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Queens of the Stone Age- Mexicola!!! We still wanna show you how Kyuss actually turned into QOTSA and that song does it

Just to be clear, "Lick Doo" is a hidden song on the CD, so it's part of track 10 which is the track corresponding to "Whitewater", but it's just a little unlisted bonus at the end of the CD stuck on there as a joke. Ryan, the silence between them *is* the separation you were asking for; the fact that they're paired together in this way is an artifact of how the tracks and songs are encoded on the CD. When you evaluate "Whitewater" in your head, you really shouldn't count "Lick Doo" in that.

There’s a purposeful “driving down a desert highway in a muscle car while listening to music over a shitty radio signal” aesthetic to Kyuss that I love… definitely a ‘mood’ kinda thing.

Holy shit yall are doing Kyuss? That's incredible, Kyuss are legends

Funnily enough, Tool actually covered the Kyuss song "Demon Cleaner" live a few times. Definitely worth checking out the Kyuss original.

Whitewater is a national park and that area is where they played those legendary generator parties where they developed that sound. They jammed their songs because they never wanted the vibe to stop. They really were playing music for their tribe to dance to under the desert stars. It was never meant to be big they were playing for their tribe. They never had roadies. They loaded in and loaded out. It was very diy. A diy scene for desert kids with nothing to do and all the bands sounded unique because copying each other was sacrilege. Honestly it’s pretty amazing that shit even happened and was exposed to the outside world

Talking about why they didnt get more popular: They were on the edge of having their big breakthrough (Touring with Metallica in Australia, for example) but the bandmembers had mixed feelings about getting really big. Coming from this really small and undergound desertscene, some of the members wanted to keep it that way. And also Josh Homme, the guitar player, wanted something different for himself. He went creatively in a different direction and started "Queens of the Stone Age". So, they disbanded before they hit big succes.... and that way Kyuss become a legend

More Kyuss! You also gotta do some Queens of the Stone Age, which was the band the guitarist, bassist, and drummer from Kyuss played in after the band broke up.

"Hidden bonus tracks" were all the rage back then. A long pause at the end of the "last track" of the album, gives way to a throwaway joke track. There are other ways of doing it, but that was the most popular because you could do it on a vinyl album or CD. Rich the Ancient Metal Beast

I drove through the blazing Arizona deserts last July. This song was on my playlist too. Shit was an experience for sure! 🤘🏽

Definitely my favorite Kyuss song from my favorite Kyuss album! This whole album should be listened to uninterrupted from beginning to end, but that wouldn't be a very tidy video! Thanks guys... for being free-thinking and adventurous!

There are other songs where Garcia's vocals are mixed more in the foreground, but this just sounds like the band is playing _right here_ while Garcia's _over there_ in the kitchen yelling from the adjacent room. But it just works. They're often described as sounding like a sandstorm, and this song is a great example for this. The warm, calm intro, the sudden burst of raspy sand blasting into your face followed by the calm after the storm when nothing is left but serenity and warmth. Also, Tool covered this band before. I've had a live bootleg from Tool playing Demon Cleaner over 15 years ago. I think the comparisons are fine. A last bit of trivia: they recorded this album in a few days, and the record company kept bugging them that they should produce a single that they could play on the radio and market to people. But the band wasn't interested in playing by the rules imposed on them, so when this album first released, it had only 3 "suites", each comprised of multiple songs and each much too long for a single release. Josh Homme still laughs when he remembers the faces of the record company's representatives.

FINALLY! We are inching closer and closer to Sleep and Electric Wizard territory - I’m here for it. EDIT: I died at the Lick My Doo part. Lick Doo grows on you lol

Next Kyuss gotta be Demon Cleaner. And then follow the Josh Homme train to more Queens of the Stone Age. Song for the Dead perhaps! Or God is in the Radio. You will love both guaranteed

The bassist is Scott Reeder and he's one of my favorites! Funny that you said it sounds like they play in a ditch, because they literally played shows out in the desert, using a crumbled road as a stage, playing into a crater.

