QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
"...LIKE CLOCKWORK"
"...LIKE CLOCKWORK"
Matador
2013
Como desde aquí puedo opinar todo lo que me de la santa gana y como de momento hasta el día de hoy no me vendido a la industria, pues reivindico toda esa música sobrevalorada y pretenciosa. Ejemplos? hoy voy a sangrar a Queens Of The Stone Age, aunque dicen que las comparaciones son odiosas pienso hacerlo y lo siento por la cantidad de miles de millones de seguidores, fans o como quieran llamarse la legion adoradora de Josh Homme. Debo ser uno entre esos millones de personas que realmente no flipan cuando escucharon este disco por primera vez. No me considero diferente, simplemente veo las cosas desde mi punto de vista, puedo estar equivocado o no, pero es MI PUTA OPINION. Verdaderamente llevo muchos años ya por internet luchando contra gente que dicese que son gigantes y no son mas que meros molinos de viento, estoy cansado de llevar en mi espalda el peso del sindrome de Don Quijote, mas que nada porque siempre he sido mas de al lado de Sancho Panza. Un siervo, un observador, un buscador en tierras profanas en definitiva.
A lo largo de la historia, el rock a sido igual de injusto como otras cosas en la vida, para bien o para mal, pero la mayoría ya sabemos cuánta verdad hay en el dicho popular que asegura que mientras unos cardan la lana, otros se llevan la fama. Una frase que puede trasladarse a aspectos muy diferentes de la vida, incluida la música y me refiero en las historias de Kyuss y QOTSA, mientras Kyuss "cardaron" el camino de un género practicamente inexistente para el resto de los mortales llamado "Stoner Rock o Stoner" los otros se aprovecharon para ganarse la fama. Injustamente? Yo creo que si, mas que nada porque QOTSA no han hecho hasta el día de hoy nada que no hubieran hecho antes Kyuss, bueno mejor dicho, no han hecho nada igual ni mejor que Kyuss y lo mas gracioso es que han sido elevados al estatus de semi-dioses en la tierra del Rock actual.
El álbum incluso me parece bastante peor que todo lo realizado hecho por ellos anteriormente, no se cual a sido la intención principal del disco pero esta ausente de canciones de caracter duro, carecen de riffs y de esos guitarrazos que nos tenían acostumbrado. Para los QOTSA, su respuesta ha sido idéntica en todos los ámbitos: cambio a peor. Suena como una mala cosa, pero ellos son una banda mainstream encubierta con una enorme cantidad de seguidores por lo que no hay mucho que perder por probar algo diferente, su legión de séquitos van a seguir lamiéndole el culo igualmente al Josh Homme. Así que después de varios álbumes puedo decir que me repiten tanto sus éxitos como tambien ya sus fracasos. El tema inicial 'Keep Your Eyes Peeled' puede provocar que tus oídos supuren pus, porfavor!! donde este la voz de John García hecha por y para el Stoner que se quite cualquier intento de Homme al mando del micro principal. Si bien no es un completo cambio de ciento ochenta grados, es el turno de la esfera más amplia que QOTSA hayan intentado en su historia y revitaliza un aspecto de la banda que ha estado muerto por más de una década: la creatividad. A decir verdad, es lo más lejano que han estado nunca del Stoner, a pesar de que las comparaciones con Kyuss les ponen en el listón bajo desde un punto de vista artístico, la idea del cambio me invita a pensar que a lo mejor empiezan forjarse su propio camino después de años y años sabiendo que exactamente carecían de eso, algo que mucha gente ignorante cree contrario y no está mas que equivocada. Por primera vez y que sea de precedente, tenemos el placer de contar con algo que no suena a aprovechamiento.
Si la banda se merece algo de crédito aquí, está en la producción. A diferencia de que sus canciones puedan o no gustarme, en realidad hay un grado notable aquí. Aunque no hay nada en el álbum que se acerque a la crudeza que desprendían Kyuss, la ausencia de "magia" es notable y para los que hemos mamado de la teta del Welcome to the Sky Valley carece de aire de autenticidad. En conjunto sin embargo, nada de esto es suficiente para salvar Like Clockwork de la mediocridad mas absoluta.
Finalmente han llenado y rebosado mi paciencia los señores Homme, Grohl y CIA, no soporto ya solamente lo que hacen, sino que ademas tiene ese aura narcicista que me revuelve las tripas, gente con carisma aprovechada a base de otros, no son mas que cáscaras vacías de lo que solían ser cuando Homme estaba en Kyuss y Grohl en Nirvana, uno era un tocatambores y el otro...hasta Sctott Reader se lo comía con patatas cuando tocaban juntos, era la cosa mas sosa que había joder, no pienso convencer a nadie de lo que siento, cada uno ya es mayorcito para escoger su camino, yo escogí el mio a veces equivocado y otras veces acertado pero es el mio, y QOTSA deberían aplicarse el ejemplo, quien quiera recoger una analogía, que escuche lo que digo, pero esta claro que a estas alturas ya no importa cómo se mire QOTSA, para los expertos ellos ya no tienen que demostrar nada, claro.
As
from here all I can say whatever I want and as the holy of time until
this day I sold to industry as much music vindicate overrated and
pretentious. Examples? today
I'll bleed to Queens Of The Stone Age, although they say that
comparisons are odious I do and I feel for the amount of thousands of
millions of followers, fans or whatever you called the adoring legion of
Josh Homme. I must be one among those millions of people who really do not freak when they heard this record for the first time. I think different just see things from my point of view, I can be right or wrong, but it is MY FUCKING OPINION. Truly
took many years and battling online is said that people are giants and
they are more than just windmills, I'm tired of carrying the weight on
my back the Don Quixote syndrome, mostly because I've always been more
of the side of Sancho Panza. A servant, an observer, a search on land ultimately profane.
