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queens of the stone age are one of the best bands in the last 15 years and they follow up songs for the deaf with this great cd. from the medication stoner rocking song to the dark hollow long slow good by the paceing is amzaing i love this album. plus burn the witch with bill gibons from zz top on guitar and you got a killer scenc there are great. a must have for any QOTSA fan. 5 star all the way
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Initial signs for this album weren't promising. The sudden departure of Nick Olivieri marked the departure of the only constant member of Josh Homme's ever-changing QOTSA line-up, and Olivieri seemed as essential to the band as Homme himself. Things could've gone so easily awry for album number 4. However Josh Homme's track record with other projects (notably Desert Sessions) should've been enough to confirm that he is more than capable of going it alone. Lullabies to Paralyze is a testament to this. Impressively, the first two songs are knocked off within little more than 3 minutes. The gentle acoustics and tortured-larynx Mark Lanegan vocals of This Lullaby give way to the chugging, razor-sharp Medication, which sounds like a two-minute statement of intent. The following track is arguably the album's highlight. Everybody Knows That You're Insane starts up as a wailing rock dirge, before a neat shift in tempo takes you into the simple and insanely catchy chorus. Tangled Up In Plaid and Burn The Witch are also superb, both stomp-along anthems of the highest order, before the album's most accessible poppy moment, In Your Head (which also appeared in the Desert Sessions). Little Sister is fine, if somewhat underwhelming as a lead-off single, whilst I Never Came portrays a subtlety previously unregistered in QOTSA's past works. But it's the next two tracks, Someone's In The Wolf and The Blood Is Love that provide the album's backbone. Both lengthy, brooding, power-chord heavy anthems, they sit perfectly alongside one another. Both recall QOTSA's ability to find a great riff, and then completely bludgeon you with it. The next three tracks show a dramatic shift in mood, and are amongst the sleaziest things QOTSA have done. The fuzzed out Skin On Skin is a lust fuelled romp, "I hate to see you leave, but I like to watch you go" being one of its more subtle lyrics. Broken Box is like Skin On Skin's angry hangover, whilst You Got A Killer Scene slows things down, but is no less sexy. That leaves Long Slow Goodbye to tie things up. It's a fitting end, beautiful, but forlorn, and complete with trumpet dirge. Oh, and as ever, the bonus tracks are worthwhile additions as well, Like A Drug portraying Homme's songwriting range in the same way The Mosquito Song did on Songs For The Deaf. To say that Olivieri isn't missed from proceedings would be a little naïve. Ultimately the album lacks a moment as unhinged as, say, Millionaire. But without Nick, Josh Homme has been able to seize the reins fully, and as a result this is QOTSA's most diverse work to date. To say it's better or worse than anything else they've done is like comparing coffee with tea: it's purely a matter of taste. But whether you regard QOTSA as a band or a Josh Homme side-project, the QOTSA name remains a stamp of quality.Read full review
This is one of those albums that get better each time you listen to it.The well known tracks I suppose are Burn the Witch and Little Sister. It's as good as Songs for the Deaf, but then its not the same as you may expect Listened to this throughout my pregnancy, seemed to work in relaxing me and a very busy bouncing baby inside. Its a very easy listening rock album, good for those first venturing into rock, like the Foo Fighters its an easy pleasant experience.
Following on from the excellent 'Songs For The Deaf', QOTSA come back with the dark, moody, blues-metal in the form of 'Lullabies To Paralyze'. Featuring the excellent 'Burn The Witch' and the first single 'Little Sister', this is yet another slice of rock heaven brought to you from the depths of hell where it seems uber-cool Josh Homme feels most at home with his dark, melodic fairytales for the sinful.
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