Red Mosquito

Anyway, unrelated: I’ve been spinning the debut albums by Queens of the Stone Age and The Mars Volta a lot lately and I kept thinking how killer the bass is on both of them, but that I didn’t know who was playing it. So I looked it up. Probably common knowledge, but news to me: Josh Homme played bass himself on the QOTSA album and Flea (!!!) played almost all of the bass on De-Loused. Kind of explains why those two albums have a little something special that was never recaptured afterward.

Currently fascinated by Fredhead, Right Said Fred’s comeback masterpiece.

McParadigm wrote:Currently fascinated by Fredhead, Right Said Fred’s comeback masterpiece.

have you checked them out personally?

full whackball vax conspiracy pro brexit chemtrails razzmatazz
all of it

theyre fucking mental

dimejinky99 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Currently fascinated by Fredhead, Right Said Fred’s comeback masterpiece.

have you checked them out personally?

full whackball vax conspiracy pro brexit chemtrails razzmatazz
all of it

theyre fucking mental

Sounds like they're too sexy for your version of sanity.

dimejinky99 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Currently fascinated by Fredhead, Right Said Fred’s comeback masterpiece.

have you checked them out personally?

full whackball vax conspiracy pro brexit chemtrails razzmatazz
all of it

theyre fucking mental

That’s a real shame. It’s always a drag when fun people turn out to be lunatics.

Still, it can’t take away the fact that they made a song called lovers.com, said the words “lovers dot com” IN the lyrics, and still made a banger.

McParadigm wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Currently fascinated by Fredhead, Right Said Fred’s comeback masterpiece.

have you checked them out personally?

full whackball vax conspiracy pro brexit chemtrails razzmatazz
all of it

theyre fucking mental

That’s a real shame. It’s always a drag when fun people turn out to be lunatics.

Still, it can’t take away the fact that they made a song called lovers.com, said the words “lovers dot com” IN the lyrics, and still made a banger.

as intrigued as i am, i'm not even giving that a listen never mind looking them up


think about your search history

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Anyway, unrelated: I’ve been spinning the debut albums by Queens of the Stone Age and The Mars Volta a lot lately and I kept thinking how killer the bass is on both of them, but that I didn’t know who was playing it. So I looked it up. Probably common knowledge, but news to me: Josh Homme played bass himself on the QOTSA album and Flea (!!!) played almost all of the bass on De-Loused. Kind of explains why those two albums have a little something special that was never recaptured afterward.

I didn't know that was J-Ho on bass until recently. I thought Nick Oliveri was there from the beginning. How embarrassing.

But Flea on De-Loused? I feel like this was a massive talking point for years. I'm surprised this detail eluded you. (My Flea goof is not realizing he was in Atoms For Peace. A surprising lineup, that.)

This is one of the hardest beats of all time. God damn.

Ello Sailor wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Anyway, unrelated: I’ve been spinning the debut albums by Queens of the Stone Age and The Mars Volta a lot lately and I kept thinking how killer the bass is on both of them, but that I didn’t know who was playing it. So I looked it up. Probably common knowledge, but news to me: Josh Homme played bass himself on the QOTSA album and Flea (!!!) played almost all of the bass on De-Loused. Kind of explains why those two albums have a little something special that was never recaptured afterward.

I didn't know that was J-Ho on bass until recently. I thought Nick Oliveri was there from the beginning. How embarrassing.

But Flea on De-Loused? I feel like this was a massive talking point for years. I'm surprised this detail eluded you. (My Flea goof is not realizing he was in Atoms For Peace. A surprising lineup, that.)

I think the first time I heard of The Mars Volta was some MTV Latin America news piece goofily presenting it as Flea's side project

That's fucking crazy lol. Was ATDI not big down there?

"No One Knows" might be my most over-listened-to song ever. I gauge that by how enamoured I was by it upon discovery, my full understanding of how incredible the performances are, and my complete and utter indifference at the prospect of never hearing it again.

What's yours?

My all-time most played song on last.fm is "Web in Front" by Archers of Loaf. Kind of surprising. I guess I have it on a lot of playlists.

I don't mean total plays, you robot.

Ello Sailor wrote:I don't mean total plays, you robot.

Yes I see now that I misinterpreted

The question you actually asked is much harder to answer though

It was their "breakthrough" single. I have a similar relationship with "Today" by the Pumpkins. It's good but calm the fuck down people.

Jorge wrote:

Ello Sailor wrote:I don't mean total plays, you robot.

Yes I see now that I misinterpreted

The question you actually asked is much harder to answer though

You can do it, bro.

I'm thinking, I'm thinking

Maybe "Make Me Feel" by Janelle Monae? I played the living shit out of that thing when it came out, partly driven by the excitement that this song/single would be the one to finally make her a bona fide pop star. I still like it, but upon reflection it's a pretty standard blues-pop that borrows a bit much from Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel," a better song. I haven't listened to it in a long while and I'd be OK never hearing it again

Good answer. If only Trag were so brave.