Villains, by Queens of the Stone Age

Villains

by Queens of the Stone Age

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Xtra Happy Villains has always been a bit of a toss-up of opinions for me. It was around the time it came out I started listening to Queens, thus being fresh at the time and, to my memory, one of the first "new" albums I'd heard upon release. Standing next to other Queens albums, its slower pace in the back half is a tad different sure, but I'd hope with time people's initial disputes with it have since mellowed, as well as the realisation that LC was one *hell* of an act to follow. Favorite track: Fortress.

Greg Hutto Fortress is the kind of song I've always wanted hear. it's like when I grew up listening to Chet Atkins and then one day I discovered The Beatles with all the drums, guitars, and harmonies. just magic... Thats what this song is, and what the entire album is!

Assault Buick “The Way You Used To Do” sounds like something that would have been featured on a mid-late 2000s Madden NFL soundtrack.

chahula Dad rock for the 21st century! Josh Homme always delivers.
Favourite track: Domesticated Animals

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Queens of the Stone Age’s redefining, 2017 album Villains produced by Mark Ronson and co-produced by Mark Rankin is reissued in a special, 5 Year Anniversary package with etching, obi-strip, a limited-edition poster by Boneface. Pressed on limited edition Clear Leaf Green Vinyl and will be shipping to arrive around December 9th

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1.	Feet Don't Fail Me 05:41	info	buy track
2.	The Way You Used To Do 04:34	info	buy track
3.	Domesticated Animals 05:20	info	buy track
4.	Fortress 05:27	info	buy track
5.	Head Like A Haunted House 03:21	info	buy track
6.	Un-Reborn Again 06:40	info	buy track
7.	Hideaway 04:18	info	buy track
8.	The Evil Has Landed 06:30	info	buy track
9.	Villains Of Circumstance 06:09	info	buy track

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"The title Villains isn't a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It's simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened... Everyone needs someone or something to rail against - their villain - same as it ever was. You can't control that. The only thing you can really control is when you let go." - Joshua Homme

Hundreds of epic shows, memory lapses, unexplained injuries, one yearlong detour with Iggy Pop and multiple Grammy nominations later, Queens Of The Stone Age reemerge from the desert newly scarred and somehow strangely prettier with lucky seventh album, Villains, out August 25 on Matador Records.

Produced by Mark Ronson and co-produced by Mark Rankin and mixed by Alan Moulder, Villains is the first full album offering from Queens Of The Stone Age since 2013's ...Like Clockwork gave the band its first #1 album in the U.S. Like the stunning artwork of returning illustrator Boneface, the sonic signatures of the lineup that took ...Like Clockwork around the world and back are as unmistakable as ever, though coexisting with sufficient new twists to induce recurring double takes. As Homme himself puts it, "The most important aspect of making this record was redefining our sound, asking and answering the question 'what do we sound like now?' If you can't make a great first record, you should just stop - but if you can make a great record but you keep making records and your sound doesn't evolve, you become a parody of that original sound."

Of his role working within such a closed and confident ecosystem as Queens Of The Stone Age, Ronson says, "Queens are and have always been my favorite rock n roll band ever since I walked into Tower on Sunset and bought Rated R in the summer of 2000, so it was incredibly surreal to be welcomed into their secret, pirate clan - or the 'jacuzzi' as Josh likes to call it. There were moments during the making of the album in which I was aware I was watching my musical heroes craft something that was sure to become one of my favorite moments on any Queens album. And to have some part in that felt like being in a dream--a very heavy, dark, wonderful dream."

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released August 25, 2017

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