Red Mosquito

Now:
Keep You Eyes Peeled - 3
I Sat By The Ocean - 3.5
Vampyre - 2.5 (The sinths turn me off this song)
If I Had a Tail - 4
My God Is The Sun - 5
Kalopsia - 5
Fairwather Friends - 3
Smooth Sailing - 3 (I wish this song were heavier)
I Appear Missing - 5
Like Clockwork - 4.5

zeb wrote:

ridleybradout wrote:I think it would probably be less divisive if it wasn't so close to the front of the album.

Yeah, I don't get this objection either. There have been assloads of amazing albums with weirdo sequencing: Battle of Evermore, Fell On Black Days, Modern Man, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Stop Breathin', Nude, Femme Fatale, Radio Cure…the list of great albums with great tunes at track three goes on and on. So why is there this compulsion from (RM?) listeners to want all the RAWK right up front?

My biggest objection to the objection is letting it fundamentally ruin the song for you. Oh...it's a great song but I hate it cuz it's placed at number 9 on the record. Definitely not what the 9th song on a record's supposed to sound like.

For the record, I have no issues with its placement, only the quality of the song itself.

KurtLeon wrote:Now:
Keep You Eyes Peeled - 3
I Sat By The Ocean - 3.5
Vampyre - 2.5 (The sinths turn me off this song)
If I Had a Tail - 4
My God Is The Sun - 5
Kalopsia - 5
Fairwather Friends - 3
Smooth Sailing - 3 (I wish this song were heavier)
I Appear Missing - 5
Like Clockwork - 4.5

Keep You Eyes Peeled - 4.5
I Sat By The Ocean - 4
Vampyre - 5
If I Had a Tail - 4.5
My God Is The Sun - 4
Kalopsia - 5
Fairwather Friends - 4
Smooth Sailing - 4.5
I Appear Missing - 5
Like Clockwork - 4.5

Birds in Hell wrote:For the record, I have no issues with its placement, only the quality of the song itself.

Which is totally different, I understand. You may be able to complain about flow or whatever, but you should be able to separate whether or not you like the song regardless of its placement on a record. But if you don't like a song, you don't like it.

I got bruises and hickies
Stitches and scars
Got my own theme music
Plays wherever I are.

harmless wrote:Yep. That's pretty hard to miss I would've thought. The dangers of pulling a few words out of context. If you were a Christian, you'd be a gay basher, LetMeSleep.

That's a bit harsh mate.

As I mentioned a few posts earlier, the lyrics weren't as bad as I first thought. Sure there are a few bad moments that stick out but overall not too bad. I'm certainly not going to quote any of them to another human being though.

The line I'm Alive etc. Basically I find that whole verse/stanza a bit lacking. It doesn't work from me and the sarcastic line following, comes off more self defeating and wallowing than before. It pulls me out of my enjoyment of the song. My enjoyment, not necessarily yours/others.

Of which, my faves are Vampyre, Kalopsia, IAM and ...LC. These 4 songs are great (IMHO) musically and I enjoy them more than any QOTSA since Rated R. And I've tried retraacking but just end up listening to the release.

LetMeSleep wrote:

harmless wrote:Yep. That's pretty hard to miss I would've thought. The dangers of pulling a few words out of context. If you were a Christian, you'd be a gay basher, LetMeSleep.

That's a bit harsh mate.

And also firmly tongue-in-cheek

Someone please explain Fairweather Friends to me

KevinCostner wrote:Someone please explain Fairweather Friends to me

Think back to when Waterworld came out.

Smooth Sailing is the funkiest shit around right now. Badass.

Will wrote:Smooth Sailing is the funkiest shit around right now. Badass.

Josh's yelp at the beginning might be my favorite part of the song.

Fucking love that song.

Will wrote:Smooth Sailing is the funkiest shit around right now. Badass.

Badass...really badass.

KevinCostner wrote:Someone please explain Fairweather Friends to me

It's QOTSA doing Tenacious D doing Foo Fighters.

KevinCostner wrote:Someone please explain Fairweather Friends to me

I think it's the best song on the album.

Birds in Hell wrote:

KevinCostner wrote:Someone please explain Fairweather Friends to me

I think it's the best song on the album.

Yeah me too. I love it. The tension!

ridleybradout wrote:

KevinCostner wrote:Someone please explain Fairweather Friends to me

It's QOTSA doing Tenacious D doing Foo Fighters.

For me it's QOTSA doing Tenacious D doing Physical Graffiti era Led Zep.

Struggle to think of a better 3 song run than FF>SS>IAM, especially towards the end of an album (could include Kalopsia & LC to make it a mighty fine 5-in-a-row too )

Fuzzcharger wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

KevinCostner wrote:Someone please explain Fairweather Friends to me

I think it's the best song on the album.

Yeah me too. I love it. The tension!

It's the best sounding song on the record by some margin for me too - which makes sense as it was the only song mixed by Joe Barresi.

It's actually the only thing from LC I keep coming back to, the only song that really scratches my Queens itch.

I'm mystified as to why they don't use Barresi as a matter of course, I think the debut and LTP stand head-and-shoulders above the rest of their output from a sonic perspective.

ridleybradout wrote:Struggle to think of a better 3 song run than FF>SS>IAM, especially towards the end of an album (could include Kalopsia & LC to make it a mighty fine 5-in-a-row too )

Side B is unfuckwithable in my estimation.