• vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Villains by Queens of the Stone Age.

    …like clockwork (the previous album) is too 3 for me and may be my all time favorite at any given moment. But the follow-up was just not what I was looking for.

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      9 hours ago

      Yes!! Exactly this one for me too. I love Clockwork so much, this was weird.

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        7 hours ago

        So glad to not be alone on this. It felt unfocused. I think working with Mark Ronson gave Homme a bit too much leeway to make an album that tried to hard to be cool.

        It somehow went over the ironic/unironic line that Queens has always danced around.

        Like Clockwork has moments that veered towards camp and cheese but never felt insincere or cloying.

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      16 hours ago

      Every other queens of the stone age record is an instant classic. They’re probably my favorite band and I genuinely dislike half their stuff.

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      16 hours ago

      I only like the albums they did with dave grohl on drums, the rest just don’t seem to hit for me.

      I’m pretty sure that’s only songs for the deaf and like clockwork. I can’t get into any of their other stuff