"Start Wearing Purple" | ||||
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Single by Gogol Bordello | ||||
from the album Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike | ||||
Released | February 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2004–2005 | |||
Genre | Gypsy punk | |||
Length | 3:42 | |||
Label | SideOneDummy Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Eugene Hütz | |||
Producer(s) | Steve Albini | |||
Gogol Bordello singles chronology | ||||
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"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]