Queens of the Stone Age - The Vampyre of Time and Memory

[@bobdole7127]

Fuck, why isn't this album more popular than it is? It's a masterpiece.

[@Zzapp...]

well it was number 1 on the charts when it first came out so :P

[@Zzapp...]

but yeah i agree its a masterpiece and its one of the few albums that's close to my heart lol !

[@Rockerpil]

Indeed, it's a fucking masterpiece!!!

[@frankcowan6625]

it took me a few times but...Christ....this is master level work buds...

[@TheFunkhouser]

Its pure art!

[@PublicEnemyMinusOne]

Josh Homme died...Came back to life and still drinks and smokes....If Rockstar had a fucking face it'd be him! Fucking Legend, Long live the Queens of the Stone Age!

[@julienzealator8006]

ciao wutang when you die and return, in that universe you must claim it was a near-death experience. The mysteries of death are not for the living.

[@gruma37]

Nope. It's just Chuck Testa.

[@RestfulSilent]

ciao wutang If you want to get technical, he did die. He was brought back to life with defibrillator paddles by doctors.

[@kakaokringe]

TofuShofu Daaaam son hahaha

[@BigHeadCross]

***** he dieded? when? how? where? why? I demand that old new!

[@xes4844]

I think this song is about being depressed (i mean really, as a sickness). Depression is like a vampyre that sucks away your feeling of time and memory and most of your emotions (i feel no love). I had a depression myself and recognize this all too well. For me this is a brilliant song.

[@sillyevee8248]

Im pretty sure the songs about how he nearly died

[@qster4]

I believe it's about the sadness/depression that Josh Homme felt when a botched surgical procedure left him bedridden and hospitalized for a long time.

[@spencersmallbridge1496]

@@qster4 Yeah and how he came out of the coma and "felt no love" As said in the lyrics "I'm alive, hooray, youre wrong again cause i feel no love"

[@R3TR0J4N]

loneliness*

[@SebHaarfagre]

I know depression all too well and this hits right home. I've fought it for over 10 years now. I'm still alive. Hooray. Incomplete... Scattered, years of time lost to nothing, I speak, I breathe, even laugh, got great friends. But there is almost no love. The only thing that gives meaning is the one thing that eludes me. I'm apparently a fucking fantastic person and got everything going for me but God knows no girl I want wants me back! ###ing sh##t /rant end (sorry)

[@rafaellacarneiro8607]

I’m in the worst depressive episode of my life and this song describes beautifully how it feels…

[@mavjmonr]

I can relate

[@punkskillcops]

@@mavjmonr me too..

[@Paulo-ii9gx]

I can relate, my current hope is that a bad dream doesn’t last forever

[@davidtelford33]

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do

[@philyeary8809]

Agreed....I'm taking it day by day....

[@HenrySchecker]

this song just makes me cry everytime I hear it. when he says "I'm alive, hooray" I just feel this overwhelming emotion take over me

[@nights1515]

Yeah... except the next line is. You're wrong again 'Cause I feel no love.

[@HenrySchecker]

nights1515 I never said it was happy, I said it was emotional. So what were you trying to prove. Sorry, you don't get to feel like you got one over on anybody here bud.

[@toebeann]

I love when someone replies to a comment that wasn't intended for them in a defensive manner like they're being insulted when they aren't even being spoken to.

[@caltha2720]

He probs has an anime blanket for his bed.

[@BM151]

Beat ya... I always get a thick salty tear when I hear "Not exactly sure anymore"

[@el_torrez75191]

Decade later and this song is still amazing, timeless

[@123halofreak]

Very David Bowie inspired... loved this song and loved the whole album - each track was it's own unique piece of art, and it was incredible. Instant classic.

[@sifodias69]

oui Josh en avait parlé lors d'une interwiew en france et étre inspiré par Bowie est une marque de qualité.

[@FbViTa]

***** Hey kids, you got Bowie in your balads.

[@AddisonPage]

I have always thought of Homme as the "Bowie of Metal".

[@ppnembu]

But he's not a Metal songs composer

[@jenfraher]

Yes. NOLA Austin ny la. Euro pissed

[@dalekay9ine]

No song has hit me so damn hard, for a very, very long time. I've heard this tune many, many times since the day I picked up the album the day it came out, June 3rd 2013. However, I never heard it the way I heard it today, and for that I'm grateful. When a piece of art can make you feel like it's okay to not feel okay, that things might get better, and they also might not, but that if they don't, then you better start changing your perception and reaction to them real fuckin' quick- is a blessing in itself. "Does anybody ever get this right?"

