Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss

Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss
Kyuss compilation album
Publication (s)	2000
Label (s)	Elektra Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Stoner rock
Title (number)	15th
running time	75 min 13 sec.
occupation	John Garcia - vocals Josh Homme - guitar Nick Oliveri - bass Scott Reeder - bass Brant Bjork - drums Alfredo Hernández : drums
production	Kyuss Chris Goss Hutch
Studio (s)	various
chronology Kyuss / Queens of the Stone Age (1997) Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss -

Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss is a work by the band Kyuss released in 2000 . The compilation album was released five years after the band split up.

Origin and content

The album bears a confusing title with the Best of , as the majority of the songs it contains are among the band's rarities and only five songs come from the four regular studio albums. Six songs were previously released as B-sides on various singles and EPs. The four live versions, which were recorded in 1994 at the Hamburg Marquee Club in St. Pauli , were previously released on a promo CD and are the only official live material of the band. A photo competition has been started for the title cover. The second and third placed images are also printed in the booklet.

reception

Michael Rensen from Rock Hard magazine also saw the title addition Best of as deceptive. Due to the lack of tracks, “people who buy this CD in the expectation of being served a cross-section of the greatest Kyuss hits would definitely not have a 'muchas gracias' on their lips after the first run.” After all, there are some Contains rarities, other "obscurities are only of average quality".

Track list

1. "Un Sandpiper" (Homme / Garcia / Hernández / Reeder) - 8:14
2. "Shine!" (Shipowner) - 5:58
3. "50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)" (Bjork) - 5:48
4. "Mudfly" (Homme) - 2:26
5. "Demon Cleaner" (Homme) - 5:05
6. "A Day Early and a Dollar Extra" (Homme) - 2:16
7. "I'm Not" (Homme / Garcia) - 4:37
8. "Hurricane" (Homme / Garcia) - 2:32
9. "Flip the Phase" (Homme) - 2:18
10. "Fatso Forgotso" (Shipowner) - 8:30
11. "El Rodeo" (Homme / Garcia) - 5:30
12. "Gardenia" (Live) (Bjork) - 6:45
13. "Thumb" (Live) (Bjork / Homme) - 4:41
14. "Conan Troutman" (Live) (Homme) - 2:14
15. "Freedom Run" (Live) (Bjork / Homme) - 8:10

• Title from album Wretch : # 7
• Title from album Blues for the Red Sun : # 3
• Title from the album Welcome to Sky Valley : # 5
• Title from album … And the Circus Leaves Town : # 8, # 11
• Title from the live EP Live At The Marquee Club : # 12–15
• Title from the split EP Shine! / Short Term Memory Loss : # 2
• Title from the single Gardenia : # 1
• Title from the single One Inch Man : # 4, # 6, # 9
• Title from promo single Into the Void : # 10

staff

• John Garcia - vocals
• Josh Homme - guitar
• Nick Oliveri - bass on # 3, # 7
• Scott Reeder - bass on # 1–2, # 4–6, # 8–15
• Brant Bjork - drums on # 3, # 5, # 7
• Alfredo Hernández - drums on # 1–2, # 4, # 6, # 8–15
• Hutch - sound mix at # 12-15

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.rockhard.de: Review of Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss by Michael Rensen

Web links

• Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss on Allmusic (English). Retrieved May 21, 2011.
• Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss at Discogs (English). Retrieved May 21, 2011.
• Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss on MusicBrainz (English). Retrieved May 21, 2011.