Them Crooked Vultures
Them Crooked Vultures is a supergroup with Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss), Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), and John Paul Jones (Led Zepplin). First, anyone must admit that this is the most amazing mash-up ever. We all love it when Dave Grohl and Josh Homme get together, like they did for Songs of the Deaf.
I just love Dave Grohl. He’s got the Midas touch, and a gift for choosing which bands and musicians to work with. The addition of John Paul Jones is such a mind-blast. Jones also appeared on Foo Fighters In Your Honor.
The songs on the album are a slight departure from Homme’s usual Queens style, but remain a bit as if it were a new Queens album. Of course the addition of the other two performers add a different style to the band, and it seems at times that Homme is trying a different style more akin to early Zepplin and even one vocal melody is almost identical to Aerosmith’s Walk This Way, and another song, Scumbag Blues, a melody is just about identical to Strange Brew by Cream.
The only thing that would make this even better? Raise John Bonham from the dead and bring Grohl out from behind the drums and sing with Homme. The album even sounds as if the other two guys joined Homme in the Desert for Desert Sessions Supergroup Vol 1. The songs are a lot like Homme’s side project Desert Sessions, they seem free, creative, and sound as if they were written in one pass.
Elephants, the fifth song on the album sounds as if they fast forward through all the Zepplin albums all at once. What a great album. I mean it’s not fantasticaaahh like early Grohl, early Homme, and early Jones, but these guys have matured in their own ways to bring us this outstanding rock and roll. This may just be a great year for music, first the incredible Shrinebuilder, now this! Come on 2010, BRING IT!
Got any clips? I want to hear this.