-- Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 13.98 Amazon Price $ 12.99 Savings $ 0.99 | |  Release Date: 22 March, 2005, Interscope Records
TRACK LISTING - This Lullaby
- Medication
- Everybody Knows That You`re Insane
- Tangled Up In Plaid
- Burn The Witch
- In My Head
- Little Sister
- I Never Came
- Someones In The Wolf
- The Blood Is Love
- Skin On Skin
- Broken Box
- You Got A Killer Scene There, Man...
- Long Slow Goodbye
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | As SNL proved...5 stars for two songs, 2 for the rest | | If you saw Saturday Night Live with Will Ferral as host in the Spring of 2005, you would have seen Queens of the Stone Age play two songs: "Little Sister" (COWBELL by Will Ferral) and then "In My Head". I had never heard Queens stuff before and I fell in love with these two songs. Upon recieving Lullabies, I realized that they are the ONLY two songs that I love. Again, I wasn`t a fan of the band, and I have checked out their music-pretty decent-but not up to the quality and melodic presence as Sister and Head. They are touring with Nine Inch, so maybe hearing all their stuff live will change my mind. | | | | Stop the bashing, kids. | QOTSA...What can I say about this band? I discovered it together with Mars Volta, so, it was some time after their masterpiece, Songs For The Deaf. I liked that album from the second I heard the first song, it was all there, insane guitar riffs, bass pumping, screaming, some music-to-get-high moments, damn good.
Then I heard about their new CD, Lullabies to Paralyze. I read about it, and everybody was saying it wasn`t good, that getting Olivieri out of the band ruined it, etc...And I get afraid. How come the band lost all their quality in between one CD? Then I get the CD, kinda nervous about what I`m gonna hear...
And, it`s not half bad. In truth, it`s damn good. OK, maybe Songs For The Deaf level was unreacheable, but it`s not a lot far from that.
This Lullaby is a ballad. It`s creepy, too calm, etc...It kinda annoyed me the first time I heard it, but it`s a nice song, nothing to write home about.
Then, the ol` QOSTA appears. Medication, Burn The Witch, Tangled Up in Plaid, Everybody Knows That You`re Insane, all rock songs, that can make you break some bones and another things around ya. Just to make a special mention, Everybody Knows That You`re Insane alone is worth half of my grade. It starts gloomy and dark, some nice singing, then, at the chorus...it just blows, it`s a damn good song, and I like the lyrics..." You wanna know just how long you can hide from? Well now you know...Not very long"
Some other songs, like Someone`s The Wolf and The Blood is Love give me that Hangin` Tree feeling, some dizzy guitars, it`s the musics-to-get-high of this album. Someone`s The Wolf is my 2nd favorite of this CD, silence, then, guitars slicing and dicing every single part of your brain, ethereal voices coming out of nowhere while that drums make you get even more dizzy...Also a stand-out. Kinda too big, but that`s not that bad.
Some pop songs are here too. Little Sister, I Never Came, In My Head are pop-ish songs, and that`s not bad. I Never Came is a lot Foo Fighter-ish, to say the truth, same thing about Little Sister, but that`s not saying it`s bad, or you`ll say anything bad about that band that made Everlong and Learn to Fly? If you`ll, I`ll make sure I`ll give you some painful, bloody and violent death ^^
I think after Someone`s the Wolf, things start getting a lil` worse, like in Skin on Skin and Broken Box, the 2 tracks I liked less of this album. But, it`s a good CD, no way you can say it`s damn bad, Olivieri, come back, etc, etc...OK, I`ll not argue about the bass thing, this is almost a pure guitar album, you can`t listen the bass really well, but...you can`t ask for everything in a CD unless it`s called Songs For The Deaf or De-Loused in The Comatorium ^^
So, I say, stop the bashing, kids, sit down and relax, forget a sec about Nick and enjoy the show ^^ | | | | What`s with all the complaining? | | Being a long-time fan of KYUSS, I`ve been following the ``career`` of Josh Homme for quite some time now and can genuinely say that he`s really one of the last great songwriters left in the whole `alterna-rock` genre. Everything he puts out is an attempt to redefine what he did prior to his most recent recordings. `Lullabies To Paralyze` is no different. Like everything he does, its always hit and miss, but I admire that at least he keeps trying new directions, moods and experiments while still keeping a trademark sound. To me, the best track on the album, hands down, is `Someone`s In The Wolf`. The riff in that tune is a monster. `Little Sister` and `Medication` pump along nicely, as does `Broken Box`. Those are best listened to while driving. `Burn The Witch` has ZZ Top all over it and its nice to hear Billy Gibbons back in form. The European cd has the `Like A Drug` bonus track and Gibbons brings it home, giving it a dirtier, bluesier feel than the original Desert Session track. `Skin On Skin` is the only track I`d deem a waste of time. `I Never Came`, `You`ve Got A Killer Scene There, Man...` and `This Lullaby` are also decent tracks to listen when you feel like chilling out. As usual, Homme offers a varied, interesting and ambitious project. I`ve been laughing at all the naysayers panning this album. Too many people are lamenting the loss of Nick Oliveri, Dave Grohl and the minimal utilization of Mark Lanegan. QOTSA`s best album was their debut which Josh Homme pretty much recorded single-handedly (Oliveri appears on the back cover but didn`t play bass on the album...he joined when it was done), so the people out there that say that Queens lacks something without its former members are way off the mark. I get the impression that Homme was putting up with Oliveri most of the time and recording the 4 or 5 tracks that Nick sang on (which usually leaned towards being B-side material) as a favour to his pal. I also get the feeling that the people who mention Dave Grohl and Oliveri only JUST heard of the band on `Songs for The Deaf`. Homme has written many many more good songs than bad ones and will continue to do so regardless of who he surrounds himself with. This man`s well runs very deep. | | |
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