[@novacaine12290]

My favorite line is "to be vulnerable is needed most of all, if you intend to truly fall apart" thinking of getting it tattooed. It reminds me that I need to open up and tell things to people if I want to get to the root of my problems so I can then build myself up from the deconstructed pieces.

[@dalekay9ine]

@@novacaine12290 that is a great line. Would make a great tattoo for sure.

[@tbizzle8040]

2021 and I still can’t get enough of this song!!

[@tbizzle8040]

2023 I’m still here!

[@mi_casa_es_su_casa]

2023

[@salome7773]

The guitar part is filled with so much pain and longing. I could listen to it for years

[@lozbozinator]

I love this new album. It's so moody and dark and beautiful at the same time.

[@theenforcer22]

You still injured Abo?

[@SolidSiren]

Just like QOTSA. Strangest band ever in my opinion. Classic.

[@speedking7224]

even abou diaby likes qotsa

[@kikidamoo]

definitely one of my favorite albums of all time

[@Mephistto]

LYRICS I want God to come and take me home 'Cause I'm all alone in this crowd Who are you to me? Who am I suppossed to be? Not exactly sure anymore (mmm) Where's this going to? Can I follow through? I'll just follow you for a while Does anyone ever get this right? I feel no love Ain't no confusion here, it is as I've feared The illusion that you feel is real To be vulnerable is needed most of all If you intend to truly fall apart You think the worst of all is far behind The Vampyre of time and memories has died I've survived. I speak, I breathe, I'm incomplete I'm alive, hurray! You're wrong again, 'cause I feel no love Does anyone ever get this right? Does anyone ever get this right? I feel no love I feel no love

[@evanabbott2737]

Ricardo Mephistto thanks, buddy👍

[@LaurelLook]

Thank you

[@cherrymoore6497]

Lyric videos are always wrong yet a random dude in the comments gets it right 😂

[@TheFunkhouser]

Ok this is actually epic, like some here have said, a Masterpiece. 2022 and we still hear nothing as good as this omg! 😒😞🙏

[@thegreatslothlord7796]

That's it. Queens Of The Stone Ages needs to make a James Bond theme song.

[@MollySato]

This is such a sad song. The lyrics are like the saddest words in the world; to feel no love. And to me the video is like a testament to mankind's depravity.. ruining all in our path, animals non the least. I don't want it to be so, I want us to change, to be the change we want to see in the world. Because we only have one world...

[@warthogjones]

ALL HAIL THE GINGER ELVIS

[@paulk.794]

Dudes better....🤟 on Josh Homme

[@shadowrunner138]

He's nothing like elvis, wtf? lol

[@boboat86]

Elvis was athief and hack foh

[@justythrasher]

Elvis was an over-hyped nobody. Josh has more talent in his shortest pube than that lame hack ever had.

[@justythrasher]

Elvis was an over-hyped nobody. Josh has more talent in his shortest pube than that lame hack ever had.

[@cherybomber]

One of their best songs ever. Was great seeing this in concert.

[@darkcontender]

Saw them yesterday and this song really hit my soul. I had my eyes closed throughout most of the song and just felt the music and lyrics.. It was a magical moment.

[@geronimoespeche2891]

to be able to take this level of pain and loneliness and turn it into a beautiful piece of music and poetry is just testimony of the marvel that are human beings.

[@hulkabilly1338]

Despite our eventual demise I take solace knowing this music will echo through the cosmos forever, conveying to all it encounters that this is human and is truly divine.

[@frankorena5506]

Wow, not what I was expecting from these guys. A truly great song. And the question: Does anyone ever get this right? So few my man, so few.

[@Dwightpower88]

You're missing out.

[@siddharthagueule]

holy shit i thought i'd seen all the qotsa videos on here, how am i only seeing this now

[@julienzealator8006]

Such an inspiring song, the rhythm, the metre... I like everything about this song, presently.

[@julienzealator8006]

Part of my favorite playlists as of now.

[@malejajim10111]

If depression and near-death experiences is what is needed to create master pieces as this one, so be it... best rock band still standing.

[@hishighnessthedude]

AWESOME!! Longest goosebumps I ever had while watching the interactive video with the lights down ant the volume up. You don't need drugs, this band takes you there man, all my love for this unique and talented ensemble of artists, past and present... they all helped build, what is in my opinion, the most original band of the last 20 years and one of the greatest bands of all time. QOTSA is nothing short than amazing.

