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We Are Pilots by Shiny Toy Guns
We Are Pilots is an album by Shiny Toy Guns, released in 2005. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 24 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Le Disko”, on 19 lists with a best position of #20.
We Are Pilots, the debut from Los Angeles electro-rockers Shiny Toy Guns, spent 2005 circulating as an independent release before Universal Motown gave it a proper launch in October 2006, with the liner notes cheekily billing this edition as version 3.0. Some of the songs reach back even further, to Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson's earlier outfit, Dangerous Insects. Mark Saunders produced.
The setup is two lead voices, Petree and Carah Faye Charnow, over Dawson's keyboards and bass and Mike Martin's drums, and the sound splits the difference between guitar band and dance floor: indie rock, electropop, post-punk strut and a glitter of disco, close enough to the Killers and Franz Ferdinand to invite the comparisons. "Le Disko", "You Are the One" and "Rainy Monday" were the singles. The album topped the Heatseekers chart and picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from We Are Pilots on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Disko | 19 | #20 | – | 2006–2014 | |
| 2 | Rainy Monday | 5 | #76 | – | 2007 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.