Queens of the Stone Age

Grohl laid it down hard on Songs for the Deaf. Can't wait to hear him work with Homme again. Btw, how do you get through life not knowing who JPJ is? Let alone not knowing his work? I'm assuming you're kidding, you just have to be. I just hope that if they do release an album, a tour follows suit...
 
"You think I ain't worth a dollar but I feel like a millionaire." That song told me rock and roll still was bad ass. I mean how many songs rhyme anything with conquestidor?
 
This makes me slightly agitated!

I like Queens, but having heard all Kyuss material I know of, I can't say there is any way Queens stacks up against them.

I guess it depenRAB on how clean you like your music, and the lyrics weren't anything special from Kyuss but the overall product tenRAB to blow QOTSA out of the water imo.

Kyuss went through their time starting off dead sleazy and finishing up artistically awesome, but whatever stage they were at, it was brilliant. (1990) Deadly Kiss -> 50 Million Year Trip -> Demon Cleaner -> Spaceship Landing (1995).

QOTSA have gone through making Mexicola -> Tension Head (Apart from a couple the rest of the album was pretty average) -> You Think I Aint Worth a Dollar -> I'm not sure what to put here from the Lullabies album, it was all mediocre. You know, some good songs, but other than S/T and maybe SFTD, none of the QOTSA albums, as a whole, stacked up against Kyuss.
 
A band capable of brilliance and mediocrity in equal measure. NO ONE KNOWS is a stone wall classic, but the album is so patchy. Heard the new singls (sick,sick,sick) and like it, but still trepidatious about the album.
 
I have LTP but havent really listened to it that much yet, saying that though the times i have listened to it, it seems ok. I doubt it will ever match songs for the deaf mind you.
 
Oh come on. It's fair to say there have been stoner banRAB that go on to produce shit the rest of their meager lives but J-Ho isn't among them. Blues for the Red Sun isn't even the best Kyuss album. Sky Valley is epic.
 
So, anyone had a chance to listen to the new album and gather some thoughts? I think it's definitely weaker than LTP and SFTT, it seems more droning...standout tracks are 3's and 7's and Sick Sick Sick...
 
they're a good alternative rock or stoner rock band
my favorite albums are lullabies to paralyze and era vulgaris

fav songs in no order are
3's and 7's
sick sick sick
little sister
in my head
no one knows
go with the flow
 
No kidding. I went to buy Converge's No Heroes at HMV. 22$ CDN + tax. I said "**** this" and left.

Used to listen to QOTSA a lot, but very, very rarely now. Heard Sick, Sick, Sick a while back on the radio... it wasn't bad, but it wasn't too great. I read that Jesse F. Keeler from Death From Above 1979 was helping to record playing bass or something on the CD, though, which is cool.
 
i think kyuss was a band with a different ethos.

QotSA seem like an act with a different aim. Its more studio oriented from my brief experience with both.
 
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