Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for The Deaf REACTION/REVIEW

[@Rll_2206]

Queens of the Stone Age in 2002 is just possibly the most OP band of all time. Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan & Dave Grohl in a band is basically a cheat code. One of the best rock albums of all time and RIP Mark Lanegan.

[@joescott8877]

Agreed! And...Google wouldn't tell me: What does "OP" mean, please?

[@Rll_2206]

@@joescott8877 OP means OverPowered

[@joescott8877]

@@Rll_2206 Ah. OK, thanks!

[@Hugohhhgg]

Rip indeed

[@lawofsirfignewton7881]

Oh and also Dean Ween guesting on a few tracks too

[@sealex6890]

First Soundtracks for the blind and now this. The mist Inclusive reaction channel for people who don’t have all their senses.

[@Nobody-xe9fc]

And then he could do a Nickelback for the people with no taste!

[@vamck]

I think he misses that Himme loves wordplay.

[@oliver6530]

Just wanna say you definitely have some of the best editing I’ve ever seen for reaction channels. Almost ALWAYS people will edit around some of the most revelatory and exciting moments of a song which is super frustrating, but you never fail to capture them. Keep doing the most!!

[@smags1082]

Thank You! I usually try my best to keep it that way for the popular tracks because some ppl probably just watch those. Sometimes on the deeper cuts I may mess up a little

[@pazuzu1]

@@smags1082 dw bro most of us watch it all keep it up

[@_ben_miller]

Your analysis is spot on. The album is about reveling in the glory of self destructive behavior. The love in the first part of the album is about drugs. Then it evolves into a destructive love with people, probably ruined by the drugs. The deaf people are the ones who don't hear the call. Good calls

[@guitarhero01234]

Songs For the Deaf is a rather smart album, which is kind of obfuscated by its digestibility and intentionally hedonistic, meathead lyrics. Both fun to listen to on a surface level, and to dissect for its deeper meaning

[@lukelarsson]

RIP Mark Mark Lanegan. An absolute legend! Smags, you just reacted to one of the coolest rock albums of all time.

[@oliver6530]

You’ve gotttta try Rated R and Like Clockwork next. Essential.

[@j.prt.979]

Yeah

[@matthewbanton7077]

like clockwork is in my top 3 rock albums alongside in rainbows and siamese dream

[@dylankurtz8423]

​@@matthewbanton7077all 3 of those are 10 albums. In Times New Roman, The Bends and Mellon Collie are also incredible

[@smoshbooz]

The hidden track at the end of song for the deaf transitions into the first song on their second album "rated r", which I hope you will be reviewing soon too

[@grilledcheesehater44]

Leg of lamb got me into qotss

[@bxryme]

love your pfp

[@duffmanx2000]

Wait you’re saying Mosquito song transitions into Feel good hit of the summer?

[@vitor7931]

​@@duffmanx2000he's wrong, actually the lyrics kinda transitions into "This Lullaby"

[@beritlundberg1725]

This is one of my favorite albums of all time, it seriously changed my life and Josh Homme is a crazy musician

[@beritlundberg1725]

Also have to add that Mosquito Song was a bonus track so that's why it sounds out of place

[@sigzil1985]

The guitar solos on this album are my absolute favourites. Homme is a genuine superstar with that guitar playing.

[@themadcow71]

Rated R by Queens should be next. Great reaction as always young legend!

[@sidhoasplace]

It’s a concept album of the band driving from LA to Joshua Tree, CA and making fun of the many radio stations they hear on the way to Joshua Tree. Also the album is the time length of the drive to Joshua tree from LA.

[@acobb61286]

I don’t know who can get from LA to Joshua Tree in an hour. It’s two hours with no traffic (would have to be the middle of the night), possible five during rush hour.

[@asdasdae]

Depends on where in LA he had to drive to/from, the drives were also usually after shows they would play so it was probably 2-3 am so there was probably no traffic.@@acobb61286

[@sleepbyslowdive]

Concept of the album is exactly as you thought, its a road trip from los angeles to joshua tree in california. "Songs for the Deaf" is basically mocking radio music, calling radio listeners deaf to good music, and what you said about ignorant people.

