The best Queens of the Stone Age riffs
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2023
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Songs for the Deaf really is a masterpiece. Pure magic. The stars were aligned at that point in time.
Josh is frequently aligned
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Lanagan's vocals.....man, there will never be another like him. Fell in love with that guy's voice back when he was in Screaming Trees.😟
@@asdf9890 Indeed
R rated is where the stars were aligned my friend this also a great piece tho
“Keep Your Eyes Peeled” melts my face every time
Agree!
Same. In my top 3 QotSA songs period.
Turning on the Screw has such a great riff, but my favorite by far and the one riff that got me instantly hooked to Queens of the stone age has to be in Sick Sick Sick, the riff that comes right after the first chorus. God, what a tone
Same here!! Its so unique and tasty
The riff that got me into them in the first place - Regular John. It is so ridiculously simple, that it just highlights how important all the other elements are to make a truly great song/riff.
Lullabies to Paralyze is not only my favorite QOTSA album but one of my favorite albums of all time.
My theory was that Smooth Sailing was originally supposed to be a Them Crooked Vultures song.
God is in the radio also has one of my all time favorite solos.
That track has two of my all time favorite solos. Properly need a moment after each listening on a half decent speaker.
Oh my god yes
There are two solos, both are incredible. Great great song.
Best solo of the 2000s from 2000-2010 those solos lived rent free in a lot of peoples heads
Gotta say "I think I lost my headache" is definitely one of my favourites!
Am I alone in thinking The Blood Is Love is the best thing ever? Ace video, as always.
Came here to say this! With the snare right before the riff kicks in, man it gets me every time
It's one of their absolute best deep cuts and one of the best songs on Lullabies for sure. Incredible groove
That's my favorite song
@TheGavman007 I am glad that you made this comment. That little part is something truly special. So powerful. It's like casually dancing before turning around to find you need to run.
Best riff on lullabies
ST:
- If Only
- How to Handle a Rope
- You Can't Quit Me Baby (the bridge section, i know it's more of a chord progression of a riff but it's just so good)
R:
- I Think I Lost My Headache
- Infinity
SFTD:
- Go With The Flow (again, more of a chord progression but come on)
- The Sky Is Fallin'
LTP:
- Precious and Grace (obvs it's a cover but the way they play just has so much balls)
EV:
- 3s & 7s
- Into the Hollow
LC:
- I Sat By The Ocean (slide riff)
- My God Is The Sun
Villains:
- The Evil Has Landed
- Domesticated Animals
ITNR:
- Negative Space
- Carnavoyeur (bass)
Battery Acid and Made to Parade deserves a mention
I love every single QOTSA riff but In The Fade and Give The Mule What he Wants live rent free in my head and I'm very ok with it. Amazing tones you summoned there!!
"My God is the Sun" def has one of my fave QUOTSA riffs ever
Took like 10 years of listening to it but at some point the chorus for Do It Again really clicked with me. Dang that is a dirty one!
Do it Again should’ve been on the list for sure. Though of it more as a song I like rather than a riff
@@LivingroomGearDemos What is a riff anyway? ;-)
Loved your list btw, definitely a lot of my favourites too!
Josh and QOTSA just don't know how to write a bad riff, or song for that matter. They are all bangers
the riffs on in times are amazing. obscenery, carnavoyeur, straight jacket…
My favourite solo is Leg of Lamb.
Simple and overlooked. 🤘
If Only, First It Giveth, Sick, Sick, Sick, 3s and 7s, My God Is The Sun, Paper Machete are some of my other favourites, great list!
“Tension Headache” and “Lost Art of Keeping a Secret” are some tasty riffs.
Lullabies...I love this album so much! Great Riffage and textures all along!
Yes, I love Lullabies too!
It's hard to pick a favorite, but The Sky is Fallin' has to be one of their best and most underrated
Edit: Also need to mention Tangled Up in Plaid. So fucking good
Damn those are two solid asf picks and two of my favorites as well
If there's one song that sounds so different across their whole discography it's definitely that one, gotta love it
My two favorite QOTSA songs
I love Sky is Fallin. The intro and then main riff get stuck in my head randomly so often.
