Rickshaw

[@dftns19]

This is probably my favorite song ever, and only the kind of people who would look this up on youtube have ever heard it.

[@karlmueller6668]

Orange juice. Frozen.

[@pameladeering2450]

haha mine too!

[@fourscoressevenbeersago466]

😉

[@SunofShasta]

Same...unite!

[@colinamacdonald]

People who get it, get it. We always circle back to this song.

[@strarlkoobant]

I can never just hear this once, it has to be like 10 times in a row.

[@LeonardBirch]

I don't know about any one else, but to me this is how music should sound. Transcending time and feeling, and reaches out to space as something entirely more grand than those who created it.

[@scarlettj8439]

Great description of what's going on here

[@slickback5100]

"You can ask for orange juice frozen."

[@Swashbuckler9x]

Truly poetic

[@tobydmv]

Damn, I remember getting this CD for Christmas in '96 or 97. When I finally took the headphones off it was Easters.

[@SpaceCadet1]

Best Desert Sessions tune after "Coward's way out" - my only regret is that Qotsa never recorded a proper cover of this.

[@dylandrumhero6]

Was too good to change, kinda like when they re did born to hula but it wasn’t as good as the original.

[@stevecasey506]

The older stuff like this is where it’s at. Qotsa never gets old though.

[@madatown]

hands down, best song of all the desert sessions.

[@kent387]

I like other Desert Sessions tracks, but none of them come close to this one!

[@TheJamaicanPhoenix]

I showed this to a coworker's kid who was getting into rock and roll, and it utterly blew his mind.

[@jacobtylerjoyce8169]

8 years later hes probably the next Josh Homme.... tell em hit me up ill be in his band

[@SuperFZL]

There really is no experience quite like the Desert Sessions. It's like peeking into a rockstar's mind and seeing all the raw, unpolished songlets and ideas.

[@yeahyeahye123]

Just recently I found out about a cool connection with their recent song "My God is the Sun". The drum track at the end of this song is in the beggining of that one. Cool, huh?

[@NegoClau]

I never thought like that. I always saw a connection with THE SKY IS FALLING, from Songs for the Deaf...

[@racetucker56]

This song sounds like it could’ve been off Songs For The Deaf

[@bossdamon]

Time signatures in this song are crazy. Goes from 12/8 - 16/8 - 12/8 - 13/8

[@GamingLadJosh]

I never realized that before that’s really cool. I always wondered why this song had such an odd feeling to it and now I know lol

[@jackelracer593]

Also the dual drums

[@captainDL3]

Who’s drumming on this?

[@thinkusstinkus]

@@captainDL3 If I remember right this part of desert sessions might have had Grohl in it, but I could be wrong.

[@Koa9125]

​@@captainDL3 it's gene trautmann on the left and adam maples on the right

[@segaprophet]

All these years later, desert sessions is still a fucking treat.

[@glennsamhain9185]

many years

[@somniferumshine]

this is pure magic along with rickshaw and spiders and vinegaroons,very hard to just listen...i start to jam w these old songs w my guitar

[@dunniedun]

i want to cry

[@tylerbailey5750]

Get a camaro and drive real fast thru the desert with the headlights off

[@racetucker56]

Go ahead, we’re all doing it

[@paul8079]

Back when Brant and Josh used to work together. I wish they could mend fences. When lawsuits get involved, it probably is the end. That was the end of Kyuss. But we still have the tunes to remember the amazing ride.

[@kyusswm]

Josh and Brant is the dream, but I would settle for some Josh and Scott stuff! They seem to be on good terms, still. Reeder is such an underrated part of a lot of Kyuss's music imo.

[@mawtymawty9010]

Every so often I binge this song for a week. If every song I write could make me feel the way this one does, I'd be happy

[@freezknotable]

Now playing on Freezknotable: Best of Stoner Rock QOTSA/Desert Sessions "Rickshaw" 1999.

[@racetucker56]

Haven’t heard this one in a while. Glad it popped back in my head tonight.

[@torib9348]

This is hands down my favorite song in existence.

[@rexbanner7256]

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[@QOTSAPT]

i think both versions are great i advise everyone to check the other version

[@Vanoffy]

A masterpiece.....great drumming along with the peerless voice of you know who.