This is easily my favourite ALBUM to listen to without interruption. Being in that dessert groove the whole time is transcendent.

You should do a stoner/doom marathon

Another Great Reaction! Kyuss formed in 87'. The Sword's "Freya" & "Dying Earth" also the Band Earthless "Gifted By the Wind" these 2 bands would be great reactions to watch.😊

This a killer song to drive around with your windows down through the desert

God damn I love this band. I think you guys really summed them up. Another person has mentioned Demon Cleaner is another great one.

If you guys like this, then check out Down. Lifer and “Bury me in smoke” are two I like.

The bit at the end is comparable to skits on older rap records. If you're interested in more Stoner Rock I recommend Colout Haze or Windhand if you fancy a badass female singer.

You guys should do Queens of the Stone Age (Josh Homme's current main band) and revisit Clutch!

Demon Cleaner is a fantastic tune by Kyuss also. You gotta check it out!

The last part is actually a separate track, some streaming sites include it on whitewater tho.

You have to do OM - State of Non-Return. That's a great song.

As others have said the last part was a bonus track, on the CD there is a ton of silence before that before it kicks in. Would love to see some Corrosion of Conformity at some point, a big stonerish band you're missing! Great video as always.

This is the last song off this album. Such a killer album. It deserves to be listened to from start to finish. Such a great album.

Sludge Marathon or even Stoner Marathon is absolutely needed

The sound of Kyuss was "cultivated" They had their thing that was influenced by the Joshua Tree scene at the time. A friend / producer, Chris Goss basically shepherded them through their albums as he did not want them to lose the the "sound" they had and become "commercial". He was successful, a pretty unique band that inspired dozens of copycats, but was never commercially successful. Eventually Josh Homme became disillusioned with having to be tied to "the sound" and left to form Queens of the Stone Age later. Another great band.

You guys need to react to Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop from this same album! Insane groove and vocals!

Lick My Doo is a joke song at the end of the album. It's not part of Whitewater. It's the only track by itself. The rest of the album is 3 songs per track.

Kyuss has a lot more groove than a lot of stoner stuff. Just FYI.

So glad you guys finally got to do this amazing piece from kyuss, so underrated and one of my favourite songs ever so chill and groovy

Love Kyuss, they were so good live. Really mindblowing stupidly good. It was the first time I heard of them actually.. I accidently saw them playing and was like.. I'm not leavin this! Oh and Muse - Knights of Cydonia.

I agree with George, it's like a hypnotic pulsing...Space Cadet all day though

"50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)" is the name of the song. Eventually gotta get there.

Your touching all over the beauty of Kyuss, I swear many of their songs could chase you away,but if you stay to long ,you can't leave.

Thank you guys for this reaction!! I had a shitty week and this totally brought me up, Kyuss is so endearing to me.

Other stoner bands to check out: 1. Sleep 2. The Sword 3. Orange Goblin 4. Baroness 5. King Wizard and the Lizard Gizzard Honorable mention- Trouble Just a few thrash metal bands you haven't checked out: Havok Municipal Waste Holy Grail At the Gates

Im sitting here, reacting to this for the first time along with you guys. Good stuff!

This is my 3rd or 4th video I’ve viewed of you guys and I love your work! I am a huge Queens of the Stone Age fan, Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri of Kyuss created after this band broke. I’ve never listened to any of Kyuss’ stuff, until now. So you guys are opening doors for ALL KINDS of curios, audiophile MUSIC fans. One love gents keep up the AWESOME CONTENT!

To contribute to the heavy, distorted and "dirty" sound, the guitarist Josh Homme played through bass amp cabinets to facilitate the extra big bottom. Hoping you get back to them.

You should check out Demon Cleaner by Kyuss. It's off this same album. Tool covered the song a long time ago which is how I found out Kyuss existed in the first place, and glad I dived deeper into their catalog.

I think you'll dig "Green Machine", "Stage III", "Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop" or "El Rodeo" from Kyuss!!