Yes yes and yes again
The quality of your video content and production makes it just a delight to watch. It's like a cool TV show to me.
Please consider added chapters to videos like these
The Regular John and First it Giveth riffs are big favourites of mine
Youre by far my favorite Queens related channel on UA-cam. Really great tone in this video too
Great job w these riffs and tone is killer
The verse riff from 'The sky is fallin' is one of my favourites
paper machete slaps hard
millionaire is truly mindblowing and exciting both the riff and the song
Just noticed that my favorite songs are actually synth driven: In The Fade, Misfit Love and Kalopsia 😅 By the way, you nailed it as always!
Misfit love is a fucking masterpiece it’s in my top 3 with i appear missing and better living through the chemistry
You Sir still continue to nail the Queens tones and playing. Hell yeah.
So glad you included Better living through chemistry, I think I lost my headache and someone’s in the wolf. They are my favs. I do have a soft spot for little sister too
Great playing! All the riffs sounded killer
You do some EXCELLENT playing and tone work of some awesome tracks!
Thank you kindly!
I sometimes get a tear in the corner of my eye. Greatest fucking riffs on the planet.
Sounds so RAW !
I think my all time favourite riff by them has to be Avon!
Song for the Deaf is such an amazing song, it's so haunting I wish they played it more
the tones are just perfect. you just mastered QOTSA tones
If only and Give the mule what he wants, like how Josh plays it in that one interview
Terrific!
Head like a haunted house is also a masterpiece
Hell yea for including infinity one of my favorites and not nearly mentioned enough
Great list dude!
awesome job!!!
Great playing and great tone! Very cool video
Thanks a lot!
You nailed it with this list 100%! They have so many simple yet effective riffs on pretty much every album, even if I like some albums more than others. I think in particular their first 3 albums and Era Vulgaris have their best straight up stoner rock/metal riffs, and anything afterwords is more ambiguous riff-wise with more going on with singing and added instrumentation and stuff: for example, I love the title track to Like Clockwork, but there's no riff lol
Millionaire definitely is my fave as well. Awesome job.
Only channel I trust for this stuff. Have u met the main man yet?
nope!
@@LivingroomGearDemosshame! You should!!!
Seriously....Josh Homme needs to come sit down with you
Lullabies is literally on of the best albums ever.. also it's the perfect Halloween album
Yea! October album. Will listen all October
Sometimes i forget what an amazing songwriter josh is
Loved this video, great span across the records.
Can you do a similar version of this with bass lines? I’d love to hear You Can’t Quit Me Baby as that’s one of my favourites, most of the first album was played by josh apart from Mule which was Chris Goss, but over the years there have been so many cool bass riffs lurking in the songs from many different players
Some of my favourite riffs are in the Era Vulgaris album, Sick, Sick, Sick, I'm designer, 3's & 7's, Make it with chu, Battery acid, the bonus track Era Vulgaris...so underrated.
I didn't expect to see Infinity! Great list btw
I just saw them in Nashville...mind completely blown!
I would like to have seen Sick Sick Sick here. It's a great little riff.
Smooth sailing best riff 👌
They really do have some epic riffs, but most importantly, they’re memorable songs with beautiful melodies.
Impossible to sort these...they're all great. Nonetheless my favorite might be "Tension Head" depending on when you'd ask me.
My favorite riff from qotsa is from tangled up in plaid
Bravo!
10:22-10:32 I don't know what you call it but those step downs in the chords / riff is just so satisfying and just triggers unexplainable things in my brain
Sounding awesome man! I’m curious - what are your favorite stings for C Standard?
Qotsa a have so many riffs that are without doubt world class!
All awesome but... GIVE THE MULE WHAT HE WANTS simple classic. Also.. MEDICATION there's so much great stuff👍
Great video!
Nice Pics lol!! Would Love to see a part 2 to this man!
Misfit Love, 3's and 7's, Songs for the Deaf, Sick Sick Sick, Lost Art
Song for the Deaf is in there man!
Well done putting Turnin On The Screw on the list! I love noisy rock.
