Queens of the Stone Age

I like Queens of the Stone Age. I only have "Rated R" but I've heard other stuff and it's great.

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One eyed, one horned

One of the better bands to play on SNL in recent years, unfortunately, that's the only listen I've had of them.

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Sharp-distance

I saw them open for NIN too...to be honest, they did nothing for me. I found myself struggling to stay awake, I was that bored. My biggest problem with them was the vocalist...talk about a prick! For some reason or other he was arguing with someone in the audience, making some of the worst comebacks I have heard in my life...no, seriously.

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Yeah, but he can be really funny as well. They aren't really the same type of band as NIN, that's for sure. Strange how long it took me to convert to being a fan, though!

Favourite songs: Regular John, Lost Art of Keeping A Secret, No One Knows, Long Slow Goodbye, I Wanna Make It Wit Chu

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what do you teach your children about me?
what do you teach your little children about me?
pimp, thug, bling drug lord of the undergrounded kings
how can you be so sure i won't call down the rain?
what do you teach your little children about me?
you point your gun, wait, hide and run. i see it plain

I really like No One Knows and Go With the Flow, but I haven't heard anything else by them. Might be one of those bands that's worth looking into.

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Let's get down to brass tacks. How much for the Ape?

I heard a few songs and only "No one knows" seems to me a good song. That's not my style.

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"The sound of music in my ears"

“The great error of earlier ethics is that it conceived itself as concerned only with the relations of man to man." - Albert Schweitzer

The new live version of "No One Knows" is really trippy, lots of start/stopping, an extended (beatless) guitar solo, and even a few a capella sections. Josh's voice filled the entire arena when I saw them in Toronto, it was spooky.

"Burn the Witch" and "Long Slow Goodbye" are also amazing live.

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what do you teach your children about me?
what do you teach your little children about me?
pimp, thug, bling drug lord of the undergrounded kings
how can you be so sure i won't call down the rain?
what do you teach your little children about me?
you point your gun, wait, hide and run. i see it plain

Never sounded better without Nick? Did you ever GO to one of the Songs for the Deaf concerts?

I picked up a copy of the new live album, and to be honest, it wasn't a good representation of the band live. . .and if it is, then the band truly has slipped into mediocrity without Oliveri and Lanegan.

The show I went to - where it wasn't Homme on some front man trip, was fantastic. The latest album was a severe disappointment after "Songs for the Deaf", which I'd put up as one of the all time great rock albums.

No. I've heard plenty of recordings though, and I find the rhythm section has gotten a lot cleaner, tighter and funkier since he left.

I saw them twice without those two (or Natasha Shneider for that matter), and it was phenomenal; brutalizing even —just about the furthest from mediocre you can get in hard arena rock.

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what do you teach your children about me?
what do you teach your little children about me?
pimp, thug, bling drug lord of the undergrounded kings
how can you be so sure i won't call down the rain?
what do you teach your little children about me?
you point your gun, wait, hide and run. i see it plain

Don't get me wrong, the band live I'm sure is still better than the majority of anything else playing at the moment, but I still find the last albums (Lullabies) very poor and dull compared to their last effort.

As far as the shows go, I don't doubt they're good, but from the recording and bootlegging I've seen, the fun isn't there. There is no energy. No variety. And I'm not the only one, I know a lot of people who went to the Songs for the Deaf concerts AND the Lullabies concerts and said that whilst they were good gigs, they weren't phenomenal like they were on the Deaf tours.

Although, the bootleg of the recent concert where John Garcia came out and they knocked around some Kyuss tunes kicked some f**king ass, and hard. One just begs for a Kyuss reunion.