This is such a great tune. Nice to see reactions to some of these more obscure songs/bands.

Lmao I laughed so hard at the end. I remember that one.

Yes man you got it again. Kyuss is the same family as Tool regarding creating vibes and painting musical pictures for us to dream away within... a different sort of picture, for me rougher for Kyuss and more pitoresque and detailed for Tool but same family. And also just to mention: you're just the best out there in musical reactions. I enjoy so much, thanks so much.

In 94' I lived in Idyllwild and worked in Hemet and then Palm Desert. This absolutely fits in with how life in Palm Desert was! So glad you did this, the only other time I've heard Kyuss was your Gardenia reaction, as it brought back some old "feelings" I had forgotten about 🤘

I’ve been checking out a couple of yalls videos and talk/review music that when I first listened to it took me a while to get into, understand, etc., but y’all make succinct commentary and really intuitive analysis and I’m subscribing, kudos dudes

Kyuss FTW Saw a band cover this one in a bar and I went up and thanked them for it. Far superior to QOTSA and its not even close.

I’d recommend Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop from this album, as well as Asteroid.

Hell yeah, Kyuss! Keep ‘em coming boys love your work.

Please eventually react to those Kyuss songs mentioned in the beginning (Supa Scoopa, 50 Million year trip). And just like others mentioned, the final part was a hidden track which definitely isn’t part of the song.

Never heard this band. It sounds great.

Love you guys! If you're planning to get more into stoner rock, don't forget to go back to Clutch. The one track you picked is not entirely representative of their catalog because of how diverse their influences are. Conventional rock choice: "The Mob Goes Wild"; blues rock choice: "Electric Worry"; prog influenced: "Burning Beard".

So glad that you are doing Kyuss again. If you want to go on a trip check out the song "Space Cadet" from Kyuss. It is pretty mellow but you will get lost in it. Thanks guys

Blues For The Red Sun is their best album imho. 50 million year trip is their best song. Also Tool has covered Kyuss' "Demon Cleaner" which sounds exactly like Tool's song in that version.

I was waiting this reaction for years

If you guys go through another stoner rock/metal month I have tons of recommendations that would be geared towards what you guys would enjoy. I think you would very much enjoy The Sword, anything off of "Warp Riders" is incredible.

The listening instructions for the album are a great direction for you to get lost in this music. "listen without distraction". You let it wash over you like the raw power and chaos of white water, and as it gets to the end of its journey the energy starts to dissipate leaving you awash in a lake of serenity.

POST METAL PLEASE. ISIS, SUMAC, old man gloom, neurosis, pelican

Adore this channel and have been a subscriber since there were just a few hundred thousand of us… but I am literally counting down the days until these two fall down the K-Pop rabbit hole. Specifically the rap side of it. What a day that will be 👀

I’m so happy you guys did this song. One of my favorites by Kyuss. You guys should Catamaran by them next.

this album was 4 tracks, 3 songs on each track with whitewater and lick doo at the end of the cd

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR ANOTHER KYUSS REACTION SINCE FOREVER, THNX GUYS...GUESS I'LL HAVE TO JOIN PATREON

Clutch is a good stoner metal band and there's another band I really like called uncle acid and the deadbeats. They opened for sabbath in England when they reunited for the album 13. They are interesting. Playing vintage instruments

Kyuss is great…this is where stoner metal begins. If you’re digging this, set up a Fu Manchu station on Pandora…you’ll get hammered with similar music. I discovered Truckfighters this way, and you’ll get a lot of Clutch too who are IMHO one of the best and most underrated bands of our time. Naturally, you’ll get a lot of Queens of the Store Age, probably the most commercially successful stoner bands. Josh Homme started out in Kyuss and ended up in QOTSA.You’re absolutely right about that Hendrix influence. It’s amazing, Hendrix has been dead over 50 years and still shaping musicians everywhere. Truly a rock legend! Tool is totally different thing, even of there’s a cross-appeal.