Someone's in the Wolf is the best riff imo but at least it made it into your list
Also i am so glad that Walking on the Sidewalks was one of the picks. That one immediately popped into my head when you mentioned a song from the first album with a weird riff
QOTSA definitely one of the best bands and there live show is amazing! Just two more weeks before I see them again! So glad you played god is on the radio, one of my favorite songs. Hope you do some desert sessions songs at some point.
For Song for the Dead, you have the notes right, but move your hand up to the 13th fret on the low C string and play them there. That's how Josh plays it live.
Every single one of these are absolute bangers, but Song for the Deaf makes me feel that emotion I only get from listening to Queens.
Millionaire is an all-timer. I think Josh slides into the note in the main riff tho, no?
Thanks for the great QOTSA content as always!
Absolutely agree with almost everything, especially with Turning on the screw and Millionaire but... Where's the I'm designer?
As a huge QOTSA fan, much love for your video's as always!
Quite interesting to hear about the double G tuning on 'Someone's in the Wolf'.
You sure about this? is this also true for 'The Funmachine took a shit and died'?
I guess that this is in line with most EODM stuff and some TCV songs.
To only choose 15 riffs from QOTSA is really hard, but I do really miss '3's and 7's'.
I'm pretty sure. Don't remember, but I think I saw it on a set list that ended up online. It said "Weird G" next to Wolf. I think a lot of people talked about it on a forum post, and someone chimed in and talked about one G being some cents flat. Same tuning as Fun Machine, yes.
Its been a while but always played someone's In the wolf open C but yours sounded way better.
The Songs for the Dead riff during the versus I always thought of in this way of, as if your hand is moving too quick or sloppy to hit all the right notes but u get the important ones, type of playing.
Awesome video man
My favourite riff is Era Vulgaris.
So much fun in that riff! 🤘
awesome riffs, but i think one of the most underrated ones and that hit really good is River in The Road
Nice Gretch Corvette! Got one of my own. Homme inspired me to get it of course
it's a Dunable Cyclops
Very nice lesson, thanks. What Guitarstrapmodel ist that?
You could even make another video “15 Great Queens Riffs (that You Chose!)” of your favorites from the comments that weren’t in this video😉
Nice work! The riff on In My Head is super simple but awesome, particularly the second verse, which uses some unusual intervals like a major 7th (C-B...WTF?) that sound beautifully empty and eerie.
True that’s an underrated one, or maybe I am just biased because it got me into qotsa into the first because i heard it on the nfs u2 soundtrack
Regular John, If Only, Paper Machete, Straight Jacket Fitting, and one from Kyuss: Demon Cleaner, i love that one
Such an awesome jacket
So many great pics and comments already but don’t forget the pure simplicity and huge tone of Avon
Would love to see you do Avon
Amazing work man!!!! What string gauge you and josh use for standart C tuning? Thank youu
Mammoth Slinky 12-62
No 3’s and 7’s?? 😢
But great video man 👍
I was curious, what kind of settings do you run on the VT-40?? And do you always use a Boss OD as a Boost?
walking on sidewalks is epic
Amazing song
Oh yeah, How to handle a rope is such an underrated song and riff
Infinity!!
MY GOD INFINITY WHAT A SONG
3's & 7's and Little Sister are both in there for me
Tangled up in plaid is probably my favorite riff
Yeah, it's up there!
Way too many great songs, riffs and albums to name a favorite.
What was the Way Huge filter pedal you mention but never really show directly to the camera though? Just curious.
I saw them in Pittsburgh last month and it was absolutely incredible. A vast improvement from last time in 2018 when Josh was drunk. They were firing on all cylinders this time. I even got Troy's pick he threw out at the end of the show! 😎
It’s A Overrated Special. Dumble style drive. Josh has one on his board. Don’t know how he uses it, but it had a great eq control for those tones
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What guitar is the one with E on the headstock? Looks nice!
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Infinity F YESS!!!
I cry for avon
Just realized that none of the riffs from The Fun Machine being on here is kinda crazy i think
Run pig run is a honorable mention
yup!
Tension head is one of my favourite riffs off all time inside one of those songs i never listen to, simply because i dont like it. Go figure.
And as always, killer video! this chanel is incredible