I know I've previously said I thought this was a disappointing album but I've gone through the same process with it as I did with the last 2 Queens of the Stone Age albums (and most of my all time favourites).
1) Put it on, thought "It's nowhere near as good as I was expecting".
2) Grudgingly started getting into 2 or 3 of the tunes on it.
3) Next thing I know I'm hooked.
Apart from one real stinker of a song, this really is a very good album indeed. If you like good, honest, straight up, no-frills rock music with no sign of a digital instrument on it anywhere - look no further.
A nice one. Anybody else out there been listening to this ?
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You know it, Sheriff. Of course, I liked it from the start (though I agree about the 1 stinker... "Skin on Skin"?). Weird thing is, though, that after listening to it the third time, I had the unshakeable feeling that I'd been listening to this album for years, and it's far more than the first song sounds like Tom Waits and "The Blood is Life" sounds like something off of Alice in Chains' Alice in Chains (maybe a slower tempoed "Head Creeps"?).
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