[@nataliasafran]

AMEN man, amen!

[@SolidSiren]

Nice to hear someone agrees

[@Psychomantis30]

could be a great 007 bond film soundtrack

[@Wolfir05]

Sheeeet!! Just pictured that on my mind and it would be the greatest trailer ever

[@andremoguel6494]

+Iceman_Nightmare was used in ray donovan lol.

[@JcGross93]

+Iceman_Nightmare Well, I'd much rather have this as Sceptre's theme song than that shitty Sam Smith song.

[@lethelweapon5]

that's what I was just thinking

[@hugosequeira1810]

If 007 was good it might be amazing but the movies are so shit nowadays that it would give this song bad rep

[@mojoflow2417]

Ray Donovan: "forgive me father for I have sinned..."

[@elimartinez204]

mojoflow ☁ "I dont need your fuckin sympathy"

[@d1inonly]

I still feel this song today. It's 2019 and the emotional aspect of it still remains. It's just an Incredible song.

[@jesusenki8509]

Diddo amigo

[@JasonChamberlain]

I cannot express how much I love how sad and strange and subtle and jarring and wonderful this music video is.

[@cormonauta1993]

I want God to come And take me Homme

[@mourning01]

There's always someone funny in youtube

[@xbettiepage2194]

LOVE...

[@norijagar]

except it's pronounced "Hom-Eee" so no that doesn't work

[@dolan_7647]

​@@norijagar​everybody knows that dude, it's a joke not a dick so don't take it too hard

[@ohshit4860]

No I want god to come, and take my hummus

[@StudioAnnLe]

Wow! That was magnificent!

[@pietdern8458]

Axczvbnmwkp

[@romanalmaraz5470]

si

[@JohnnyF-seed]

I love the Bowie vibe to this song.

[@Gin_toybox]

I wish heard this song when it first came out, I grew up listening to "go with the flow"and " no one knows," and I thought that they disappeared, only to find out this came out in 2013 while I only heard now (2021) I will need to make up for that time by listening to it a 10000000 times...

[@party_poison0339]

I love how troy is playing the keyboard in the background at 3:33, he's still doing it at 3:46.

[@mrsleep0000]

You know they had to supply suits for Josh, Mikey, Jon and Dean, Troy showed up dressed like that

[@Tarantula1522]

This track is so fucking good. I'm not religious or anything, but this sounds like the singer laying it all out there for the big guy in the sky to take him out.

[@nicolasiglesias8029]

Not really

[@ThomB1031]

I think it's about Alzheimer's... or at least that's my impression from those of my friends going through having their parents get Alzheimer's.

[@palomareyes1951]

The first line says "I want God to come and take me home"

[@SparktheYoshi]

Josh actually stated this song was written in response to a suggestion from his wife, after he died for a few minutes while on the operating table for a leg surgery then came back to live

[@Ninagiampaolo]

man, this is some seriously good songwriting right here. Love the way this breathes and progresses. Everyone's going off on the video (which I love but whatevs) but would you really just listen to that song!

[@scottrogers9445]

after my own clinical death for 8min and 33secs two yrs ago ,I had read josh H own story of diving on the the table.i have been a hugh fan since. battling the depression and ptsd that comes with was no easy task ,but once again rock and roll was or music and get. was there for me. rock on and live well

[@JackVermicelli]

Why was he diving on the table?

[@thestreetpharmacist2685]

I know this song is supposed to be about a car accident or something personal in Hommes life but this song has always captured perfectly the way I feel once I've been sober for a while. The drugs were always the vampyre of time and memory

[@Wal3R]

Am I the only one who gets kind of a Kubrick's vibe from these synths?

[@mosheparanov]

Walmar neto you mean as in Clockwork? that would be Walter/Wendy Carlos

[@charliecupoftea]

+Walmar neto you are not the only one

[@Wal3R]

+moshe paranov Yeahh, just ...Like Clockwork

[@chase20100]

Quite possibly my favorite Queens of the Stone Age song. I love everything about this song

[@ThatDoodPhoenix77]

Masterpiece. This song hit me deep knowing the context. Just the title of the song gave me chills. QOTSA and Gorillaz are the last few good music video makers out there. Just Perfect.

[@robertsterling951]

Probably one of the most underrated songs from them!!

[@jackhartsough3]

One of the best songs from one of the best bands of all time.

