Them Crooked Vultures – Review

In a brilliant move by Them Crooked Vultures (is it too soon to call them TVC?), their entire self-titled album has been released, kinda, onto Youtube so it can be streamed for free. Naturally, I rocked this bitch all day.

In case you are Helen Keller, and by that I mean in case you are dead, then this next factoid isn’t really news. But for Jesus, TVC is a supergroup comprised of Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal, Dave Grohl of Nirvana and the Foo Fighters and John-Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, so what? No biggie.

The 13 song album starts off with No One Loves me & Neither Do I. Homme’s guitar tone is in perfect sync with Jones’ bass guitar all through the album, they go perfectly together. One of the highlights in this song is the use of cowbell, listen for it. A self loathing rock song that is dark, sexy, methodical with a twist and flick at the end.

Dead End Friends is like going to see a horror movie where the killer is played by a 1982 IROC. I mean, it’s a song that is made for driving. And if Dead End Friends is made for driving  fast cars, then Elephants was made to listen to while your ass is strapped to the Challenger rocket. I don’t care that it exploded, don’t be a pussy.

Something else remarkable, by that I mean worthy of remark, is the last tune on the album, Spinning in Daffodils. The piano breaks up and segregates this song from all the others. With gritty, driving songwriting like this, you feel like you are in the presence of rock royalty.

You want to waste an entire afternoon? Check out the comments on Youtube about this album (click the post below). “This album will change music” says one dick fixture. “This is what music should sound like,” says another. I appreciate the zeal of many of these people and don’t get me wrong the album is very good. But, like sex after about 3 and half minutes, it gets boring all too quickly. Not with me  though, baby *wink*.

Below is the best song on the album, Gunman. This song makes me want to do the sprinkler dance, while sacrificing a chicken. That’s how awesome it is. Oh, what’s the sprinkler dance you ask?

And her is the awesome song: