Sweat!

To say Jenn (Moore) Keating is a good friend of mine would be an understatement on the order of "Hurricane Katrina brought some rain to New Orleans". She and I have been partners in crime for years, albeit mostly electronically as our respective family units grow and flourish, which (mostly) hasn't stopped us getting together to write our semi-celebrated comics. She's got a pretty well-aligned musical sense relative to my own, too, so her suggestion that I start taking Eagles Of Death Metal seriously was not one to be dismissed out of hand.

And thus, it's her I must blame for the presence of "Solid Gold" from their latest album Death By Sexy on my own internal mental tape loop. (It probably benefits from my listening repeatedly to the new cuts I'll be featuring on this coming week's Altrok Radio playlist, too.) It's one of those situations where a pile of acoustic instruments still wind up propelling an infectuously danceable beat - sort of the way nobody ever notices the acoustic guitar dead center in the mix on Pete Shelley's "Homosapien". Then it keeps getting punctuated with a shout - "Sweat!" - which should be the key laugh getter when the song inevitably gets the "fat kid dances like nobody's looking" viral video treatment.

I'll be thanking Jenn by making sure she's heard Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy". One good infection deserves another.

Eagles Of Death Metal links:

• At their site (including a well-appointed Video/Audio page)