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  Queens Of The Stone Age: Lullabies To Paralyze (2005): Reviews
Lullabies to Paralyze explodes with tight, meaty riffs, enormous pop melodies and vocals that seem to come from outer space.
Lullabies is one of the strongest albums of 2005 thus far, from beginning to end.
Lullabies to Paralyze loses points for a handful of uninspired tracks and questionable production values, but I can’t imagine anybody who’s enjoyed the Queens in the past not taking to at least half of the songs on this album.
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 Lullabies To Paralyze (Explicit) - Queens Of The Stone Age - Pandora Internet Radio
Sure, there are some differences -- most notably, Lullabies lacks the manic metallic flourishes of their earlier work, and the gonzo humor and gimmicks, such as the radio DJ banter on Deaf, are gone -- but it all sounds like an assured, natural progression from the tightly wound, relentless Songs for the Deaf.
Homme has pulled off a surprise of a similar magnitude on Lullabies to Paralyze -- he doesn't walk away from these breakthroughs but marries them to the widescreen art rock of R and dark, foreboding metal of Kyuss, resulting in a rich, late-night cinematic masterpiece.
One of the reasons QOTSA have always been considered a musician's band is that they are masters of mood, either sustaining tension over the course of a six-minute epic or ratcheting up excitement in the course of a two-minute blast, all while using a familiar palette of warm, fuzz-toned guitars, ghostly harmonies, and minor-key melodies.
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 Lullabies to Paralyze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lullabies to Paralyze is Queens of the Stone Age's first album in 3 years since 2002's Songs for the Deaf.
The album was released on March 21, 2005 (see 2005 in music) internationally and a day later in the United States.
Mark Lanegan contributed lead vocals on "This Lullaby" and vocals on "Burn the Witch" and "You Got a Killer Scene There Man...".
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 Cokemachineglow.com - Queens of the Stone Age: Lullabies to Paralyze
The obvious lack of infantile shrieking notwithstanding, Lullabies to Paralyze doesn’t sound a heck of a lot different from the three QoTSA records that preceded it, irrespective of the fact that the bass duties are no longer being handled by an elfin creature with a cool goatee and a penchant for onstage nakedness.
It creates an air of tension via Homme’s sparse vocals and creepy use of falsetto in the chorus, eventually culminating in a wall of guitar and the same multi-tracked vocals that were overused on the last Queens record.
Lullabies is also interesting in that no other QoTSA record would appear to be as obsessed with the topic of the fairer sex.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Lullabies To Paralyze [PA] - Queens Of The Stone Age at Epinions.com
Lullabies To Paralyze [PA] by Queens Of The Stone Age
Lullabies to Paralyze is one of the most impressive rock albums of the last few years.
Lullabies to Paralyze is more than I could have possibly expected from Queens of the Stone Age.
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 Amazon.com: Lullabies to Paralyze: Music: Queens of the Stone Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Repeated listenings of "Lullabies" reveal a growing "adult" quality to the Queens work, but the intensity that attracted so many fans is still at work here and Homme and Company give everything they have to the project with the ensuing result being: one of the best rock albums to come out this year.
Although everyone is saying this isn't a concept album, "Lullabies to Paralyze" has a strong feeling all the way through it that make it nearly impossible not to want to listen to the entire thing.
I will say that Lullabies to Paralyze seems to be a more refined expierience that what I was accustomed to hearing from this band.
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 PBS 106.7FM - Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
Scrutinizing and compartmentalizing the internal chemistry of rock bands may be a thankless (if not stupid) pursuit, but when Oliveri was publicly ejected from the band in early 2004 (ousted by Homme, who disapproved of certain "bad behavior"), the future of the Queens' swampy rock seemed awfully precarious.
But any lingering doubts about who was actually commanding the band's direction should soon dissipate: Lullabies to Paralyze is, at least stylistically, not terribly different from the three Queens records preceding it.
It's also troublingly inconsistent, sagging and losing steam (opener "This Lullaby" and the plodding, seven-minute guitar jerk of "Someone's in the Wolf" are unimpressively limp)-- all sprints and breath-catching, highs and lows.
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 RegnYouth Archives » Blog Archive » Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze
By the time of 2005’s ‘Lullabies To Paralyze’, however, Oliveri had acrimoniously departed the group, while Grohl and Lanegan had returned to their own projects, leaving Homme as the sole member.
Admirably, Homme plows ahead on ‘Lullabies To Paralyze’ with the assistance of multi-instrumentalists Troy Van Leeuwen and Alain Johannes and drummer Joey Castillo.
