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08-25-2017, 06:19 PM | #1 |
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Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
Three tracks in, and my nipples are totes hard. I am loving this.
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08-25-2017, 06:21 PM | #2 |
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Can't find a decent YouTube video/am too lazy but Domesticated Animals is a nice compromise for the luddites who just can't wrap their heads around a 20 year old band tinkering with their sound.
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08-25-2017, 09:49 PM | #3 |
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I gotta give this another shot. The production was really bumming me out and I turned it off.
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08-25-2017, 10:23 PM | #4 |
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Listened in my car b/c couldn't wait to get between headphones and sorta overwhelmed. Some of it is very tricky and dense. Too soon to call but I am liking the fact I am challenged by this and there's enough hooks stuft in to keep me spinnin until I can wrap my head around it a bit
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08-25-2017, 11:16 PM | #5 |
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This band has been on a gradual slide for the last 15 years and have just now entered "too boring to bother with" which is kinda impressive i guess. Homme has succesfully bleached all traces of metal from their sound and it's just a bunch of tinny surf rock riffs and layered harmonies where they don't need to be. 0/10.
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08-25-2017, 11:23 PM | #6 |
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Got to listen to this three times in a row today while on the passenger seat, somehow I don't remember most of it a few hours later.
I'll give it a try with headphones, too much going on with these tracks for car speakers. Don't dislike it overall, feels like part II to Like Clockwork, only even more polished. |
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08-26-2017, 12:19 AM | #7 | |
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08-26-2017, 12:36 AM | #8 |
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08-26-2017, 12:41 AM | #9 |
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Yeah. I miss the multi singers too. In another dimension SFTD was merely a stepping stone to something even grander and wilder.
But if i didn't have lullabies, era, and clockwork in my life that would be sad, because there's butt ton of just incredible sounding music on those records. I guess in my heart i'm just a homme fan, whatever he calls it i'm gonna check it out for life |
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08-26-2017, 09:56 AM | #10 |
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SJ what's your take on them crooked vultures? It scratched some of that classic desert rock itch I'd been lacking after lullabies and era
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08-26-2017, 08:43 PM | #11 | |
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08-26-2017, 09:24 PM | #12 |
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I gotta say, I'm actually quite impressed with the new album. I wasn't a huge fan of the older stuff, but there's a lot of really creative licks and harmonies here.... I dunno, I just really dig the vibe that they're going for here. A cool, creative statement in a time where rock music has truly petered out.
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08-27-2017, 01:33 AM | #13 |
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08-27-2017, 11:59 AM | #14 |
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08-27-2017, 12:01 PM | #15 | |
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They've never recorded the same album twice and are the better for it. |
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08-27-2017, 12:02 PM | #16 | |
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08-27-2017, 12:04 PM | #17 |
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One of my favorite music-listening experiences was listening to Songs for the Deaf for only the second or third time after eating a particularly potent pot-brownie. Nearly broke my brain concentrating on the drum and bass on that album.
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08-27-2017, 12:04 PM | #18 |
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Those radio-station interludes have not aged well. Still think Rated R is their defining album.
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08-27-2017, 06:21 PM | #19 |
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Yeah rated r is definitely the talisman thru which the rest of the discography makes sense, even if it isn't usually my fave (lately it's b/w era and clockwork but have also been convinced at times that lullabies is the most cohesive and transportive experience they've offered)
New album is wierd and catchy and thrilling imo, did headphones after some microhits the other night and just grinned/giggled like a goon thru the whole thing |
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08-29-2017, 01:04 AM | #20 |
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okay, fine. 1/10. Not "not thrilled", completely bored. Insipid, soulless, uninspired, bland, lazy, dull. They get 1 mark for going to the effort of recording it, but seriously it's completely without any redeeming qualities at all.
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08-29-2017, 03:57 AM | #21 |
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The sound is so manufactured and contrived, they simply don't sound like a band anymore. The songs are maybe not even that bad per se, but i have a very hard time getting passed that sound.
The soul has been completely sucked out of it that way. And that hit song still makes me think of mambo no 5 |
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08-29-2017, 11:24 AM | #22 |
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Hmmm i disagree; in fact I'd say all qotsa records, including this one, while obviously the work of an auteur in the same way as, say, Siamese Dream, consistently feature an exciting rhythm section on nearly every track. In fact, Jho has confirmed that the basic tracks are live performances by the band.
The production choices on Villains are certainly rather extreme/jarring, especially after the more organic sound of the last one, but its album 7. In my view I'd rather a band push the limits to offer something new and challenging, and basically I couldn't be more excited about the new songs and the way they sound. I can already tell it's a deep record that will reveal more and more surprises over time |
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08-29-2017, 05:41 PM | #23 |
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Yeah, after the first wave of "Yay!" has worn off a bit, I'm finding little nooks and crannies of the record I hadn't noticed before. For 9 tracks, it is deceptively deep.
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08-29-2017, 05:42 PM | #24 |
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I won't argue with you, but I just don't see how someone who was previously a fan could find this album do detestable. I'm not asking you to defend your position, I just don't get it. The sound of the new album isn't so far out of Homme's wheelhouse that it should be a shock to anyone.
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08-29-2017, 05:45 PM | #25 |
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This is probably my favorite track at the moment
Pairs nicely with this |
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08-29-2017, 06:12 PM | #26 |
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I can't pick a fave rn but fuck if unreborn again isn't one of the best recordings jho's ever been involved with
Absolutely loving the prominent synths |
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08-29-2017, 06:23 PM | #27 |
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I just like things to sound real
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08-30-2017, 06:09 PM | #28 |
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08-31-2017, 07:49 PM | #29 |
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I like it. I now enjoy rated r, songs for the deaf, and this one. Should I familiarize myself with the rest before their riot fest set?
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08-31-2017, 11:07 PM | #30 |
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If you like this one, era vulgaris isn't too far removed: lotta synths, guitartone circus, very strange melodic choices and song structures, and plus Misfit Love which is easily a top 10 qotsa song
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