Queens Of The Stone Age / ...Like Clockwork
Artist Queens Of The Stone Age
Album Title: ...Like Clockwork
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Primary Genre Rock: Hard Rock
Format Vinyl (2) 45 RPM
Released 05/31/2013
Label Matador Records
Catalog No OLE-1040-1
Bar Code No 7 44861 10408 7
Packaging LP Sleeve (Double)
Tracks
...Like Clockwork (Disc 1)
A1. Keep Your Eyes Peeled (0:00)
A2. I Sat By The Ocean (0:00)
A3. The Vampyre Of Time And Memory (0:00)
B1. If I Had A Tail (0:00)
B2. My God Is The Sun (0:00)
B3. Kalopsia (0:00)
...Like Clockwork (Disc 2)
A1. Fairweather Friends (0:00)
A2. Smooth Sailing (0:00)
B1. I Appear Missing (0:00)
B2. ...Like Clockwork (0:00)
Date Acquired 06/10/2013
Personal Rating
Acquired from Electric Fetus - Minneapolis
Purchase Price 23.99

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Notes

Limited Edition With Blue Album Artwork, 150-gram vinyl with gatefold sleeve. Also includes lottery ticket with download of entire album on MP3 and FLAC.
Limited to 10,000 copies worldwide.

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DR6       -0.20 dB     -8.05 dB      5:04 A1 - Keep Your Eyes Peeled
DR5       -0.20 dB     -6.30 dB      3:56 A2 - I Sat by the Ocean
DR7       -0.20 dB   -10.28 dB      3:35 A3 - The Vampyre of Time and Memory
DR6       -0.20 dB     -8.39 dB      4:56 B1 - If I Had a Tail
DR5       -0.20 dB     -6.61 dB      3:55 B2 - My God Is the Sun
DR6       -0.20 dB     -9.91 dB      4:38 B3 - Kalopsia
DR6       -0.20 dB     -7.44 dB      3:43 C1 - Fairweather Friends
DR6       -0.20 dB     -7.36 dB      4:51 C2 - Smooth Sailing
DR5       -0.20 dB     -6.59 dB      6:01 D1 - I Appear Missing
DR6       -0.20 dB   -10.12 dB      5:24 D2 - ...Like Clockwork
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Number of tracks:  10
Official DR value: DR6
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 765 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All the surface evidence on ...Like Clockwork suggests Josh Homme is steering Queens of the Stone Age back to familiar territory. Once again, he's enlisted drummer Dave Grohl as his anchor and he's made amends with his erstwhile bassist Nick Oliveri, suggesting Homme is returning to either Rated R or Songs for the Deaf, the two turn-of-the-millennium masterpieces that thrust QOTSA out of their stoner rock cult, but ...Like Clockwork isn't so simple as a return to roots. Homme flirts with his history as a way to make sense of his present, reconnecting with his strengths as a way to reorient himself, consolidating his indulgences and fancies into a record that obliterates middle-age malaise without taking a moment to pander to the past. Like always, Homme opens himself up to collaborations, wrangling an impressive roster that includes his wife Brody Dalle, his longtime companion Mark Lanegan, his protégé Arctic Monkey Alex Turner, his kindred spirit Trent Reznor, Scissor Sister Jake Shears, and superstar Elton John, but despite this large cast, the only musician who makes an indelible presence is Homme himself. ...Like Clockwork is unusually focused for a Queens of the Stone Age record, containing all of the group's hallmarks -- namely volume and crunch, but also a tantalizing sense of danger, finding seduction within the darkness -- but there is little of the desert sprawl and willful excess that have always distinguished their records. This is forceful, purposeful, fueled by dense interwoven riffs and colored with hints of piano and analog synthesizers that quite consciously evoke '70s future dystopia. QOTSA always specialized in this eerie sexiness, but the precision on ...Like Clockwork -- quite different than the merciless propulsion of Era Vulgaris, the 2007 album that closed out their time at Interscope -- feels conceptually tight, Homme smartly sculpting guitar fuzz, elastic solos, haunted harmonies, and deceptively slinky rhythms into a cool, relentless collection of heavy rock. The force impresses but also the restraint: there are missed beats and open space, muscular music that seduces and pummels, even manages to soothe while it assaults. It's complex, harder, and catchier than anything QOTSA have done in a decade, and more song-oriented, too, but that's a sign of maturity: Homme has marshaled all of his strengths on ...Like Clockwork and has found a way forward, a way to deepen his music without compromising his identity.
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