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Artist: Them Crooked VulturesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-11-17
Music Label: DGC/Interscope
Soundtracks:
- No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
- Mind Eraser, No Chaser
- New Fang
- Dead End Friends
- Elephants
- Scumbag Blues
- Bandoliers
- Reptiles
- Interlude With Ludes
- Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up
- Caligulove
- Gunman
- Spinning In Daffodils
Free Music Notes for Them Crooked Vultures
Free Music Review: Current but still Vintage: Great new original material from beloved geezers and current hipsters
Hit: 5 Stars
In the current climate of remake-happy artists, it's refreshing to hear guys with huge track records not rest on their laurels. Just ignore all that talk about supergroups and gods, because if these three guys are not pushing their superstardom down your throats, why should you do it to yourself? I know it's natural to want to compare this to their past works, but don't. Give them a clean listen.
I'll admit this, my bandmate and friend of 30 years bought me a ticket to see these guys at Roseland NYC. I asked him NOT to play me anything from the cd beforehand: "don't even describe the music, let me experience it fresh" I have heard a few songs by QOSA, nothing by the Foo Fighters or Nirvana. (I was too busy stage-diving to Sonic Youth in those days) And you know what? I was blown away. We were up against the back wall of the venue and we could still feel the music rock the entire audience from first row to last. Everyone was hopping by the middle of the second song.
What is the secret? I think it's because each of these guys play as if its their debut gig and debut album, not taking any of their fans' lauding fan worship for granted. They basically checked their resumes (and attitude) at the door, And that's what keeps the performances fresh and kicking. If I closed my eyes, I would have thought John Paul Jones was some 17 year kid trying to impress the hell out each listener, assuming nobody knew who he was. Dave Grohl's drumming is crisp and leaps out at you, and Josh Homme's vocals and guitar playing held the audience in a mix between rapturous trance and a sweet rock and roll feeling. Do the songs have elements of Zeppelin, QOSA, and Foo Fighters...probably. But think about it logically: it IS the guys from those bands after all. You can't really make a case against someone sounding like all the things they've liked and put in their songwriting in the past.
The important thing is Them Crooked Vultures sound like Them Crooked Vultures. Separately, they won't be able to arrive at this sound.
"No One Loves Me" opens the album not giving away what is ahead, but launches into a soaring piece that just won't quit. "Mind Eraser" is riff-oriented, as Homme's guitar playfully swirls around before a rocking groove is established. "New Fang" swings amidst wah-wah layered guitars, "Dead End Friends" meshes subPop elements with a more traditional rock song. "Elephants" shocked me in that these geezers can do New York Hardcore ala Sunday afternoons at CBGB's, and do it well. If I didn't sneak in a bottle of Vodka at the gig, I would have started a pit. "Scumbag Blues" is awesome thick riff-laden rock&roll with a delicious twist of JPJ's keytar(?) filtered synth that brings the sound up to date while still vintage. Grohl's drums bang behind AND in front of the wall of sound. "Reptiles" even throws in distorted slide guitar. "Interludes" incorporates elements of Eastern music, "Warsaw" begins as a jungle d&b drum riff, that increasingly meshes to become a complex layer cake of sound.
"Caligulove" makes listeners want to hop in the sack and get experimental, and just when you think the band has blown its load and is ready to roll over and start snoring, "Gunman" comes out rocking with a furious swing like a loud industrial machine, a song that bands of any lesser stature will meekly bump to the front of their album. Not these guys.
I'm going to guess the closing song is JPJ opening on acoustic piano. What would sound like a peaceful parting song morphs into a driving midtempo rocker with Homme's classic self-harmonizing vocals
A word about "The Loudness War." It's something that has bothered me, coming from a vinyl / open-reel generation. A quick explanation: the Loudness War is a trend of computer-generation producers to "overcompress" their final stage of the recording. This produces a sound where low leveled instruments or voices (acoustic instruments and whispers) become louder, and the loud peaks (cymbal crashes) become softer....creating a middle-of-the-road constant volume that wears out your ears after repeated exposure. You are no longer sensitive to the nuances of highs and lows. This, was to accommodate the mp3 and I-Pod generation of listeners, who have reduced dynamics in their toys.
People have complained about this in this recording, and I agree their sound had more bite in concert than in the recording, but look: it is loud hard rock after all (i like my rock and roll to burst out the speakers anyway). I also don't think it suffers that much given the excellent performances here. And these guys have enough clout to put a stop to overcompression in the mastering studio if they didn't personally like the results. Obviously they were pleased with it, so just trust the artists' judgment.
Them Crooked Vultures Poster
THEM CROOKED VULTURES -- a/k/a DAVE GROHL (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), JOSHUA HOMME (Queens of the Stone Age) and JOHN PAUL JONES (Led Zeppelin) -- has confirmed November 17, 2009 as the release date of its eponymous debut album in the United States and Canada on DGC/Interscope Records.The self-produced 13-song record will feature the debut of the studio versions of the material Them Crooked Vultures unveiled at its August 9 debut at Chicago's Cabaret Metro and played on a first series of shows throughout a handful of UK and European cities and portions of the eastern U.S., wrapping up with an October 15 appearance at New York's Roseland Ballroom.
Additional shows are being announced in the wake of the album's release.
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