[@stevenruffley1519]

Sweet jesus. What a record this is!

[@jale2053]

Shit I love this song so much. Imagine hearing this live in the middle of a desert.

[@Multibjarne]

One of my favourite songs!

[@modernlover0rosalyn]

Damn the drums are ripping this shit up 🖤

[@merthling]

I'm an avid lover of anything and everything Josh so much as breathes on musically. Has anyone else noticed similar approaches to music sonically as well as lyrically between Elliot Smith and Josh Homme, especially josh's early stuff. I'm by no way implying either one was ripping the other I just hear so many parallels between their music. As a fan of both I think it's great, especially since both lean on introspective and dark subject matter with choruses sung in falsetto, my favorite!

[@Heuh999]

As both a long-time Josh Homme and Elliott Smith listener, I'm very curious about this opinion. Would you care to elaborate ?

[@miltontheportablephone2222]

Pierre P apparently not. LOL.

[@ShinyChamelion]

Just discovered this yesterday. Disappointed in myself haha

[@taylorperkins89]

Holy crap, that chorus

[@SquirrelyAllin]

This song is THE ONE.

[@fabreezethefaintinggoat5484]

the mid riff is so catchy

[@lady5138]

Somehow my most olayed song of 22

[@alph2600]

We need Desert Sessions 11 - 12

[@AzaMcG]

Albert Davies guess what...

[@superduty2156]

this is the 1st time ive heard this song.....its AMAZING....RAWK ON!

[@umeuwe]

quintessential desert rock couldn't live on anything else

[@blowie704]

Ever heard the one Queens did under the plastic turks name? its very different, sludgier

[@NicholasAFigueroa]

Thanks man... i knew gene had to be in this album somewhere.

[@Wellgren]

Notice that this is recorded with dual drumsets! ;)

[@dather2215]

@peachmelba1000 They used to play it live as either 'Rickshaw' or 'Sherbert'. The latter was a demo on their first release, before their debut album. Same song, but Sherbert is more....muffled

[@WetCactusBand]

SOLID GOLD!

[@RushAnthem69]

Sadly I believe Gene was only on two of the Desert Sessions.

[@DrunkenGamblinMan]

great song. Pure desert rock!!!

[@derranged28]

So many versions. Like this one best.

[@mattliable1987]

what two drummers...

[@erikdavies2572]

QotSA never recorded their own studio version of 'Rickshaw', there's only the Desert Sessions version and the very early demo 'Sherbert' which differs notably from vibe to tempo to audio quality. Some may be confusing this song with 'Born To Hula' which did have multiple studio versions QotSA recorded (three of them).

[@tecnoguy1136]

I would say it was worked into my god is the sun tbh

[@SLXXP_DXPRIVXD_MILO]

what

[@spasmionka]

It's so God damn hard and soft at the same time...

[@Rekkkkkkkk]

can't get much better than this

[@peachmelba1000]

in spite of the fact that its on a DS's disc I always think of this as a qotsa song

[@monkeybrain9859]

Be careful whatchu wish for...

[@svtman93]

I love that bass line soo much

[@user-hq8mx7mn3u]

Im gonna go and say that I don't think its pims in your head I think its pins

[@Blake_.Dryden]

it's pims. .. . not supposed to be sensical

[@brianwensing4766]

Cool Take of this track... Without Googling further, I'll say it sounds like Pete Stahl on lead vocal on this version.....

[@KnoxRogers]

+Brian Wensing Sounds like all Josh on vocals to me... Stahl was only involved with 1-4.

[@CephalicZyklon]

+Knox Rogers john garcia was involved in this recording

[@candybainbridge8655]

The credits don't list Josh as vocals on this one. In fact it's unlisted and I don't know why

[@Multibjarne]

Adam Maples and Gene Troutman

[@SimonMittermaier]

there were two drums in this track

[@strarlkoobant]

i could listen to this all day

[@Macfly77422]

Thanks to what we can actually hear on the website today, it appears you are right sir.

[@jogga16]

@albooga its bands called the plastic turks. before they were called Queens.... same name of the song. Its heavier than this. I love both but prefer this :P

[@komputnik]

Prototype for "My God Is The Sun" ;-)

[@peachmelba1000]

@albooga pims are cookies, UK cookies

[@FabFab14]

this song makes me sploosh.

