Music Review: QOTSA - Lullabies to Paralyze
I figured that even l33t hax0rs need some musak to listen to... LOL
Why not post CD reviews here...
Here's the first one:
Artist: Queens of the Stone Age
Album: Lullabies to Paralyze
I fell in love with the QOTSA when I heard their "Feel good hit of the summer"... "Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marihuana, Extasy and Alcohol... Co-co-co-co-cocaaaaiiiineeee" - without a doubt, Gore's anthem.
Comes from Arizona, sounds like Arizona. And it's good. It's been dubbed stoner-rock, and one can only imagine why that is. Kyuss invented it, and they invented it very well. Queens of the Stone Age is what they call themselves these days, and they do it even better.
The early albums were good; the newer ones are very good.
First there was Songs of the Deaf, with at least 5 songs that should have been in the Billboard top-100: "No One Knows", "First It Giveth", "Go With the Flow", "Another Love Song" and the bonus track "Mosquito Song" - Mosquito Song is the song the Beatles never recorded, the song the Rolling Stones wish they had recorded.... and the song Deen Ween (yeah, from Ween) sang.
And now there's Lullabies to Paralyze
Dizzaaaaaaaammmnnn..... They had Dave Grohl (yeah, that guy from Nirvana and an EXCELLENT drummer) for Songs for the Deaf... they don't anymore, and it's even better. Unless you've seen Grohl ever touch a cow bell, of course... the cow bells in Little Sister are sublime (that's the single, and the most "radio-friendly" song of them all), and so is the entire song...
Never mind, here's the beginning:
This Lullaby should have been on a Nick Cave record - or where it would belong: on Abbey Road.
Medication is the QOTSA on speed, and Everybody knows that you're insane feels like I'm on speed listening to the QOTSA on speed... pfeeeeeeeeeeeew.
Along comes Tangled up in Plaid: this sounds like the tune one should have playing when beating the crap out of Gore... not because one wanted to, but because one could :D
Burn the Witch does nothing more than burning a bunch of witches (I swear I could hear them burn), In My Head confirms it...
Then there's I never came and it sounds like it: frustrated, and Josh Homme making sure iGlen Danzig will never come close to him.
Someone's in the wolf and I believe it... sounds like someome ate it. Dizzzzaaaaammmmnnnn.
The Blood in Love could have me fooled... sounds like a Waltz... oh wait... it's kicking my ass...
Skin on skin is exactly what it sounds like... and Broken Box sucks...
You've got a killer scene there, man on the other hand... bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahaahahahaaaaa... you can hear the Marshalls do their thing (literally), Josh sounds like he's been in the desert for 96 days (he probably has)...
Ending track "Long Slow Goodbye" is worth the album...
Anyone care to give me the bonus track ("Like A Drug")...?