While it would be nearly impossible to top ‘Songs For The Deaf’, Homme sticks to his strengths on ‘Lullabies To Paralyze’, and the result is another fierce rock record.
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 Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze - Review - Uncut.co.uk
Lullabies to Paralyze suggests that Homme, faced with this legacy, couldn’t decide whether to lean towards immediate, straight-for-the-jugular pop, or thunderous, rambling psychedelia.
After lovely madrigal-like opener "Lullaby", the following seven songs are tight, perfectly-formed examples of QOTSA’s signature driving repetition, multi-tracked falsetto vocals, and edgy, punky hooks.
Lyrically, Lullabies seems preoccupied with the problem of errant women, which might have something to do with Homme’s girlfriend, notorious Distillers’ frontwoman Brody Dalle (who appears with Shirley Manson on backing vocals on the coolly swinging "You Got a Killer Scene").
www.uncut.co.uk /music/queens_of_the_stone_age/reviews/8566   (512 words)

  
 Lullabies To Paralyze | The A.V. Club
In fact, Lullabies' elaborate credits show a small army of contributing musicians (including Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top), and unsurprisingly, bass and drums are less pronounced on Lullabies.
Lullabies' songs often sound like a collection of riffs written individually and collected into songs.
Lullabies has established Homme as the arbiter of all things QOTSA, and he's obviously enjoying his role.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Lullabies to Paralyze: Music: Queens of the Stone Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lullabies to Paralyze is the first Queens of the Stone Age album released since the rather messy departure of co-conspirator Nick Oliveri, but this by no means sounds like a Josh Homme solo project.
On the whole, Lullabies to Paralyze is never as good as Rated R or Songs for the Deaf, but few modern rock albums are.
The first track this lullaby is a haunting acoustic track with former rythm guitarist mark lanegan singing.
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 Queens of the Stone Age: Lullabies to Paralyze [2005] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review
But Lullabies to Paralyze, the first Queens album since 2002's commercial and critical landmark Songs for the Deaf, suggests that those fears are largely unfounded.
If the yin and yang of Queens of the Stone Age have been severed, then Lullabies lends credence to the idea that Homme may have been wise to excise Oliveri's yin -- the principle of darkness and negativity -- so that his own yang -- light, heat, motivation -- might better flourish.
That's not to say that Lullabies is a perfect record, or that Oliveri's presence isn't occasionally missed -- a somnambulant, second-gear song like "You've Got a Killer Scene There, Man" could have benefited from his mercurial influence and full-throttle bass.
www.shakingthrough.net /music/reviews/2005/qotsa_lullabies_to_paralyze_2005.html   (475 words)

  
 Queens of the Stone Age: Lullabies to Paralyze Aversion.com Review
Lullabies to Paralyze, the band’s most straightforward rock effort yet, offers little reason to hate the outfit.
The down side is that, despite the bludgeoning, murky low ends that remain, Lullabies is a scattershot, hit-or-miss affair that makes it tough to get a grasp on the latest version of Queens other than as disciples of big amps and rock’n’roll excess.
“Someone’s in the Wolf,” however, is Lullabies’ masterpiece, a seven-minute opus in which Homme mangles psychedelia, sinister shadows, slinky sexuality and gritty modernity into a powerful cut, proving his knack for channeling the past while keeping his head in the present.
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 Rolling Stone : Lullabies To Paralyze : Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lullabies to Paralyze, the Queens' fourth album, suffers from Oliveri's departure and Grohl's absence.
Lullabies falters when Homme returns to the protracted riffage of his past.
Its back-to-back monster jams "Someone's in the Wolf" and "The Blood Is Love" occupy nearly fourteen droning minutes that unravel the breathless momentum of the previous eight tracks.
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 Queens of the Stone Age: Lullabies to Paralyze - PopMatters Music Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With Lullabies to Paralyze, their fourth album, hard-partying bassist Olivieri is out of the band.
Where Homme's 2004 Eagles of Death Metal side-project reveled in kitsch, Lullabies finds Homme and his supporting asking -- for the first time -- to be taken at face value.
Lullabies to Paralyze is less consistant than its predecessor, and is at times painfully boring (and frankly, could use a good dose of gimmickry), but for fans, it should offer sufficient treats for those willing to brave its meanderings.
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 twist the tale {lullabies to paralyze fanlisting}   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Lullabies to Paralyze (title taken from a lyric on the last song of the album Songs for the Deaf, Mosquito Song) is Queens of the Stone Age's first album in 3 years since 2002's Songs for the Deaf.
The album was released on March 21, 2005 internationally and a day later in the United States.
