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Era Vulgaris | 
| Artist: Queens Of The Stone Age
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 1682
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 55
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517365261
EAN: 0602517365261
ASIN: B000QGE766
Release Date: June 11, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Turnin On The Screw | | • | Sick, Sick, Sick | | • | I'm Designer | | • | Into The Hollow | | • | Misfit Love | | • | Battery Acid | | • | Make It Wit Chu | | • | 3's & 7's | | • | Suture Up Your Future | | • | River In The Road | | • | Run, Pig, Run | | • | Running Joke | | • | Era Vulgaris |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 49 more reviews...
 Awful July 22, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
As the title of this review says this album is awful. The best song by a long way is Sick, Sick, Sick which I first heard them perform live on the TV and thought, "Well hopefully things will get better". QOTSA are all about the tunes and heavy tunes at that.
This album is missing something and that something is Nick Oliveri. The bass is non-existent. Yuck this is just terrible.
I loved all their previous albums, I love the Desert Sessions, I loved Kyuss. What has gone wrong? I hate this album and all QOTSA have become: bloated crap.
Don't buy this! Buy any of their other albums! If you have all their other albums still don't buy it! Spend your money on some Nebula or Fu Manchu or put it in the bank.
To repeat myself: awful!!
 (3.5 stars) The fairest review, all things considered June 5, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Perplexing, bizarre, unique and striking- but be it for better or worse? This is the conundrum that is Era Vulgaris by QOTSA.
1)Turnin' on the screw- A song that seems to typify the rest of the album. At times it hints at Queens best work(the lyrics and the churning riff about halfway through) but it also seems bland and rather irritating and doesnt end on the big, loud note we've come to expect from Qotsa album openers. 7/10
2)Sick Sick Sick- A song made up of so many parts. The grinding one-note riff, the bloody awesome riff that follows that(seriously OMG stuff), the weak chorus and the exciting climax. Could be made into a classic but is quite good as it stands. 8/10
3)I'm Designer- It starts off awkward and stays that way for some time until the superb chorus kicks in. Lyrics are smart,witty and wonderful to listen to throughout which saves the song from being below average. 7/10
4)Into the Hollow- LTP-esque song that works really quite well and succeeds due to its sheer simplicity. 8/10
5)Misfit Love- This is what the rest of the album SHOULD have sounded like. A journey of a song that is great until it reaches the last minute where it becomes quite breathtaking. superb. 9/10
6)Battery Acid- A confused, awkard and(honestly) annoying song that lurches forward rather than flow. The airy "mini-chorus" saves it from being totally abject. 6/10
7)MAke it wit chu- THe thing that was great about the Desert Sessions version is that it had very little produciton, giveing it a raw feel to it that embodied the song's content(sex). Here it sounds superificial, but listenable nonetheless. 7/10
8)3s and 7s-Great riffs that hark back to the days of self-titled. Takes various twists and turns during the 3 and a half minutes, but is always enjoyable and sounds fresh on every listen. 9/10
9)Suture up your future- Excellent. Simple but very effective. Homme's voice is haunting and sounds better here than anywhere else on the album.
9/10
10)River in the Road-Bland, goes nowhere and truly frustrating after two excellent tracks. 5/10
11)Run Pig Run- Quite what the song is about im not sure but it powers its way into your head with various hypnotic guitar work. A curious piece but works as it is one of the few true rock tracks on the album.8/10
Overall, this album has a few highs and lows but sadly its the lows that you tend to remember rather than the highs. Could have been great
 Josh Homme Is Always Amazing April 29, 2008
at first i thought this just isnt qotsa, but suddenly i found my self singing 'River In A Road' and now i'm loving it! people says this albums pants, but its QOTSA and what ever josh homme does is AMAZING, so give it a good chance.
Queens come up trumps (again) on fifth album April 4, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Very little of what Josh Homme has done with Queens of the Stone Age since their inception a decade ago has been obvious. The songs, the lyrics - even the line-up changes - have all been shrouded in mystery; suggestive and darkly intriguing rather than in-your-face or showy. Era Vulgaris is no different. In fact, the only things that remain obvious are that Homme is clearly unconcerned with other people's expectations... and that he is a damn fine guitarist. Many of the riffs here - notably on 'Sick, Sick, Sick and 'Turnin On The Screw' - are among the best he's ever written, and the overall sound is that of garage rock being twisted into weird new shapes - raw and edgy, but with a sinister, slightly cynical vibe (the unapologetically amorous 'Make It Wit Chu' notwithstanding).
Era Vulgaris is definitely a grower. Aside from the two singles, the aforementioned 'Sick, Sick Sick' and '3's and 7's', there's nothing here remotely as catchy as either 'The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret' from 2000's Rated R, or 'No-one Knows' from their 2002 breakthrough album Songs for the Deaf, but what we get instead is a superbly idiosyncratic rock record with an abundance of songs that will simply demand to be re-visited. Check out the sublime 'Into The Hollow' or the epic 'River In The Road' for proof. Era Vulgaris is not an easily accessible album (at least, initially) and - as has been proved by the mixed reviews already posted here - it will leave many listeners baffled and even disappointed. However, those with an ear for something different, a touch of patience and a willingness to look for colour in the shadows will be greatly rewarded.
Matt Pucci
Out on they're own February 24, 2008
You never know what your going to get with this band but you know it's going to be good and they're totally into it. First play leaves you a bit shocked but after four plays I was singing along to it. Magical time changes and unheard guitar sounds abound. King Crimson meets Jack Bruce meets metal. Glorious and groundbreaking!
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