| Artist |
Queens Of The Stone Age |
| Album Title: |
Songs For The Deaf |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Rock: Hard Rock |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
08/27/2002 |
| Label |
Interscope Records |
| Catalog No |
069493425-2 |
| Bar Code No |
6 06949 34252 4 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
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You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire (3:12)
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| 2.
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No One Knows (4:38)
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| 3.
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First It Giveth (3:18)
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| 4.
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Song For The Dead (5:52)
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| 5.
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The Sky Is Fallin' (6:15)
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| 6.
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Six Shooter (1:19)
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| 7.
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Hangin' Tree (3:06)
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| 8.
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Go With The Flow (3:07)
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Gonna Leave You (2:50)
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| 10.
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Do It Again (4:04)
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| 11.
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God Is In The Radio (6:04)
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| 12.
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Another Love Song (3:15)
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| 13.
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Song For The Deaf (6:42)
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| 14.
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Mosquito Song (5:38)
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| Date Acquired |
09/01/2006 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
| Purchase Price |
12.99 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide entry:
Discogs entry:
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Notes |
Includes Hidden first Track: The Real Song For The Deaf 1:33
A&R – Debbie Southwood-Smith, Mark Williams
Art Direction – Hutch
Drums – Dave Grohl
Engineer [2nd] – Joe Marlett, Kevin Szymanski
Management – Arthur Spivak, John Witherspoon, Josh Brooks, Stu Sobol
Mastered By – Brian Gardner
Mixed By – Adam Kasper
Musician – Alain Johannes, Anna Lenchantin, Brad Kintscher, Brendon McNichol, Chris Goss, Dean Ween, Gene Trautmann, John Gove, Kevin Porter, Molly McGuire, Natasha Shneider, Paz Lenchantin
Photography By – Nigel Copp
Producer – Eric Valentine (tracks: 1 to 4, 6 to 9, 11 to 14), Josh Homme
Recorded By – Adam Kasper (tracks: 2, 8, 9, 13)
Recorded By [Assistant] – Dan Conway
Written-By – Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 8 to 12, 14)
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Interscope Records
Copyright (c) – Interscope Records
Manufactured By – Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp.
Distributed By – Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp.
Pressed By – UML
Recorded At – The Site
Recorded At – Conway Studios
Mastered At – Bernie Grundman Mastering
Published By – Board Stiff Music
Published By – Natural Light Music
Published By – Blood Onion Music
Published By – Ripplestick Music
Dedicated To Papa Joe.
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Analyzed: Queens of the Stone Age / Songs for the Deaf
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR5 1.37 dB -10.46 dB 1:33 00 - The Real Song for the Deaf
DR5 0.10 dB -7.36 dB 3:13 01 - You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire
DR4 0.00 dB -6.16 dB 4:39 02 - No One Knows
DR4 0.00 dB -5.03 dB 3:18 03 - First It Giveth
DR4 0.10 dB -5.85 dB 5:52 04 - A Song for the Dead
DR4 0.00 dB -5.70 dB 6:16 05 - The Sky Is Fallin'
DR4 0.10 dB -6.68 dB 1:19 06 - Six Shooter
DR4 0.02 dB -4.98 dB 3:06 07 - Hangin' Tree
DR4 0.00 dB -4.35 dB 3:07 08 - Go with the Flow
DR4 0.00 dB -5.06 dB 2:50 09 - Gonna Leave You
DR4 0.00 dB -6.43 dB 4:05 10 - Do It Again
DR3 0.00 dB -5.61 dB 6:05 11 - God Is in the Radio
DR4 0.04 dB -5.83 dB 3:16 12 - Another Love Song
DR4 0.10 dB -6.44 dB 6:43 13 - A Song for the Deaf / Feel Good Hit of the Summer (reprise)
DR6 0.67 dB -9.74 dB 5:38 14 - Mosquito Song
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Number of tracks: 15
Official DR value: DR4
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 860 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
On their third album, Songs for the Deaf, Queens of the Stone Age are so concerned with pleasing themselves with what they play that they don't give a damn for the audience. This extends to the production, with the entire album framed as a broadcast from a left-of-the-dial AM radio station, the sonics compressed so every instrument is flattened. It’s a joke run wild, punctuated by an ironic mock DJ, and it fits an album where the players run wild. As usual, Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri have brought in a number of guests, including Mark Lanegan on vocals and Dean Ween on guitar, but they’ve anchored themselves with the drumming of the mighty Dave Grohl, who helps give the band the muscle sorely missing from most guitar rock these days, whether it's indie rock or insipid alt-metal. QOTSA may be a muso band -- a band for musicians and those who have listened to too much music; why else did the greatest drummer and greatest guitarist in '90s alt-rock (Grohl and Ween, respectively) anxiously join this ever-shifting collective? -- but that’s the pleasure of the band, and Songs for the Deaf in particular: it’s restless and pummeling in its imagination and power.
