The best Queens of the Stone Age riffs

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10 ай бұрын

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@sl3102 10 ай бұрын

Songs for the Deaf really is a masterpiece. Pure magic. The stars were aligned at that point in time.

@pablospicoli 10 ай бұрын

Josh is frequently aligned

@rickdb8480 10 ай бұрын

@@pablospicoliFacts

@asdf9890 10 ай бұрын

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.😟

@sl3102 9 ай бұрын

@@asdf9890 Indeed

@Adam-ro8vj 9 ай бұрын

R rated is where the stars were aligned my friend this also a great piece tho

@flaviul.georgiu8008 10 ай бұрын

“Keep Your Eyes Peeled” melts my face every time

@LivingroomGearDemos 10 ай бұрын

Agree!

@AlbinoJedi 10 ай бұрын

Same. In my top 3 QotSA songs period.

@lewismacdonald7218 8 ай бұрын

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.

@josetex 10 ай бұрын

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

@applepeel1662 5 ай бұрын

Same here!! Its so unique and tasty

@calincampbell5637 10 ай бұрын

Lullabies to Paralyze is not only my favorite QOTSA album but one of my favorite albums of all time.

@jcreature11 Ай бұрын

Same, love that album is prolly their best imo. As far as a strictly queens album not one with other artists coming in for a concept album like songs for the def. Songs for the def is a special album but lot of great minds went into that outside of the queens band.

@mikechappell8235 10 ай бұрын

God is in the radio also has one of my all time favorite solos.

@LexTNeville 10 ай бұрын

That track has two of my all time favorite solos. Properly need a moment after each listening on a half decent speaker.

@willhargreaveshf 10 ай бұрын

Oh my god yes

@namyur 10 ай бұрын

There are two solos, both are incredible. Great great song.

@jordanpreexisting224 10 ай бұрын

Best solo of the 2000s from 2000-2010 those solos lived rent free in a lot of peoples heads

@SeaW4rrior 10 ай бұрын

Gotta say "I think I lost my headache" is definitely one of my favourites!

@edmanning274 10 ай бұрын

My theory was that Smooth Sailing was originally supposed to be a Them Crooked Vultures song.

@Mr.GTheWatcher Ай бұрын

Damn that's actually spot on now that I think about it

@joehoppard814 10 ай бұрын

Am I alone in thinking The Blood Is Love is the best thing ever? Ace video, as always.

@TheGavman007 10 ай бұрын

Came here to say this! With the snare right before the riff kicks in, man it gets me every time

@willhargreaveshf 10 ай бұрын

It's one of their absolute best deep cuts and one of the best songs on Lullabies for sure. Incredible groove

@Tocaraca 10 ай бұрын

That's my favorite song

@SunofShasta 7 ай бұрын

@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.

@dfawrtevfevwetetvwgw 3 ай бұрын

Best riff on lullabies

@slayerBO2EPC 10 ай бұрын

Josh and QOTSA just don't know how to write a bad riff, or song for that matter. They are all bangers

@connor9023 10 ай бұрын

If only and Give the mule what he wants, like how Josh plays it in that one interview

@Lauke101 10 ай бұрын

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!

@LivingroomGearDemos 10 ай бұрын

Do it Again should’ve been on the list for sure. Though of it more as a song I like rather than a riff

@Lauke101 10 ай бұрын

@@LivingroomGearDemos What is a riff anyway? ;-) Loved your list btw, definitely a lot of my favourites too!

@timokakoun4367 9 ай бұрын

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!!

@vandal_dk 10 ай бұрын

They really do have some epic riffs, but most importantly, they’re memorable songs with beautiful melodies.

@Beizeiten78 10 ай бұрын

“Tension Headache” and “Lost Art of Keeping a Secret” are some tasty riffs.

@rockomundo 4 ай бұрын

"My God is the Sun" def has one of my fave QUOTSA riffs ever

@KevinRibelMusic 10 ай бұрын

Lullabies...I love this album so much! Great Riffage and textures all along!

@LivingroomGearDemos 10 ай бұрын

Yes, I love Lullabies too!

@nileee 10 ай бұрын

Song for the Deaf is such an amazing song, it's so haunting I wish they played it more

@dangollapalli5113 3 ай бұрын

The verse riff from 'The sky is fallin' is one of my favourites

@leighiansonmusic9688 10 ай бұрын

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

@DstandsforDoomed 10 ай бұрын

My favourite solo is Leg of Lamb. Simple and overlooked. 🤘

@georgeweller6023 10 ай бұрын

the riffs on in times are amazing. obscenery, carnavoyeur, straight jacket…

@kylephelan6989 10 ай бұрын

“A guitar riff that everyone knows” lol bro literally no one knows

@discardiac 2 ай бұрын

I see what you did there

@skullullox Ай бұрын

This is such a shitty dad joke lmao

@Mr.GTheWatcher Ай бұрын

I will find you, Kyle phelan 6989

@vman3695 2 күн бұрын

You are ready for fatherhood. If you are already a dad, you are now our mvp.

