Track Listing

1. Turnin' on the Screw
2. Sick, Sick, Sick
3. I'm Designer
4. Into the Hollow
5. Misfit Love
6. Battery Acid
7. Make It Wit Chu
8. 3's & 7's
9. Suture Up Your Future
10. River in the Road
11. Run, Pig, Run

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14232 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-05
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Import

Amazon.com
Latin for "common era," Era Vulgaris holds a pair of common threads with the four Queens of the Stone Age records that preceded it. One, it crosses colossal guitar chords with the most volatile of hard rock melodies. And second, it's as LOUD as loud gets, thanks to Josh Homme, the impatient instigator behind the ever-evolving cast of personalities that make up the band. Detonation comes with track one, as the jagged riffs of "Turning on the Screw" lead the listener into "Sick, Sick, Sick," where Julian Casablancas spews his vocals beneath a wall of multi-guitar catcalls. Although the head Stroke will likely garner the most attention, perpetual Queener Mark Lanegan's velvety pipes earmark two of Era's most booming selections: the funky "Make It Wit Chu" (complete with Temptations-like backing vocals) and the heart-racing three minutes of "River in the Road." Add the garage rock of Homme's "3's & 7's" and "Suture Up Your Future," easy pickings for most likely crossover hit, and Era Vulgaris-- hypnotically and explosively common--holds its own with any in the QoTSA discography. --Scott Holter

Album Description
Two CD Tour Edition of the Alternative Rock band's 2007 album includes four bonus tracks on the first disc: 'Fun Machine Took A Shit and Died', 'Make It Wit Chu' (Acoustic), 'Era Vulgaris' (Richard File Remix) and 'I'm Designer' (Unkle Remix) while the bonus disc features eight additional live tracks recorded in Amsterdam in 2007; 'Monsters In The Parasol', 'Misfit Love', 'If Only', 'I Think I Lost My Headache', 'Into The Hollow', 'Go With The Flow', 'Regular John', 'Avon' and 'Song For The Dead'. Universal. 2008.

Album Details
Japan Edition Includes the Bonus Tracks "Running Joke", "Era Vulgaris", and "Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died".

Customer Reviews

An awe inspiring epic
I own every Queens album except there sadly out of print debut, but this is quite easily the best I've heard. Lullibies almost scared me off with medicore lyrics, dull guitar, or just plain bad delivery on nearly half the songs. But this album has more vision than any record that they've spun out. The songs are interwieving and complex, as well as softer, well not betraying either the bands metal or punkish roots. The lyrics have a deegree of poetry often absent from previous songs the bands made. The dark, vaugely artificial atmosphere is incrediable and inspired. Nothing as good as No One Knows, but some of their best songs. I've collected well reviewed albums for a year, ranging from The beatles to Public Enemy to Miles Davis to Metalica to Bruce Springsteen to My Bloody Valentine to Marvin Gaye to Funkedelic to many more, and this is the first Queens album to really rank up with the classics, except perhaps Songs for the Death. Its at least as good as Sticky Fingers or The Bends. If you can't appreciate this as much as Lullibies at least than I must say your taste must be very narrow.

Whew
I've never heard Queens of the Stone age play like this.

It is sinister, it is clever, it is loud, it is edgy.

WEAK SAUCE!
What happened to these guys? Theres no punch, no depth, no feeling, and horrible lyrics. QOTSA have fallen hard since Nick left. Josh and his ego need to take a vacation. Theyre just sad and weak now. RIP!