And then these words from someone else:
Certain people would have you believe that Queens of the Stone Age's third album, Songs for the Deaf, is the return of real rock - a bonecrushing work of boundless imagination, the cornerstone in a new era of great rock, much like Nevermind was a decade beforehand. These people, coincidentally, happen to be in the same group that criticizes the Strokes and the White Stripes, claiming that those two bands are nothing but hype, while shamelessly indulging in breathless hyperbole whenever they speak a single word about QOTSA. Anybody who heard Songs prior to its release claimed it was the greatest rock album in years, at least the greatest since Rated R, setting up expectations impossibly high for this very good album. To begin with, this ain't accessible - not because the music is out-there or unfamiliar (lots of Cream filtered through garage rock, prog-metal, album rock, and punk does not make one a Borbetomagus, nor does it make it "imaginative," either), but because it is so insular, so concerned with pleasing themselves with what they play that they don't give a damn for the audience. This extends to the production, which sounds like a stoned joke gone awry as it compresses and flattens every instrument as if it were coming out of a cheap AM car radio. Sure, that might be the point - the album begins with radio chatter, and there are lots of jokey asides by a fake DJ - but Deaf winds up being entirely too evenhanded and samey, since every guitar has the same beefy, mid-range, no-treble tone and Dave Grohl (aka the Most Powerful Drummer in the Universe) is pushed to the background, never sounding loud, never giving this music the muscle it needs. As such, it becomes tiring to listen to - too much at the same frequency, all hitting the ear in a way that doesn't result in blissful submission, just numbness undercut with a desire to have some texture in this album. Once you get around this - which is an effort; unlike, say, the Strokes' Is This It?, whose thin production worked aesthetically and enhanced the songs, this sound cuts QOTSA off at the knees - there indeed is plenty to enjoy here since the band is very good. They're exceptional players, especially augmented here by Grohl on drums, Mark Lanegan on vocals, and Dean Ween on guitar, plus they're very good songwriters, whether they're writing technically intricate riff-rockers or throwbacks to Nuggets. All of this is sorely missing from most guitar rock these days, whether it's indie rock or insipid alt-metal, so it's little wonder that so many fans of great guitar rock flock to this, regardless of its flaws. But that doesn't erase the fact that, above all, QOTSA is a muso band - a band for musicians and those who have listened to too much music. Why else did the greatest drummer and greatest guitarist in '90s alt-rock (Dave Grohl and Dean Ween, respectively) anxiously join this ever-shifting collective? They wanted to play with the prodigiously talented Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri, two musicians who share their taste and willingness to jam. It results in interesting music and an album that, for all of its flaws, is still easily one of the best rock records of 2002. But, to be needlessly reductive, the analogy runs a little like this - QOTSA is King Crimson and the White Stripes are the Rolling Stones. Which one is "better" is entirely a matter of taste, but which one do you think plays to a larger audience, and is more about "real" rock?
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