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Queens of The Stone Age: No One Knows
by Raziq Rauf
Listening to ‘Songs For The Deaf’ leads inexorably to a grand dislike to all things tolerable. I mean JUST tolerable. The things that can go without mentioning one way or the other: they have neither anything going for them nor anything so terrible as to make somebody cringe.
Some don’t “get” QotSA.
Fair enough.
Promptly club them over the head with your immensely disproportionate sense of perception in the vain hope that you might, just might, drill something through the calcified remains of their dullard skulls. It’s their own fault.
Seeing them. Hearing them. Believing them. Knowing them. You know you’re right.
It is the purest form of rock out there. It is rock as if nobody else has touched it. It is wholesome. Virtuous maybe. You feel it get so dirty, it feels like the most uncorrupted filth you will ever encounter. You will bring it into your home. Into your room. Sleep with it. Love it in the morning.
But why does ‘No One Knows’ sound so wrong? It’s all about context. It’s not a natural single. The Queens don’t believe in natural singles. You need the overtures and the ever-afters just to understand. Without them it seems like an abstract. It is non-representational of them; their sound; their validation.
Invalid.
Incomplete.
Get the video HERE.
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Queens of The Stone Age - No One Knows
Bollocks -
Queens of The Stone Age - No One Knows
That's the biggest load of muso bullshit I've ever read. It's a great track - end of story. What's all the muso mumble-jumble about? Get a life. -
Queens of The Stone Age - No One Knows
I love em, cos they're a proper band who just try to write music they love rather tan try to write what they perceive we/the industry wants to hear. Totally selfish... I think the word is 'art'. I'm wondering if the other commenteers missed a point...didn't much seem to me like Raz was slagging the single off, just trying to make the point that it wasn't a three minute token of musical toss designed to placate radio and record company.-
Queens of The Stone Age - No One Knows
No no no. An awful, 6th form standard review. Besides the fact that it's a great single, your writer doesn't even even begin to explain what it sounds like (some superb lead drumming from Dave Grohl), and prefers to indulge himself in a mess of incoherent muso-wank.
Last review from said person, please. -
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thats not a review thats muso diarrohea just tell us if you like it you sad lonely reviewer person -
but it is
it's not toss, it's very good, but by design or otherwise this has been taken up by radio, music tv et al. so it has "placated" both radio and record company. the accompanying album is the most commercial they've ever been, and all the better for it.-
Re: but it is
no, the production of the album is commerical. not the music. nor the band. like i said in my live review, they weren't some ott rock clichéd live package. infact, for the first two songs they were less than polished. maybe that is part of the "marketing package". maybe not. probably not infact.
pretty like drugs indeed.-
Re: but it is
Industry all the way. AOR on the way to becoming MOR. Nothing new; no lifestyle to cling on to; very little energy. In a culture that craves novelty and excitement they have committed the gravest of errors: Mediocrity.-
Re: but it is
No way are they mediocre. Uninnovative perhaps, but mediocre, afraid not.-
Re: but it is
no way are they uninnovative either. they're one of the more diverse and experimental bands around, refreshing the rock scene rather than doing a bad impression of "raw power"-era stooges or squeezing out a nu-metal white-noise turd like most other bands these days.-
Re: but it is
Diverse and experimental? You don't stray very far musically if you think QOTSA are diverse or experimental. Also, White noise is actually a style of music, and it sounds nothing at all like anything the current nu-metal bands are doing.
Finally, and not in regards to your message, Songs for the Deaf is their worst album. It bores me. I've listened to their previous two albums countless times, and Songs for the Deaf doesn't compare. Where's the insanity of Monster in the Parasol, or just the attention-holding-ness (what a horrible word) of Avon or Regular John. NOWHERE. IT'S BORING.-
Re: but it is
their albums are sonically diverse. their albums and musicianship is experimental.
those statements dont necessarily put them in the same leagues as GYBE or the mars volta, but they are still true. queens have a unique sound.
i have strayed far musically, and found most "experimental" music projects are utterly pretentious and devoid of any soul, which i see as an integral part of music.
i heard some shitty nu-metal band on the radio, and it was high-end distortion - verging on white noise in other words.
i disagree about your comments on songs for the deaf. though it's not my favourite of the albums, and it's far more polished and commercial-sounding, id still say it's better than 99% of the other albums of the last decade. but then, there is a lot of shit music out there, so that may not be saying much.-
Listen to Go With The Flow
This song has soul.
It's a gorgeous song.
I don't care that its not the most innovative, and experimental style around. It's a great song.
You do get the feel that they are doing what they want to do. The latest album may not be as off the wall as other offerings, but who cares.
Off to see Tomahawk later in the week. Mike Patton is off the wall. Get wierd music fix from that me thinks :)
Have fun and enjoy the music... any music that is :)
Ian-
Re: Listen to Go With The Flow
yeah, im seeing tomahawk this week too!!!
oh, i forgot to mention re:Qotsa's originality - you're not likely to find many other rock bands using polka beats and 5/4 time
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