Queens of the Stone Age - Villains (August 25th, 2017) Album • Page 13

Bro you got ripped off. My store had it for $65 and no sales tax in Montana.


I didn’t buy it though! Got the red copy and then won the giveaway to get a signed print!

 

Very cool

 

This is outstanding. Definitely a grower, hearing a lot of LTP and EV, as well as Villains in some parts.

 

Tried to give this another listen with a proper FLAC encode after being down on the leak and it's still really not hitting for me but I do really love the opener and closer at least, so I'm not really sure why everything in between just doesn't hit for me.

 

running through the discog leading up to this and really think them crooked vultures is one of the best one-off projects we’ve gotten

 

I’m enjoying this

 

This edition is pretty cool:

https://blood-records.co.uk/products/qotsa

 

Made to Parade is the first song I’m kind of iffy on

 

there’s some cool guitar work but not much else on that one

 

Sicily is a standout

 

I was mostly into this on first listen

 

The breakdown in "No One Loves Me & Neither Do I" is the nastiest drop in rock music.

 

Yeah I'm on track two and this is so much better than Villains already.

 

It doesn’t make any sense, but the track “Heinrich Maneuver” by Interpol is all I can think about when listening to “What The Peephole Say”.

 

im enjoying this so far

 

'What the Peephole Say' rules lol

 

Yeah I really love this

 

finally kicking this off

 

Whoever tabbed it on Songsterr knows too haha


Time & Place is so good. Really enjoying this first listen.

 

What a way to close the album in "Straight Jacket Fitting".

 

I have a sealed blue variant that I will sell someone at cost.

 

this album rules

 

obscenery - love the tone of the riff here. kinda reminds me of the way villains sounds but thicker. chorus is a bit weak though. kinda instantly forgettable.

paper machete - immediately much better. huge hook. and definitely hear the era vulgaris comparison here - this sounds like a cousin to misfit love and 3s and 7s. feels like FOREVER since josh has ripped a solo like this one

negative space - josh's vocals give me big "long slow goodbye" in the beginning. sticky chorus and love the guitar lead in it too. jon doing some great stuff in the chorus. shoes sounds awesome on this. sick solo too, troy + josh playing off each other always works.

time & place - the syncopation with this band is part of what makes them the best. the verse feels like three members of the band playing in different time. i like the guitar playing a ton but i can't shake the tone still sounding a lot like villains.

made to parade - maybe it's from listening to it today but this one reminds me most of them crooked vultures. the chorus especially feels like the bridge/post-chorus part to reptiles. really really love the guitars at the end. so cool.

carnavoyeur - heard this one before obviously. don't love it, probably my least favorite here. verses, aptly, do nothing. cool guitar tones in the post-chorus thing, very eliminator/sturgill's rock record but not cool enough to save the song.

what the peephole say - this one kinda has that villains dancey groove but in a way that i like more than anything there. verses feel like souped-up the way you used to do. again, really great bass, shuman is one of the best parts of the record. chorus is a classic ripper. don't love matt helders' guest spot though which is weird bc i love his backing vocals for arctic monkeys

sicily - i need more time with this one. idk how i feel. not in a "do i like it or not" way. it's just doing a lot. back half is cool.

emotion sickness - if carnavoyeur is maybe their worst single, this is one of their best post-lullabies era. again, full zz top eliminator. full on love the verse riff and chorus. so many guitars layered in.

straight jacket feeling - kinda gives the feeling of how like clockwork would have been if i appear missing closed like it should have. this should be 6 minutes, the extra 3 of just instrumentals and not even really riffing or soloing are unnecessary but the song proper is sick

overall i like this a lot. not perfect but more fun than anything else, which they've been lacking since era vulgaris. best since that. i'd imagine this will end up in the rated r-era vulgaris-this tier for me, better than the last two for sure but not cracking the tier of s/t-sftd-ltp

 

i think after the latest foos my expectation for big rock bands putting out their best stuff was too high. this is still a solid B/B+ which is more than i can say for anything they’ve done since i was in high school