Them Crooked Vultures (Album)

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Them Crooked Vultures
Studio album by Them Crooked Vultures

Publication
(s)

November 13, 2009

Label (s) RCA Records / Sony Music Entertainment

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Hard rock , blues rock , alternative rock

Title (number)

13

running time

66:23 min

occupation

production

Them Crooked Vultures

Studio (s)

Them Crooked Vultures is the debut album of the eponymous supergroup Them Crooked Vultures . It was released on November 13, 2009.

background

Dave Grohl, singer and guitarist of the rock band Foo Fighters and John Paul Jones met in 2005 at an awards ceremony; Jones received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Grohl . Even then, he had the idea of ​​a collaboration between the two musicians and the musical leader of the rock formation Queens of the Stone Age Josh Homme. Homme and Grohl had already worked together on the highly acclaimed Queens of the Stone Age album Songs for the Deaf . On his birthday in 2009, Grohl arranged a meeting between Jones and Homme. The first plans for a joint music project were made. The collaboration was made public at the beginning of July by the spinnerette front woman Brody Dalle , shortly afterwards Jesse Hughes ( Eagles of Death Metal ) announced the band name. The album title was assumed to be Never Deserved the Future due to a message on the band's homepage .

Before the album was released, Them Crooked Vultures posted promotional clips of excerpts from some of their songs on their YouTube page. The first single New Fang was presented in full on October 26, 2009; the whole album was officially available on the internet three days before the release date.

Recorded and mixed was Them Crooked Vultures by Alan Moulder . Brian Gardner mastered the album and Liam Lynch took care of the artwork .

style

The music to be heard on Them Crooked Vultures is largely based on improvised jam sessions . The basic idea for a song mostly came from Homme, which the band then built on. The melody is mostly given by a guitar riff , but often changed by instrumental breaks within the pieces. The music magazine Rolling Stone described the musical style of the album as " blues-grounded hard rock ", in the tradition of Led Zeppelin , but also of Hommes' stoner rock roots.

The lyrics of the album, written by Homme, are mostly dark. Love relationships are the dominant theme, but much of the content can also be freely associated .

Track list

Them Crooked Vultures at the 2009 Lowlands Festival .
  1. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I - 5:10
  2. Mind Eraser, No Chaser - 4:06
  3. New catch - 3:48
  4. Dead End Friends - 3:15
  5. Elephants - 6:49
  6. Scumbag Blues - 4:27
  7. Bandoliers - 5:42
  8. Reptiles - 4:15
  9. Interlude with Ludes - 3:44
  10. Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up - 7:50
  11. Caligulove - 4:55
  12. Gunman - 4:46
  13. Spinning in Daffodils - 7:28

Other editions

  1. 14. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I (Live) - 5:46
  2. 15. Gunman (Live) - 4:59

Both live tracks are only available through iTunes : Track 14 as a regular bonus track.

reception

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Them Crooked Vultures
  DE 13 11/27/2009 (12 weeks)
  AT 25th 11/27/2009 (5 weeks)
  CH 10 11/29/2009 (8 weeks)
  UK 13 11/28/2009 (20 weeks)
  US 12 05.12.2009 (24 weeks)

Commercial win

Them Crooked Vultures was able to place itself in the charts of 17 different countries worldwide. The album achieved the highest ranking in New Zealand with rank 2. There were further top ten placements in Australia, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland. It entered the German album charts at number 13.

The first single New Fang reached number 39 in the Canadian charts. The second release, Mind Eraser, No Chaser , couldn't make it into the charts.

Reviews

Them Crooked Vultures was received mostly positively to very positively. To describe the sound, most critics used the bands in which Grohl, Homme and Jones played or are still playing as a reference; especially the music of Led Zeppelin, whose bassist was Jones, was often used as a comparison.

Frank Schäfer, author of the German Rolling Stone , felt reminded of the hard rock band from the 1970s by some pieces, for example Elephants sounded “almost like a Led-Zep collage”. In addition, most of the pieces on the album would have "not been particularly noticeable on the last Queens of the Stone Age albums". Nevertheless, the musicians are not epigones of their own groups: "Here, no style is cloned, but reinterpreted". Schäfer, however, feared that Them Crooked Vultures would have a rather short half-life and rated the album with three out of five possible points.

The critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the portal Allmusic felt that Them Crooked Vultures reminded himself most of Hommes musical projects, but praised the successful interaction of the three; the chemistry between them is right. The album is "classical, adventurous and undeniably exciting", which is why it received four out of five possible points.

Eberhard Dobler also rated the album with four out of five points for the e-zine laut.de and emphasized the skills of the individual members as instrumentalists, songwriters and vocalists. It is characterized by "the merging of different sound characters, tempo and rhythm changes". Even in the longer psychedelic pieces, the music is more direct than “pretentious rock operas ”.

The star awarded the highest rating to Them Crooked Vultures . The album sounds "like the generation contract of rock music set to music".

tour

In August 2009 Them Crooked Vultures played at several music festivals , but occasionally they also gave their own concerts. In October the band embarked on a world tour called Deserve the Future Tour , which lasted until February 2010 (and two other dates in April) , and which also took them to Munich, Berlin and Cologne in early December 2009. She was supported on the tour by the musician Alain Johannes , who was also involved in the recording of the album. The opening act was Troy Van Leeuwen's band Sweethead .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Groß: Music helps, but doesn't change anything . In: Rolling Stone , February 2010 edition, page 55.
  2. ↑ Michael Schuh: "Songs For The Deaf" by Queens Of The Stone Age. In: laut.de . Retrieved March 28, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Josh Homme gives first interview. In: laut.de. October 5, 2009, accessed February 20, 2010 .
  4. ^ Nadine Fritsch: Newsflash. In: Visions website . July 3, 2009, accessed March 27, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Lena Glebe: Them Crooked Vultures - Supergroup baptism. In: Visions website. August 3, 2009, accessed March 27, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Lena Glebe: Them Crooked Vultures - Details. In: Visions website. August 5, 2009, accessed March 27, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Them Crooked Vultures channel. In: YouTube . Retrieved March 27, 2010 .
  8. ^ Booklet by Them Crooked Vultures .
  9. ↑ a b Musikexpress , January 2010 edition.
  10. ^ A b Frank Schäfer: New bastard . In: Rolling Stone , Jan 2010, p.90.
  11. ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH crooked vultures / UK US @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  12. ↑ Collected chart placements by Them Crooked Vultures. In: aCharts.us. Retrieved March 28, 2010 .
  13. ↑ New catch on the Canadian charts. In: aCharts.us. Retrieved February 21, 2010 .
  14. ^ Them Crooked Vultures by Them Crooked Vultures. In: Metacritic . Retrieved February 20, 2010 (Metascore: 75 out of 100 points).
  15. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Review of Them Crooked Vultures. In: Allmusic . Retrieved February 21, 2010 .
  16. ↑ Eberhard Dobler: The current Holy Trinity of hard rock music asks you to immerse yourself. In: laut.de. Retrieved February 20, 2010 .
  17. ↑ Generational contract set to music . In: stern , No. 52/2009, page 134.