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Dear Satan, Please speed up time for me so that the next four hours goes by like nothing at all so I can get home and smoke trees and listen to an album by a band I love. Thanks. Your Loyal Servant, Cpt. Spring Types, Esq.
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# ? May 15, 2013 19:12 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 16:14 |
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Holy poo poo, Smooth Sailing is so drat funky and perfect.
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# ? May 15, 2013 19:13 |
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http://dewerelddraaitdoor.vara.nl/media/236327 Playing If I Had A Tail live on a Dutch talkshow. http://pitchfork.com/news/50738-watch-queens-of-the-stone-age-on-jools-holland/ My God Is The Sun & I Sat By The Ocean live on Jools Holland.
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# ? May 15, 2013 19:27 |
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loving hell. I appear missing is so excellent. Instantly excellent.
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# ? May 15, 2013 19:36 |
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This thing is grimy as gently caress and I love it. It just oozes out of the speakers.
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# ? May 15, 2013 19:44 |
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Keep Your Eyes Peeled, jesus, I need a shower after listening to that, brilliant.
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# ? May 15, 2013 19:53 |
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On first listen this has broken my linear regression of enjoyment on each album they have released. Definitely liked this more on first listen than the last 2 albums.
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# ? May 15, 2013 20:03 |
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I'm loving everything I've heard so far. I Sat by the Ocean and I Appear Missing really hit the spot for me especially. I cannot wait until I can listen to this in its entirety.
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# ? May 15, 2013 20:42 |
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his hair
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# ? May 15, 2013 21:47 |
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Fairweather Friends is amazing
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# ? May 15, 2013 22:57 |
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Leaked three weeks before release. Edit: About 2 minutes into Smooth Sailing sounds like it was lifted almost directly from the chorus in the song 'Always' on the Masters of Reality album Pine/Cross Dover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCIAOQrnWSg&t=50s XYZAB fucked around with this message at 23:38 on May 15, 2013 |
# ? May 15, 2013 23:02 |
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I've never been able to pick a definitive favorite QotSA album for years but this one might take the loving cake. Everything sounds incredible and drastically different and more layered, sonically and lyrically, from their past stuff. Catchy poo poo like Sat By The Ocean and I Appear Missing were great but now I'm really loving hyped for Kalopsia and Keep Your Eyes Peeled.
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# ? May 15, 2013 23:53 |
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There's a few tracks that made me go "WHOA" but otherwise this album was a pretty big disappointment to me. Lots of boring tracks with zero hook. Any QOTSA is still a good thing, but a lot of songs just sound like the ones I wanted to skip on Era Vulgaris.
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# ? May 16, 2013 00:38 |
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3:25 on "I Sat By The Ocean" I am only 4 tracks in and already this is making me more and more excited to hear the rest of the tracks. Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 00:47 on May 16, 2013 |
# ? May 16, 2013 00:43 |
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It's not as solidly rockin as I had hoped, but there's clearly a ton of passion and emotion put into these tracks, and that's just as good for me. Some of these songs are downright beautiful. Not their greatest album, but it's really loving good. So dark and groovy Edit: The end of Fairweather Friends is loving awesome. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 01:14 on May 16, 2013 |
# ? May 16, 2013 00:46 |
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Cpt. Spring Types posted:It's not as solidly rockin as I had hoped, but there's clearly a ton of passion and emotion put into these tracks, and that's just as good for me. Some of these songs are downright beautiful. Not their greatest album, but it's really loving good. So dark and groovy Yeah- and I want to emphasize, like- whether or not I call it a "disappointment" for myself; Josh is still a loving great songwriter and this is lyrically some of their best. I don't think that part is even a question.
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# ? May 16, 2013 00:58 |
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The Vampyre Of Time and Memory is such a beautiful track.
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# ? May 16, 2013 00:59 |
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I think it certainly already seems like a goodnalbim to me. It doesn't our stay its welcome and it's very dynamic. I think they've gone way more personal than they have done before and then they have peaks with I appear missing and others. I'm really really impressed so far and really am just glad that to me, they're back on my radar. I thought lullabies and ev only really had a handful of good tracks between them. This is a solid, cohesive album when I've always really felt like even on the albums full of bangers, they've been more like collections of songs rather than albums. (Really not sure about If I Had a Tail, though)
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# ? May 16, 2013 01:00 |
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Is this files talk if I'm preordered? Because I want to professional my love for this album. It just screams classic to me. HOMMES is like a new age Clapton.
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# ? May 16, 2013 01:40 |
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Not feeling it. I love the mood, I just don't like any of the songwriting. Homme's melodies struggle to hold all the disjointed, occasionally awkward, riffs together. His vocals overreach, as they have done on the last few records, and his falsetto and swagger cannot substitute proper melody or texture. Kind of bummed, considering I love the album's concept and themes so much.
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# ? May 16, 2013 02:13 |
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I love it. It's way, way better than Era Vulgaris. I'm not as big of a fan of I Appear Missing as most of you are, but I absolutely love Kalopsia, Smooth Sailing, Keep Your Eyes Peeled and If I Had a Tail. That high-pitched spidery guitar part around 4 minutes into Smooth Sailing is incredible.
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# ? May 16, 2013 02:39 |
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echronorian posted:HOMMES is like a new age Clapton. That's an insult to Josh Homme
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# ? May 16, 2013 02:43 |
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Album, start to finish, was phenomenal. Between Like Clockwork and North Borders, I think 2013 is complete for me and I'm not even half way through the year. Josh Homme nailed it. Album is distinctly his style while being just enough of the "same" and just enough of the "new" to quench my craving from a new release. Even with no previous QOTSA experience, I can see this being a great album for somebody to get into. For somebody who started back with Kyuss, I may be a bit biased, but I will say that I am happy with the direction Josh Homme's albums are going.
