Everybody Was in the French Resistance... Now – Indie Tracks 2010
The band was formed on a road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles when Eddie and his girlfriend Dyan Valdés (from The Blood Arm) heard Jimmy Mack by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas on the radio - Eddie has apparently always had an issue with the song, thinking it mean to sing a song to your boyfriend about cheating on him, especially when he was probably off fighting in the Vietnamese war (the original song came out in 1967). So to defend Jimmy they wrote a response to the song from his side of things. From this the idea of a concept band to create responses to other songs was hatched, leading to the creation of Everybody Was in the French Resistance... Now.
Live at the Indie Tracks festival, they lit up the stage with a set that included the infamous G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I’ve Got A), a response to Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend and its morally questionable message promoting stealing boyfriends, along with Billie’s Genes, a response to Billie Jean by Michael Jackson told from the side of Eddie Argos, being the illegitimate son of Michael Jackson and Billie Jean.
The gig was obviously propped up by a healthy dose of tongue in cheek, but there’s definitely enough whit and musical class to make it all work. There’s also more serious songs, like “Creeque Allies”, the story of the early 40s French resistance movement and the formation of the freedom fighters who would eventually help to drive the Nazis out of France.
4.1/5
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