#101

I don’t know much about QOTSA, but them and EODM seem like they have some real problems with toxic masculinity

Quite a turn off

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#102

me too, was genuinely shocked they played it when I saw them on the Like Clockwork tour

#103

EODM for sure, collection of toilet human beings

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#104

Knocking another point of for Eagles of Death Metal

#105

Isn’t Jesse Hughes a Republican speechwriter now?

#106

A real gateway band for me. My school friends had got into shit metal while I was still educating myself on classic 60s-70s music, occasionally dipping into whatever Q Magazine told me I should listen to in the late 90s.

The self-titled album was the first ‘heavy’ rock album I got into and the first time in a while my chums had liked something I didn’t totally despise. Rated R was a huge album for all of us and our first gig as a large group was spent in front of the speaker stack at their Barrowlands gig. You Can’t Quit Me Baby was probably my single best gig moment for a decade after.

We were all looking extremely forward to Songs For The Deaf but it fell a bit flat for me. There’s obviously plenty of highlights but I never got the adulation for it. I loved Lullabies To Paralyze though and kept the faith when my friends gave up on them. I changed my mind at Era Vulgaris which was extremely fucking boring.

I always gave their new albums a listen after that but, even when good, they were never going to recapture 99-01 for me. My partner was a big fan though and had never seen them live before so I took her to the Usher Hall gig a few years back. First time I’d seen them since SftD, so I was hoping for some old timey fun if not much more. John Homme came across as a sleazy, edgelord fuck though and it ruined the band for us a bit. So 4/5 for the band/memories but like fuck am I ever giving them more time/money/effort.

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#107

Can’t believe how much people are underrating Like Clockwork

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#108

Quite like, Like Clockwork particularly the final track would have like to have seen that with a massive orchestra involved.

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#109

I love this song, but in the context of the album it serves the same purpose as, say, Little Sister on Lullabies - to remind you of how good they can be, and to show up the rest of the songs by comparison.

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#110

Might go with a 2, maybe a 3 I dunno. The first 3 albums are ok but never really grabbed me. Make It Wit Chu is fun but I have no interest in them really.

#111

NMCOT

#112

got into them when this was on a free melody maker cd from 1999 maybe, quickly became obsessed with them and kyuss (and fu manchu, and unida, etc etc).

the next track on the melody maker thing was edgecrusher by fear factory, which doesn’t seem very melody makery

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#113

Cracking up thinking about how much I loved Them Crooked Vultures in 2009

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#114

My GF LOVES them. Any conversation we have about rock music always winds its way back to Them Crooked Vultures. I don’t get it at all.

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#115

Never in the history of music has a band been so much less than the sum of its parts

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#116

TBF I’m listening now and it does slap

#117

I forgot about that absolute war crime of a custom instrument JPJ played in them :smiley:

Fucking state of it

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#118

Same make as Muse’s guitars isn’t it?

#119

Acme?

#120

Might as well be. Mason isn’t it?

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