[@Rekkkkkkkk]

that chorus is epic!

[@ShadowStrikker]

I wonder if this will be one of the songs on the new QOTSA album, they always have something from Desert Sessions

[@seedyv1]

Call me a late bloomer on this one. Must've passed over it. Currently my favorite thing that Homme's done to date. Not so crazy about the mgits spin-off. Especially after hearing where it came from. Should've left it be.

[@robgraves651]

What a fuckin’ song! Could listen to this until my ears bleed.

[@sdpstuff]

This song makes you high

[@Qotsafin]

oh faaak yeah ! ive been searching that song like years !!

[@GawdMachine]

This kicks much ass!

[@ufowam]

@peachmelba1000 qotsa actually have this song on one of their albums... i don't remember which one though

[@iluire]

Yeah i don't either,but the lyrics make just as much sense to me ;-)

[@whylus]

Sherbert has a way stronger Kyuss vibe too. It's more mellow and fuzzed-out.

[@hudsonmarco]

@Wheresmyaccount I pretty much do listen to this all day

[@ZeWarlord]

@peachmelba1000 I thought Pimms is a liqueur?

[@naugles89]

Can i ask for more music like this, although i could go for some tortuous membrane

[@albooga]

@scrawky I know he says pims. I was asking what are pims?

[@hps69]

I listened to the Qotsa version first.. this version is so much heavier

[@NicholasAFigueroa]

Hey, Does anyone know who's playing drums on this song?

[@kondziowy123]

magnum opus w chuj

[@HellsFury-fu3qk]

I can now see how my god is the sum was influenced

[@iwillneverpostavideo]

I gotta say, this blows the QOTSA version out of the water.

[@poopbuttmcgee]

They're like completely songs in tone. The QOTSA version is my drudging and windy while this a bit bouncier and rocking. I like both but if you were to argue which version is better you'd be heavily opinionated no matter which side you take.

[@raisinman1870]

they're two completely different songs, the lyrics and the music are both different, they both have their own sound, one can't really be better...

[@iwillneverpostavideo]

Apples and oranges are two different fruits but you can still have a preference, can you not? Cars and trains are different but you can still have a preference, yeah? In fact, the only way you COULDN'T have a preference is if the songs were the exact same. But you seem to be saying that's necessary?

[@justinsistrunk2641]

You can ask for symmetrical planning

[@TakeItBrendanLSD]

you can ask for orange juice frozen

[@3drumming7]

@Migas128 I think I have to be high to get that.

[@Yee2128]

Rickshaw

[@jogga16]

got it on my ipod. its awesome : )

[@LLMelvinL]

Great song should be on the next album!

[@thegreatslothlord7796]

God, I wish that was the case as this could’ve made such an awesome transition into “My god is the sun” from Like Clockwork.

[@mauricezwart]

@albooga QOTSA - Richshaw

[@djinnisequoia]

I love sonds in 3/4 time!

[@rgarrow92]

hey does that have anything to do with conan troutman the song by kyuss

[@scottbird5050]

Gaaaawd this is so badassss

[@lemonsashimi]

Who's drumming on this track?

[@robertmccormack1208]

You can ask for orange juice frozen

[@AVOY66]

Sounds like Taylor playing the drums.

[@SpaceCadet1]

@GuitarristA1quimista Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely look into it :) I actually have a Rickshaw song by Qotsa in my computer, but it's a pretty fuzzy and uninspiring demo recording from the sounds of it. Oh and I apologize for the typo in my previous message, the correct title of the other song is "Cowards Way Out" :]

[@erciocampos218]

Sensacional!

[@albooga]

@nekftw The QoTSA version? Where can I find that? DIdn't know a 'QoTSA version' existed

[@RushAnthem69]

You can ask for any old woman.

[@trrrewr]

...oh you

[@borrasho34]

i would love it but i don't really think that song snippet it's rickshaw at all... it's similar but it are different notes

[@lucifycrucifer8160]

1:48 -1:56 = Song Snippet #6

[@albooga]

@scrawky What are pims?