| Them Crooked Vultures |  | Artist: Them Crooked Vultures
Label: DGC/Interscope
Category: Music
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Rating:  131 reviews
Sales Rank: 561
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 001378302
UPC: 602527272214
EAN: 0602527272214
ASIN: B002TUU2XE
Release Date: November 17, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | No One Loves Me & Neither Do I | | • | Mind Eraser, No Chaser | | • | New Fang | | • | Dead End Friends | | • | Elephants | | • | Scumbag Blues | | • | Bandoliers | | • | Reptiles | | • | Interlude With Ludes | | • | Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up | | • | Caligulove | | • | Gunman | | • | Spinning In Daffodils |
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Album Description
THEM CROOKED VULTURES -- a/k/a DAVE GROHL (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), JOSHUA HOMME (Queens of the Stone Age) and JOHN PAUL JONES (Led Zeppelin) -- has confirmed November 17, 2009 as the release date of its eponymous debut album in the United States and Canada on DGC/Interscope Records. The self-produced 13-song record will feature the debut of the studio versions of the material Them Crooked Vultures unveiled at its August 9 debut at Chicago's Cabaret Metro and played on a first series of shows throughout a handful of UK and European cities and portions of the eastern U.S., wrapping up with an October 15 appearance at New York's Roseland Ballroom. Additional shows are being announced in the wake of the album's release.
Album Description
2009 debut album from this Alt-Rock 'supergroup' featuring Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin). 13 tracks.
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 Best new albulm in awhile July 27, 2010
JJ
I love this albulm. The more you listen to it, the more you like and appreciate it. Each song is a little different. They sound like a combination of Zeppelin, Cream, Skynyrd, Hendrix. This is the best new group I've heard in awhile. They actually turned down Paul McCartney who wanted to be their bassist 'cause they already had one.
 where is the dynamic range? June 28, 2010
dynamic
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Very disappointed! the engineering ranks as one of the worst I've ever
heard. it's a mess, if I could give it a 0 rating I would! I'd use it as a coaster
but it's not worthy. The music industry takes what could be very good music
push's it into an over engineered noise without any dynamic range.
Shame on them! They blame the sale of mp3s for their losses when the real
problem is poorly engineered masters just like this one.
The greatest Album of our time. June 2, 2010
J. G. Bennett (North Central Ohio, USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I know what you're thinking, 'how can anything ever top the Traveling Wilburys?' And sure, they were a great collection of artists, and sure generations of young people will rock out to them for a long time. And with the sudden rise of Kid Rock and Lady Gaga's popularity you'd think there would be no room left for a new Rock Icon, but you'd be wrong. No doubt (not the band, but they're good too) people hundreds of years from now will be jamming to Spinning In Daffodils. And why not? The sheer talent that went into this one song eclipses all other songs written in the last four centuries.
I'm sure in the future the names Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Them Crooked Vultures will be lumped together. Buy this album before the first pressings become collectors items. The $9 you spend today may be worth thousands by the time you retire.
I like it, I like it a lot May 31, 2010
JMH (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been playing this a lot recently. As far as rock & roll goes, the music is all over the place. You won't hear the same ideas repeated a lot; shades of desert and "stoner" rock & metal, 60s and 70s, psychedelics, modern rock, Josh Homme's own personal strangeness... the band employs different guitar tunings and tones and some varied instrumentation (courtesy of JPJ), and Josh uses several vocal styles to great effect. Bottom line, there's always something interesting going on.
I have never heard Queens of the Stone Age or got into any of Dave Grohl's musical projects, but I enjoy Kyuss and Led Zeppelin, and it's from that lineage that most of Them Crooked Vultures' "cred" stems in my opinion. and it didn't disappoint me. I can't wait to hear what they come up with next. If the sound of an electric guitar has ever moved you at some point in your life, you will find something to like about this disc. My favorites are "Scumbag Blues", "Caligulove", and "Reptiles".
A culmination of 40 years of rock May 24, 2010
Master Card
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Them Crooked Vultures has brought me back to listening to rock. The band has elements of Led Zeppelin and Nirvana, of course (I also hear The Jam, Cream, and others), but for me they surpass these bands by being more complex musically and lyrically. Joshua Homme was unknown to me. He sounds like Morissey at times (but with a twisted sense of humor) or Jack Bruce of Cream. As beloved as Foo Fighters is, Dave Grohl's band was a more pop sounding Nirvana, and therefore lighter and less affecting. But with Them Crooked Vultures he goes back on drums, digs deeper, and for me makes more enduring music than with Foo Fighters. I wish I was a better bass player to fully appreciate all that John Paul Jones does on these songs. Grohl called him the driving force in the band (in Rolling Stone), and for me it completely settles his place in the rock pantheon. Not just as a bassist, but as an architect of modern music. He wrote "Black Dog" on Led Zeppelin IV, in some respects out-riffing the riff monster, Jimmy Page. On Them Crooked Vultures his bass plays the chord changes and drives the music, but also has a lot of nuance and complexity arising from his enormous breadth of musical knowledge and facility on the bass. He is a humble man and a global treasure who continues to push the envelope for bass playing. He is as relevant as Jaco, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller, maybe more like Ron Carter or Ray Brown, when it comes to laying the foundation of the music and pushing all the players. (He may be the 'old man' in Them Crooked Vultures, but his vitality and wisdom make the younger players play and sound that much better.)
For me Them Crooked Vultures is a culmination of some of the best in hard rock of the past 35 plus years. The band sounds 'classic' and 'modern' at the same time. The music stands up to repeated listenings; it just gets better and better. It cuts through the schlock we've all been enduring in both the post-grunge era in rock and certainly the all-pervasive pop/rap/country rock that acts like a dentists drill on my brain when it's on. The times today are about stripping bear all the artifice, posing, and ego: Can you play your instrument, write and sing songs that move people in spite of the crap they endure every day, or are you a dilettante on your instrument with a bank of computers to correct your playing, a team of song writers to keep your career in the air, and supplicant yourself on your knees to the Clear Channel corporations dominating music with a promise not to offend? I vote with my hard earned money by paying for Them Crooked Vultures.
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