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.

This was probably my favorite QOTSA Record yet. And if you're thinking about getting a QOTSA record, you should probably get this one.

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.

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 for the Death. Its at least as good as Sticky Fingers or The Bends. If you can't appreciate this as much as Lullibies at least than I must say your taste must be very narrow.

This album is mixed so nicely, giving it a real old-school rock sound, and the LP definitely brings that out.

Plus, there's a bonus song not included on the CD.