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Eagles Of Death Metal -Peace Love Death Metal
Artist : Eagles Of Death Metal
Album : Peace Love Death Metal
Label : AntAcidAudio
Year : 2004
Genre : Rock Source : CDDA
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1 Bitrate : 923kbps
Playtime : 51:59 Size : 342.48 MB
Tracks:
01 i only want you 02:50
02 speaking in tongues 02:50
03 so easy 04:00
04 flames go higher 02:54
05 bad dream mama 03:03
06 english girl 02:38
07 stacks o' money 02:49
08 midnight creeper 01:58
09 stuck in the middle with you 03:18
10 already died 02:59
11 kiss the devil 02:53
12 whorehoppin (shit, goddamn) 03:34
13 san berdoo sunburn 03:42
14 wastin' my time 02:42
15 miss alissa 02:38
16 miss sanders 04:18
17 just nineteen 02:53
Notes:
The Eagles of Death Metal may be the most misleading
bandname since 10,000 Maniacs: On their debut album,
Peace Love Death Metal, the band sound like neither The
Eagles (a relief) nor death metal. Instead, the
record's churning guitars and hook-driven choruses
suggest a bizarro-world version of Queens of the Stone
Age, specifically the Nuggets-inflected "Another Love
Song" from Songs for the Deaf or their cover of "Who'll
Be the Next in Line?" from the Kinks tribute This Is
Where I Belong. Which makes sense: Queens frontman Josh
Homme is listed as producer on Peace Love Death Metal.
But who are the Eagles of Death Metal? The liner notes
credit J. Devil Huge on guitar/vocals and Carlo Von
Sexron (nickname: Baby Duck) on drums/backing vocals.
Huge is apparently the stage name for J. Everett
Hughes, a friend of Homme's from Palm Desert, CA, while
Von Sexron is an alias for both Josh Homme and (as the
nickname's initials hint) Distillers frontwoman Brody
Dalle. While the connection between Hughes and Homme
goes way back, the band's fraudulent nomenclature and
misleading identities-- along with the general one-off
vibe of the album-- suggest that Peace Love Death Metal
is really the sonic manifestation of an elaborate
inside joke, in this case possibly fueled by either
"nicotinevaliumvicadanmarijuannaecstasyalcoholc-c-c-
cocaine" or just an appreciation of cartoonish rock
cliches.
Adopting a bluesy loverman persona that at times,
intentionally or not, recalls Jon Spencer, Hughes sings
most of the songs in a jokey falsetto that would be
unbearable if he didn't occasionally dip into a Elvis-
channeling low-end grumble. On the lead-off track, "I
Only Want You", he lays out his dishonorable
intentions: "I'm not really interested in what's in
your heart/ I don't want you to fall in love with me so
don't start." Elsewhere, Hughes promises that his good
lovin' will leave you babbling in religious ecstasy on
"Speaking in Tongues", and even offers an articulate
demonstration as he sings, "Muh-muh-muh-muh-oooh-da-
galing-ling-ling-ling-da-da" over the bridge.
Backing up this self-conscious braggadocio are bundles
of bandsaw riffs that add enough edgy swagger to skirt
outright garage-rock parody. The stripped-down
instrumentation and live-in-the-studio recording
occasionally sound thin, as if you could turn the
volume all the way up to 11 and it still wouldn't be
loud enough. The trade-off, however, is a spontaneity
and resourcefulness that adds honky-tonk piano to
"Wastin' My Time", beat-keeping finger snaps to "San
Berdoo Sunburn", and four false starts to "English
Girl".
Peace Love Death Metal is at its best when the inside
joke is buried deep in the music, but whenever the
deathtongue is planted squarely in the deathcheek, the
songs turn not just silly, but lumbering and self-
indulgent, overburdened by the overriding concept.
"Kiss the Devil" and "Midnight Creeper" are nudge-nudge
exercises in rock Satanism, and "Whorehoppin'" seems to
exist solely for its over-the-top chorus of, "Shit!
Goddamn! I'm a man!" Similarly, the cover of Steelers
Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle with You" doesn't add
anything to the original that Reservoir Dogs didn't at
least suggest; most likely, it's only here to provide
the easy pun of retitling the song "Stuck in the
Metal". Nothing rocks like a bad pun.
In another post-Songs for the Deaf death metal side
project, some-time QOTSA drummer Dave Grohl recreated
real head-banging metal with a revolving line-up of
singers and no trace of irony. Eagles of Death Metal,
on the other hand, try so hard not to sound like death
metal that sometimes all you get is irony. They're not
resurrecting a fallen-from-grace genre or even
attempting to subvert any of the rock cliches they
indulge in; their only agenda is to have a good time,
dude. Still, while it sounds disingenuous compared to
Probot, and the whole concept wears thin over 15
tracks, it's hard not to get caught up in the jovial
fuck-all spirit of Peace Love Death Metal's best cuts.
It may be an inside joke, but Homme and his cohorts,
whoever the hell they are, seem to want us all to get
it.