[@manhattenman6075]

Been so existed for you to do this album! One of the best albums of the 2000s and probably one of the best rock albums ever! Like Clockwork and Lullabies to Paralyze are also amazing albums too, I definitely recommend these too!

[@morkmon]

Coming back here after seeing them live last November, they still got it! They are so incredibly tight live, if you ever have the chance to see them, highly recommend it.

[@daviddixon9991]

The drummer on this album: Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) Once you hear it you can't unhear it.

[@damnitboy9635]

Except for "Millionaire" and "Go With The Flow", which were played by Gene Trautmann.

[@internetmike]

You're on a roll man, I subbed after Ween and love to see this one. Solid reactions and solid edits of the reactions

[@Evanmnm]

My personal favorite album of all time.. everything about this is just hardcore desert-y stoner goodness

[@doomba_5540]

Had to bring out the lotion and tissues for this one

[@smags1082]

This is insane

[@jager9022]

FUCK YESS!!! You gotta do the rest of their discography too, and for sure Them Crooked Vultures as well, a supergroup with Josh Homme of QOTSA, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin

[@Tbirdtrav71]

Best album of the 21st Century so far. Amazing concept which is well engineered and produced. Cracking guitars, Dave Grohl's incredible drum work (better than Nirvana era) booming bass lines, Josh Homme is a mical genius. Great reaction/review, good job!

[@Michael-wp2bp]

This channel is great! You react to to such a broad spectrum of music, so far I've only been watching the ones I already know are great albums, and it's fun reliving my first listen vicariously through you, if that makes sense. Anyway I'm looking forward to checking out the reactions to the records I'm not familiar with and getting exposed to some new shit. Keep doing what you're doing, it's fantastic

[@Evanmnm]

No better feeling in the universe than getting bloodied up in the pit when I heard song for the dead live

[@dimitratheodorou1573]

The title being "songs for the Deaf" actually refers to the radio music being so bad that it is palatable to an audience who doesn't know what real music is and therefore "deaf"

[@JustAJauneArc]

I've always thought that songs for the deaf was almost literal - music so damn blaringly loud that even dead people could hear it lmao

[@RedBleedingBult]

Queens is my favorite band of all time, not a single bad album

[@dylankurtz8423]

Same. They are one of the few bands with a perfect discography. Deftones, Paramore, Radiohead and Sonic Youth are right behind them for me

[@Dogguy-oy9en]

Villians sucks ass

[@jobinmcgooch]

This band is beyond tremendous and Josh Homme the 🐐 for real. You should definitely do more of their discography 🤘🏽

[@paolocastillo7171]

just saw queens of the stone age at riot fest this year. super solid album. you should check out title fight when you get the chance!!!

[@metalyuncle]

You were at riot fest? Did you also see the cure or Dresden dolls?

[@paolocastillo7171]

@@metalyuncle saw both! didn’t stay around much for the cure bc i’m not a huge fan and wanted to beat traffic. plus listening to just the cure for two hours will make you sad LOL

[@sxth2915]

He needs to listen to Floral Green asap

[@GelatinPangolin]

my favorite album when i was 16, walkin to my moms work after school, listenin to it every day. cool to see new ppl listening to it

[@goldee5805]

bro is amazingly consistent with the uploads, love to see it

[@j.prt.979]

“I’m out of your womb” can mean two things haha

[@Always_Focused]

Thank u sm for doing this album. Best reaction channel on yt you’re the GOAT briansmagala

[@CBGB_1977]

My husband & I just saw QOTSA about a month ago. Viagra Boys opened for them. That show was truly electrifying!!

