Friday, October 18, 2013

Queens Of The Stone Age "...Like Clockwork"

 
It's their first #1 album and 4 out of 5 people say it's their best yet.  Count me in the minority as this will be the one that breaks the 21st century run of keepers within the Mad Rocker QOTSA catalog page.

I listened to it sober; I listened to it after a party favour; I listened to it first thing in the morning; I listened to it late at night.  As I repeated spins, I found myself liking songs less.  It's not supposed to work that way.  Plenty of times I raised an eyebrow at a sonic passage but little raised the hair on my arms like previous albums.  You can talk all you want about the famous contributors but I dare you to listen and point them out without cheating and scanning the credits.  Going to keep three songs, first one came four tracks deep...



Still love what the guy does with his voice.  Always make me think of Adrian Belew.  My favorite track came four more songs down the queue...



This sounds like it was borne from Homme's time spent with John Paul Jones in Them Crooked Vultures.  One of the comments from a woman read "and just like that, every piece of underwear in that place fell immediately to the floor," and another said, "I think I just got pregnant."  Dammit, that's funny...

Sure wish I had a better grasp on why this didn't work for me as a whole like the rest of their body of work.  Certainly not going to write them off, though...

No comments:

Post a Comment