That riff simply justifies an entire album.

"Life is hard, that's why no one survives it"...The best lyric I've heard in a long time!! I love it Queens of the Stone age!!!

This song feels much older than it actually is

0 to 30 seconds... wonder what is up with your volume... 30-60 seconds... wonder if this is an instrumental... 60-120 seconds, wonder if this is an opening to a 1980s scifi movie... 1:50... mind blown.

Life is hard, that's why no one survives.

i think it really shows how cool this band is to upload all new songs on the day the album is released... :-)

I was born in the desert, May Seventeen in seventy-three When the needle hit the groove I commenced moving I was chasing what's calling me Oh-oh-oh, feet don't fail me now One foot in the gutter One in the clouds Feet don't fail me now I just gotta move on Life is hard, that's why no one survives I'm much older than I thought I'd be Feel like a fool, yeah, like a dancing fool, yeah Foot loose and fancy free Oh-oh-oh, feet don't fail me now Stand in the gutter And my head's in the clouds Feet don't fail me now I just gotta move on Push myself to breaking point It's all I know to do except for lie I chase the gates and drift ad nauseam Driven by feelings I cannot hide To be so civilized, One must tell civil lies Me and my gang come to bust you loose We move with an urgency Between pleasure and agony, oh oh ah That's the sound that's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's Time to go We're gon' take it as it comes Future tense meets middle finger We took the long way home Oh-oh-oh, feet don't fail me now Do whatcha gotta do And do it now Feet don't fail me now I just gotta move on

QOTSA and Royal Blood are my best discoveries in the past couple years. They put something new on the table. But QOTSA feels more manly, matured, and colorful to me. And of course, let’s not forget the fact RB is made of two guys.

1st day: oh, it's mediocore 2nd day: wow that's actually really good 3rd day: This is the best thing in existence Every Qotsa Album ever.

This album sounds like if Josh, Bowie and Prince are fighting for control over the mixing table.

Beat dropped harder than R Kelly's pants at a chuck E cheese

The genius of QOTSA is how well they always connect their latest sound to their desert rock roots. This is a really amazing song and a great album.

The bridge (3:32) is fucking orgasmic. The harmonized voices, the way the lead guitar just chops up the rhythm and the way the rhythm guitar finds a little groove in between the wall of sound is gorgeous. Honestly an overlooked part of the song.

I wasn't born in a desert, nor in 1973... but I WAS born on May 17th and this is forever my fucking jam now

I showed this to my mom and her jaw literally dropped because of how much both the vocals and instrumentals sounded like Bowie. I love this album so much.

The intro is long, but when that riff finally kicks in at 1:50, daaaamn it pays off!

The synth gives off a lot of Bladerunner and 1984 style vibes, I love it. Very inspiring!

This continues to be my favorite song form this excellent band.

Villains feels like a common middle ground between Lullabies and Era... melodic, riffy and robotic.

The songs from this album absolutely kill in concert.

Best Opener Ever. Mad Max + Franz Ferdinand + David Bowie + Led Zeppelin

Killer riff. One can simply not be this good at playing guitar.

You must admit it, there’s no QOTSA song that has one hell of a intro like this song’s! Definitely a real set up for the album indeed. 🤌

After approximately my 10,000th time listening to this song... definitely my favorite QOTSA track and probably my overall fav!

One of the best songs ever... perfect for a car ride

their best opener since Millionaire

Josh's vocals here really remind me of David Bowie.

I fucking love the buildup intro to this song.

If they opened with this song without prior knowledge of it, the first time I seen them, I’d probably pass out the moment I hear the snare in the intro.

Best intro to an album I've heard in a long, long time. Can't wait to see it played live.

This new album is fan-fucking-tastic. Cheers, Villains.

Does anyone else feel like the intro and the first couple seconds of the riff feels almost like a rollercoaster? The slow clicking up the chain hill into the descent, where the riff kicks in? This song is amazing.

We were quite a spectacle, weren't we? Quite a spectacle, indeed.

This unapologetically drips off of Josh's swagger. Such swag 👌.

I never gave Queens of the Stone Age a chance until today... I have been missing out!

Very rarely I look forward to a new release from a contemporary band. Most modern music blah but Qotsa I’m on it. Loved them since Rated R.

"When the needle hit the groove, I commenced movin'." FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

It's like a mixture of the opening of "I wanna be adored", the entirety of "Trampled Under Foot", and some faint elements of Kavinsky's "Blizzard". I love it all.

