Hanno rotto i coglioni parecchio tempo: i Queens of the Stone Age sono orfani di Nick Olivieri, chissà se Josh Homme ce la farà a fare album belli come prima, si scioglieranno, non si scioglieranno, ci suonerà Flea (?!) nel prossimo disco... insomma, la solita babilonia di voci e pettegolezzi. Che però scompaiono di colpo una volta iniziato l'ascolto di questa nuova opera dei QOSTA.
L'opener "This Lullaby" è una vera e propria ninna nanna acustica cantata dal sempre grande Mark Lanegan sul morbido (e semplice) ricamo chitarristico di Josh, un modo strano ma originale di aprire un album rock. Già dalla seconda traccia si entra in territori più stoner e nurock (vedi la bella "Everyone Knows That You're Insane") e si arriva a quelli che sono i due capolavori dell'album, "Tangled Up In Plaid", col suo riff che rimanda al periodo "No One Knows", e "Burn The Witch" (ft. Billy Gibson), due minisuite che sembrano una versione aggiornata e corretta dei Pink Floyd. Ed è qui che nasce lo stupore: in questo album i QOSTA giocano a fare gli psichedelici, prendono il lato visuale e rock di Waters e Gilmour e lo fanno proprio, giocandoci a piacimento. Certo, le canzoni più rock non mancano (i primi due singoli "In my head" col suo ritornello ad effetto e il bel riff di "Little Sister"), ma il resto dell'album riempie dentro col suo suono caldo e vintage e le lunghe divagazioni musicali.
Che dire? E' sempre un piacere ascoltare un cd dei QOSTA, con o senza Olivieri.
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01 This Lullaby (01:22)
Where O where have you been my love?
Where O where can you be?
It's been so long, since the moon has gone.
& 0 what a wreck you've made me.
Are you there over the ocean?
Are you there, up in the sky?
Until the return of my love
This lullabye
My Hope is on the horizon
Every face, it's your eyes i can see
I plead, i pray through each night & day
Our Embrace is only a dream.
& as sure as days come from moments
Each hour becomes a life's time
When she'd left, i'd only begun this lullabye
02 Medication (01:54)
Medication for us all, it is a new way
And we're gonna take it cause we love it
Don't you know?
is this the dose you've been dreamin' of?
A revelation from a gun
Doesn't matter
Overtaken, mine was yours, now overthrown
Just copulation in a song
i'm so contagious, can i cum?
in the new way
all of us cast asides became what has become
Medication for us all
You think you know me, well you're wrong
Doesn't matter
all of us cast asides became what has become
04 Tangled Up in Plaid (04:13)
I slipped
Didn't mean
Didn't mean to do it that way
But I blew in on a whim, gone tomorrow
(shit) I'm gone today
Come, lets play along
And let each other lose
A win would cause an alarm
Don't matter to me
Doesn't matter to you
(chorus)
I could keep you all for myself
I know you gotta be free
So free yourself
I could keep you all for myself
I know you gotta be free
So free yourself
A self-inflicted wound, your gift
Impeccable aim
Can really clear a room
All the bodies piled up in your way
Oh yeah, it hurts
So bad, and it must
(chorus)
I could keep you all for myself
I know you gotta be free
So free yourself
I could keep you all to myself
I know you gotta be free
To kill yourself
05 Burn the Witch (03:35)
Holding hands
Skipping like a stone
On our way
To see what we have done
The first to speak
Is the first to lie
The children cross
Their hearts and hope to die
Bite your tongue
Swear to keep your mouth shut
Ask yourself
Will i burn in Hell?
Then write it down
and cast it in the well
There they are
The mob it cries for blood
To twist the tale
Into fire wood
Fan the flames
With a little lie
Then turn your cheek
Until the fire dies
The skin it peels
Like the truth, away
What it was
I will never say...
Bite your tongue, swear to keep
Keep your mouth shut
Make up something
Make up something good...
Holding hands
Skipping like a stone
Burn the witch
Burn to ash and bone
06 In My Head (04:01)
It's the cruelest joke to play
I'm so high I run in place
Only a line we separate
So...
Chorus:
Keep on playin' our favorite song
Turn it up, while you're gone
It's all I got when you're in my head
And you're in my head, so I need it
You're the only thing I got
That I can't seem to get enough
We collide for one embrace
So...
(Chorus)
(Instrumental break)
Oh... oh
Oh, my radio, I can't wait forever...
(Chorus X2)
I need it...
I need it...
I need it now
09 Someone's in the Wolf (07:15)
Once you're lost in twillights's blue
You don't find your way, the way finds you...
Tempt the fates, beware the smile
It hides all the teeth, my dear,
What's behind them...
So glad you could stay
Forever
He steps between the trees, a crooked man
There's blood on the blade
Don't take his hand
You warm by the firelight, in twilight's blue
Shadows creep & dance the walls
He's creeping too..
So glad you could stay
Forever
11 Skin on Skin (03:42)
From the moment you said 'why haven't you kissed me yet?'
I knew I'd wipe that paint from your lips
I stare the lids off your eyes, gone down on your dirty mind
and end up between your hips
Handfuls of sweat tangled hair, anytime, anywhere
I wanna lick you too much baby
I just play all alone, whispering for your moan
Forced to crawl down this line, just to touch
I can get in
I can't get out
I'm just sweating my sheets
I hate to see you leave, but i love to watch you go baby
Twisted secret lives, the way you bat your eyes
Givin head givin head givin head
Watch you come from above
I'm so needy for love, i'm desperate,
Greedy in slavery
I sneak around from behind
I got a one track mind
We got a skin on skin thing baby
I wanna lick you too much
I hear you comin ooh aaaah baby
15 Like a Drug (03:15)
Since you're gone, I sat at home
Wonder why no I'll never be free
But the thought of you
Goin with another guy
No, it could never be me
You took a ring and pawned our love away
What can I say, I am left behind
So I take a drink, another cigarette
I can't forget that you once were mine
What can I say?
I guess it wasn't meant to be
Now you're gone
It's just, your love is like a drug
It's been so long
Your folks have bet you gone
I know that you're alive inside
So I hope and pray you won't throw this love away
I just wish that you still were mine
16 Precious and Grace (03:23)
Ridin top the floodway on a Friday night
The landscape's a fine and natural sight
Just cruisin slow through the dark of night
With precious and grace everything's all right
Good God Almighty, we was goin down slow
Yeah, if we knew just where we had to go
Cryin just a flyin down a put out road
With precious and grace in my flathead Ford
So if you're out rollin late one night
Yeah, and you need that supernatural delight
I'm talkin' to you, brother
I know somebody's, they's just out of sight
Get with precious and grace
They gone to treat you right
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Altre recensioni
Di puntiniCAZpuntini
Ed invece, ha scelto di fare il musicista. Come sempre del resto.
Lullabies To Paralyze, il ventidue marzo duemila & cinque sugli scaffali. Mama I’m Comin’ Homme.
Di regular_isa
Lullabies to Paralyze è davvero un gran disco, particolare come solo Rated R è stato.
Josh Homme ha un talento innato ma un dubbio rimane, come sarebbe stato tutto questo con Nick Oliveri?
