very glad this album is getting some love.every day this week during my lunchtime browsing sessions, this album has been on the shops pa systems, and damn, it has sounded so good.also, i eventually succumbed to the charms of era vulgaria ... took a bit longer than normal, but damn, it has some serious classics.
― mark e, Thursday, 6 June 2013 07:00 (ten years ago) link
i wasn't sold at first but second listen is yielding good vibes
about as good as you could want a later-era QOTSA album to be. i love the old kyuss/rated r sound better than these last few albums, but I'm down with this for sure
that closing song reminds me of pink floyd, dark side of the moon kinda vibe
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
it's very pretty on first listen
― da croupier, Friday, 7 June 2013 02:56 (ten years ago) link
haven't listened to these guys since songs for the deaf, but on first listen I'm digging this new album's gentleman stoner elegance
― anonanon, Friday, 7 June 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
its a great album. its a greater album when you realise that a large amount of the songs are josh's way of dealing with the fact he died on the operating table for some minutes a few years back.
― waterprick (stevie), Friday, 7 June 2013 05:04 (ten years ago) link
Accepted in principal; but citations required.
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 7 June 2013 06:14 (ten years ago) link
"Gentleman Stoner Elegance" should be a top trend for 2014. Let's make this happen people!
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 7 June 2013 06:20 (ten years ago) link
new blunted gentry
― anonanon, Friday, 7 June 2013 06:33 (ten years ago) link
I Sat By the Ocean and Kalopsia are my favourites.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
Check the lyrics to I Appear Missing in particular.
― waterprick (stevie), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
From Wiki:
In 2010, frontman Josh Homme was hospitalized for thirteen days, and subsequently bedridden for four months, following complications during a routine knee surgical procedure.[4] Homme noted, "I woke up and there was a doctor going, ‘Shit, we lost you.' I couldn’t get up for four months. When I did, I hadn’t got a clue what was going on." During this time, Homme sank into a deep depression, noting "I would never say, 'I'm probably not gonna make it out of here.' But back then, I would definitely think it."[4] The remaining members of Queens of the Stone Age - guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, drummer Joey Castillo, bassist Michael Shuman and guitarist and keyboardist Dean Fertita - encouraged Homme to return to the band to begin work on a sixth studio album.[5] Homme noted, "I had to ask them 'If you want to make a record with me right now, in the state I’m in, come into the fog. It’s the only chance you got.' It brought us much closer, because you never really know someone till everything goes wrong."[6]
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
they played the whole album live last night:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01b7kmv
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 09:12 (ten years ago) link
This is growing into a titan of a record.
― Mule, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
this is a terrific album. however, i think the track order hurts it. it takes too long to really get going. it's okay leading off with Keep Your Eyes Peeled, and I Sat By The Ocean is a great way to follow it, but you can't piss away the momentum by then going straight into another more meandering track like Vampyre. having diagnosed the disorder i have fixed it. it's only an adjustment, not an overhaul, but i think it's a big improvement and, of course, you are welcome.
Keep Your Eyes PeeledI Sat By The OceanMy God Is The SunKalopsiaIf I Had A TailFairweather FriendsSmooth SailingThe Vampyre Of Time And MemoryI Appear Missing...Like Clockwork
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
Amazing performance from "Like Clockwork"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFnDWdUBi8
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
s & d :: desert sessions is a thread I keep reviving and receiving very little interest, so I'm reaching out to its members' home threads.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 3 October 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
No help for that, but I have noticed that Songs For The Death is probably a key influence on the new Sturgill.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 October 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
I made it through the first few minutes of the Sturgill record before I needed a break. Are you saying I should dive deeper?
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 3 October 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
No, put on Songs For The Deaf.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 October 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
That works for me!
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 3 October 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
Didn't know that Homme & Dalle had split up in '19, and things have gotten progressively uglier since...
https://www.nme.com/news/music/josh-hommes-daughter-granted-extension-to-restraining-order-3057678
WARNING: TRIGGERING DETAILS OF (ALLEGED) CHILD ABUSE
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 September 2021 22:08 (two years ago) link
Not to make light of anything here but it's not hard to believe a guy with a famous drinking problem who has been arrested for beating up one of the Dwarves and kicked a camera person in the face during a show might not be the best guy.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 September 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
I mean, we 100% don't know the full story. There were about 100 pages of legal docs released a few weeks ago from Homme's side. I don't think anything has been made public like that from Dalle's attorneys. Part of what Homme alleges is that he's been in treatment and on Antabuse since the face kick incident, whereas Dalle has not. There is a ton more, which I won't detail here. Some of it is banal and some of it is definitely sketchy. There are probably depressing details about Homme in Dalle's attorneys' filings that haven't been brought to light yet. I'm not trying to advocate for anybody's "side".
I'm a fan of both musicians. They've both written songs for their children in the past that I've listened to a lot . I even have Josh's 7" from 2018 that features Brody and the kids performing Twas the Night Before Christmas (it's not really a great listen, imo, but it sucks to even see it in my record collection with all the familial rancor).
Whole thing sucks.
― peace, man, Friday, 1 October 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, it really does, especially for the kids. I wasn't inferring that it's all on him, btw, I know they've both been through a lot. Homme has just always come across as not a nice guy, so it's hard not to keep that in context.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 October 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
Yeah, he's definitely got anger issues.
― peace, man, Friday, 1 October 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link