[@marjeketchum1630]

Love this song and video. I listen to it before bed every night lately. It's uplifting, disturbing and macabre but the part celebrating being alive makes me smile and feel good

[@MrCoreySteel]

Holy mother of god. QOTSA you won the internet.

[@weltrand2975]

I get the feeling that the second time the lyrics 'I feel no love' come around, it changes to 'I feel, KNOW love'. I think it would make more sense in the context of the song too.

[@rajkostojanovic]

Marcion Weltrand yeah! that's what i've missed! tx!

[@nickobren1]

Ray Donovan was Oscar plus in the Confession scene then with this song

[@ato72543]

He better win an Emmy before the series is over with!

[@liquidmetaldream]

That scene was just the greatest!!

[@tweetermctweettweet6347]

This song wrecks me, every single time I hear it. It crawls inside me and sends tendrils wrapping around my soul. I feel it down in the pit of my stomach. Cause we're alive. Hurray. We're wrong again. Cause I feel no love. No one EVER gets this right.

[@gnillortmi]

The way he talks about the dark side of love amazes me.

[@jennacarlson2317]

Fav album fav band. The artistry is baffling. Not only with the talent of the musicians, but the lyrics. The lyrics are to me what makes a song, and all of the songs on the Like Clockwork album are written beautifully. Especially Kalopsia... that’s my absolute fav❤️❤️❤️

[@fbfiveohv3]

By FAR, the best rock band working and producing music

[@dangerous.jay2000]

I've LOVED this song since I first heard it in 2013. Its heart breaking how accurate this ties and correlates to my daily struggles. I suffer from depression. Sometimes I just shed tears for no reason. No matter what I do, it isn't enough. Im degreed, I have nice stuff, but im still so very empty. Im alive... hooray 🙄🙄. So what. This just hits a chord thats deep within my soul. Thanks qotsa you're music keeps me going.

[@ninety5tag170]

2021 almost October... how on gods green earth is this not the soundtrack to EVERY horror movie...?

[@luisalbertovillegasibanez2515]

It has its dark side, music lets you travel and that is priceless.

[@KennethSchmitt]

damn straight

[@sebbc91]

The only band that always gives me goosebumps

[@ricardoalmeida1951]

Perfect song for the season finale of Ray Donovan. Awesome!

[@ddddd5ddddd5ddddd5dd]

Since I was 16 I have been listening QOTSA this video shows they mature as everything in life.

[@Bia.56.]

Idk but Troy determinedly playing the synth with one finger at 3:33 is relatable

[@tasos1406]

For me... its the best song of the Queens.... and there many great songs.... but this one its unrepeatable!

[@astroglide420]

I want most of all, for God to take me home, for I'm all alone, in the crowd.

[@juanc1328]

The video telling how immortal love is forever. When all one has is memories, memories of a love one gone.

[@senjikenkryomasa2361]

I wasn’t big fan of slow songs but this one really changes me and love the meaning + piano = masterpiece!

[@crimsonwerecat]

I listen to this song EVERYDAY!!!

[@jenashea]

me to!! hell yeah!!!

[@SolidSiren]

That's not healthy. Same.

[@vivigiappone]

Finally QOTSA are back, welcome back Josh, i've being missing you from Songs for the deaf!

[@ZiPolishHammer]

They never went missing, just listen to Misfit Love.

[@avreegonzalez2337]

I interpret so much through these lyrics. My dad always plays it on bass and I sing my heart out. I love this song!!!

[@danielsamuel5893]

one if not the best Ray Donovan scenes

[@legasiguy551]

Cool tune! Sounds like retro 1970's dark classic rock, Floyd maybe but that's too common of an answer. Many classic rock bands have a deep tune or two, called "deep tracks", usually after track 6 onward.

[@79Rybred]

Agreed. It has kind of a Velvet Underground/Kinks vibe.

[@Chinachik]

I agree. Has a very Bowie-esque vibe to it, too.

[@nights1515]

Agree, lot of this album has a heavy Bowie/Eno influence to them. Keep Your Eyes Peeled is another example that is very Bowieish.

[@Chinachik]

Yeah, man...absolutely true.

[@evilthecat13]

Josh looks like he forgot to do something back at home, but can't remember what it was.

[@PranksInParadise]

The DP of this video, Guy Livneh, really should be credited in the ABOUT section. The cinematography is near breathtaking.

[@SpaceEmos]

I’ve been listening to this since it came out (10 years???) and every so often it’ll gain new meaning for me. Over the past 3 years I’ve been in an extremely low point and have repeated considered ending it all. The words “I’m alive, hooray. You’re wrong again cause I feel no love” just hits home. Just because I lived doesn’t mean I’m better. I still have the uphill road of recovery.

