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In The Fade is gorgeous, but Better Living Through Chemistry is transcending, hypnotic and just as equally gorgeous at a certain point. That song really takes you to a beautiful and strange place.
+Thee Ol' Boozeroony If you take the lyrics at face value... anytime you lose a sense of purpose, or feel like you can't succeed. In my life, I've found that if you give up for a moment, you can get a little clarity on where you can get yourself a win....the combination of the lyrics and the lethargic music remind of that feeling of giving up for just a moment before moving forward. For Drug Addiction (which thankfully I've never had to get over, but I can only imagine...) 'I'm Gonna Leave You' is a better track I'm thinking.
Definitely does NOT enough love...probably my favorite Queens song, and definitely my favorite use of a haunting Lanegan vocal on a (mostly) Homme-composed track
I've been listening to this album for years, and that track speaks to me unlike any other song. That wooly guitar tone, and bittersweet vocal performance that always cuts me deep.
This interview is a go to cozy thing for me. It's been rough lately. The time to change is coming around again, and the preamble is always rough. Goodbye, old you. Meet the new you.
I remember getting a job working at the festivals in 2002 selling food for a vegetarian company. Fine. Good times. They were cool. "You're here to work but if there's a band you wanna see, go for it". Glastonbury 2002. QOTSA are on the bill and I couldn't believe it, I never thought Dave Grohl would be with them though, I couldn't be that lucky. I was. They absolutely killed it. I remember getting off the train in Reading where I was at college at the time. With my rucksack on my back, instead of going straight home, I went to HMV and bought Rated R and Songs For The Deaf. I went home that morning, listened to those albums and drank gin. Fucking good times. Reading College was shit and a joke but my time there made me may friends, had naked fun with many a fine female, worked the festivals and saw Queens Of The Stone Age. I thank you.
Josh's influence on music is amazing. I really like his take on doing what they want to do and not painting themselves in a corner trying to please the same audience.
I love all queens records and have since they first popped out the first one. More weird in the fucking diet of the world is lovely so is a great pop song.
Rated R is the album that I played the most during my time in university. Got it the week it came out since I dug the 1st album and the new sound arrived as my mind was being bent on a daily basis with substances in a good way. It was just perfect for that time and I really played the hell out of it and turned on many many people to it and the band. So good. So so good.
One of the best artist interviews I’ve ever heard. Kinda shows me that making something special is second to living a diverse filling life. Technique isn’t the only thing, no matter how good you are at playing, if you have feelings and thoughts worth conveying then you have something to give as an artist
amazing interview....super cool to hear. Had the pleasure of meeting and actually opening for Kyuss more than once...Josh is pretty intimidating at first...he's big and looks like the classic school bully....but he's a bad ass dude...and some 20 years later he's still kicking ass. Thank you Josh for so much great music!!
I picked up a copy of "Rated X" on vinyl as a double LP. Great record, but the second half with the live tracks are so much better in my opinion. Their first three albums get regular play while working on my paintings.
Their first 3 were the best. Nick kept the band on the hard/heavy side (Josh and Alfredo both came from Kyuss before the first album so that one was on the hard side)
When you download Rated R onto your PC it reads as Metal......I can understand the Metal ties with Kyuss , Queens Of The Stone Age can be more described as Psychedelic Metal, especially the first 3 albums......but Queens are a very broad band.......I alway's saw Kyuss and Queens as reintroducing early 70s proto-metal of Sabbath, Zep and The Stooges into the 90s / 00s. Its Classic Rock reinvented
Nihl Esten I don't think it's as weird (or concise) as Rated R. However I listened to it recently and the competition is a lot closer than I remembered.
+daniel mcdermott Well, the oddity isn't a measure of beauty. I think of oddity in music as a bonus quality. If it sounds good and has good lyrics it's good, if it's also edgy and has edgy lyrics (like Rape Me- Nirvana) that just adds to the beauty. Songs for the Deaf, in my onion, had a stranger and prettier approach. Rated R was a fantastic album.
I like some of the songs from Songs for the deaf but i think it's less cohesive and more of a mixed bag than rated r. I don't think any song on songs for the deaf is better than in the fade and better living through chemistry.
I think we can all thank Josh for reintroducing the world to Mark Lanegan. I may have never discovered, and quickly become obsessed with, some of the greatest songs the world has ever known. And Josh's music ain't bad either.
"I really wanted to sleep with his sister and she like... well... basically turned into a werewolf-alien and I was like 'Ayyeeewhatsuuurrrr?!' and you just, deal with it. You know?" Don't know about the rest of you, but I don't know. Although I'd love to!
Josh seems to be in a way driven to open people up to diversity in music and I love that. I've always loved bands that are diverse and include many different sounds and styles within their albums and not being afraid to try new things. I think audiences now NEED to have diversity because the idea of diversity being bad is crazy. I've seen people bash albums for being "unfocused" when really they were just diverse. If you think diverse = bad you gotta open your ears more!
What's cool is that it was during the nu metal era and they were staples for the heavy metal circuit...what's interesting is that it wasn't like QOTSA or SFTD...it was still mysterious
not into drugs but rated r was the coolest new record in my lifetime. i just learned to make rock myself which i always wanted to do besides extreme metal. and that record was just fuel in a time where i fired off my last liters of naivitey
This record is so beautiful!!! In the Fade is the first Queens song i ever heard. Leg of Lamb is probably my fave song on this record...its so fucking weird. Its neat hearing his thoughts on Oppenheimer.