I love Kyuss! You guys should check out the band Fu Manchu. They are awesome.

2009 Mac miller. Crazy how the songs so sneaky deep. So many signs that no one really saw before he died. 2009 he was just blowing up and having run with friends still not knowing how much his life was about to change and how he wanted to go back… it goes even deeper when you listen to the song “ One last thing” one blue slide park he closes it out with him saying how he just wanted to go back home

Whitewater is a place in Cali. Its a river that flows through the mountains in the desert

Gotta give you guys credit. I'm a long-time metal fan and have always heard of these guys but never gave them the time of day for whatever reason. Y'all opened my eyes to a new band to dive into. Thanks, dudes! Also, i think that ending was supposed to be a "hidden track" sort of thing, still pretty bizarre though haha!

You guys should check out Corrosion of Conformity - anything from the In the Arms of God album

More Kyuss suggestions: - Freedom Run - Phototropic - The Law - 50 Million Year Trip - Demon Cleaner - N.O.

Best reaction I’ve seen from you boys in a while (maybe because it’s Kyuss…). George nailed it with his pure feeling of this song and the Tool-esque trance vibe it puts you into. On the flip side I find it weird that this deep into your journey into this world that Ryan is still thrown off by distortion/fuzz but that’s the joy of the joy of the pure listener reaction. I’d love to see you guys do Slo Burn - Pilot The Dune. Same singer as Kyuss, dare I say a bit more accessible but just generally a big banger (don’t worry Ryan it’s a little less fuzzy)

"There's sophistication in the fuzz". Glad you guys can listen for those nuances and appreciate the music.

Gotta appreciate your attempt 😆🤘❤️‍🔥

It's GROOOVYYYYY, damn love Kyuss!!

YEEEEEESSSSS, been looking forward to a reaction to this track. Got to cover it in middle school with friends and improv a solo since I wasn't good enough to play the og haha

Favourite band of all times for me. They were so well assembled. Four album of pure magic fuzz and trippy ways of enjoyng music. Here s my suggestions from other album. Freedom run. Gardenia. Cathamaran.

Feel like it would be fun just hanging with these guys listening to music.

I love the atmosphere that kyuss creates. I can't get into the song writing and can get bored with the musicianship as well. Seems like they created an amazing sound and atmosphere. I wish they would have had at least a few songs where they wrote something truly amazing. Homme went on to write some of my favorite songs on other projects. Kyuss seems like a stepping stone to me.

I love Brant Bjork's drums in Kyuss, and particularly in this song. Those cymbals give some smokescreen vibe to the song.

Just wanted to give you guys credit for turning me on to this band. I've known of Kyuss for many, many years but I'm not the biggest fan of the genre they're associated with, so I never really gave them a chance. I'm glad you reacted to their songs.

Nobody has ever made a groove metal like this song ever. No song besides this makes me want to equally headband/rage and dance sexy

I effing love this Song so glad u guys reacted to it! Clicked faster then a speeding bullet

Impressed you are doing Kyuss. This live is redicoulis. I hear a little Sabbath in this.

I haven't clicked this fast in a while. You guys are in for a ride.

So, in the 90s its was pretty common to have tracks on CDs that were "hidden" in some fashion: unlisted in album notes and track listing (this was often compounded by having one or more "blank" tracks between the last listed track and the hidden track; IIRC Marilyn Mason did that with one of his CDs, putting a hidden song at track 99); some you had to "rewind" to before Track 1; and some were just tacked on at the end of tracks after a period of silence. You know how hi-hop artists did the skits on their disks between tracks? Same idea; this was rock and metal's version of it. Lick Doo should absolutely be considered a separate track/piece of music and not at all part of Whitewater. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_track

probably my favourite song ever. I love each second of it

This is one of my favorite genres. I agree most of Kyuss's albums do have a production quality that sounds muffled, probably partly intentional and partly not. There are a ton of bands who have carried on the style of music. I'm sure it's been suggested but check out Demon Cleaner, great song... you mentioned Tool, rhey actually covered demon cleaner live one time, apparently the tool guys were fans

King Buffalo guys! They are the best kept secret in music period. I’m recommending Locusts off The Burden of Restlessness album to start with since it’s on the heavier side with a lot of tempo changes and phenomenal guitar, bass and drums, the stuff you guys always end up putting on your playlists. l5 albums since 2016 and not one bad song in their entire catalog.

