Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
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Artist: Queens of the Stone AgeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- This Lullaby
- Medication
- Everybody Knows That You're Insane
- Tangled Up In Plaid
- Burn The Witch
- In My Head
- Little Sister
- I Never Came
- Someones In The Wolf
- The Blood Is Love
- Skin On Skin
- Broken Box
- You Got A Killer Scene There, Man...
- Long Slow Goodbye
Music reviews of Lullabies to Paralyze
Music Review: Lullabies To Paralyze
Rating: 5 Stars
Back in 2005 I didn't give this album the listens it deserved. I had a lot of stuff going on, including the birth of my son. There was also the departure of Nick Oliveri, and in seeing such a 'high profile' member of the band leaving so soon after the success and attention "No One Knows" brought Queens of the Stone Age, just gave me warning signs. Another 'o here we go, success starts spilling in, the rats start jumping ship' mentality, and then you just have a band that just isn't as good, or the same as it once was. Missing the elements that got them there to your attenton in the first place. It's a bad mentality to have. It brings a pre-judgement of the work contained therein, and doesn't allow the piece to take a shape and form of its own. The departure of Oliveri surely affected Homme's songwriting. It shouldn't affect the way you listen to what he's done. But, alas, we are all subjective creatures and blah blah blah.
So after a month of celebrating 20 years of King's X by loading my mp3 player with only King's X and their solo projects material, and listening to nothing but them, when it came time to stop celebrating I decided to next fill up the Hitachi with only Queens of the Stone Age. And Queens of the Stone Age only. No Mondo Generator, no Kyuss, no Eagles of Death Metal. Nothing but QOTSA.
This is when I finally really 'heard' Lullabies To Paralyze (in its entirety and in pieces). And when heard in comparison to QOTSA's other albums, I finally realised how great this album is, and deserves 5 stars through and through. I personally think everyone should wait 1 to 3 years before they review an album. :) Don't let me tell you what to do though. It's just that if after a year or two you're still listening to that album and still noticing new things in it, then that's a hallmark of a great album. Everything's so damn temporary these days, ya know? Let it sink in a bit.
And based on "Precious & Grace" if QOTSA strolled up on stage and announced 'The ZZ Top you once knew is gone. We are now ZZ Top.', I do not think they would get any argument from me. They could be ZZ Top if they wanted to. ;)
This album is brilliant. And there's things on here when you listen to the album very closely followed by tracks from Era Vulgaris (2007) that say QOTSA was heading towards Era Vulgaris in sound and design anyway. "Skin on Skin" and "Broken Box" could easily be Vulgaris songs. But truly there's so many influences and things going into what makes a QOTSA album what it is, it doesn't matter where they're heading or where they've been . It's all good. And I'm not in the know to say that Homme is the main songwriter for all things QOTSA. He may be just very generous when it comes down to songwriting credits (but I think drummers should get credit for song composition too. I don't see why not). He may just be a genius at selecting musicians to work with. Whatever it is that Homme is responsible for, as a songwriter myself, I'm slightly envious. Because he just comes up with songs you wish you wrote. A lot of QOTSA's material utilises the same design, beat that riff down into the ground, but you absolutely love them for doing it. It's incessant. Unrelenting. It's very cool. You hear shades of 70's classic rock, glam, punk, new wave, heavy metal all in there, but it's all kind of disturbed and ominous. Yea. QOTSA are kind of ominous. Slightly twisted up.
So I was hearing a lot of these songs really for the first time in the past month. I just didn't head towards Lullabies as often as Deaf, Vulgaris and Rated R. ('QOTSA the first' kind of escaped some listens as well.) When I was ripping MP3's to my PC a few years ago, only "Tangled Up In Plaid" made it the library cavalcade. Other QOTSA albums were ripped a plenty. Lullabies was gently ignored. But that's cool. I'm listening to it non-stop now. QOTSA got their money from me at the time, and here I am reviewing it now hoping that what I say get's them some more money somehow.
Did I say how great this album is? "Everybody Knows That You're Insane". I can't stop listening to this song. Once I finally heard it, I kicked myself for ignoring it in the first place. But I'm listening now. I can't help thinking of The Partridge Family when hearing "Broken Box". It just somehow brings me to 70's bubblegum music, but yet the whole song is this fuzzed out, contemptuous (of whomever the lyrics may be about) piece of distorted something or other. It's like a Willy Wonka Golden Ticket found in an alleyway on the wrong side of town at the right time of night for bad things. (The Ominous of the Stone Age). "Skin On Skin' is just nasty. It's a dirty song. It's all shadows and bad neon lighting. It's a seedy dive. It's great! Liquid decadence. Don't know why I wrote that in relation to the song, but it sounded right.
Surely "In My Head" will turn up on the inevitable The Greatest Hits of the Queens of the Stone Age's Greatest Hits collection one day. It bears the hallmark of what makes the QOTSA 'format' so ... QOTSA. And when I say format I don't mean it's just 'manufactured' or a thing Homme and Co. says, let's just do a song like that one again but change the lyric or the key. I just mean they do this thing, and you know they did it before, but you don't care. Because elements of the song stick out so much that its difference from another is so noticeable that any comparison seems moot. I just think Homme and who he works with and what comes out, is great songwriting. I think it's magical. I think there's so much talent and creativity associated with QOTSA that to not see it seems .... stupid! I think they (those associated) have contributed to one of the best bands of the last 20 years. And if Homme is responsible for that, then let it be so.
Sometimes I think this might be the best of the QOTSA albums. I don't know why. It's really turning into a favourite. But then I really like the direction Era Vulgaris has gone. (In my Era Vulgaris review I compared it to QOTSA's equivalent of David Bowie's LOW, and the direction he pursued for the latter half of the 70's working with Brian Eno & Robert Fripp). Maybe Lullabies is like a closing chapter on a certain phase of QOTSA's career, and Vulgaris is going into different territory. Don't know. Too early to tell. But I know Skin On Skin and Broken Box said to listeners what Era Vulgaris might sound like.
Description of Lullabies to Paralyze
This album is crammed full of stand out tracks such as 'In My Head', 'Burn The Witch', 'Medication' & 'Tangled Up In Plaid'. 2 bonus tracks, 'Like A Drug' & 'Precious and Grace' are also included. 2005.Nick Oliveri may have departed, taking his naked bass playing skills with him, but Queens of the Stone Age remains in good hands with co-founder Josh Homme. Putting extracurricular projects like Eagles of Death Metal and the Desert Sessions briefly on hold, the restless front man keeps things dependably loud and sludgy on the group's third album. Monster riffs, choppy rhythms, explosive melodies, and, yes, even a generous serving of cowbell, propel standout songs like "Medication" and "Little Sister" on the follow-up to 2002's breakthrough Songs for the Deaf. Friends also lend a hand. ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons shreds through the reverberating "Burn The Witch," while Garbage's Shirley Manson and the Distillers' Brody Dalle join Homme for a tantalizing threesome on "You Got A Killer Scene." -- Aidin Vaziri
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