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Queens of the Stone Age (Ft. Mark Lanegan) – River in the Road
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[Verse 1: Josh Homme] / A fast approaching monster, marching in a row / Grab what slips your mind and what your memory won't hold / Run, darling, run, I'll stall them if I can
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Queens of the Stone Age – 3's & 7's
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“3’s and 7’s” was released as the second single off of Era Vulgaris. Despite the misleading name, skittish guitar and erratic tempo changes, this song is actually in a run-of-the-
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Queens of the Stone Age – Into the Hollow
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Homme has previously explored the feeling of hollowness on songs such as “Everybody Knows That You Are Insane” off of Queens' preceding album Lullabies to Paralyze.
The lyrical
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Queens of the Stone Age – Run, Pig, Run
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / When I was young, we used to play the game of hide & seek / Someone go hide, I count to ten / You probably never played, instead you talk a game
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Queens of the Stone Age – Make It wit Chu
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One of the sexiest rock songs of the 21st Century, “Make It Wit Chu” was released as the third and last single of the album. Upon its release, many hardcore QotSA fans felt that
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Queens of the Stone Age – Battery Acid
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“Battery Acid” follows up on lots of themes covered throughout the album so far. The facades of fame, sex, control and power, and identity. Battery acid as a substance is extremely
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Queens of the Stone Age – Suture Up Your Future
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Introducing an acoustic version of Suture to a Dutch audience in 2007, Homme described the track as emotional, “about looking forward, and not giving a fuck what’s behind”.
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Queens of the Stone Age – I'm Designer
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[Verse 1] / My generation's for sale, beats a steady job / How much have you got? / My generation don't trust no one, it's hard to blame / Not even ourselves / The thing that's
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Queens of the Stone Age – Turnin’ on the Screw
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This song is somewhere between a self-deprecating reflection on the fleeting nature of fame and a diss on people who embrace bitterness and aloofness as lifestyle choices. Hipsters
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Queens of the Stone Age (Ft. Trent Reznor) – Era Vulgaris
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The Latin term “Era Vulgaris” actually translates to ‘Common Era’, instead of ‘Vulgar Era’ as one might guess. Josh Homme chose it because “It sounds like ‘the Vulgar Era’, which I
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Queens of the Stone Age – Running Joke
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[Verse 1] / When I was a little boy, I looked under the stairs / The king and the pawns were caught unawares / Standing in the shadows, a whisperer to be / Just fishing in the
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Queens of the Stone Age – Misfit Love
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“Misfit Love” tells the story of someone going from a small town to a city and thinking they are “hot shit” (as singer Josh Homme has said about the song) only to learn that they
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Queens of the Stone Age – Sick, Sick, Sick
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‘Sick, Sick, Sick’ was the first single from Era Vulgaris. It features the Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas on backing vocals and synth guitar.
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Queens of the Stone Age – The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died
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“The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died” was released as a promotional single off of Era Vulgaris. It was not included in the original version of the album, but made its way onto
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Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
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Perhaps the quintessential Bruce number, this anthemic 1975 song contains many of the lyrical and musical hallmarks that make the band from E Street so justly famous. It is the
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TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
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The single that put TV on the Radio on the map en route to the huge success that was their album Return to Cookie Mountain, in 2006.
Tunde tells the story of becoming a werewolf
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Nirvana – Something in the Way
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“Something in the Way” is the twelfth and final song on Nirvana’s major label debut, Nevermind—not including its hidden track, “Endless, Nameless.” While many fans believed that
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The B-52's – Love Shack
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The B-52s’ 1989 smash “Love Shack” is about a secluded place where lovers can meet to get it on. But that’s merely the most obvious meaning. The title also refers to the venues the
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Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
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Perhaps more than any other song, “Folsom Prison Blues” cemented Johnny Cash’s status as the outlaw country archetype. Although he never actually did time in the California prison
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