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# ? May 16, 2013 05:47 |
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I am disappointed. This is not the same QotSA that I learned how to smoke weed to. The album seems to lack a sense of purpose, and the whole thing seems superfluous. Also, If I had a Tail is ripping off Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones so loving hard it's not even funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QBAEaw58R0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rnxQBizoU
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# ? May 16, 2013 06:52 |
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Handen posted:I am disappointed. This is not the same QotSA that I learned how to smoke weed to. The album seems to lack a sense of purpose, and the whole thing seems superfluous. smoke more weed bro
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# ? May 16, 2013 07:12 |
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da weed wizard posted:smoke more weed bro I don't even smoke weed anymore and this album is so bad that I wish I still did just so I could be high enough to think it was good.
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# ? May 16, 2013 07:17 |
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Handen posted:I am disappointed. This is not the same QotSA that I learned how to smoke weed to. How many QOTSA albums have you said that about? The last 3 or 4?
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# ? May 16, 2013 11:41 |
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I love the album and its atmosphere/mood. I can't understand how people after all this time still expect Qotsa to somehow go back to "stoner rock" or whatever. They've consistently shown to change up their style with every album and I remember reading interviews from around the first album even of Josh rejecting that label.
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# ? May 16, 2013 12:20 |
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If I Had a Tail sounds like it would fit right in on Rated R and that's fine by me. I've honestly enjoyed all of Queens' albums for different reasons and I think them changing up their sound is what keeps me coming back. e: and this includes me bestowing Them Crooked Vultures with the honorary status of Queens of the Stone Age album because hey it's pretty drat close. gently caress i love that album
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# ? May 16, 2013 14:41 |
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Finally home and listening to it on real speakers. I'm enjoying it more than i had dared to hope. Didn't rate TCV at all and although Era Vulgaris had it's moments it never really stuck like QOTSA, Rated R or lullabies... The only way I could be more pleased was if I still smoked weed. I was following the Daft Punk thread and when it comes to delivering after a long hiatus QOTSA beats them good, not really surprising.
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# ? May 16, 2013 14:57 |
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Holy poo poo, Smooth Sailing is everything great about Era Vulgaris distilled into one song. Not to draw the obvious comparison too much further, but this really feels like their "In Rainbows". It such a confident record, I think even the people that aren't feeling it would agree with that. I think more confident than Lullabies, maybe even Vulgaris.
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# ? May 16, 2013 15:59 |
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I feel like the full version of Kalopsia is the best track on the album. Fairweather friends, Smooth Sailing, and Keep your eyes peeled are all great too. Overall the album feels kind of "tame" by QOTSA standards. Not really any memorable guitar riffs or cool solo's(other than My God is the sun I guess), which is odd, considering Josh Homme has written so many good ones over the years. But overall I like the album a lot. I think I just had really high expectations after the long time between albums. Also I got the Gimme Shelter vibe off "If I had a tail" too. I still like the song though. If I was one of those cool guys who had a blog where they reviewed albums, I'd give ...Like Clockwork a 7.5 out of 10 I think. Can't loving wait to see them on tour though. Dirt fucked around with this message at 16:17 on May 16, 2013 |
# ? May 16, 2013 16:15 |
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I want to live in the 3:48-4:08 section of Smooth Sailing.
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# ? May 16, 2013 16:17 |
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I'm liking it a lot more than I thought I would when I heard the early leaks. I think the weakest tracks for me are Keep your eyes peeled and Like clockwork. Everything else is pretty great. I find some songs can feel a little disjointed at times but it actually works well with the feel, mood and atmosphere of the thing. I like that they keep changing things up with every record too. I have a feeling this is gonna be a bit of a grower of an album for some people.
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# ? May 16, 2013 16:24 |
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Just got my tickets to see them this summer, I could not be more excited. The first time I saw them they were opening up for Rage Against the Machine in Wisconsin.
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# ? May 16, 2013 17:04 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjYZToXuJaM If I Had A Tail.
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# ? May 16, 2013 17:34 |
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I really enjoyed the short for Kalopsia but these animations are honestly getting worse as they come out.
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# ? May 16, 2013 17:40 |
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Yodzilla posted:I really enjoyed the short for Kalopsia but these animations are honestly getting worse as they come out. Elaborate. Because Kalopsia had the simplest "animation" of any of them so far. Or are you referring more to how they're presented/cut/framed? I personally think Keep Your Eyes Peeled is the best, from a technical viewpoint.
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# ? May 16, 2013 19:24 |
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Stuck at work, but this is making me feel better about my situation. There was so much hype with the website, the videos, the artwork. And I'm happy to say that it lives up to everything, it's just so good!
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conscript salad posted:Elaborate. Because Kalopsia had the simplest "animation" of any of them so far. Or are you referring more to how they're presented/cut/framed? I think Kalopsia worked because it was so simple and there isn't much movement. I absolutely detest the motion comic style of animation as it almost always comes off as really lazy and even with the nice art these vignettes are doing little to change my mind. The more action there is in a scene the worse it looks and for something as action packed as a car chase all of the characters' movements were sooooo sloooow. The song is fine, I'm just an animation snob I guess. e: it's still miles better than this poo poo Yodzilla fucked around with this message at 19:55 on May 16, 2013 |
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