[.ca] Songs For The Deaf (Bonus Tracks)

From Amazon.com:
Despite the advent of the '00s, thoroughly blunted longhairs wearing three-quarter-length T-shirts still boot around the suburbs in painted vans listening to roaring metal. Fittingly, a whole new crop of post-Dazed and Confused-era stoner rockers--Fu Manchu, Monster Magnet, and arguably the kings of them all, Queens of the Stone Age--provide a shredding contemporary score for righteous three-finger devil salutes. On Songs for the Deaf, core members bassist Nick Oliveri and singer-guitarist Josh Homme (also see Kyuss) balance pure guitar-induced carnage with more complex, though no less aggressive, speed rock that whips by so fast it creates its own breeze. Opening with the 90-second "The Real Song for the Deaf"--a cheeky and amorphous bit of bloopy electronica quite possibly recorded at the bottom of a swimming pool--the disc explodes with track two, a toxic squall of power chords and now-classic Olivera death howls. It's here the album's recurring concept/conceit is introduced as a generic-sounding announcer from L.A.'s "Clone" radio spits out some psychobabble reinforcing the tired if true cliché that commercial radio stinks. Similar mock broadcasts surface elsewhere, but they're easily forgivable, given the bounty on offer. Homme-powered tracks dominate--the lurching, weirdly springy "No One Knows" is a kind of "Monster Mash" for grownups; the vocal harmony-driven "The Sky Is Falling" is almost dreamy until a small army of guitars surges to the front lines to begin firing. And a lyrically winking hidden track, "Mosquito Song," is either an in-joke of ridiculous proportions or a declarative statement about the level of musicianship lurking just beneath the quaking veneer of the Queens' sound. Either way, genuine excitement comes early and often on Songs for the Deaf. It's a remarkable achievement--a hard rock record so good that it immediately evokes a conspiratorial fervor that makes you want to tell everyone you can about it. Er, job done. --Kim Hughes

one great deaf metal cd:
If your like Kane Taylor(UK) you bought this cd beacause of no one knows, just like any other commercial music lover. If the song wasn't on MTV its not good. Wrong don't be like Kane Taylor Songs For The Death is a great cd. It's unique I can distinguish any Queens Of The Stone Age song from any other death metal song or any other type of song. This cd is filled with great riffs and cool song ideas. All the songs are good because there all different unlike staind's stuff for example. The radio talk through the album gives it its mellow feel. Anyone who is a fan of real music or alternative should at least give this cd a chance its an experience. This One of my favorite cd's.

creative, heavy, great songs and videos:
Josh Homme is the most talented man in rock of the last 10 years. Maybe that's a too bold statement. But he was the mastermind of Kyuss in the early 90's when he was 19 years old! Creating that quality of music at such a young age you need amazing talent. Then he went on to form QOTSA all while doing his side project recording series: The Desert Sessions, now in version 9-10. In 2004 he took the drum seat for The Eagles of Death Metal, also another QOTSA release is expected. I am in now way a music theory expert but his guitar work just sounds amazing on this album. Every track is awesome and each one has its own different style. My personal favorite is Song For the Dead the drumming, the pauses, the heavy riff, wow! Mix Josh Homme's guitar work with Dave Grohl's amazing drumming and you are in for great quality straight-up rock album. \oI hope Dave reads this: everytime I hear this album I can't help myself but I start air-drumming, I wish I could learn this songs and play along, because the drum work is simply awesome.\c I have to accept that watching the video for No One Knows was my introduction to this band and to Josh Homme's amazing career. I was too young when Kyuss was alive and I had never heard of earlier QOTSA releases like Rated R which I also recommend. If you want a break from all the crappy rock and nu metal out there now get this timeless album. You won't be dissapointed. J

brilliant even if you are deaf:
I am, and I really love it!

awful:
i love know one knowe's by this band it is an amazing song and an amazing guitar riff. Plus go with the flow.. another great song. So what happened to the rest of the album?? i was dissappointed when buying this album expecting more great metal music only to find a weird mess of songs with over distorted instruments. Josh hommes lyrics can barely be picked out from most of this tracks. a bad sounding album

Took more than one listen, but now I'm hooked:
This was one of those CDs that I sure everyone buys, the ones from which you hear a couple of the singles and then impulsively buy it one day hoping the rest of the album lives up to the singles. I had heard earlier Queens singles and like them but I never bought the previous album. Well I bought this one, gave it one listen and immediately wrote it off. At first I thought it was too disjointed, heavy and altogether mediocre. I couldn't have been more wrong. About 2 months later I was bored and organizing my CD collection and stumbled upon this CD again and decided to give it another shot, mainly because I was still quite a fan of the singles I had previously liked. I eventually give most of my impulse-buy CDs a second chance but most of them continue to suck, this one did not. I have historically listened mainly to more mainstream alternative music and some punk. In recent years I have become so frustrated with the saturation of the mainstream (and even some underground) rock/alternative music industry with the same old, tired, recycled melodies and sounds. I had started to listen to more Hip-hop, R & B, funk, electronica, and other genres just to hear some original sounds that I felt had been lost in the rock genre (for example, if I have to hear Nickleback aka theory of a deadman and every other sound-a-like band again I will seriously go postal!! Same goes for the Strokes and their ilk). QOTSA offered the first real original sound that I had, or have since, heard in a long time in the rock/alternative/metal genre. I honestly can say that I LOVE every song on this album. There are so many different sounds, musical elements, and oddities that make this album great and cohesive. Many of the songs even give me the shivers they are so good (that is rare for me, but also a great idication that the music is really good). I guess in this convoluted way I am just recommending to all who have either purchased and didn't like this album or are thinking of purchasing it, give it more than one chance. If I hadn't listened again I would have missed out on one of my top 5 favourite CDs of all time!