honestly i kind of feel like that whole song is just wandering about in search of a climax
i always enjoyed No One Knows and First it Giveth, but i’m more familiar with Lullabies to Paralyze
yeah idk, for me, QotSA is mostly about Rated R and Song for the Deaf, and maybe the desert sessions, when i was a stoned teenager, or we can just go back to Kyuss if we wanna feel fancy.
kinda feel like after those albums, they start to lose a bit of their oomph, which maybe was an oomph that existed mostly in juxtaposition to other popular music and rock that was coming out at the time those albums released. i remember Songs for the Deaf feeling like a breath of fresh air when it came out.
i think that progressive decline, combined with Josh Homme sort of becoming like, a celebrity “personality” of sorts, maybe affected their persona.
i give the albums a listen a couple times a year, and i’m good.
i sometimes feel like the current state of popular music reminds me a lot of that era
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the song actually triggers weird psychotic mini episodes in my brain
so like every since i was a kid, every once in a while id feel like everyhting was going really fast and building up to something horrible or big and it just kept feeling like everything was building and incredbly urgent but there was no payoff
and if this is the queens of the stone age song im thinking of (the single that played everywhere for years) it is like THE MUSICAL VERSION OF THAT KIND OF ATTACK it was FUCKING AWFUL
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hell yes
i listened to this album so much when it came out, even though i only actually like maybe… 2-3 songs on it? but those are good ones
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yeah i mean so far my favourite Homme thing is mostly just the track Catamaran. Lullabies was just what was on the radio when i was a teen
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had a dream that there was a gaigyu attacking my hometown. it looked like a beefed up version of sin from ff x with it’s scales up and i could literally feel the vibrations through my body when it roared. oh uh my hometown was surrounded with water when this all happened. the monster was also called jenova lmao. the dream ended after i made a very conscious effort to fly that ended in failure.
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not strictly a dream but last night i woke up and went to the kitchen at 3am and the whole flat seemed strangely brighter than it should be, like there was a blue ambient light on everything which seemed odd for the hour, and i had this awful feeling that i’d slipped into a horrible textureless copy of the real world - like falling out of bounds into a beta level in a videogame, something which looks sorta real but is strangely empty and distant feeling in practice. i knew i could never tell anyone about it since the copy-world version of everyone i knew was dedicated to convincing me that this was the real world. i was resigned to spending the rest of my life there by the time i got back to bed and immediately fell back asleep.
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Maybe it’s just cause I’m a drummer but I feel like this one of the most balls out bad ass songs ever made, cements Dave Grohl as a god, and I dunno I don’t hang out in music criticism circles or whatever but no one seems much to care. Maybe it’s just one of those things where it fits exactly in the creases of my weird brain
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oh wow we’re talking ab qotsa? i really like go with the flow. it’s just another song about sex but it scratches the right itch ( basically that it’s catchy and a little cheesy but at lease josh homme was still hot when this came out )
i also really like this song for personal reasons:
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god i cannot get over that 00s graphic design aesthetic of just slapping a bunch of vector flowers and curves on something. fantastic ending
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I’ve never seen the video and that absolutely rules and is so dumb at the same time, it’s great. I can’t believe it has an atomic explosion of sperm
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i had a dream that i was trying to play a japanese drinking game that involved like, being handed a pile of tiny scraps of blades of grass and then forming the grass into calligraphy, but then you also had to like do poetic wordplay with the literal grass calligraphy that you made. i was like “i don’t think i can do this…” and gave up. i was relieved when i woke up to remember that this is not a real thing and i’m not just like bad at languages.
also, it was only after waking up, walking around not thinking about this all day, then coming here to post about it that i realized that making calligraphy out of bits of grass is itself a weird literalization of the word for cursive script 草書, ‘grass script.’ i think having a dream with this kind of image itself constitutes some kind of subconscious wordplay. so i guess i’m still a genius after all, what a relief.
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this is incredible, thank you for sharing
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I rarely remember my dreams, but I had my second dream where I had to play drums for some band at the last minute. The dream was mostly about waiting on stage and the anticipation of performing.
They gave me one drum stick, and I managed to knock the drums over because, in my dreams, drums are incredibly easy to tip over.
In this dream I was able to fail spectacularly because I have no clue how to play the drums in dreams or in real life.
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dreamed i was staying with a really nice american family who baked lots of large fresh cookies. i was alone in the kitchen and for some reason had some manner of task which could only be completed by trying to direct a stream of piss in between the cookies on the plate. but i miscalculated and some of the piss got on them instead and i was like… i can’t throw out ALL the cookies because the family will think i ate them all and was greedy, but i can’t explain what happened because it sounds insane. and then the family came in laughing and joking and one of them picked up a piss cookie. i made my way out and thought, in many ways that was the worst option because now someone’s going to eat the piss cookie. when i eventually went back in the kitchen later in the day i found all the old cookies were gone and had been replaced by a smaller batch that had obviously all been baked while i was away… the ultimate reproach. anyway then i woke up and i had to piss for real. also the person who ate the piss cookie in my dream was larry david, which i guess my mind picked as “the single worst person you could accidentally piss on the cookies of.” man, he’ll never let you forget it!!!
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dreamed there was a show called “dimmed by draft”, it was one of those british style reality shows where the adverts are all of a little old guy in the distance staring coldly at you and the premise is that this guy is the last of the old-school train robbers and that he was here to show the next generation how things were done. but in this case he was a vietnam war draft resister and would be teaching people the skills to flee to canada (jumping over tires, etc)
then i dreamed i was in canada myself (the show worked!!) wandering around aimlessly until i found a store my friend told me about. it belonged to elon musk but in the dream “elon musk” was just a mix of neil breen and jeremy fragrance, just this grandiose aspiring movie guy with a heavy accent who had a tiny shop where you could buy all the movies he was in and also random playmobil sets for some reason. when you picked up anything he’d say “thet eez mine” or “thes has devede feechures… 110 dollars”… i just poked around bc it was clear that my buying or not buying anything would make no impression whatsoever on this person’s sense of themselves. woke up feeling like i’d maybe glimpsed a happier parallel life for that guy, if he deserved it.
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had a weirdly sexual dream about an alien plant lady who wanted me to…squeeze some juice out of a vine into her…orifice??? she looked like a normal woman but then suddenly turned into, like, a plant tentacle with a little mouth. and I squeezed the juice out for her. it was a lot.
also, separately, i tried to fuck kramer’s puerto rican wife. no idea.
i never have sex dreams so i’m blaming this on some combination of knowing @Felix too long and eating a bad burrito last night.
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Interpreting “bad” differently here in light of the rest of your post 
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Naughty burrito giving me the shits
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I had a dream in which Earth was a subordinate entity under an authoritarian galactic empire, and I was the symbolic, ultimately powerless leader of our planet. I declared our independence under the new Democratic Revolutionary Socialists party and had to prepare our world for a long, grinding war against the empire with low chance of success.
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