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Art Brut is French for, roughly, outsider art. Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now is English for Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now. Hey, it's Art Brut's Eddie Argos, speak-singing over doo-wop ivory-tickling from the perspective of Martha & the Vandellas' "Jimmy Mack" on Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now's "Hey It's Jimmy Mack". And frankly, he admonishes, "I've not been gone that long/ It definitely doesn't deserve a song." This is a fully fleshed-out studio recording, not a quick pisstake like Argos' previous non-Art Brut cover songs; Argos' blog claims it was recorded in Joshua Tree, Calif. Hey Eddie, go tell Bono to find what he's looking for and shut up about it already. MySpace has two other new songs, "The Scarborough Affaire" and "G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N. (You Know You've Got A)", which treat Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Avril Lavigne, and Jonathan Richman the way "Hey It's Jimmy Mack" handles Martha Reeves. 'Cause "Vive la Résistance" is French for "Vive la Resistance."

Stream:> Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now: "Hey It's Jimmy Mack"
[from MySpace]