THE SKY IS POLLIN': Queens of the Stone Age SONGS FOR THE DEAF POLL

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GWTF

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i drove down from SF to LA today, listening to this, Rated R, and Them Crooked Vultures at immoderate volume. SO GOOD.

for me it's GWTF or the sky is fallin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxWHpewTBZU

though this is a killer too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbMJUrv9MZU

and i have a feeling the lurkers will come in strong for no one knows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haWVIaslEOs

no one knows is hard to beat it's true - the drumming alone! and first it giveth too. was kinda torn between those three, but went with gwtf as my sentimental underdog favorite. it's a pretty song but also has this haunting quality of druggy resignation. plus cryptic lyrics. good for reading strange conspiracies into, like blue oyster cult.

tbh no one knows is probably the most deserving candidate, but i have my personal inclinations and such

man the official youtubes with the little ads before are THEE WORST

Anything but "No One Knows" is frontin', a little.

easily their best album, imo. so many great moments on here, but it comes down to 'song for the dead' or hangin' tree'. probably the former for the amazing staccato riff/fake ending.

"six shooter"

Boring of me, but it's gotta be No One Knows.

Always dug 'first it giveth' - it won't win, but that's my pick

GWTF is my faves (probably bcz the video is the first thing I ever watched stoned) followed by First it Giveth.

It is a great vid in spite of the jizzing and the Targetitude.

"Go with the Flow"

first it giveth or hangin tree

Always wish "Do It Again" was a cover

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Gonna drive around LA a lot with this this week before making any final decisions.

Another Love Song

Mosquito Song

first it giveth

After a day of canyon bombing and freeway parking, I think it's narrowed down to "no one knows," "go with the flow" and "the sky is fallin'" (not nec in that order).

this is important stuff, don't want to be too hasty

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Went for "Go with the flow", but just trying to pick one from this album makes me realise what a total classic it is, front to back. The queasy gear shift from this into the (pretty much equally as great) next track "Gonna Leave" gives me a terrific weightless buzz.

"no one knows" sneaks up on the chorus all innocent with that sauntering boogie and then just explodes like a shipload of berserkers...

'First It Giveth' but yeah this...

just trying to pick one from this album makes me realise what a total classic it is, front to back.

...is so true.

xpost to me

and "go with the flow" is impeccable Queens power pop in the tradition of "if only" and "the lost art of keeping a secret"... but "the sky is fallin" crushes from start to finish. so that's the one, I think.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

first it giveth was robbed

^^ that's how you rep a track, people

i kinda disagree in that i love both of these tracks, but this read on "no one knows" and "go with the flow" pretty well sums up why my vote went to "the sky is fallin'" in the end. bonus points for the "auto pilot" love.

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/07/28/the-overunder-queens-of-the-stone-age/

i am going through a phase during which i think that this album is probably the best album of the decade.

I am definitely going through a phase during which i think that Josh Homme is probably the artist of the decade.

1st half of it maybe

He's certainly up there, thats for sure. Speaking of QOTSA, are we ever going to get that reissue of the first album? I feel like this is the third straight year that the reissue was "due in November" and still nothing.

TCV is a massive return to form imo, and "I Never Came" and "Make It Wit Chu" are as good as anything he's ever done in their vein. Even EODM doesn't suck. I know ladies who wouldn't go near Queens who looooove EODM.

Haven't checked out Arctic Monkeys.

anyway, it's a phase! should we have a Rated R poll?

The Arctic Monkeys is good! But then I've always kinda liked them anyway. Homme's fingerprints are certainly all over the record though. And ditto on the TCV, I was cranking that in the car today and it sounded great!

anyway, it's a phase! should we have a Rated R poll?

YES.

P-P-P-P-P-POLLCAINE: Queens of the Stone Age RATED R POLL

That bitchy write-up about the overrated songs up there is way offTM, calling No One Knows oompah music is trying to hard and "what makes a good guitar riff: It has to go away, then come back..." is bullshit, plenty of incessant guitar riffs are great and Go With The Flow is one of them. I don't remember if I voted for that, I hope I did, because what an awesome awesome pop song it is.

TOO hard

Listening to this album for the first time in AGES... I'd forgotten how much I love the way this album sounds.

Would have voted for 'First It Giveth'

I like that Grohl is the only guy in this album's lineup who doesn't take a turn at lead vocals.

Ha, I was thinking that myself!

If I remember, though, didn't he join QOTSA because he'd got a bit tired of being a frontman for a while?

I'd forgotten how much I love the way this album sounds.

all of the qotsa albums sound amazing. (well admittedly i haven't heard the debut in eons.) it's especially surprising given the shittiness of major label hard rock production 2000 to 2007. (especially during the peak/waning days of nu metal.)

while it's not my favorite song, my favorite moment on the album is the fake ending on "song for the dead" where it kicks back in with grohl (i assume) shouting HEY and then going a-1 ham on the kit

didn't he join QOTSA because he'd got a bit tired of being a frontman for a while?

It would fit, around the same time he did the Killing Joke self-titled record, supposedly gratis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Joke_(2003_album)

Eh, as a whole it sounds pretty great but I've always thought the drum sound was a little anemic, especially for a pounder like Grohl. I still prefer Rated R as an album, though not due to any production choices.

Poll results would be almost perfect with the order of the top 4 reversed. "Millionaire" fucking rips, still. I checked two days ago.