QOTSA - ERA VULGARIS

yep.

i'm looking forward to hearing it. and i hope it's on some next-level songs for the deaf shit. no brody = great! plus casablancas = boo!

wtf re. artwork

like the two songs that've been released on the net, Sick Sick Sick and "3s & 7s". (Hope it's low bitrate on that clip that makes the sound so crap).

i am lovin' "3s & 7s"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4KXe1GdrGIU

leakeddddddd will listen tomorrow

\m/ - and I just noticed the fake ring-mark on the sleeve, which is a nice touch. Is that Dan Clowes?

No, it's a drawing of a light bulb.

oh. you mean... sorry.

Teaser site here:

http://www.eravulgaris.co.uk

(fill in the title of the first track & get fabulous prizes, like a desktop thing and a listen to more than 3 tracks from the album!)

just gave this a listen. it's pretty good stuff. their most "poppy" album yet. also, the solo on the first track totally kills.

I didn't think it wa that poppy. Some of the guitar sound reminded me of tracks from the latter half of the 1st album.

"Into the Hollow" is real nice.

That's the greatest album cover I've ever seen. The fake vinyl ringwear!

album cover "photo shoot":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGdSaF-xOAI

I will be downstealing this tonight.

Just as a promo copy, mind you.

This keeps getting better. Love how Josh Homme never disappoints me

I like how this album opens up. It's like a bar brawler warming up on a side of sheet metal.

WOO!

THIS REKKID IS FUKKING GREAT SO FAR!!!!

I did not like the last one at all…only liked a few toonz on Songs for the Deaf. Five songs in, this seems up there with Rated R and the first one…

Finally, I don't find myself missing Alfredo, Nick or Grohl. I'm rooting for Homme…he's a swell dude and one that gets to do what he wants (whether I like what he does at a particular time or not) and more often than not, he makes really eccentric, tweaked, often songful and well recorded rock and roll music with awesome guitar sounds that lots of people dig . He's like the R. Kelly of rock…he's got the hot hands, but none of the pooing and pissing on little girls (at least, not that I know of)…

more often than not, he makes really eccentric, tweaked, often songful and well recorded rock and roll music with awesome guitar sounds that lots of people dig . He's like the R. Kelly of rock…

OTM

i liked the last one a lot better.

still, not bad.

i haven't heard this album yet. but "sick sick sick" isn't really doing it for me.

'Make it wit chu' - major letdown though. The Desert Sessions version was so much better, why did they have to fuzz it down so much?

Come on, the new version of Make it wit chu isn't different enough to be bitter over, at least we have 2 versions to choose from now, and it's still a kickass song.

What's bullshit is the pitchfork review for this. 6.2 !? And they didn't even really justify the review, especially since they gave Lullabies 7.5 !!! Yeah, sure, Lullabies was not only a better album, but it was 1.3 times better. Gimme a fuckin' break.

Whatever though, they always have their head up their asses, preferring to give anything on a major label a bad grade while giving anything noisy, unlistenable or by a member of animal collective a 9.3

I can't wait for the 6.1 icky thump review, where they whine about it being a huge step down from get behind me satan.

Weak.

SUTUR DA FUTUR BABY

especially since they gave Lullabies 7.5 !!! Yeah, sure, Lullabies was not only a better album, but it was 1.3 times better. Gimme a fuckin' break.

i like lullabies a whole lot more than this new one. it just rocks more.

can't wait for the 6.1 icky thump review, where they whine about it being a huge step down from get behind me satan

it is actually a giant step down.

confidential to david r.: i'm totally with you on your review. but the artwork was so promising!

1.3 TIMES better?

Also, what is this with the confidentiality? Sing my praises loud & shit (and with money)! (& thx, FT!)

It's 1.2 times actually :-p

I'm not feeling EV, but because people whose judgement I value keep telling me it's awesome I'm going to dig in.

I'd have given you that Lullabies rocks more than Vulgaris, but there is no way in HELL "Icky Thump" is a "giant step down" from "Get Behind Me Satan". That was arguably their least consistent album IMO.

Give the new one (of both bands) a few more listens, because they're the two best rock records I've heard all year (so far).

And you can only step UP from "The Nurse" and "White Moon", come on !

Hey, I loved "The Nurse"!

I think Allmusic does a pretty good job defending a good rating for EV. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:jvfyxz85ldse

the Allmusic review is spot-on

maybe 2-3 duds on this album, the rest is golden - esp. loving 3's and 7's this time thru

and I just noticed the fake ring-mark on the sleeve, which is a nice touch.

see also:
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/images/upper_braxe.jpg

i listen to this once a day to see if i'm missing something. i'm not. david r. totally nailed this, mainly because guy gets right into the mess and drops the gratuitous 'graf that adorns pretty much anything else on the page; dude should write more for p4k; also: damn day jobs, etc. etc. [except for mine, which i really truly love now.]

