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Only By Night
"I am weightless, yet heaviness defines
Between what home was and the yellow moon
My love will not survive
Emotion sickness, I wanna die"
I love when bands use titles for other tracks, in lyrics for others. The first half of the album is definitely my favorite so far, with Time & Place being an absolute banger of a track; I cannot stop listening to it.
Last edited by Self.Destructive.Pattern; 06-18-2023 at 12:24 PM.
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One of my favourite albums this year so far for sure.
Matador de Froot Loops
Ranking:
...Like Clockwork
Songs for the Deaf
Lullabies to Paralyze
Rated R
In Times New Roman...
Queens of the Stone Age
Era Vulgaris
Villains
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I always have trouble ranking albums - they always appeal to me differently in different phases of my life or where my state of mind is - but here's where I'm at right now
...Like Clockwork
Lullabies to Paralyse
In Times New Roman
Era Vulgaris
Villains
Songs for the Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age
Rated R
It's not that I don't like the first 3 albums, Songs for the Deaf in itself is one hell of an album but I was a bit of a latecomer fan and I don't have that same appreciation/nostalgia for the earlier part of their career as a lot of the fans do. Their style Lullabies to Paralyse onwards is more my style.
I came onboard during the Like Clockwork tour. I saw QOTSA for the first time knowing of them but not really KNOWING them during the NIN/QOTSA Australia tour. They opened the Perth show and I was blown away, especially by I Appear Missing.
The set that night - Queens of the Stone Age Concert Setlist at Perth Arena, Perth on March 11, 2014 | setlist.fm
People may crucify me for rating Villains above Songs for the Deaf but Feet Don't Fail Me now might be one of my favourite openers to an album of all time, Un-Reborn Again hits me in a way I can't explain and Villains of Circumstance is beautiful to me.
Last edited by Disassociative; 06-19-2023 at 12:04 PM.
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YES! Amazing opening track.Originally Posted by Disassociative
Only By Night
A few pages back, I wrote extensive reviews for each album, and the rankings came out like this. After listening to the new album about 6 times now, it sounds like it could have come out right in between Lullabies and Era Vulgaris.
Lullabies to Paralyze
Songs For the Deaf
...Like Clockwork
In Times, New Roman
Villains
Self-titled
Rated R
Era Vulgaris
And I felt I would be crucified for almost putting Villains, above Like Clockwork, if the first half of the album was better.
Head Like a Haunted House
Un-Reborn Again
Hideaway
The Evil Has Landed
Villains of Circumstance
This is a heavy hit of a second half, with HLAHH, The Evil Has Landed, and Villains of Circumstance being some of my favorite songs they have ever written. Villains gets unwarranted criticism, but that's just me; it's actually a fantastic album. The new album is just a tad more fun to listen to, and is very consistent. That, and Like Clockwork edge it out, jussst enough for me to rank them over Villains by a hair.
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Let's see...rankings...rankings...
...Like Clockwork
Songs For The Deaf
Rated R
Era Vulgaris
Lullabies To Paralyze
Villains
S/T
In Times New Roman...
I should point out that ranking an album on the lower end of things doesn't make it a bad album. I just like the others more.
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S/T
SFTD
LTP
R
ITNR
LC
EV
Vil
...I think. Only one I know for certain is S/T at number 1 and Villains last. Everything else can and does move.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/qotsa/comments/7h4drd/every_time_feet_dont_fail_me_kicks_in/
God is an American
True ten years ago, true now:
nindivinedebris
Same. Other than hearing No One Knows, I didn't really get into them until Lullabies. To me, that album feels like a shift away from the early albums, maybe due to Nick not being a member anymore. Not that I'm going to rank them, but Rated R is the one I never listen to.
The new album has grown on me a lot. When I first heard Emotion Sickness, I didn't really like it. Now it's one of my favorites. It has a bit of an Eagles of Death Metal vibe to it. Paper Machete is my favorite track, I can't stop listening to it.
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1:36 No One Knows
6:21 Feel Good Hit Of The Summer (first time since 2018)
9:49 Smooth Sailing
14:47 My God Is The Sun
18:34 Carnavoyeur
22:57 The Way You Used To Do
27:34 If I Had a Tail
33:03 Emotion Sickness
38:55 Little Sister
42:15 Make it Wit Chu
47:49 God Is in the Radio (first time since 2010; dedicated to Mark Lanegan RIP)
57:34 Go With The Flow
1:01:04 A Song For the Dead
Only By Night
Same here, for Emotion Sickness. It has really grown on me, and I find myself humming the chorus all the time, now
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Gave the new album a spin tonight. It's very good after one listen, but I also think it will be a grower.
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The latest shows have been great! they also posted this one and i was rocking to it last weekend:
Setlist:
- Misfit Love
- Little Sister
- I Sat by the Ocean
- My God Is the Sun
- Carnavoyeur
- The Way You Used to Do
- If I Had a Tail
- Emotion Sickness
- Smooth Sailing
- The Evil Has Landed
- Paper Machete
- Make It Wit Chu
- Go With the Flow
- No One Knows
- A Song for the Dead
Love that they are playing different setlists!
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At the end of Carnavoyeur I keep waiting for all hell to break loose, so weird that it just abruptly stops there! But weird in a good, unexpected way.
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I finally listened to the album via the Atmos mix on Apple music and apparently the whole album suffers from the same thing the single did: it sounds horrible. It's like 3/4 as loud as the regular mix and it is constrained in a way that I don't understand, like it's being piped over a dialup connection circa 1999 RealPlayer or something.
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That's a shame. I've not listened to the Atmos mix through my MacBook or AirPods yet. That has me worried. A love a good Atmos mix but the bad ones can be pretty craptacular and this sounds like one of those from your description :/
The volume been lower is sorta standard for an Atmos mix but the mix actually has to be good for it to benefit...
edit: ok yeah no this Atmos mix sucks. It sounds like I'm underwater or something.
Last edited by Disassociative; 06-20-2023 at 11:36 AM.
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In Times New Roman and the Foo Fighters But Here We are Are, are tied as my favorite albums of 2023.
Also, listening to the new album, like any QOTSA album without weed is like eating lobster without the melted better.
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Same here, evidence that tragedy really brings out the best art. Both albums feel so important and genuine.
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Negative s p a c e <3 <3
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Anyone heard the hidden track?
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The Feel Good Hit of the Summer re-recorded?
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I don’t hate the Atmos mix. It has a lot of space in it. But the regular stereo mix does, too.
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Matador de Froot Loops
Yes, sadly it's only on the Vinyl version, since Spotify could care less about it...
Only By Night
Going through some random songs today, and seems the band is a more well-oiled machine, when they have multiple guest apparearnces on them. They're so solid, even with a consistent line-up, but their sound becomes a tad more hollow, with the last two releases. It is amazing that they can make such quality music, even when they're not firing on all cylinders.
Wound up just listening to Like Clockwork again, and it sets the mood for a sunny day, or even a gloomy one, like it is on Long Island. Damn, I love this band.
Edit: Also, catching up on all the b-sides, and covers. Damn, Era Vulgaris' bonus tracks are damn good. The title track with Trent on it, is a huge song, along with them covering Elliott Smith, who is one of my favorite musicians.
Last edited by Self.Destructive.Pattern; 06-24-2023 at 02:42 PM.
Squeal like a pig.
If anyone’s curious:
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Watched their set from Glastonbury on BBC iPlayer. They were amazing, very tight and slick, think they made a lot of new fans!.
Matador de Froot Loops
Sadly, only works in the UK...
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