Them Crooked Vultures

From the Editors

THEM CROOKED VULTURES -- a/k/a DAVE GROHL (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), JOSHUA HOMME (Queens of the Stone Age) and JOHN PAUL JONES (Led Zeppelin) -- has confirmed November 17, 2009 as the release date of its eponymous debut album in the United States and Canada on DGC/Interscope Records. <P>The self-produced 13-song record will feature the debut of the studio versions of the material Them Crooked Vultures unveiled at its August 9 debut at Chicago's Cabaret Metro and played on a first series of shows throughout a handful of UK and European cities and portions of the eastern U.S., wrapping up with an October 15 appearance at New York's Roseland Ballroom. <P>Additional shows are being announced in the wake of the album's release.
Album Description

Customer Response

All kinds of influences
I stumbled into the tail end of this group's performance on Austin City Limits.
Everyone looked vaguely familiar but I couldn't quite figure out who they were. I was impressed with the weirdness of the music, and in particular the tightness of the rhythm section. When they flashed the credits at the end I understood a little better why I had enjoyed the show.

I love King Crimson, Adrian Belew, David Bowie, and of course Led Zep, and I am hearing touches of all of them in this music. John Paul Jones IMO is the star of this set, but then again, Dave Grohl is pretty much a wild man behind the skins as well. And I hear all kinds of frippertronic/belew-style touches from Joshua Homme.

Without the disc in my hands as I write this, I can still point to Bandoliers, Gunman, Scumbag Blues, and Warsaw as my favorite songs.

Now that I've seen and heard them they're showing up everywhere.
My buddy said they were on SNL recently, and I know they also were on Jimmy Kimmel's show because I saw the YouTube videos. What makes me glad is that I wasn't sure who I was seeing that first afternoon when I caught them on Austin City, but I knew that I liked 'em. That works better for me than hearing relentless hype about something and then having all kinds of expectations that never pan out.

Vinyl AND MP3 a Great Idea but...
I still have a large collection of vinyl and occasionally buy more. The idea of combining a high quality vinyl pressing of modern music along with the ability to download it via MP3 is a great idea. Unfortunately I had a terrible time getting Internet Explorer to connect me to the link. After several attempts and e-mails, I finally called the responsible vendor who was able to link me directly. After that no problems. I was told Explorer is the culprit, but I never had this problem before so I'm no so sure. In any case, this is a terrific album and for those of you wanting to get into old school vinyl without losing your portabilty, this is for you.

Best new albulm in awhile
I love this albulm. The more you listen to it, the more you like and appreciate it. Each song is a little different. They sound like a combination of Zeppelin, Cream, Skynyrd, Hendrix. This is the best new group I've heard in awhile. They actually turned down Paul McCartney who wanted to be their bassist 'cause they already had one.

where is the dynamic range?
Very disappointed! the engineering ranks as one of the worst I've ever
heard. it's a mess, if I could give it a 0 rating I would! I'd use it as a coaster
but it's not worthy. The music industry takes what could be very good music
push's it into an over engineered noise without any dynamic range.
Shame on them! They blame the sale of mp3s for their losses when the real
problem is poorly engineered masters just like this one.

The greatest Album of our time.
I know what you're thinking, 'how can anything ever top the Traveling Wilburys?' And sure, they were a great collection of artists, and sure generations of young people will rock out to them for a long time. And with the sudden rise of Kid Rock and Lady Gaga's popularity you'd think there would be no room left for a new Rock Icon, but you'd be wrong. No doubt (not the band, but they're good too) people hundreds of years from now will be jamming to Spinning In Daffodils. And why not? The sheer talent that went into this one song eclipses all other songs written in the last four centuries.

I'm sure in the future the names Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Them Crooked Vultures will be lumped together. Buy this album before the first pressings become collectors items. The $9 you spend today may be worth thousands by the time you retire.

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