#QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE band

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THE GREATEST STONER/ GARAGE/ PSYCHEDELIC/ PUNK/ METAL BAND EVER. THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN HUGE."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on CD package design for the KYUSS/ QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE split release, artwork by the late, great Frank Kozik (1962-2023), issued under the legendary Man's Ruin Records (Man's Ruin MR 063) in 1997.

OVERVIEW: "Emerging wild-eyed and stoned from the desert surrounding Palm Springs, California, in 1992 with their classic second album "Blues for the Red Sun," KYUSS proceeded over the ensuing three years and through two further masterpieces to become the greatest stoner/ garage/ psychedelic/ punk/ metal band ever. They should have been huge.

But saddled with a record company that didn't have the first idea what to do with them, KYUSS only sold records to friends, family and a relatively minuscule band of diehard fans. So they split. Admittedley at a creative high point, but also at a time when they had so much to offer. This much is testified to by the first three tracks on "Queens of the Stone Age." Here are the last songs Kyuss recorded, all first released on a highly-prized 10-inch single and each encapsulating the hypnotic intensity and gargantuan blugeon the band summarily conjured up.

The first track is a frazzled eight-minute deconstruction of BLACK SABBATH's "Into the Void'. KYUSS remain one of the very few bands capable of doing Sabbath's black-hearted doom justice; accomplised in this instance by taking the original tracks prehistoric slurge of a riff and dragging it through a series of skewed rhythmic shifts and a long spaced-out jam.

Like all great bands, KYUSS' sound was utterly distinctive: essentially, Josh Homme's fuzzed-up guitar operating in tandem with Scott Reeder's monstrous bass rumble to create riffs that hit you with the force of a bulldozer to the chest, while singer John Garcia howled away impressively, and intermittently, over the top. All of this is contained in the two-part "Fatso Forgotso" -- a vast 10-minute expanse of soul-drenched, head-spinning rolling thunder.

The album is completed by three tracks from Homme's new band, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE. These too are extraordinary. The music is still dense, trippy and relentlessly heavy, with an even more extreme psychedelic edge. On "If Only Everything" and "Born to Hula." Homme -' who also sings -- appears to be playing a sitar with a road drill, while the whacked-out instumental "Spiders and Vinegaroons" is clearly the work of a man who's imbibed a vast amount of mind-altering substances, and gone mad. We'll not see their like again."

-- "KERRANG!" (review by Paul Rees), published January 10th 1998.

Source: https://mikeladano.com/2023/09/26/review-kyuss-queens-of-the-stone-age-1997-split-ep & discogs.

[allwhiterain]

Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain sharing a lighter in New York (1993) (Colorized)

[aeolianblues]

I can't muster up any nostalgia for the 2010s at all. It was drudgery. It was depressing as hell how directionless and saturated our cultural industries were. The decade of Chainsmokers, Imagine Dragons and Mumford and Sons dominating radio. The odd and blank stare you'd get from people for suggesting anything that wasn't EDM-pop. I. Have. Fucking. Had it. With 'Shape of You' to last a lifetime. If I never heard that song again I would be just fine. It was decade of 'Hello Sunburn, NH7 who?' (NH7 Weekender was also boring and 55+ in age, though this means something to very few people on here.)

It was the decade of swapping Ableton beats in discord channels. It was getting told off for not liking One Direction and Taylor Swift by your friends. It was when rock music had such a stone age mentality that genres couldn't mix, if you liked anything other than just rock music, you couldn't be considered a serious rocker (musician or fan).

And does anybody remember the "landfill indie" years? So much directionless indie music by bands that didn't quite have the impact for how often you heard their name: Wombats and what not.

The gender imbalance was so so fucked. Do festival bills were so dude-heavy. Sausage fest. Cock rock. We kept saying this and idiots kept saying "well maybe if women were any GOOD they'd get booked but they're sooo boring >:( and lame", like the idiots they were.

There was an all-male indie band called Scouting For Girls. The festivals they were playing had 2 girls on the lineup. The bookers did not see the irony. Or the problem.

Look at the nominations for every award show from this period. Christ.

There were a few musical highlights I guess. In terms of new bands we got like Wolf Alice, Royal Blood, Soft Play (then called Slaves) and CHVRCHES in 2013. From old bands we got Like Clockwork and AM, and Royal Blood got heavy endorsements from the likes of Alex Turner, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl for essentially 'keeping rock music alive'. Figure It Out was a banger, no less. We got Muse's Drones in 2015 too, though that's less than 5 notable rock albums I can think of in about half a decade.

We got Greta Van Fleet by 2017, but they were a talking point then because 60 year olds needed to debate whether they were allowed to exist for sounding like Led Zeppelin. Because of course. We cry when we have things and we cry when we have not. IDLES also began catching underground praise, though it wasn't as mainstream as Royal Blood received, definitely not before their Reading and Leeds 2019 performance, which was at the end of the decade, where Danny Nedelko began catching people's attention.