[@mikejennette8478]

“What happened? UH!!” Cracked me up

[@frog2098]

...Like Clockwork is another album by QotSA that I'd highly recommend. I'd say I like it more than this one but it's hard to decide

[@Polyvalent]

Such an underrated album by them. The desert and stoner influences are integrated much more subtly making way for what almost sounds like a pop album (not a bad thing)!

[@modernlife1321]

I agree ...like clockwork is amazing one of the best rock albums of last decade

[@asdasdae]

Queens are my favourite band so I'm a little biased but ...LC is my favourite album of all time. You've still got the sludgy stoner stuff (Keep Your Eyes Peeled) but the album has so much more emotional depth to it. The last two minutes of I Appear Missing is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. @@Polyvalent

[@Polyvalent]

@@asdasdae Probably my favorite song off the album :D

[@Torrancee]

not sure anyone said this yet or if you find out in the video, but Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters & Nirvana is actually drumming throughout the entire album

[@Lost4life123]

Recommending M83 again. Beautiful stuff!!

[@Polyvalent]

Their desert rock roots shine brightly in this album. If you like the guitar here check out Kyuss.

[@vadimpopov5966]

damn, you really never miss common smags W

[@smags1082]

Thanks!

[@dakotawaite7965]

yessss this album goes so hard man recs! Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it In People Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On Silversun Pickups - Carnavas

[@dillonharnden-shea57]

Seconding Broken Social Scene! You Forgot it in the People OR self titled

[@nonahedrix]

Funny that you say these guys and King gizz sound similar, theyre my top two favs for sure. Deffff very different bands but they both tend to explore unique concepts and foreign sounds and scales in their music. Id really reccomend checking out another album by both because both bands have more than one masterpiece under their belt. King gizz, check out Omnium Gatherum or Flying Microtonal Banana, QOTSA do ...Like Clockwork

[@nym5qu17]

fmb is still my fav gizz record

[@apeheadboink]

my favorite lyric of the album is "I want something good to die for to make it beautiful to live" from go with the flow, potentially my favorite song here as well

[@pablito4216]

One of my favourite albums and here's another recommendation Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker (post rock)

[@Danstraightedge]

This album is a joke on so many levels. A brilliant tone that flows all the way through the album. Everyone at their peak on instruments. Song writing at its finest. Just peak. In my top ten ever.

[@guillodean]

Great reaction and good foreshadowing from QOTSA as Lullabies to Paralyze as referenced on Mosquito Song was the title of their next album

[@XtremeKillah101]

Most of the songs are about drugs. For example in the song six shooter when he’s screaming “shoot” it’s from the perspective of heroin saying “I’ll kill your best friend , what you gonna do?”

[@Remedy462]

Come a little bit closer and get untied. 💉

[@bobby_c07]

This and their self titled are by far their best. Few vocalists on this, main vocalist is Josh Homme, who is the front man of the group. The harsh screams are done by Nick Oliveri, the bassist at the time who was unfortunately fired not too long after this album hah. Miss that guy in QOTSA's sound. And the deeper sultry vocals are done the late Mark Lanigan. The drums on this album are handled by Dave Grohl, and are probably my favourite drum performance from him since In Utero by Nirvana.

[@puppetmaster8551]

Like clockwork> self titled. Self titled does kickass tho and SFTD is a masterpiece but self titled definitely aint far better than like clockwork. Also Gene trautmann did drums on millionaire and go with the flow, grohl did the rest tho

[@bobby_c07]

@@puppetmaster8551 like clockwork is a good album but I don't like it more than s/t, or lullabies for that matter.

[@Rll_2206]

Sometimes I dream about an alternate world where Nick Oliveri was still in QOTSA.

[@puppetmaster8551]

@@bobby_c07 for me I’d take both EV and LC over either ST or lullabies. They’re all very good tho

[@puppetmaster8551]

@@Rll_2206 I don’t think it would matter, Mikey can scream very well, it’s just not needed because of the direction Josh took their sound. Mikey can do literally everything Nick can and contributes a bunch of other instruments to the recording of each album. I love the music they created when Nick was in the band but I also love the post Nick material and I think Mikey is a better musician.

