Friday, August 28, 2009
Album / Song The Fucking Eagles Cover the Flirtations, Prep Fab New LP
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM
The Fucking Eagles' joyous new album, Midnight Sour (out Sept. 1 on Gaptooth Jukebox Records), includes a cover the Flirtations' "Nothing But a Heartache," about which I rhapsodized here. Amid all the buoyant, instantly memorable garage-rock winners the Fucking Eagles pump out on this 13-track disc, there's this valiant rendition of a northern soul classic, done with sloppy-kissed, flush-of-new-love fervor. It's not as sublime as the original (not much is), but the Fucking Eagles deserve credit for tackling such a shiny gem and for having the great taste to know about it in the first place.
The Fucking Eagles perform Sat. Sept. 5 at the Comet with Ty Segall, Jeff the Brotherhood, and the Beets.
Photo from the Fucking Eagles' MySpace.
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