I'm much happier now in the music scene. There's a healthy crop of bands that have something to say, they make all sorts of music, and heavy music is surprisingly back in fashion.

As a card-carrying resident of the 2010s growing up, why would I ever want to dwell in 2015 when I can live a more inspired life in 2022?

[karmicbias]

Battle vest progress, slow and steady (the fringey trim on the pockets is hanging over those patches more than it actually will be when worn).

Delighted to finally have a home for the mountain goats and qotsa patches I've been ferreting away for years and years now.

[mekanikaltrifle]

Even 12 years after I first heard it, this song still gives me chills. Have a song for today :3c

[venzilanddeathcult]

ALL TIME FAVORITE ALBUMS CHART

2023 is basically ending and i dont think theres any upcoming album thats going to absolutely shatter my perception of music (most recent one would be ants from up there my beloved) so i made a chart of all my favorite albums ever forever adn ever but 4x4

so thats that

ALBUMS IN (loose-ish) ORDER

O Terno - Melhor Do Que Parece

Slint - Spiderland

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

SWANS - The Seer (!!!!!!!)

Ween - Quebec

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Clube da Esquina

TOOL - Lateralus

Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness

Les Rallizes Dénudés - '77 Live

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters (And In God We Trust Inc., that one's equally amazing)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Nirvana - In Utero

Ween - The Mollusk

Pixies - Doolittle

[theadamantium]

Harri's Concert Photography // Queens of the Stone Age // Tribute Communities Centre, Oshawa // April 2024

www.adamrharrison.com

[ruinedholograms]

(2000-2007)

• Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R

• Andrew Bird - Weather Systems

• Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been, and Still

• Clint Mansell + Kronos Quartet + Mogwai - The Fountain

• Animal Collective + Vashti Bunyan - Prospect Hummer

• Xiu Xiu - Fag Patrol

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

• Sigur Rós - Takk…

• Kanye West - Late Registration

• Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze

• Ray Lamontagne - Trouble

• Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet

• Elliott Smith - Figure 8, From A Basement On The Hill, and New Moon

• LCD Soundsystem - Self Titled

• Xiu Xiu + Grouper - Creepshow

• Slipknot - Iowa

• Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds, With Teeth, and Every Day Is Exactly The Same

• Thom Yorke - The Eraser

• Tom Petty - Highway Companion

• Thom Yorke - Spitting Feathers

• The Postal Service - Give Up

• The Knife - Silent Shout

• Air - The Virgin Suicides

• The Knife - Self Titled

• Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline

[mb-scatafalcostuff]

Mark Lanegan

(November 25, 1964 ~ February 22, 2022) 

[nellarw95]

Happy Heavenly Birthday Mark 🎂💔

Mark William Lanegan 🤍

November 25,1964 - February 22,2022🙏🏻

We Miss You So Much 🕊️♾️

Buon Compleanno in Paradiso 🎂💔

25 Novembre 1964 - 22 Febbraio 2022🙏🏻

Ci Manchi Moltissimo 🕊️♾️

[eekub988]

my airbuds favs <3

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

A MARK OF A TRUE ONE -- THE DIS-FATHERS RECOGNIZE ONE OF THEIR OWN.

NOTE: ^The Dis-fathers tee, of course. What else? Because only the REAL ONES know!

PIC INFO: Spotlight on the ever tasteful Josh Homme, guitarist/vocalist/lyricist and founder of American rock band QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (and formerly of the mighty KYUSS), rocking a @$%*!#& DISCHARGE tee -- that is all.

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Source: https://todaformadeexpressao.wordpress.com/2012/07.

[waugh-bao]

[sunburnacoustic]

On a thread asking how young people got introduced to QOTSA, a Muser pipes in.

[ID: I am 31. I was heading to a Muse concert (Resistance tour) on a road trip to Portland OR and the guy driving our group played Them Crooked Vultures for us on the way.]

[veronicabacardi]

Lovely 🥰

[ralnex]

I was tagged by @insteading for the "on repeat" challenge. I use Tidal and shuffled my "most listened" playlist for ten of my favourite songs of the last couple of years since I switched from Spotify.

1. Bring 'em Back Alive - Audioslave

2. Gossip - Måneskin

3. Far Away - Yebba

4. Ventura Highway - America

5. MONTERO (Call me by your name) - Lil Nas X

6. Tigerlily - La Roux

7. Jesus, etc. - Wilco

8. Far From Home (The Raven) - Sam Tinnesz

9. Cirque - Sub Urban

10. This Lullaby - Queens of the Stone Age

No pressure tags to @bey0ndtheabyss @roxyrondell @scribophile