Start Wearing Purple

"Start Wearing Purple"
Single by Gogol Bordello
from the album Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
ReleasedFebruary 2006
Recorded2004–2005
GenreGypsy punk
Length3:42
LabelSideOneDummy Records
Songwriter(s)Eugene Hütz
Producer(s)Steve Albini
Gogol Bordello singles chronology
"When the Trickster Starts a-Poking"
(2002)
"Start Wearing Purple" / "Sally"
(2006)
"Not a Crime"
(2006)

"Start Wearing Purple" is a song by gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, written by frontman Eugene Hütz. The song was packaged as a double single along with "Sally", and released as the band's second single in February 2006. It appears on their third album Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike. This version is a re-recording of the initial one which was featured in the band's first album, 1999's Voi-La Intruder. It also appears in the soundtrack for the 2005 film Everything Is Illuminated, in which Hütz stars as Alex.

The song was later featured in the 2024 animated television series Creature Commandos.[1]

  1. ^ Zalben, Alex (2024-12-05). "Every Song In 'Creature Commandos' (So Far)". Comic Book Club. Retrieved 2024-12-29.

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