV Unplugged
Compilations	The Malevolence of Mando Diao Ghosts&Phantoms Greatest Hits Volume 1
EPs	Motown Blood EP Paralyzed EP Mean Street EP
Singles	"Mr. Moon" "The Band" "Sheepdog" "Clean Town" "Down in the Past" "You Can't Steal My Love" "God Knows" "Long Before Rock 'n' Roll" "Good Morning, Herr Horst" "TV & Me" "The Wildfire (If It Was True)" "Ochrasy" "If I Don't Live Today, Then I Might Be Here Tomorrow" "Never Seen the Light of Day" "Train on Fire" "Dance with Somebody" "Gloria" "The Quarry" "Nothing Without You" "Down in the Past (MTV unplugged)" "Strövtåg i hembygden" "I ungdomen" "En sångarsaga" "Black Saturday" "Sweet Wet Dreams" "Love Last Forever" "Shake" "All the Things"
Related articles	Discography Caligola