[@vemooo3573]

Yesssss, i've been waiting for this

[@C134B]

I wish I could travel back in time when I didn't know this band existed ans then listen to this album for the very first time.

[@Tobes_6]

I've watched a shit ton of videos breaking down the themes and concept of the album and it was dope to see you pick up on some high level things I didn't at first.

[@atrus3823]

I'm old enough to have had this on CD and mosquito song was originally a hidden track. I sold my CDs years ago, so I can't confirm, but I seem to recall it being unlisted. I always think of a song for the deaf as the closer. Edit: it also didn't include the real song for the deaf.

[@guitarheroplayer-fs5js]

Apparently the real song for the deaf is hidden on the CD. you have to have a special CD player that can access track 0.

[@atrus3823]

​@@guitarheroplayer-fs5js​that's crazy. Just looked it up and seems like you have to rewind from the beginning of first track into minus time. I had that CD for years and never knew that.

[@JamMastaJew]

This was one of my favorite albums for many years but I hated six shooter so much that I straight up deleted the file from my itunes pretty early on. I would listen to the album constantly, just without the one track. Any time I'm reminded it exists it surprises me.

[@neolbioldey]

SHOOT SHOOOT SHOOT SHOOOT POOOOOOOOOOW!!!!

[@JayPhonomancer]

Great reaction. I say go for their previous album Rated R next. Its quite similar in ways but a bit shorter and so diverse sound-wise. I think it often gets unfairly overlooked. It also contains the best song Lanegan ever recorded with them - In the Fade, one of their absolute greatest

[@CheckTheWiki]

I didn't expect Qotsa to be something you hadn't heard. That album feels like really recent music to me but either you're an experiment to grow an adult human that's never heard music before and you've recently hatched from a vat of bio-culture and started making videos or I'm just getting old. If "newer" stuff isn't off the table maybe try Death from Above 1979's "You're a Woman, I'm a Machine" or Justice's "Cross".

[@jdbmd1499]

This is the best rock album that has come out since the 90s.

[@PlayingGilly]

Remember buying this album in 02, fucking life changing experience.

[@coffeewizard0]

YESSS DUDE this album is amazing. Love your videos bro

[@joshmiller6228]

you should totally check out lil ugly mane's volcanic bird enemy and the voiced concern

[@PeterPeter-]

I loved this album, check out Girl with basket of fruit by xiu xiu or Lamb as Effigy. Your vibes are immaculate bruv

[@mawtymawty9010]

Greatest driving album of all time

[@towarzyszbeagle6866]

I'm going to go against the grain and say if you do another of theirs do Era Vulgaris. They basialy deconstruct their own sound and it's amazing.

[@The_Beautifully_insane]

The drummer of the album is Dave grohl of nirvana and lead of foo fighters

[@morkmon]

Gonna see them next weekend and am so excited

[@neolbioldey]

"I love those drums" what everyone says. Because Dave Grohl is amazing

[@ForARide]

Just watched your reaction to the banana album by the Velvets. On Waiting For The Man and All Tomorrow's Parties you can hear John Cale's repetetive piano clusters, that have had such an influence in Punk and Alternative music. Listen to Iggy Pop's debut, the selftiteld The Stooges album, produced by John Cale, who plays the sleighbells and piano on I Wanna Be Your Dog. David Bowie used the same concept in Heroes, or Roxy Music wirh Do The Strand and Virginia Plain. And there sre plenty plenty more.

[@Mikeys_Shows]

you should do like clockwork or self titled and i heard you talked ab king gizzard so i suggest high visceral pt 1 by psychedelic porn crumpets

[@dan.j.boydzkreationz]

Yeah, Noone Knows is the second track. So it is indeed jumbled. God in the Radio has a similar feel to "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum

[@UndercoverNormie]

Dude's grooving through this whole album like I was in 2002... and 2012... and 2022... and 2024...

