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Queens of The Stone Age: Burn The Witch
Unlike many other scribes of music, I've never quite understood the way Queens Of The Stone Age and their radiantly ginger frontman Josh Homme are fawned upon as some kind of new school saviours of rock'n'roll.
90% of their output is too soft and slow to bother the rock contingent and too whiny to be interesting, and yet like Christmas Pud at 3:30pm on the 25th December and the Grand National at Aintree, QOTSA's lofty position in the end of year polls is guaranteed.
This, the third single from their - yes, you guessed it - "critically acclaimed" latest LP Lullabies to Paralyze, sounds like an Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster b-side, which wouldn't be so bad if they'd actually left its penis and scrotum intact rather than slicing it in two and ramming it equal parts up Homme's copper-rimmed arse.
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what a shit review
Bloke doesnt like band, understandably therefore isn't keen on their new single and has quite lame way of writing about it.
"90% of their output is too soft and slow to bother the rock contingent"Which rock contingent is that exactly? Or is that just a way of saying "other people who, like me, don't like QOTSA"?
Urgh,nobber.Eat a dick casserole.
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"dick casserole"
Want a job?
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Yes please
Can I be the DiS cook?
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I hope your....
bunny catches polio.
That is all
Dom G.-
Not unless
you make a mean lasagne.
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Bit late for that
He got it some time ago.
Hence the username.-
My lasagne is the meanest motherfucking lasagne
like EVER.
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talking of casseroles
having just checked your info Mike_Diver , i couldn't agree more. i have a real issue with the chocolate dessert M&S advertised incessantly for months. the way the chocolate oozed out FROM THE INSIDE tempted all who saw the ad to venture through M&S's overpriced and overrated doors. i, for one, was left disappointed. the chocolate dessert was like any you would find in any supermarket. the only gimmick was that the sauce was on the inside, and not the outside.
rubbish. inverted sauce policies will not make up for inflated prices!!much like qots. good, but not as good as you're expecting. their songs always show promise, then 9 times out of ten fail to rockout as much as they potentially could and end up just dragging along lamely.
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If you'd let me
know earlier my girlfriend could have sorted him/her out.
She looks after sick bunnies. Straight up.-
that didn't used to be true
but it certainly is now
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Send me a sample
And I'll make a decision.
Lasagne = the sex, actually.-
not Gen's though
apparently
she cooked it for 9 hours...
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a question for dom g
was it you who said that pablo honey was the best radiohead album?
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LIES!
i spent nine hours preparing it. it hasn't been cooked yet.
i don't think it was actually 9 hours. 8, perhaps.
i am about to cook it. i will be extremely saddened if it isn't incrrrrredible.
and i might kill some people.
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No...
I said The Bends was and that everything after OK Computer was like listening to a turd blend itself into cakemix via mummy's microwave.
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the bends being the best radiohead album...
well.... its just not... is it?
i mean, most of what they've done thats been any good has been done after 1999 as a general rule?
barring the below obviously:
high and dry
my iron lung
let down
paranoid android
climbing up the walls
the tourist
lucky
pearly*
melotoninbut you're right about the current qotsa record... dire
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I doubt there is anything she could've done
The bastard rabbit deserved it.
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I disagree
not on the M&S issue (they suck) but on QOTSA,I appear to be the only person that loves Lullabies To Paralyze,I think it's their best album so far. Plus the fact that at Koko in August they fucking owned. But hey each to their owned.
Dom, in the clear light of the morning, I feel my request that you consume a genital hotpot may have been a little hasty (although I stand by my original sentiment that I thought the review was weak). I do however think Dick Casserole is a porn star in waiting.PB
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I fucking love QOTSA
And it wasn't overnight either. When I first heard 'Feelgood hit of the Summer' I was sick to my stomach, having been a big Kyuss fan. Now, however, I would say that they're one of theny favourite Rock'n'roll bands on the mainstream radar.
As for being too soft and slow for the Rock contingent, well what truly defines Rock is always going to be a bone of contention, and the 'Rock contingent' is more divided by sub - genre than ever. Some Metal is softer than QOTSA (almost rhymes, that) and a lot of Indie is faster and more overdriven, but that don't make it rock more.
Apparently the secret to those sauce-on-the-inside chocolate puddings is to undercook them so the inside stays runny. You don't need M&S to undercook your food (unless it takes you 8 hours to make a lasagne).
