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Peace Love Death Metal
by Eagles Of Death Metal

Eagles Of Death Metal reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 73 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.1 out of 10
based on 13 reviews
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This is the debut for the trio of Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Jesse Hughes and Timmy VanHamel, who, in case you were wondering, sound like neither The Eagles nor death metal.

LABEL: Ant Acid Audio
RELEASE DATE: 23 March 2004
DISCS: 1 disc
GENRE(S): Rock

What The Critics Said

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91
Entertainment Weekly
Hughes' titillating vocal performance makes these Eagles soar. [26 Mar 2004, p.73]
80
Stylus Magazine
Canned Heat mixed with Kiss and chopped into lines with Elvis and Queens Of The Stone Age.
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80
Blender
Eagles of Death Metal aren't air-quote ironic like the Darkness; they're a passionately played goof for Homme. [May 2004, p.120]
78
Austin Chronicle
Opener "I Only Want You" busts the QOTSA model with a little funk and jive. The rest of the album follows suit: a Queens backbone and Seventies rib.
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72
Pitchfork
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.
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70
Q Magazine
Splendidly queasy listening. [May 2004, p.100]
70
Trouser Press
Like all great garage rock, it all sounds the same, but that doesn’t matter.
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70
Mojo
A swaggering, intoxicating tight-but-loose debut. [Jun 2004, p.107]
70
Uncut
Often shambolic and in-jokey, it's also sensationally good fun. [May 2004, p.93]
70
Rolling Stone
If there's a problem, it's that the fifteen songs tend to blur together after nearly forty-five minutes.
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70
Alternative Press
So authentic, you'll think songs like "Bad Dream Mama" were put to tape 25 years ago. [Jun 2004, p.108]
60
Village Voice
The two-man, woogie-filled boogie team is fine for 30 minutes.
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20
Filter
The worst record [Homme's] name has ever graced. [#10, p.89]

What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this album is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

David O gave it a10:
I defy anyone to listen to this record and be able to sit still. It just makes you wanna get up and move.

C K gave it a10:
Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme take everything that's wrong with rock music and fix it. Why on earth would anyone want to go to a concert and be surrounded by nothing but dudes? Eagles of Death Metal brings the ladies back into rock-n-roll, which can only be a good thing. To top it all off, Hughes is the caliber of rock star that only comes around once ever 10 years. Best album of 2005. Period.

Dave H gave it a9:
You'd be hard pressed to find a more fun and accessible album. It requires no thought or effort....it simply does what it sets out to do--confuse, disorient, and occasionally make you dance.

Mikey C gave it a9:
The greatest "dance rock" album. It gives me wiggles and makes my rump shake.

miah t gave it a10:
listen to the whole damn thing. 0ver and over and over; then stop. then do it over and over and over.then listen to dessert sessions then queens then mondo generator then masers of reality then eagles of death metal . do it i swear at the end of that session you will be rich.

jen s gave it a 10:
GREAT!

nigella m gave it a 10:
fucking great! its all good fun and they recorded it with really shit guitars which makes it evan greater

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