Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

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Free Music Review: QOTSA are the saviors of RAWK
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"No One Knows" has Homme doing lead vocals with his smirking wise-ass style. "No One Knows" lets Dave lead the way with boogie style drums. Oliveri and Homme harmonize over Josh's Ace Frehley-like riff. This is most likely the first single from Songs For The Deaf, as a video has already been made.

After a funny intro from a Mexican radio jock, "First It Giveth" comes chugging along as the third track on the album. Josh remains the vocalist. It's nice to hear someone involved in "metal" actually sing instead of growl and groan. Next is "Song For the Dead" which let's Grohl do some cool fills on the drums before Homme thuds in. Oliveri does lead vocals while Homme backs him up.

One of the most interesting elements in Songs For The Deaf are the smaller touches, like Homme and Oliveri harmonizing, Grohl's stop-start drumming that enforce Homme's tractor-beam like guitar. In "Song For The Dead" there are at least three different riffs. In most metal songs nowadays you get one riff and it wears itself out quick.

The rest of the album gets even heavier if you can believe that. "The Sky Is Falling" is a six minute song that expands and contracts like a black hole. "Six Shooter" lets Oliveri vent some anger in two minutes of his screaming. "Hanging Tree" Mark Lanegan comes to the forefront with his whiskey soaked voice to a spacey psychedelic type song that is all over the place, but in a good way. "Go With The Flow" and "Gonna Leave You" go back to that fun boogie sound like "No One Knows" And "Do It Again" sounds like a sports anthem with its "Rock and Roll Part 1" by Gary Glitter type riff.

The last four songs of the album are by far the standouts. After some crazy radio static complete with revival like radio preachers, we go into "God Is In The Radio". This Doors-esque song has one of the best guitar solos I have heard in a long time. "Another Love Song" is another trippy psychedelic song complete with organ. The title track "Song For The Deaf" is introduced appropriately by a dominatrix type DJ because this song is dark and primal. The hidden track on the CD, "Mosquito Song" is a acoustic number complemented with a horn, piano and string section, reminiscent of earlier power ballads by Led Zeppelin ("Going To California) and Black Sabbath ("Laguna Sunrise"). At the end of the song you can hear something that sounds like the opening riff to "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" from Rated R. A nice little surprise.

With nothing but complete objectivity and sincerity, I can say that not only is this QOTSA's best album, not only one of the best albums of the year, this is one of the all time best. This ranks up here with Appetite For Destruction, Reign In Blood, and Superunknown. This album is a must purchase for anyone who loves it loud, is tired of the modern day rap-metal and poser metal scene or just wants to hear something new. Stop reading and go buy it.

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