Artist: EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
Album: DEATH BY SEXY VINYL (LP)

Year: 2006
Media type: LP

In some parallel, '70s-groove-askew universe it's Eagles of Death Metal who are the superstars, not merely the studiously dizzy spin-off of Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and his Palm Desert school chum/lapsed journalist Jesse Hughes.

Building forcefully on the charms of their '04 debut, their camaraderie foregoes ego (QOTSA mainstay Homme is EODM's drummer, pal Hughes its falsetto-voiced, ax-slinging rock star) for a retro, ambitiously na¦_ve garage-rock-meets-boogie-down ethos that labors under the delightfully perverse misconception that the New York Dolls, Hot Chocolate and T Rex were all actually the same band - one that Muddy Waters and The Big Bopper occasionally sat in with.

Less demented talents have pumped similar shtick full of self-conscious irony; here H&H simply grab it by the neck and shake furiously, yielding "I Gotta Feeling"'s Bolan boogie, the Stones-ish "I Like to Move.." and Dolls-swaggering "Keep Your Head Up," before moving onto such enticing genre demolition derby entries as "Ballad of Queen Bee and Baby Duck," "Chase the Devil" and the giddy "Shasta Beast."


A1     I Want You So Hard (Boy’s Bad News)     
A2     I Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen)     
A3     Cherry Cola     
A4     I Like To Move In The Night     
A5     Solid Gold     
A6     Don’t Speak (I Came To Make A Bang!)     
A7     Keep Your Head Up     

B1     The Ballad Of Queen Bee And Baby Duck     
B2     Poor Doggie     
B3     Chase The Devil     
B4     Eagles Goth     
B5     Shasta Beast     
B6     Bag O’ Miracles     
B7     Intro To Nasty Notion     
B8     Nasty Notion