Jan *Fount of a little knowledge*
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Theny
Is is new word I just made up, by the way. And not a typo at all. Oh no.
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hmmm
Dick Casserole should have his own channel. As for QOTSA, I feel like I've been waiting forever for them to do something interesting. For all the acclaim they've had bestowed on them and record company payola thrown at them, they should be the biggest band in the world by now. The reason they aren't, I feel, is down to the fact their records just aren't very good.
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hmmm
we'll agree to disagree on this one I think.
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Please god bring us a decent music journalist. Just one. Please. I'm on my knees here.
If you're going to knock a band then at least be funny. What the hell is wrong with music journalism these days? Lester Bangs would turn in his grave. Go back to writing for the student paper. I don't necessarily disagree with the views but fuck me is that shitly written waste of 2 mins of my life I will never get back.
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You watched
'Almost Famous' on ITV2 the other night too then?
Well done.
And well done to your mum too for letting you stay up to watch it past your normal bedtime.-
Hale & Pace
No, I enjoy and read good journalism. Good music journalism can rise above little pithy, underhanded, self congratulating comments and become something that really inspires people to act upon it; be it to buy a record or see a band or to see through some bullshit and reject something on justifiable terms. What you've written above serves no benefit to anybody in the world except yourself. Tell me why that's good.
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That wasnt almost famous the other night
That was a lame-knobbed edit. Anyone seen full directors version? Makes much more sense...err as I guess most directors cuts tend to anyway.
I'M ON DRUGS!!
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Its called
an opinion about a record, a record that I don't consider to be very good BJD.
Maybe you do, if so that's your prerogative, no malice intended.-
Au contraire
Thats not what I am saying, I am saying your review and the way it's written stinks. If you can diss a record (and I don't think it's their best by the way and probably agree with you to a large extent) then people can come back and knock your ability to write. That's what I am doing. I clicked on the review, I read it, I couldn't believe
a) you'd wasted your time writing it
and
b) I'd wasted my time reading it.
Be constructive, or funny at least. I read through the comments you've made in reply to people on this thread and really I can't come to any other conclusion than you write these reviews for no one's sake except your own. To me, that's weird. I want to read good stuff! I demand it.-
and your opinion is?
bjd, the point of a website such as this one is to express opinions, and then let people dispute them or agree with them as they please. in your case, your opinion is that the review wasn't very good. fine. write that. and maybe the review wasn't great and a little over simplified: but also provide us with your OWN opinion ON THE MUSIC he is reviewing. after all, this is a music site: not a site where people offer critiques of other people's journalistic skills.
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At the end of the day
I'm criticising Queens Of The Stone Age's music so I can't really get uptight about someone else criticising me. As for the review, the song just made me want to go Pffffffff. God knows what BJD would have made of that if I'd put that as the review instead.
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wha?
"Post a comment on this review"
are you blind?
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Awful review :P
If you hate a band and hate a song and still want to review it, then it's fine, but a two paragraph rant about not liking the band and then one sentence on the actual single you are supposed to be reviewing it not a review. It's not even interesting as an opinionated rant... It reads like a poor GCSE media paper answer or something.
And you don't even mention the b-sides/remixes or whatever.
And it sounds nothing like EMBLD.
No offense though, like.
Reviewing the reviewers
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yeah
if it did sound like an Eighties Matchbox b-side i'd be interested. 'Ice Cream' does indeed, as the phrase would have it, OWN.
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hes sort of right
queens of the stone age used to be awesome but they've been going downhill for years
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qotsa - burn the witch
arent you people funny!!!
i think dom gourlay has won this thread right from the start. if his reveiw of the qotsa record was as crap as is mentioned. it certainly has started a lasting debate. bjd has obviously felt strongly enough to put pen to paper and reply, which i doubt he would have done if it were truly "crap" ...as for qotsa, i beleive they have turned a corner ,found their niche in quirky rock songs and have sold out to the man at the record company. they will be looking busy doing remakes of "songs for the deaf" until, either every one notices and stops buying or someone else reaches their nirvana and takes the crown away from them...lets face it, by the time most of these bands get to "mtv" status, they are mainly creatively dead already, arent they!-
Tack
"by the time most of these bands get to mtv status they are mainly creatively dead already"
Interesting theory. Sadly true in a lot of cases. Red Hot Chilli Peppers is one glaringly obvious one that immediately springs to mind.
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