@BrandonBriers 10 ай бұрын

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!

@mthscstlh 10 ай бұрын

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!

@abdallahhamido2809 10 ай бұрын

Misfit love is a fucking masterpiece it’s in my top 3 with i appear missing and better living through the chemistry

@vili2525 9 ай бұрын

I sometimes get a tear in the corner of my eye. Greatest fucking riffs on the planet.

@lancere00 10 ай бұрын

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

@CatmanJimbo 10 ай бұрын

Damn those are two solid asf picks and two of my favorites as well

@Hevvvyyy 10 ай бұрын

If there's one song that sounds so different across their whole discography it's definitely that one, gotta love it

@spiritualconnection4807 10 ай бұрын

My two favorite QOTSA songs

@AlbinoJedi 10 ай бұрын

I love Sky is Fallin. The intro and then main riff get stuck in my head randomly so often.

@jordanpreexisting224 10 ай бұрын

Yes yes and yes again

@juanjosebusnelli390 10 ай бұрын

the tones are just perfect. you just mastered QOTSA tones

@bintangardani5801 10 ай бұрын

paper machete slaps hard

@mitchsmix269 10 ай бұрын

Youre by far my favorite Queens related channel on KZfaq. Really great tone in this video too

@svds_studio 10 ай бұрын

The quality of your video content and production makes it just a delight to watch. It's like a cool TV show to me.

@maximefaisant6502 10 ай бұрын

Head like a haunted house is also a masterpiece

@csec99TV 10 ай бұрын

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)

@zgamer1154 10 ай бұрын

Battery Acid and Made to Parade deserves a mention

@daanabbring5409 9 ай бұрын

The Regular John and First it Giveth riffs are big favourites of mine

@RSPZDLS 10 ай бұрын

millionaire is truly mindblowing and exciting both the riff and the song

@kevinholzwarth7553 5 ай бұрын

Great playing! All the riffs sounded killer

@SKYVLY 10 ай бұрын

Great job w these riffs and tone is killer

@LivingroomGearDemos 10 ай бұрын

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@HansAndreasR1 10 ай бұрын

no tab's made available?

@nckro7713 10 ай бұрын

Love the tones! Is Kermper the only way to get the packs?

@LivingroomGearDemos 10 ай бұрын

@@nckro7713 yup

@Renaaage 2 ай бұрын

It's amazing how you manage to match the sound so well!

@kasperrasmussen6149 5 ай бұрын

You do some EXCELLENT playing and tone work of some awesome tracks!

@LivingroomGearDemos 5 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@MarkJohnsonJams 10 ай бұрын

You Sir still continue to nail the Queens tones and playing. Hell yeah.

@williamoliveira1409 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes i forget what an amazing songwriter josh is

@MossMan4288 9 ай бұрын

Hell yea for including infinity one of my favorites and not nearly mentioned enough

@Diego-nw4yy 10 ай бұрын

I didn't expect to see Infinity! Great list btw

@gergmh86 10 ай бұрын

I would like to have seen Sick Sick Sick here. It's a great little riff.

@scribbleowl 3 ай бұрын

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.

@jw112mail 10 ай бұрын

Please consider added chapters to videos like these

@rhyshepburn3913 10 ай бұрын

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

@santiagomoncalvo9343 10 ай бұрын

Millionaire definitely is my fave as well. Awesome job.

@-k-b- 10 ай бұрын

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

@Tocaraca 10 ай бұрын

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

@NicolasFoucaud 9 ай бұрын

Great playing and great tone! Very cool video

@LivingroomGearDemos 9 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@duncanmaccoll8336 10 ай бұрын

All awesome but... GIVE THE MULE WHAT HE WANTS simple classic. Also.. MEDICATION there's so much great stuff👍

@yukefort8402 10 ай бұрын

Well done putting Turnin On The Screw on the list! I love noisy rock.

@2010georgian1 10 ай бұрын

Lullabies is literally on of the best albums ever.. also it's the perfect Halloween album

@LivingroomGearDemos 10 ай бұрын

Yea! October album. Will listen all October

@zoscarrhoads7741 10 ай бұрын

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.

@adhamkhaled834 10 ай бұрын

I think my all time favourite riff by them has to be Avon!

@offdutyjie 10 ай бұрын

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

@LivingroomGearDemos 10 ай бұрын

Song for the Deaf is in there man!

@merqury5 10 ай бұрын

Only channel I trust for this stuff. Have u met the main man yet?

@LivingroomGearDemos 10 ай бұрын

nope!

