Album Review #78: Songs For The Deaf (Queens Of The Stone Age)

in #music6 years ago

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
SONGS FOR THE DEAF
2002-INTERSCOPE
Produced By JOSH HOMME, ERIC VALENTINE & ADAM KASPER

  1. You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire
  2. No One Knows
  3. First It Giveth
  4. Song For The Dead
  5. The Sky Is Fallin'
  6. Six Shooter
  7. Hangin' Tree
  8. Go With the Flow
  9. Gonna Leave You
  10. Do It Again
  11. God Is In The Radio
  12. Another Love Song
  13. Song For The Deaf
  14. Mosquito Song

Josh Homme formed Queens Of The Stone Age after leaving Kyuss in 1995. The band has had a revolving door if members, and each album has had many guest musicians. Songs For The Deaf is their 3rd album, and their most accessible. Dave Grohl, a long time fan, put Foo Fighters on hiatus so he could join and play drums on this album...he left shortly afterward during the subsequent tour.

"No One Knows" is a monster of a song, as about exciting as hard rock has been in a long time. "Go With The Flow" and "First It Giveth" are also outstanding. The album is loaded with Homme's "stoner rock" grooves, and it's very good...kind of new metal for old school metalheads. The constant interruptions by radio DJ's is kind of annoying, but the idea is that you're driving through desolate California changing stations. A very good, crunching, great driving album.

This is album #78 in an ongoing series.

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Classic album. Came out when I was in college.

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