[@j.prt.979]

The first song is a troll yeah. Very jokey band Edit: Mosquito Song was originally a bonus song btw, so it does technically end on the title track.

[@loganvf8718]

Should definitely check out Rated R by them next

[@severancedenied]

Are u ever gonna do the albums that lost in the previous polls (I need that other Alex G reaction)

[@smags1082]

Yeah I wanna cover race or another one because I love trick but I’m not sure when

[@elusory3735]

He just keeps on Smagging through these albums

[@Tobes_6]

Do QOTSA self titled or lullabies to paralyze soon

[@paddymcgrath7636]

Just binged a few of your vids... Love the way you pace it and let the tracks breathe. Would love to hear your thoughts on S.C.I.E.N.C.E by Incubus

[@blabo96]

Awesome, please do more QOTSA! :) Any album is a great pick really, my favorite is Lullabies to Paralyze

[@huntersimpson3547]

If you liked this I really think you would like 13 Songs by Fugazi

[@liesinred1]

The video for go with the flow is so good

[@Throbbello]

Really hoping you do their other albums. Not a single bad album of theirs

[@TheB1gBeav]

Should listen to era vulgaris by them or like clock work

[@sashapearce680]

would love to see you listen to some idles

[@goc9508]

One of the best Rock albums of all time no doubt

[@davidn5269]

Hell yeah, love these guys and love this album

[@TheCinnyBun]

listen to pink by Boris goat

[@filop_6498]

absolutely worth checking out

[@Zavala1]

Two tracks in it's the greatest album ever.

[@smoshbooz]

Absolutely

[@henryhopton2944]

could you do elliott smith's from a basement on the hill? would be PERFECT for u to react to!!! it hits on every level and blows ur mind!!

[@alisonmather1031]

Dude all their albums. All of em

[@Snotboogie]

Can you react to Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta

[@philnolan9903]

Album is iconic/standout/ legendary

[@Remedy462]

Life's the study of dying, how to do it right! 🤘

[@bodolfhalvgud1269]

I would love for you to check out Wild Heart by Current Joys. Easily one of my favorite albums of all time

[@joshuadeshaies7266]

This ENTIRE ALBUM was kick ass bro!!!

[@ElVodkat]

Oh man, this is one of my fav albums of all time, I haven't watched the video yet but I hope you like it. Also, I'd recommend "Fugazi - The Argument", if you liked Leaves Turn Inside You then you're gonna like this one

[@matthewburton3299]

Like Clockwork, please please please :)

[@ishowspeed8813]

Aja by Steely Dan is a must listen

[@_ben_miller]

Their 2nd album, rated r, is nearly as good. The lows are lower than s4td, but the highs are very high.

[@Qwertyuiopaz]

Why do my comments get removed? I know I may be annoying but I didn't think they were THAT bad...

[@smags1082]

What did you comment

[@Qwertyuiopaz]

@@smags1082 Beck's fifth studio album. For some reason KZbin doesn't like the title (even tho it isn't anything bad). Someone else also recommended you this

[@ScannyProductions]

thats dave ghrol on the drums breh. better recognize.

[@parkourguy4567]

Did you react to the black parade yet?

[@entabruh]

BANGER BANGER

[@Therap1ssed]

Stoner rock is great. You'd probably love you some Melvins.

[@TownesJoshua9]

figured id share my two cents on god is in the radio: evangelists used to claim that the devil is in the radio, and you heard the religious station playing on 'do it again'. I think its the bands way of poking fun at them and just a lil f u from josh and mark

[@callumiscool576]

In no one knows the song is about drugs and the good effects the bad effects and the unknown effects but no inevitable knows

[@Zavala1]

Get Spiderland right down your gullet, please.

[@smags1082]

I did spider land. But I like it more now than I did in the review

[@Zavala1]

@@smags1082 Bah. I'm not familiar with your lore. Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol?

[@Zavala1]

You rascal! You've done that too.

[@dakotawaite7965]

@@Zavala1 he did that one too haha