Red Mosquito

Revisiting Villains. Its way better than I remember. I guess this time maybe I'm accepting it for what it is instead of what I wanted it to be.

Over the course of a few days, Carnavoyuer has managed to leapfrog Staight Jacket, Paper Machete and Emotion Sickness to take the top spot on the album for me. Once it gets its hooks in, my word.

So you're enjoying the view?

Ello Sailor wrote:Over the course of a few days, Carnavoyuer has managed to leapfrog Staight Jacket, Paper Machete and Emotion Sickness to take the top spot on the album for me. Once it gets its hooks in, my word.

You should go back to your original opinion from the leak


Im just kidding guys. Im glad everyone enjoys it. Im still listening but its not really hitting me

It took a few listens to click, but this is clearly mixed for a room sound. Like you're in a poorly lit basement hearing them jam. A deliberate stylistic choice that doesn't translate as well to your morning commute as it does to a nighttime headphones date. I'm into it.

zeb wrote:So you're enjoying the view?

Lyrics are so on point, bro.

Ello Sailor wrote:It took a few listens to click, but this is clearly mixed for a room sound. Like you're in a poorly lit basement hearing them jam. A deliberate stylistic choice that doesn't translate as well to your morning commute as it does to a nighttime headphones date. I'm into it.

I'm not even enjoying it yet on a late night headphone/whiskey date.

I'm not writing it off.....yet.

I just dont hear any fucking melody across this thing yet. Nothing catches.

Strat wrote:I'm not even enjoying it yet on a late night headphone/whiskey date.

Well then there's very clearly something wrong with you, and you should feel bad.

What the Peephole say has been battering me about the ears, ass and face. That's Mr. Shoes on backing vocals. Been many decades since I last dabbled in any form of hero worship, but I've experienced something of an awakening. This is the guy. He's the best guy.

Mikey is awesome. I love Mini Mansions.

Also, Sicily is a motherfucker. This album absolutely crushes shit. Pummels your buns.

Can you source me a leather jacket, Tommy?

Best I can do is pleather

Yeesh, can't be having that.

Paper M and Time & Place are kicking my butt.

And Carna and ES still have the ear worms.

I think Strat is crazy to think there are no hooks.

Strat wrote:I'm not writing it off.....yet.

I just dont hear any fucking melody across this thing yet. Nothing catches.

I guess you'll persevere and eventually find them or you'll give up.

JuanHamm wrote:Mikey is awesome. I love Mini Mansions.

Saw them support Tame Impala. I think they won a fair few new fans that night.

Strat wrote:Geezes I listened to this on a mini road road journey yesterday and it was nearly unlistenable. Production sucks my whonger.

I have to agree. I found myself turning it down to get through the songs. I'm hoping its just a bad copy. If its intentional cool but it's not for me. Painful.

Queens of the Stone Age - all their songs ranked:

A Song for the Dead
God Is in the Radio
Turnin' on the Screw
I Appear Missing
Mexicola
A Song for the Deaf
Misfit Love
Regular John
You Can't Quit Me Baby
Walkin' on the Sidewalks

In The Fade
No One Knows
Better Living Through Chemistry
Suture Up Your Future
I Sat By The Ocean
Leg of Lamb
First It Giveth
Long Slow Goodbye
Go With the Flow
Auto Pilot

The Sky Is Fallin'
Hangin' Tree
...Like Clockwork
Un-Reborn Again
Straight Jacket Fitting
Someone's in the Wolf
Keep Your Eyes Peeled
Carnavoyeur
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
If Only

You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
Smooth Sailing
Battery Acid
I Never Came
Kalopsia
Emotion Sickness
If I Had a Tail
3s & 7s
The Evil Has Landed
The Vampyre of Time and Memory

Time & Place
The Blood Is Love
I'm Designer
Run, Pig, Run
Made to Parade
Obscenery
My God Is the Sun
You Would Know
You Got a Killer Scene There, Man...
Paper Machete

Make It wit Chu
Sicily
Negative Space
Feet Don't Fail Me
Avon
Into the Hollow
Tangled Up in Plaid
Gonna Leave You
Fairweather Friends
River in the Road

Lightning Song
Broken Box
Monsters in the Parasol
Feel Good Hit of the Summer
I Think I Lost My Headache
Burn The Witch
In My Head
Domesticated Animals
Another Love Song
Do It Again

Little Sister
Sick, Sick, Sick
How to Handle a Rope
Everybody Knows That You are Insane
This Lullaby
Give the Mule What He Wants
Hideaway
Skin on Skin
Villains of Circumstance
Medication

Fortress
What the Peephole Say
The Way You Used to Do
Head Like a Haunted House
Quick and to the Pointless
Tension Head
Hispanic Impressions
I Was a Teenage Hand Model
Six Shooter