Throughout history, the rock has been just as unfair as other things in life, for better or worse, but most already know how much truth there is in the popular saying that says that while some wool cardan, others take fame. A phrase that can be translated to many different aspects of life, including music and I mean in the stories of Kyuss and QOTSA, Kyuss while "carded" the way of a genre practically nonexistent for the rest of us called "Stoner Rock or Stoner "others took advantage to win fame. Unfairly? I think so, mostly because QOTSA have not done so today nothing they had not done before Kyuss, rather good, they have done nothing equal or better than Kyuss and the funniest thing is that they have been elevated to the status of semi-gods in the land of Rock today.
The album even seems much worse than anything done previously done for them, not which was the main intention to disk but is absent from hard character songs, riffs and lack guitarrazos those we have become accustomed. For QOTSA, their response has been the same in all areas: change for the worse. Sounds like a bad thing, but they are a mainstream band disguised with a huge following so not much to lose by trying something different, his legion of entourages will continue licking her ass just to Josh Homme. So after several albums I can say I repeat also both successes and failures. The opening theme 'Keep Your Eyes Peeled' your ears can cause leaks pus, please!! where the voice of John Garcia made by and for Stoner to remove any attempt to control the micro Homme principal. While there is a complete change of one hundred eighty degrees, it's time for the broader area that QOTSA have tried in its history and revitalizes one aspect of the band that has been dead for more than a decade: creativity. In fact, it is the furthest we have ever been of Stoner, although comparisons with Kyuss put them at the bar low from an artistic point of view, the idea of change invites me to think that maybe begin to forge their own way after years and years knowing that lacked exactly that, something that many ignorant people believe otherwise and it is more than wrong. For the first time and it is a precedent, we are pleased to have something that does not sound to use.
If the band deserves some credit here, is in production. Unlike their songs may or may not like it, there are actually a remarkable degree here. Although there is nothing on the album that comes close to the rawness that came off Kyuss, the absence of "magic" is remarkable and for those who have sucked the teat of Welcome to the Sky Valley lacks air of authenticity. Overall however, none of this is enough to save Like Clockwork most absolute mediocrity.
Finally have filled and overflowed my patience lords Homme, Grohl and CIA stand not only as what they do, but it also has that aura narcissistic sickens me, people with charisma based harnessed others are but shells empty than they used to be when I was in Kyuss Homme and Grohl in Nirvana, one was a tocatambores and another ... until Sctott Reader ate it with potatoes when they played together, it was the most bland thing I had to fuck, I'm not convinced anyone of what I feel, each one is already old enough to choose their path, I chose mine sometimes wrong and sometimes right but mine, and QOTSA should apply the example, who want to pick an analogy, let him hear what say, but it is clear that at this point it does not matter how you look QOTSA, for experts they no longer have to prove anything, of course.
Throughout history, the rock has been just as unfair as other things in life, for better or worse, but most already know how much truth there is in the popular saying that says that while some wool cardan, others take fame. A phrase that can be translated to many different aspects of life, including music and I mean in the stories of Kyuss and QOTSA, Kyuss while "carded" the way of a genre practically nonexistent for the rest of us called "Stoner Rock or Stoner "others took advantage to win fame. Unfairly? I think so, mostly because QOTSA have not done so today nothing they had not done before Kyuss, rather good, they have done nothing equal or better than Kyuss and the funniest thing is that they have been elevated to the status of semi-gods in the land of Rock today.
The album even seems much worse than anything done previously done for them, not which was the main intention to disk but is absent from hard character songs, riffs and lack guitarrazos those we have become accustomed. For QOTSA, their response has been the same in all areas: change for the worse. Sounds like a bad thing, but they are a mainstream band disguised with a huge following so not much to lose by trying something different, his legion of entourages will continue licking her ass just to Josh Homme. So after several albums I can say I repeat also both successes and failures. The opening theme 'Keep Your Eyes Peeled' your ears can cause leaks pus, please!! where the voice of John Garcia made by and for Stoner to remove any attempt to control the micro Homme principal. While there is a complete change of one hundred eighty degrees, it's time for the broader area that QOTSA have tried in its history and revitalizes one aspect of the band that has been dead for more than a decade: creativity. In fact, it is the furthest we have ever been of Stoner, although comparisons with Kyuss put them at the bar low from an artistic point of view, the idea of change invites me to think that maybe begin to forge their own way after years and years knowing that lacked exactly that, something that many ignorant people believe otherwise and it is more than wrong. For the first time and it is a precedent, we are pleased to have something that does not sound to use.
If the band deserves some credit here, is in production. Unlike their songs may or may not like it, there are actually a remarkable degree here. Although there is nothing on the album that comes close to the rawness that came off Kyuss, the absence of "magic" is remarkable and for those who have sucked the teat of Welcome to the Sky Valley lacks air of authenticity. Overall however, none of this is enough to save Like Clockwork most absolute mediocrity.
Finally have filled and overflowed my patience lords Homme, Grohl and CIA stand not only as what they do, but it also has that aura narcissistic sickens me, people with charisma based harnessed others are but shells empty than they used to be when I was in Kyuss Homme and Grohl in Nirvana, one was a tocatambores and another ... until Sctott Reader ate it with potatoes when they played together, it was the most bland thing I had to fuck, I'm not convinced anyone of what I feel, each one is already old enough to choose their path, I chose mine sometimes wrong and sometimes right but mine, and QOTSA should apply the example, who want to pick an analogy, let him hear what say, but it is clear that at this point it does not matter how you look QOTSA, for experts they no longer have to prove anything, of course.
Puntuación *4/10
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