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 Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze @ Blogcritics.org
In the case of Lullabies to Paralyze, the disappointment isn't that the songs aren't better or that the band isn't as good without the volatile Nick Oliveri playing bass.
Lullabies could have been great, but its second half is too self-indulgent and the overall disc doesn't present the same kind of step forward that came when the band went from the self-titled album to Rated R to Songs for the Deaf.
Lullabies is an album with some great moments that doesn't quite live up to the expectations.
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 Queens Of The Stone Age - new album `Lullabies To Paralyze' unleashed on March 14 th
‘Lullabies To Paralyze' was its name, Josh Homme and Joe Baressi were its producers and March 21 st the day ordained for its release.
That's ‘Lullabies To Paralyze', an album which offers highs and lows, fasts and slows and, if you're lucky, a visit to the witch's gingerbread house for rock riff dessert.
The band will also be riding the meandering road around Europe including the UK (and more specifically two venues in London on the same day) for a handful of gigs in February and March.
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 LULLABIES TO PARALYZE
QUEENS OF THE STONEAGE Lullabies To Paralyze (2004 US Interscope label promotional only press pack includes a 4-page 'Lullabies To Paralyze' story with unique drawings, 1-page album press release and 94-pages of 'Media Cap' magazine cuttings.
QUEENS OF THE STONEAGE Lullabies To Paralyze (2006 limited issue German 15-track CD album from Josh Homme & Co., includes the single 'Little Sister'.
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 Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies To Paralyze
Lullabies To Paralyze is a step-back even if the guitars still mesh cohesively, if not redundantly.
It could be the fact that I miss Grohl’s phenomenal contribution to the previous endeavor or the fact that the bass-playing isn’t nearly as strong due to the departure of ex-bandmate/party animal Oliveri.
But for fans of progressive metal that flaunts style over substance, then perhaps this is their kind of rock and roll and they’ll like it.
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 washingtonpost.com: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE "Lullabies to Paralyze" Interscope
As far as Josh Homme is concerned, Queens of the Stone Age is a rock band with no set lineup and no set sound.
Guitarist Homme and bassist Nick Oliveri, friends since junior high and co-founders of the band Kyuss, made the 2000 QOTSA album, "R," with drummer Nick Lucero and the 2002 album, "Songs for the Deaf," with drummer Dave Grohl and singer Mark Lanegan.
But after Grohl and Lanegan returned to their earlier projects, Homme fired Oliveri early last year and made the new QOTSA CD, "Lullabies to Paralyze," with bassist Troy Van Leeuwen, guitarist Alain Johannes and drummer Joey Castillo.
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 Amazon.de: Lullabies to Paralyze: Musik: Queens of the Stone Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Amazon.de: Lullabies to Paralyze: Musik: Queens of the Stone Age
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 mininova : Music > Alternative > Queens Of The Stoneage-Lullabies To Paralyze-(Retail)-2005-HHI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Age album, Lullabies to Paralyze, the band's guitarist/vocalist/chief songwriter,
Lullabies lacks the manic metallic flourishes of their earlier work, and the gonzo
They are so good, so natural on Lullabies to Paralyze that it's easy to
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DISCS: ROCK HHHII Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze
Lullabies to Paralyze attempts to emphasise its breadth by beginning with a piece of Johnny Cash/Leonard Cohen- styled country, then raging into a Faith No More rocker, and following that with a sorrowful slice of Alice In Chains stoner rock.
Before you reach the 16th track, Lullabies has outstayed its welcome, but the good stuff insinuates its way into your brain.
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 IGN: Lullabies to Paralyze Review
Despite the noticeable shift in tempo, the end result is an album that more or less retreads the mostly familiar QOTSA party line of skirling guitars, kinetic rhythms, and Josh Homme's crisp tenor.
Lullabies To Paralyze is a much cleaner album than anything the Queens have committed to tape before (and this may be the result of Oliveri's departure, as he was the master of sludge encrusted bass theatrics).
Part-time member Mark Lanegan makes his obligatory appearance on the opener "This Lullaby," his voice having gained an even smokier veneer that brings him closer than ever to sounding like Tom Waits' long lost twin.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Lullabies to Paralyze [CD + DVD]: Music: Queens Of The Stone Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lullabies to Paralyze DVD edition has the added bonus of giving us a unique insight into their recording style and personalities, which we've not had chance to see before.
Having only heard 'little sister' up to this point, my hands were clammy with excitment putting 'Lullabies to Paralyse' into the cd tray.
I was a little dissapointed at first as this did not live up to my expectations after 'Songs for the Deaf'.
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