[also: i thought the allmusic review was taken out of beckett's watt or something. maybe the hoff needs to come down from city pages and bust some 'grafs or something. pax?]

[i miss altweekly death watch soooo much.]

Just got mine. This is just great - so full of weird noise. QOTSA always struck me as having a certain psych edge and this seems well to the fore here.

Allmusic OTM.

i'm liking this a lot

I listened to the stream of this all day and love it. I think it's considerably better than the last one, and better than Rated R too. Don't know if it's as good as Songs for the Deaf, though. Have to listen more, but it's definitely better than I expected.

this and rated R are now my 2 favorite qotsa albums

I really enjoyed this on first listen but I'm assuming I've got a dodgy rip and a couple of songs aren't supposed to pitch up and down like this.

damn, i miss mark and nick...
ahh, well, in the eternal words of corporate america,
'it is what it is'.

Well, y'know, Mark and Nick are still doing their own stuff, aren't they?

yeah, well, it's not the same. the 3 headed hydra that was QotSA worked so much better for me.

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/1088/1088_3.jpg

z'actly.

The Replacements - "Fuck School"

whoops! wrong thread there...

nicotine...

I like QOTSA better without Olivieri.

That's right, I said it.

Nick's a fucking dumbass

another "ring wearer"
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"I like QOTSA better without Olivieri."

you,sir, are alowed to say it. but, you are also crazy.

allowed
eeesh...

heard this for the first time on sunday

possible very good

What's the production like? Is it as mushed as SFTD?

It's pretty gritty. Some might have issues with it.

Is there some belly-punch in the bottom of the bass, some synaesthesia and separation in the guitars?

production's not bad, there are some really great songs on it,too.
but, overall, i'm just not as 'into it' as i was hoping i'd be.
they didn't improve on 'Make It Witchu' much, '3's+7's' has some interesting moves, so does 'Turning Of the Screw'. i'm diggin on 'Into the Hollow' a ton. i think 'Sick,Sick,Sick' needed to have a chorus dropped and i'd be into it more.

it's not a 'bad' album, just not a 'great' one.

Still listening to this, and there's a lot going on. 'Battery Acid' has a deranged quality about it that makes me think of some forgotten piece of post-punk primitivism.

I hope more album covers do the "ring wear" thing. Of course, it will eventually be copied by shitty bands, but until then I'm all for it.

The middle eight, if you can call it a middle eight, in the opening track is FUCKING INCREDIBLE.

Man, this is GREAT at 4th listen. Weird how all reviews seem to focus on "Into the Hollow" and "3's & 7's" though, they're the most standard QOTSA songs on there (although "3's" is wonderful). Top tracks at the mo: "Sick, sick, sick", "I'm Designer", "Misfit Love" (what a fucking awsome intro!).

"Suture up your future" sounds like it's taken from a Silent Hill game

is 3's & 7's going to be released as a U.S. single?

No One Knows.

I take back what I said about "Make it wit 'chu". May still like the DS version better, but this one's not bad at all. And I love how it ends with that great intro for "3'2 & 7's"!

So what was the conlcusion on his one? Is ith their pop album?

It's a good one. Seeing them for the first time early in the New Year, looking forward to it.

Just listening to this for the first time. Really digging it, it's incredibly taut.

Its quite underrated , probably because its not heavy enough for most fans. Mind you i'd love to see josh make heavy music again.

OK, second listen and it's really fucking excellent. Thoroughly modern rock n roll with as much of an ear for rhythm and texture as melody and songcraft.

I heard that "Make It Wit Chu" song yesterday and it was pretty awesome.

They were great live.

This isn't their 'pop album', I woudn't say, not in the way Rated R was. It's perhaps got their single poppiest moment on it in Make It Wit'chu, but overall the production and guitar sound and tone is so dirty and heavy and sludgy. I really like it, more so than Songs For The Deaf. Still prefer Rated R overall, I think. I never got the previous one; is it worth bothering with?

Heavy might be the wrong word. It's almost... dancey, at points, not so much in what the rhythms are as in how they're constructed?

Haven't heard this in a long time, but wrt 'dancey' - maybe there's a bit of boogie in it? Carried over from Eagles of Death Metal perhaps..

Aye. perhaps a bit of boogie. A bit of... mechanisation, as well, I think. Some of it's quite industrial, almost?

I loved "3's & 7's," the first single. The chorus kind of comes out of nowhere.