Them Crooked Vultures
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- dirtydesign0
i missed the nyc show, was working on a new business pitch. sucks!
album release november 17 for north america.
- meffid0
It's everything I expected and better, I tried not to ruin it with the 30sec previews too.
There's a torrent of them at Lowlands which I'm hoping will suffice :(
- Gucci0
From what I've heard, they sounds pretty great. can't wait for the new album.
- gentleman0
it's a one-off thing right?
- calcium0
The Philadelphia show was AMAZING!
John Paul Jones steals the show to be honest.
- fooler20
got presale info for the Portland Show hope it works out.
My wife might leave me to become a groupie of this band. She's in love with Dave and Josh.
- d_rek0
Saw them in Detroit. Must say it was pretty fucking awesome. Exactly what you expect from a true 'supergroup' - amazing all around.
- gjd0
Overrated and I'm pissed off.
WTF is everyone lost in marketing land? Stop cumming all over Homme for 5 mins and listen to this minus the supergroup status.
Its alright, but if most of you lot were honest with yourselves and followed ur own testis it's just a QOTSA demo tape and a few famous guys helping out.
- btw I'm not pissing on some of the obviously shit hot riffs, just the rest of the fillergjd
- Yeah, I found it tepid. I like some of the zeppism's, but ultimately where are the actual songs, you know?Dr_Sparkleshine
- morilla0
I have to be honest, this sounds like ass. B side QOTSA trash can material ( and I mean the current Queens, not the good era).
Please Josh, get back to doing some Kyuss sounding stuff. You're not the arty musician type.
- and I am a huge J.H. supporter/ fan. This is bleh.morilla
- +1Dr_Sparkleshine
- I haven't heard the whole album, so I am basing my opinion off this track.morilla
- I don't much care for the singles, but I do looove Bandoliers.ismith
- calcium0
" Overrated and I'm pissed off.
WTF is everyone lost in marketing land? Stop cumming all over Homme for 5 mins and listen to this minus the supergroup status."
You're doing it wrong.
If you listened to anything by John Paul Jones solo you would actually pick up on a lot of the music being his brain child. There are quiet a few Zepplin influences, and Grohl destroys the drums on quiet a few songs.
Homme does the vocals, and some of the effects are similar to QOTSA, but this is way different. I think it blends all of their styles and tones nicely.
- No, fair point. But you've gotta say that there's a hell of a lot of padding on the whole albumgjd
- The parts are great, the whole does not measure up IMHO. And I wanted to love this album.Dr_Sparkleshine
- baseline_shift0
Not blown away. Too much hype, me thinks.
Dont get me wrong, its a solid rock album, but its not pushing any boundaries.
As far as a new rock album thats pushing the limits, id say Titus Andronicus' debut effort is well worth a listen.
http://www.myspace.com/titusandr…
- calcium0
Seriously? You think Titus Andronicus is pushing the limits? I can think of a handful of bands they are ripping, at least Them Crooked Vultures are ripping their own music.
- name em. id love to hear em.baseline_shift
- I heard Joy Division, Wire, Buzzcocks, and any number of Interpol/Strokes type bands.calcium
- i mean, i can hear some of those influences. (i kinda disagree about the strokes type shit) but i dont think they are ripping any of those.baseline_shift
- of those. They also have a nostalgic/folky type of sound thats been filtered through heavy distortion. I really dig em.baseline_shift
- Mimio0
David Bowie meets Led Zeppelin.
- digdre0
“Paul McCartney has revealed he asked about joining Them Crooked Vultures on bass, only to be told by Dave Grohl that John Paul Jones had already beaten him to it.”
- d_rek0
Still digging on this album. Granted it's not pushing any boundaries as far as the genre goes but it's a fucking solid, well-produced effort in a genre that has been going to hell and then some the last few years.
Also has made me revisit a lot of the group members' older material - Nevermind, anyone?
- 7point340
when did we as a culture get to the point that we could only appreciate music if it pushed some imaginary boundary? sounds like marketing buzzword bullshit to me. personally i enjoy the music, i feel the album slows a bit on the second half, but side a is pretty damn entertaining.
all music everywhere has been influenced by another band, another sound. pointing it out and dissecting the music based on this factor seems like an arrogant waste of time.
- Last time i listened to an album that I thought "this is way ahead of it's time" was Lateralus by Toold_rek