Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517346567 Label: Interscope Records Manufacturer: Interscope Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Interscope Records Release Date: June 12, 2007 Sales Rank: 6723 Studio: Interscope Records
Album Description: International pressing of QOTSA's 2007 album features one bonus track: 'The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died'. Era Vulgaris translates to the Common Era, but there is nothing common about the latest album from Queens of the Stone Age. Joshua Homme’s band of gypsies return with their fifth full-length release from the seminal desert rockers and they are out for blood with guitars slung low. Era Vulgaris delivers riffs heavier than a slab of Stonehenge and more infectious than The Black Plague, vocals as smooth as molten lava and infused with sex, danger, and the sound of a band possessed to deliver rock music to a new epoch. Produced with the help of longtime collaborator, and Masters of Reality genius, Chris Goss, QOTSA give birth to eleven tracks that will enter your bloodstream and transform your Dr. Jekyll into a Mr. or Ms. Hyde. QOTSA and R got you hooked, Songs for the Deaf made you scream for more, Lullabies to Paralyze blew your mind and June 2007 marks the dawn of a new, loud era: Era Vulgaris.
Amazon.com: Latin for 'common era,' Era Vulgaris holds a pair of common threads with the four Queens of the Stone Age records that preceded it. One, it crosses colossal guitar chords with the most volatile of hard rock melodies. And second, it's as LOUD as loud gets, thanks to Josh Homme, the impatient instigator behind the ever-evolving cast of personalities that make up the band. Detonation comes with track one, as the jagged riffs of 'Turning on the Screw' lead the listener into 'Sick, Sick, Sick,' where Julian Casablancas spews his vocals beneath a wall of multi-guitar catcalls. Although the head Stroke will likely garner the most attention, perpetual Queener Mark Lanegan's velvety pipes earmark two of Era's most booming selections: the funky 'Make It Wit Chu' (complete with Temptations-like backing vocals) and the heart-racing three minutes of 'River in the Road.' Add the garage rock of Homme's '3's & 7's' and 'Suture Up Your Future,' easy pickings for most likely crossover hit, and Era Vulgaris-- hypnotically and explosively common--holds its own with any in the QoTSA discography. --Scott Holter
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Rating: - Decent album. I'm not mad at them for trying something a lil different
QOTSA is my favorite band out. Their albums through the years has evolved and morphed adding more laying and depth to the sound each time around. I think their pinnacle musically was Songs for the Deaf. Everything that they do just seemed to come together on that one. Anyway, this album continues their journey through music. It seems to go into a industrial type sound (a la- NIN) more this time around on a couple songs. It's only a couple songs though (battery acid, turnin on a screw). I'm not mad at them for continuing to expand their sound. It's just not exactly my cup of tea. It's still got some good stuff on their that drives hard (3s and 7s, run pig run, river in the road) and some that are more 'melodic' (I'm designer, into the hollow, suture up my future). It's really not a bad album; I just miss the older sound a little and I'm a pretty tough critic on the artists that I like.
Rating: - Great Album
This was probably my favorite QOTSA Record yet. And if you're thinking about getting a QOTSA record, you should probably get this one.
Rating: - Back On Track
While their last album came up a little short, QOTSA are back on track with this latest album. "Sick, Sick, Sick" is the pound for pound juggernaut on here leading in to the whacky arithmetic glam rock of "I'm Designer", were Josh Homme plays the part of a pretentious Gen-X cad over a squacking Gang of Four guitar. But the strongest, most solid song is "3's & 7's" an arena ready radio anthem right out of the nineties. Still, the best band of this decade.
Rating: - An awe inspiring epic
I own every Queens album except there sadly out of print debut, but this is quite easily the best I've heard. Lullibies almost scared me off with medicore lyrics, dull guitar, or just plain bad delivery on nearly half the songs. But this album has more vision than any record that they've spun out. The songs are interwieving and complex, as well as softer, well not betraying either the bands metal or punkish roots. The lyrics have a deegree of poetry often absent from previous songs the bands made. The dark, vaugely artificial atmosphere is incrediable and inspired. Nothing as good as No One Knows, but some of their best songs. I've collected well reviewed albums for a year, ranging from The beatles to Public Enemy to Miles Davis to Metalica to Bruce Springsteen to My Bloody Valentine to Marvin Gaye to Funkedelic to many more, and this is the first Queens album to really rank up with the classics, except perhaps Songs ... Read More
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