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View Poll Results: What is your Favourite album by Queens of the Stone Age? | |||
Queens of the Stone Age | 6 | 16.22% | |
Rated R | 7 | 18.92% | |
Songs for the Deaf | 18 | 48.65% | |
Lullabies to Paralyze | 5 | 13.51% | |
Era Vulgaris | 1 | 2.70% | |
Voters: 37. You may not vote on this poll |
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09-24-2008, 01:27 AM | #1 |
Braindead
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Favourite Queens of the Stone Age album.
Rated R.
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09-24-2008, 05:37 AM | #2 |
Through Silver In Buds
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R is a brilliant album.
However, SFTD is probably amongst my 5 favourite albums of the decade. Immaculately produced, brilliantly written, totally consistent. Homme's best guitar work by miles. Probably Dave Grohl's best drum performance on record too. Not a riff or a lick or a fill out of place. And it fucking ROCKS in an age of soft-cock-rock made by douchebags in matching dinner jackets and pointy shoes. |
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09-24-2008, 06:49 AM | #3 |
Socialphobic
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yeah songs for the deaf is my favorite album of the decade. i just, love this album.
that said queens of the stone age have the most steady & most impressive discography in rock for me. at the very least they blow practically every other mainstream artist out of the water. as incredible as radiohead's last 6 records have been, pablo honey is good but a significant step below all their other records. queens have not had a single dud while they've been around. |
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09-24-2008, 09:02 AM | #4 |
Minion of Satan
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all of them are great, but songs for the deaf is my favorite
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09-24-2008, 11:38 AM | #5 |
Minion of Satan
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there are only two records that contend for 'best rock album of the decade' and they are Songs for the Deaf and My Vitriol's Finelines. i'd pick the latter.
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09-24-2008, 11:52 AM | #6 |
Apocalyptic Poster
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Rated X LP
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09-24-2008, 11:56 AM | #7 |
Boardcaster
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Songs for the Deaf, with 'R' a close 2nd
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09-24-2008, 12:33 PM | #8 |
Apocalyptic Poster
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Rated R
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09-24-2008, 12:45 PM | #9 |
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Wouldn't really classify Finelines under best rock album. Its best moments are where it transcends the boundaries of "rock" and mixes elements of shoegaze or should i say nugaze which they pretty much created. I guess you could get away with alternative rock, though I think that is cutting them thin. The band is way more interesting when they get out of the rock single routine.
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09-24-2008, 12:47 PM | #10 |
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God fuck genres seriously. No debate to ensue on that, I just don't see the pairing of albums as appropriate in this case.
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09-24-2008, 01:00 PM | #11 |
real estate cowboy
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09-24-2008, 05:26 PM | #12 | |
Minion of Satan
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09-24-2008, 05:26 PM | #13 |
Demi-God
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love songs for the deaf, it's fucking relentless. rated r is even more impressive because of songs like better living through chemistry and quick and to the pointless (hilarious!). the debut was one of the strongest debuts ever. era vulgaris has some slick tunes, but i'm left with a bland taste. lullabies to paralyze was a better album, maybe that's why i wasn't impressed with ev.
that said, lullabies to paralyze is my favortie by far. it's the most cohesive album homme's released. the mood of the whole album is dark, dreamy, dirty, lost and on the brink of insanity. i don't care if castillo is not grohl, his drumming is totally in the pocket, letting the warm, blunted guitars propel the music. what can i say? medication, burn the witch, everybody knows that you're insane, the blood is love, you got a killer scene there man, long slow goodbye, skin on skin, in my head, tangled up in plaid...killer songs. |
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09-24-2008, 05:50 PM | #14 |
NOPE.
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09-24-2008, 06:03 PM | #15 | |
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This was worthless to bring up, I guess it's an alternative rock album at heart with hits and adventure. Im just hesitant to make a rock assesment list with albums that are pretty different. It's like those greatest rock compilations or something, buh to the generalisation. Last edited by Deadeyes : 09-24-2008 at 06:09 PM. |
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09-24-2008, 06:37 PM | #16 |
Braindead
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[quote=frugalscotsman;3346433]love songs for the deaf, it's fucking relentless. rated r is even more impressive because of songs like better living through chemistry and quick and to the pointless (hilarious!). the debut was one of the strongest debuts ever. era vulgaris has some slick tunes, but i'm left with a bland taste. lullabies to paralyze was a better album, maybe that's why i wasn't impressed with ev.QUOTE]
I probably have a bias towards Rated R because it was the first one I heard. Second was Era Vulgaris, which I like except it has a slump after "Make It wit Chu". I like it better than LtP. Again, I probably have a bias. I could have sworn that Trent Reznor produced EV. I think SftD is overrated, but I haven't listened to it much. No One Knows is made of though QotSA is one of those bands that did heaps of songs that I didn't know that I knew, like Keeping a Secret, Little Sister, Feel Good Hit.. Ironically EVERYONE knows "No One Knows" |
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09-24-2008, 06:42 PM | #17 |
Minion of Satan
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09-24-2008, 06:43 PM | #18 |
Minion of Satan
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it has one i think ode to clarissa. btw you can buy rated R with bonus tracks too.
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09-25-2008, 04:51 AM | #19 |
Through Silver In Buds
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reason SFTD wins:
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09-25-2008, 05:21 AM | #20 |
Braindead
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I'm not that good with QOTSA history, who's that on drums?
It must be between SftD and LtP because Oliveri is still on bass, so I would of expected Dave on drums. |
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09-25-2008, 05:26 AM | #21 |
Through Silver In Buds
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Dave didn't really tour much with QOTSA cause the Foo Fighters shat something out not much later. That's Joey Castillo, who is still with em today. He's fucking great. At the 03 Big Day Out both Foos and Queens were on the bill but Dave didn't play with Queens even though he could have. sucks.
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09-25-2008, 06:57 AM | #22 |
Braindead
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songs for the deaf is the qotsa album for people who don't like qotsa
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09-25-2008, 07:07 AM | #23 |
Socialphobic
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its also the album for qotsa fans whose favorite qotsa album is songs for the deaf
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09-25-2008, 07:23 AM | #24 | |
Through Silver In Buds
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Meat Is Murder is the Smiths album for people who thought INXS were better after they found a new vocalist on that reality TV show, but think that the guy who came second should have won. |
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09-25-2008, 07:43 AM | #25 |
Braindead
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i just meant it has a totally different feel from what i and every qotsa fan i know associate with qotsa
and i know a whole lot of people who only like that album |
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09-25-2008, 12:54 PM | #26 |
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kyuss
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09-25-2008, 05:16 PM | #27 | |
Ownz
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09-25-2008, 06:46 PM | #28 |
Apocalyptic Poster
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i never came? how can you not mention that song
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09-25-2008, 06:48 PM | #29 |
Immortal
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SFTD. not even a question here.
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09-25-2008, 07:01 PM | #30 |
Banned
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Self Titled is my favorite followed closely by Lullabies to Paralyze. Every song on Self Titled is quality. No filler like on follow up albums. How To Handle A Rope has to be the best song they've ever done.
I love the first half of Rated R but it really drags after Better Living Through Chemistry. Songs For The Deaf is just boring. It has a been-there-done-that feeling to it. Dave is great on drums but even he can't save it. |
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