[@bloodycrow1984]

I'm incomplete I'm alive - hooray! You're wrong again 'Cause I feel no love Does anyone ever get this right?

[@doomyman]

this is exactly how I feel

[@AGENTARMES]

I've always enjoyed how QOTSA is always 1 step ahead of their audience but not too far ahead. Just tugging the rope instead yanking it.

[@fuzzyargy]

a close mate of only 46 died just before xmas. Josh would know him... Chris Murray. i just wanted to pass on our loss and his love for you good sir. His best mate.... Greg

[@darbirhian]

His turmoil really comes though in this record. Love it but it is definitely painful.

[@RamonNegreiiros]

uma verdadeira obra de arte

[@Trigode]

da medo esse clipe kkk

[@soda1850]

I used to be a very hopeless romantic but nowadays I relate to this song a lot because I don't feel love anymore. :D I don't desire it and I can't feel it.

[@theliquidarrow2476]

Can't stop listening to this song it's just resonating perfectly with the feel at the moment.

[@arnoldkokonya]

Ray Donovan fucking brought me here. I love that series.

[@Goostafus]

One of the best songs by QotSA, lyrical geniuses!

[@daydreamer611067]

best youtube commercial that had ever happened to me

[@Ade683]

RAY DONOVAN. The best show on TV. The greatest finale of the year. Brought me here. Such a long time to Season 4 :-(

[@IjwPetersen]

I must disagree with 49th's post (although some new KZbin tyranny will not allow me to directly reply to his comment) Queens of the Stone Age's videos have always remained more about the music than the visual. And the visuals have absolutely been what you call "cheesy" before! But only if you ignore that the primacy of the visual in QotSA videos is never intended to supercede that of the auditory. It's like in much of punk music, how the simplicity and brashness of the chords and overall instrumentals may be intended to direct your attention to the lyrics! And those points aside, I think this is one of the most intriguing and intricately detailed videos they've put out so far. My faith in Queens of the Stone Age remains UNSHAKEN, nay, it is STRONGER THAN EVER!

[@MrTrino96]

No Ray Donovan but the awsomeness of Qotsa brought me here.

[@thedasvitania]

Nothing in this world is sexier than QotSA's guitar riffs. I die every time they play.

[@jchrist3764]

Atom, I miss you more than words could say. I wish we could have gotten it right in this lifetime. But alas, you’ve left this world so i guess we’ll have to find them follow one another in the next. Thank you for everything, now come haunt my dreams please.

[@Xoel07]

Masterpiece.

[@XoXo475]

genius. And how amazing is Ray Donovan

[@dragon53777]

+nikovich You mean how amazing is Queens of the stone age lol

[@XoXo475]

those too :-)

[@anonymousbozaboza4387]

All the memories are gone, spark of the youthful passion faded yet we remain alive, we speak, eat, shit and so on. It's our character that is changed, and it may be really sad to say goodbye.

[@Saboterus]

Now this is what I call music. Blues transcended.

[@NicholasAFigueroa]

Awesome video and very different. Loved it. I'm taking a wild guess that the lady in the painting and the interactive video, "Queenie" is none other than the woman from the cover of QOTSA's self-titled debut album. Looks just like her.

[@JerseyMcgee81]

Finally can put to bed those rumors of it being Iman ..

[@kls0110]

I made that connection too

[@laadkins05]

Best album beginning to end. Of all time, personally. 😉

[@jarradnatale8800]

I don’t know when they made a video for that song but that just made me the happiest I’ve been in a very long time

[@zombieskateboards]

Beautiful song and video. One of my all time favorite songs.

[@jenashea]

Please ...stop..you again. Have. Taken my breath away.. no don't stop i fricken love this!!

[@jenashea]

fuck ya dude I would love to can you post the link for it?? I love his music , his every thing, I wish I could tell him so much....

[@jenashea]

I checked it out dude pretty sweet thanks for that !! I made a face book pae chek it out if you can dude its pretty bad ass facebook.com/pages/Queen-Of-Stone-Age/322885451183727

[@jenashea]

hell yeah man I sent you a message so check it out :)

[@ronrui5108]

This song is amazing, great lyrics, nice video, pura vida stone age!!!!!

[@mikemolcule234]

I love this band so much

[@pimpammotojam444]

I cant stop listening to this. this is my life. i feel no love.