Them Crooked Vultures
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- satan0
the trouble with josh homme.
the trouble is rock & roll is not dance music. let rock music be rock music and let dance music be dance music. let's not pretend rock music 'with a twist' is rock & roll. anyone who's been listening to the crooked vultures release and the sweethead album - which I just downloaded as well - will and should notice the difference. sweethead is rock & roll, while tcv is not. in fact, tcv pretends to be rock & roll but is not. aside from labeling, the sweethead album, in my opinion rings true, or authentic, while the crooked vultures release rings, well not fake by no means, but by no means true either. mind you, this is coming from a long standing qotsa fan. imho songs for the deaf is the best qotsa ever did and the moment it came out it was clear to me they would never top that effort. I saw the live shows at the time (with dave grohl on drums) and those are the best concerts I've ever seen, period. a big part of that is, I think, that nick olivieri was still part of the team back then. he brought the rock & roll in qotsa. after sftd, the qotsa albums sounded less rock and roll, and too much stylized, exactly my problem with the crooked vultures album. everything just sounds too perfect and well designed, aiming for effect rather than the heart. it's more like musician's music, too self absorbed and too self aware, to the point where it becomes a parody of itself.listen to sweethead, that is true rock & roll. I'm totally hooked on this album right now.