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Burn the Witch
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You Got a Killer Scene There, Man, by Queens of the Stone Age
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800th post!
Here’s my personal favorite song by Queens of the Stone age
Someone’s In The Wolf
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Queens of the Stone Age - Long Slow Goodbye
Lullabies to Paralyze is the fourth album from Queens of the Stone Age. The lineup:
Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Joey Castillo, Alain Johannes
This was the first album after Nick Oliveri was fired and features the four basic members of the previous tour. The name from the album comes from a line in “Mosquito Song” from Songs for the Deaf. Although Mark Lanegan is not listed as an official part of the lineup for this album, he performs vocal duties on “This Lullaby” “Burn the Witch” and “You Got a Killer Scene There Man…” and provided at least part of the lyrics for “Medication”, “Tangled Up in Plaid”, and “Long Slow Goodbye”.
Lullabies is part wicked fairytale, part deluded romanticism. The album opens with Lanegan singing the creepy yet mesmerizing “This Lullaby” and careens through a slew of musical styles until it ends with Josh Homme’s melancholy voice on “Long, Slow Goodbye.” At first listen the album can come off as awkward and off-putting; while the musical style of Queens of the Stone Age remains intact, the constantly shifting tones and underlying vagueness make some of this album feel like it’s being played to core fans and not necessarily reaching out to new ones.
I had to spend a lot of time with Lullabies before feeling comfortable with it. Perhaps the disconnect and the disjointedness are intentional, or maybe it’s something only I heard on first listen because I was listening for the absence of Oliveri.
While the album is a concept one in nature, I think it’s best to take each song as a separate entity rather than try to blend the disparate nature of tunes like “Someone’s in the Wolf” and “In My Head” together. When you do that, when you take each song one by one and try not to connect it to anything before or after, you appreciate the musicianship and songwriting more. At least that’s how it worked for me.
“Long, Slow Goodbye” is my favorite from this record. This song is a sigh. It’s for a dark, rainy day when you’re feeling like no one knows what you’re feeling. It’s for when you feel lost, or when you don’t want to be found. It’s for when there’s a wistfulness in your heart you can’t explain, or a pain that you can. It’s for longing, for regretting, for wondering, for sighing.
It’s the dial tone at the end of the last call.
In every voice, I hear you speak
Waitin’ by the telephone
I close my eyes, I just can’t sleep
Roll and tumble all night long
All night long