I love that George loves Kyuss. I don’t know too many people who even know who they are, but I’m a huge fan.

Since you both love Kyuss and Tool y'all should check out TOOL's cover of Kyuss's Demon Cleaner (and maybe do a comparison between the two and see how you feel about both versions as they are both awesome!!!! There are quite a few variations of the live audio of the song, most aren't the best quality. But there's one from their late '97, through '98-'99 mini-tours that actually features Kyuss's bassist Scott Reeder on second bass! Hearing and feeling two bassists on that version is just, wow! The mini-tours were epically insane to behold... they'd do some covers (more than usual at least for them and their fans were getting to witness them live) most of which features guest artists...like their cover of Peach's "You Lied" which features Buzz from The Melvins on second guitar perfectly complimenting what Adam is doing (Peach was Justin's band before joining Tool during the recording process of Ænima) and Justin sings backing vocals and harmonizes with Maynard. It's also a slower tempo version by comparison, which drastically and dynamically changes the song in such a unique way, and of course they make it their own as with any cover they've ever done. During that time, and up to a couple years after they covered: "Demon Cleaner" by Kyuss. "Stranglehold" by Ted Nugent. "You Lied" by Peach. "Commando" by Ramones. "B'Boom" by King Crimson. "Soundscapes" by Robert Fripp. "Some Days It's Dark" by Death Lurks. "A Passage To Bangkok" by Rush. "Spasm" also by Peach. "No Quarter" by Led Zeppelin. "Holiday In Cambodia" by Dead Kennedys. Most of these should be delved into in y'all's downtime off camera as it takes a little time to find all the versions with decent audio quality. But at some point definitely react to Kyuss's "Demon Cleaner" and TOOL's version featuring Scott Reeder on second bass!!!! Definitely gotta keep going through stoner rock genre tho, we all know you will love those eargasms!

"Demon Cleaner" is the most famous Kyuss song.

This was the precursor to Queens of the Stone Age. QOTSA should definitely be explored. Dave Grohl played drums on Songs for the Deaf album and is their best although their first album and Lullabies was great too.

One of the many many things I enjoy about Stonerrock is that it’s a genre that takes it’s time to tell the story

One thing that set Kyuss apart from other stoner metal bands is that they were more psychedelic/jam-based. Bands like Electric Wizard and Sleep tended to be slower and would settle into more consistent riffs/grooves. That fuzzy guitar tone is indeed THE signature sound for stoner rock. Very akin to wandering around in a haze of marijuana smoke, and the psychedelic, groovy, repetitive riffs play into that aesthetic too. It's true that this isn't well-produced by classic standards, but it very much creates its own unique atmosphere that you couldn't get with cleaner production. Kyuss definitely didn't get their due, but a major reason was that they only released albums for 4 years before splitting. They were definitely appreciated by those into underground alternative rock music, and by the time Homme came out with Queens of the Stone Age the world was finally ready for that sound. Of course, QOTSA also had more mainstream appeal with poppier hooks and cleaner production. That bit at the end, Lick Doo, was just a throwaway mini-track they used to close the album. For some reason, the original release of this album was split into 3 tracks, essentially treating the songs as suites. I think later releases did split up the songs into separate tracks, so I don't know why Lick Doo was on the end of this track.

That last part was the hidden track LOL but I'm so stoked you guys got to one of my favorite songs from Kyuss, but you guys should check out John Garcia (lead singer) bands that he was in like Slo Burn, Unida & his new band John Garcia. Or other Stoner metal bands like Truckfighters Wo Fat and High on Fire.