@danielktdoranie 10 ай бұрын

@@LivingroomGearDemosshame! You should!!!

@xb5883 10 ай бұрын

Seriously....Josh Homme needs to come sit down with you

@fmorin71234 10 ай бұрын

I just saw them in Nashville...mind completely blown!

@okimotdm 8 ай бұрын

So many great pics and comments already but don’t forget the pure simplicity and huge tone of Avon

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@ItaiIfrach 10 ай бұрын

Sounds so RAW !

@M1n0rXxXthr3aT 10 ай бұрын

Great list dude!

@delivrance3961 10 ай бұрын

awesome job!!!

@Stormtrooper53 8 ай бұрын

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.

@crocodilewani5467 10 ай бұрын

I do think Emotion Sickness should be on the list. It’s by far the sickest riff they’ve written in ages.

@droctagon3k 3 ай бұрын

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

@DeGroove 10 ай бұрын

Impossible to sort these...they're all great. Nonetheless my favorite might be "Tension Head" depending on when you'd ask me.

@guilhermefranco3658 10 ай бұрын

My favorite riff from qotsa is from tangled up in plaid

@dieantfoordfighters 10 ай бұрын

awesome riffs, but i think one of the most underrated ones and that hit really good is River in The Road

@jesselawson224 10 ай бұрын

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.

@Jonbombs 3 ай бұрын

Such an awesome jacket

@t_electronics7147 10 ай бұрын

Great video!

@sergkatsur1436 10 ай бұрын

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?

@rickdb8480 10 ай бұрын

Qotsa a have so many riffs that are without doubt world class!

@sniffrat3646 10 ай бұрын

Terrific!

@SeeMick1 10 ай бұрын

Millionaire is an all-timer. I think Josh slides into the note in the main riff tho, no?

@thecommondingus 10 ай бұрын

You Would Know from self titled. Never leaves my brain.

@Hevvvyyy 2 ай бұрын

Love watching live performances with that song, especially the one from the 2000s at the Showbox

@jonathanmccord1334 9 ай бұрын

Nice Gretch Corvette! Got one of my own. Homme inspired me to get it of course

@LivingroomGearDemos 9 ай бұрын

it's a Dunable Cyclops

@dariohenriquez7773 10 ай бұрын

walking on sidewalks is epic

@williamoliveira1409 10 ай бұрын

Amazing song

@GrouVa 10 ай бұрын

Smooth sailing best riff 👌

@cyriljanssens8339 5 ай бұрын

Regular John, If Only, Paper Machete, Straight Jacket Fitting, and one from Kyuss: Demon Cleaner, i love that one

@StellanBmelon 2 ай бұрын

my favorite is Another Love Song. And it's complemented by Nick's beautiful singing voice.

@ronnysunshine7857 9 ай бұрын

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

@erickiltinen2017 10 ай бұрын

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.

@3xtan327 8 ай бұрын

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

@thunderryu0494 27 күн бұрын

The first QotSA song that really sank its teeth into me was Burn the Witch. That entire album with its Brothers Grimm aesthetic really spoke to me in my formative years and set me on the path of learning bass guitar. I have never put it down and BtW is still my go-to warm up/tuning song.

@jakeb7867 3 ай бұрын

I appear missing is one of the coolest riffs he's created. Brilliantly weird as only Josh Homme can think these things up.

@BigDinnerBoy 10 ай бұрын

3's & 7's and Little Sister are both in there for me

@KeithGrandchamp-hn8kb 2 ай бұрын

Some how you may be a bigger fan of queens than me if that’s even possible, josh is crazy talented

@TheJonesfamily938 5 ай бұрын

Regular John, Tension Head, Headache. So many great ones

@DstandsforDoomed 10 ай бұрын

My favourite riff is Era Vulgaris. So much fun in that riff! 🤘

@strangesttribe 8 ай бұрын

Ur a talented chap👍. Wish I could play those nasty riffs

@minky_tv1807 10 ай бұрын

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'.

@LivingroomGearDemos 10 ай бұрын

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.

@Thrillhouse84 2 ай бұрын

Edit: i also gotta add that for me Queens isnt just about their riffs, which are awesome, but just how they all play off each other to syncopate their grooves, and how they embellish their riffs with all other cool guitar nuances like pedal steel, slide guitar, the strummed nylons in First it Giveth, all the crazy whale squeals in Song for the Deaf, just little things like that really elevate their songs. Song for the Dead is so rad. I didnt really notice the tritones in the power chords at first either until i heard it several times and started learning it

@Tocaraca 10 ай бұрын

Just realized that none of the riffs from The Fun Machine being on here is kinda crazy i think

@fmorin71234 10 ай бұрын

Would love to see you do Avon

@matheusfcolombelli 10 ай бұрын

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