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Any negative opinions on music are bunk as taste is subjective. I don’t care what other people dislike, I care a little bit about what people do like as it may introduce new music to me.<br /><br />
My entire attitude to music neatly summed up. Thank you!
I think they are not for me.<br />Obviously, you’re far too old. You need to be in the 40-50 age bracket.
I’m 70 this year, I’ll let you know when I’m too old. Considering looking for a returned ticket for Tool later this year.
I like what the Foos do. I don’t always like what QOTSA do, but that’s OK, I don’t necessarily like everything on a given album by anyone who’s music I otherwise enjoy; there’s only one Dire Straits album I’ve ever bought, and there’s one track on that that should have been left off, the beauty of digital recordings means it’s dead easy to leave off.
I see it's turned into a bit of a thread since I went to work this morning. Might as well add my two penneth seeing as I was a bit of a QOTSA fanboy/obsessive way back in the day.
Josh has always said that he never wanted to repeat himself musically but always wanted to move forward and that is what he has done. So a band that is constantly changing/evolving is bound to leave some people behind along the way, including me to a certain extent.
I discovered them around Rated R when they were starting to gain wider exposure and then SFTD hit and I was completely sucked in. That line up and those albums really resonated with me at that time in my life and set me off on a journey into the back story, first album, Kyuss etc. and that whole desert rock scene.
That period was followed by a line up change/change in style and we got LtP and EV both great albums with a few cracking songs on each but for me not quite the QOTSA of old.
Quite a few years passed before Clockwork was released and to me that was a major departure from the older QOTSA style but despite my inital hesitance it really grew on me.
Then we got Villains which I think I've maybe listened to only two or three times and can't see me listening to again really and I'm struggling to get into ITNR which despite what Josh said about repetition, to me owes a lot to Them Crooked Vultures.
Despite the fact that I'm struggling with their latest stuff I still go to the live shows, latest being the Manchester gig that @binners and others from here were at. I've seen them many times over the years with various line ups and never had a bad gig.
@tjagain it's not an age thing, I'm sixty and probably grew up on a lot of the same rock bands as you but if it's not your thing it's not your thing. Simple as that.
@thepodge I've met various QOTSA members over the years but the highlight of my name dropping has to be singing harmonies with Nick Oliveri on his Death Acoustic tour in York.
I bought their latest album and I quite like it. Although the idea that each album is a move onwards from previous is a bit of a stretch, this latest one is very much like Lullabies to Paralyze (and I liked that also fwiw)
No one knows is an absolute banger 🙌🏻
That Grohl side project list is missing Dream Widow (:metal:)
I vaguely remember seeing QOTSA at Reading festival. Got a couple of their albums, they were a good distraction from crap like Limp biscuit at the time. Although I may have years confused.
I remember Lost art being played a lot.
Around that time I think the usual rock/metal suspects were on a bit of a lull. Might just be me though.
OH loves Burn the Witch.
Not listened to the recent stuff, might have a gander.
Misread that as OH loves Burning Witch and thought we'd suddenly gone a LOT heavier & way more interesting.
I would tend to agree, feels like they've slowly been getting worse since SFTD. Like Clockwork grew on me a bit but Villains and ITNR don't have anything for me. Saw them in Birmingham last year and was so bored by all the new stuff live, even though as a band they're on top form.
I get that bands have to evolve and can't put out the same album every time, but a lot of the time they lose that initial magic they once had. Arctic Monkeys last few albums are dreadful compared to the first few imo.
Artistic exploration and evolution is a good thing but getting old and running out of ideas is far more common.
It must be hard to write interesting and energetic rock & roll when you're a 50 something millionaire living in Malibu.