Queens Of The Stone Age - '...Like Clockwork' - Track By Track Analysis
Kalopsia This throbbing bedridden trance is a fitting symbolic representative for the album as a whole. It shifts violently and suddenly between the verses hypnotic drawls and the chorus scuzzy, feedback-heavy lunges, just as the album as a whole slips between clean but infectious earworm I dare say pop hooks and muddy intense hard rock growls. The songs eerily volatile nature makes it a tough listen but a luscious, multi-textured venture when you get to grips with it. Oh, why the long face, youve got it all wrong Homme snarls as he wrestles with the songs conflicting demons. Indeed. Fairweather Friends Fairweather Friends asks similar existential questions to the third track, Is there anyone out there? and tackles related aspects of loneliness; this time an outcry at the fickleness of friendship, which concludes with a brilliant moment of humorous anti-climax halfway through the last fairweather friends he simply stops and says I dont give a shit about them anyhow. Its great to see Homme not taking himself too seriously in amidst all this drama and chaos he hasnt lost that nous and wit that the psych-rock collective is so recognised for. The hook is a real scream; a future live hit, surely, and wonderful interplay between the squealing guitars and spiralling keys provided by none other than Sir Elton John.