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Songs For The Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age.

Howdy.

By the title of the text you might’ve figured out what the subject of todays text will be, and if you’ve guessed Songs For The Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age, you are indeed, correct. Excellently guessed.

When i was in high school i started to get into music, like a lot of people do. You’re growing up and you’re exploring your own taste in music. My high school years correlated perfectly with the emo music wave and my music taste had evolved in that direction for a while, but the emo wave made the evolution go way faster. These last couple of weeks music hasn’t had the same taste and i guess it’s just one of those lows that eventually will return to your regular taste. However, this has made it difficult to find music to listen to, and i felt like i only listen to the same kind of songs all the time, something that i know isn’t true, but the feeling is hard to beat. The other week i read about some french study, and im paraphrasing here, said that the music you listen to when you were around 14 years old is the music that has the biggest impact on yourself and your future music taste.
With this study in my head i started to go back to what i listened to when i was around 14-15 and it was a lot of emo, a lot of postpunk and similar things – and i must admit, it still sounds great. However i assume that there’s a big portion of nostalgia affecting the feeling towards the music.

With this in mind i started to think about an episode of the podcast called Strong Songs that disected the song No one knows by Queens of the Stone Age, that i listened to this summer.
I somehow totally looked past Queens of the Stone Age while growing up, even though it would’ve fitted me perfectly during high school, and Songs for the Deaf was released, so there’s nothing that really stopped me, except the fact that i probably just didn’t stumble upon it. The evolving of the Internet and programs such as Spotify sure has made it easier to find music. Anyway, back to the album. The first album by QOTSA that i remember listening to was when they released …Like Clockwork and that didn’t really speak to me at that time, however it does now. It wasn’t until later when i started to go through their older discography like Songs for the Deaf and Era Vulgaris it clicked for me. And over the years i fell deeper in love with QOTSA, however, i am not a hard core fan of theirs, i just know that whenever my taste for music gets a bit duller – i can always go to Era Vulgaris and Songs for the Deaf and have an excellent listening experience.

I think that Songs for the Deaf is absolutley excellently produced and the sound, the voices, the instruments, all together works so well and that is what makes Songs for the Deaf one of my favourite albums of all times.

I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Until next time, take care.

SLQT

Medicine At Midnight by Foo Fighters.

Cheers. There’s been one of those hiatuses again – sorry about that. Had a stint where music didn’t taste as good as it usually does. However it feels like my aptite for music has come back again, and for that i am grateful.
I’ve been listening too Foo Fighters for a very long time and i always make time to listen to their new releases and i get excited for every new release, even if i wished that the evolution of their sound would’ve taken a different approach i always look forward to a ned Foo-release. This time was no different. I saw that they released the single Waiting on a war and i took a listen to it. I wasn’t floored, but i didn’t expect to be floored either. It sounded like later Foo Fighters and there’s no mistaking it for something other than Foo Fighters. I felt like the album had potential.

Fast forward a while, to the 5th of February 2021 and it was time for the album release of Medicine At Midnight, i waited some days before i listened to it, and at this point i’ve spun the record a couple of times.
I have to confess, and build on what i wrote earlier in this post – i don’t love the general direction of how Foo Fighters sound has changed over the years. I really enjoy that they really try to do different stuff and concept albums like Sonic Highways. I feel like a grumpy old man whenever i think ”their older stuff sounds better” or ”their older and rawer sound was better”; however i can’t deny it, because that’s how i feel about them. I thoroughly enjoyed the direction they took with songs like Run of off their 2017 album Concrete and Gold. That raw, heavy and harder sound is my personally prefered sound of Foo Fighters. And this new album just doesn’t hit that spot for me. Nothing against the lyrics, they sound well written and are somethimes thought provoking; however the instrumentals just doesn’t do it for me.

Medicine At Midnight will stay in my rotation and it’s easy listening. But as i keep on listening to it, i will be dreaming of their next album with a, hopefully, heavier sound.

Until next time, take care.

SLQT.