Fixin' The Charts, Volume One
- Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now
- Band Name: Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now
- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Release Date: Feb 16, 2010
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- Summary: The latest concept album from Art Brut's Eddie Argos and Blood Arm's Dylan Valdes consists of 12 pop responses, such as "Billie's Genes," where a grown-up child responds to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean."
- Record Label: Cooking Vinyl
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop
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In which Eddie Argos of Art Brut (!) and Dyan Valdes of the Blood Arm (?) write second-cousin answer songs to, among others, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Kanye West, the Mamas and the Papas, Avril Lavigne, and P.D. "Creeque Allies" is a capsule history of the Maquis.
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60Quality inessential entertainment. [Mar 2010, p.97]
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38Argos is still witty, but here his punchlines tend to be predictable, due in part perhaps to the disc's overstretched answer-song conceit.
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