Eagles Of Death Metal - I Got A Feelin' (Just Nineteen) (Zomba)
UK release date: 20 November 2006
From their over the top name to their over the top artwork - this single features the outlines of busty naked women on motorbikes - it's easy to dismiss Eagles of Death Metal as a joke band. Its core members, ex Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Josh Homme and his high school friend Jesse Hughes, have a habit of goofing around in photographs which doesn't help, but perhaps it's the unlikeliness of their sound that fools people.
Not many modern musicians are tapping into the repetitive, sluggish and somewhat tinny sound of '70s glam rock (with good reason, you may think; I happen to disagree), but its time has got to come. Just as Prog got re-evaluated in the late '90s, it's only a matter of time until people realise that there's some great, if slightly pompous, pop out there in the lost years of the early 70s. And maybe the Eagles of Death Metal are the heralds.
With its squeaky vocal, grinding, simplistic guitar riff and high pitched drums, I Got A Feelin isn't quite a parody, and it isn't quite an art rock version. But there's a hint of Roxy Music and even Sonic Youth in the treatment, even though its more obvious parents are the likes of The Glitter Band and The Sweet.
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