#Queens of the Stone Age

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FUUUUUUUUUACCCCCKKKKKKKKKK

[anitabrassi]

[gerardwayyuh]

gimme toro gimme some more

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Max Löffler

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josh put the zyns DOWN

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Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows 2002

"No One Knows" was the first single from Queens of the Stone Age's third album, Songs for the Deaf. The album features guest musician Dave Grohl (of Foo Fighters and Nirvana) on drums, and he also toured with the band during 2002.

"No One Knows" was a chart success, becoming the band's first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and their only single to top the US Alternative charts, and is also the band's highest charting single on the Dutch Singles Chart (where it reached number 39) and on the Irish Singles Chart (where it peaked at number 26). It reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song was also critically acclaimed, receiving a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 2003 Grammy Awards, but they lost the award to Foo Fighters.

"No One Knows" recieved a total of 75,9% yes votes!

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I Queens of the Stone Age (QotSA) sono nati nel deserto, e non è solo un modo di dire... [al link 👇🏼] #onr #opinionenonrichiesta #sotd #laxxvora #freeplaylist #inloop #F8ckTr8mp #radioGrafie #PassaParola #ComfortZone

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I appear missing.

[laserwalnut]

Whatever. Beat the shit out of eachother my lightbulbs (🎵)

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📸 Andreas Neumann

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hot people have a history with a red album (other red albums are available)

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The tale of Alex Turner's girlfriend's jumper, Josh Homme, and the making of Humbug

(Extracts from Mojo Magazine, September 2009)

The jumper sealed the deal: the cable-knit jumper, belonging to his girlfriend. Alex Turner just happened upon it early one evening in the different late summer of 2008, as he waited for the telephone to ring. It wasn't so much the fact of it being a girl's jumper. He could get away with wearing a size skinny, after all. And besides, it would be dark at the gig he planned to go to later on. No, it was the cable-knit which gave him pause. Was he, Alex wondered, really a cable-knit guy?

His reverie was interrupted by the call he'd been expecting. Alex had spoken to Josh Homme before: the Queens Of The Stone Age leader declared himself a fan by marching into the Arctic Monkeys dressing room at a Belgian festival the previous year; later in 2007 the Monkeys supported the Queens in Houston. Compliments were exchanged, though Alex did wonder about the precise mutuality of this appreciation. Maybe 70-30? Obviously, the Monkeys were big fans of QOTSA: the Queens' sensual dirt-rock had been a key benchmark for their album Favourite Worst Nightmare. And Josh Homme? He had at least heard of Alex's band, and that was good enough. But now here he was, on the phone, accepting the invitation to produce the next Arctic Monkeys album. Alex deferred taking the conversation down to brass tracks. Airily, he mentioned his knitwear dilemma.

Homme was firm on the matter.

"Go for it, man."

But I'm not sure. I mean, it belongs to me girlfriend, and it fits, and it looks all right, but...

"Just throw caution to the wind," said Homme, as if issuing an imperial edit. "Let go of those inhibitions you've got there and just wear your cable-knit."

Sound, said Alex. So, about this record...?

"I listened to the demo," said Homme. "I heard 30 seconds of it and thought, You're coming to the desert." Then, to himself, he added with relish. "And little do you know what's about to happen..."

That evening, Alex Turner wore his girlfriend's cable-knit jumper. A month or so later, he and his three bandmates were picked up from a Los Angeles hotel by Josh Homme and driven out to the small Mojave Desert town of Joshua Tree, where they began recording the new Arctic Monkeys album. One phone abut cable-knitwear later, Arctic Monkeys were off to southern California for a hot date.

....

Presiding throughout this transformative process [of recording Humbug], during the warm autumn days or late into the chilly desert nights, would be Alex Turner's girlfriend's cable-knit jumper.

"Josh likes to speak in analogies, in terms of how things should sound," says the Arctic Monkeys' songwriter with a chuckle, as he reflects upon the six-month gestation of his band's new album. "Cable-knits got mentioned a lot during recording. He was like, if you can wear a cable-knit you can put a glockenspiel on a tune. It became a metaphor: you can wear a cable-knit and then sonically we can try something different. We went off on a little adventure. Because we were conscious that if this were really going to work, we would have to open up a little more than we have in the past. Joshua Tree really feels far away. You felt..." He frowns, reaching for the right word. "Unpoliced."

Which all rather begs the question: does that six and a half foot ginger hunk of abiding rockness Josh Homme wear cable-knitwear? A small smile plays around the corners of Alex Turner's mouth.

"He assured me he did."

....

The previous evening Alex finally spoke to Josh Homme for the first time since Humbug's completion. After expressing his delight with the end results of their combat crawl through the Mojave badlands, Homme enquired whether Turner was going out later. Alex informed that he was. "Cable-knits?" asked Homme. "Cable-knits," said Alex, the Arctic Monkey, comfortable in the embrace of the strange.

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Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs (2025) dir. Thomas Rames

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JOSHUA HOMME in the Paris Catacombs

Ph. Andreas Neumann