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.