Thank you Martin Streek for introducing me to this band.

"Villains" was my favorite album of 2017 (and one of my favorite albums of the last 20 years). These guys continue to amaze me. Queens of the Stone Age are one of the great bands of the 21st Century. I have been into this band since 1998 and they just keep getting better and better!

I was born in the desert, May 17 in '73 When the needle hit the groove I commence to moving I was chasing what's calling me Oh-oh-oh, feet don't fail me now One foot in the gutter One in the clouds Feet don't fail me now I just gotta move on Life is hard, that's why no one survives I'm much older than I thought I'd be Feel like a fool, just like a dancing fool, yeah Footloose and fancy free Oh-oh-oh, feet don't fail me now Stand in the gutter with my head in the clouds Feet don't fail me now I just gotta move on Push myself, the breaking point It's all I know to do except for why? I chase break lights and dust ad nauseam Driven by feelings I cannot hide To be so civilized, one must tell civil lies On and on and on and on and... Me and my gang come to bust you loose We move with an urgency Between pleasure and agony, on a runaway line That's the sound that's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's Time to go, regret it later We're gon' take it as it comes Future tense meets middle finger We take the long way home Oh-oh-oh, feet don't fail me now Do whatcha gotta do Oh do it now Feet don't fail me now I just gotta move on

Oh yeeeaaahh baaby My pops only likes 70's and some 80s rock and he liked this one. You got the old man!

Best band of the last 20 years. No doubts

This is like a blend of 80's pop, 90's rock, and 2000's grunge.

love the synth at the end...pure 80's vibe ya know..

Best song in the album

"Villains" sounds like the beginning of a night out that ended sounding like "...Like Clockwork". I mean: "...Like Clockwork" and "Villains" sound similar, but the first sound like the end of a party, and the last sound like the beginning of the same party...

All I gotta say is THIS ALBUM FINALLY CLICKED! I kept listening over and over, wondering if it was always going feel underwhelmind and disjointed. Then all of a sudden BHAM. FUCK YES! AND I DON'T GIVE A SHIT... "TURNING ON THE SCREW" FROM "ERA VULGARIS"KICKS ASS. WHOEVER DOESN'T LIKE THAT ALBUM. ITS THEIR LOSS! BAMMMMM!

Finally being able to hear the song from the trailer is amazing.

Lyrics copied from SOMEWHERE... [Verse 1] I was born in the desert, May Seventeen in seventy-three When the needle hit the groove I commence to moving I was chasing what's calling me [Chorus 1] Oh-oh-oh, feet don't fail me now One foot in the gutter One in the clouds Feet don't fail me now I just gotta move on [Verse 2] Life is hard, that's why no one survives I'm much older than I thought I'd be Feel like a fool, yeah, like a dancing fool, yeah Footloose and fancy free [Chorus 2] Oh-oh-oh, feet don't fail me now Stand in the gutter with my head in the clouds Feet don't fail me now I just gotta move on [Bridge 1] Push myself, the breaking point It's all I know to do except for why? I chase break lights and dust ad nauseam Driven by feelings I cannot hide To be so civilized, one must tell civil lies On and on and on and on and... [Bridge 2] Me and my gang come to bust you loose We move with an urgency Between pleasure and agony, on a runaway line That's the sound that's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's calling me It's [Verse 3] Time to go, regret it later We're gon' take it as it comes Future tense meets middle finger We take the long way home [Chorus 3] Oh-oh-oh, feet don't fail me now Do whatcha gotta do Oh do it now Feet don't fail me now I just gotta move on

This is the theme song for my life.

This intro is SO good, I keep coming back to it. Sometimes at work I start hearing this humming, then all of the sudden the drums!

Josh has developed a huge affectation in his voice over the years, it's now very rock 'n' roll sounding. Initially it was Elvis but then he moved to a Bowie kinda thing.

Not sure there are words for how good this is.

This one wins it for me on the album, that synth is absolutely deadly!

Love love this album. Took a year but this track next to villains, I love the disco rythem to it,that wide sound you get pre chorus, before you hear there gonna bust you out. QOTSA, Josh has remixed and changed the formula every album. And hats of to him for the balls to do it and not knock off a replica of each album past to keep the same unimaginative loosers happy every time. Not disappointed yet QOTSA. Keep the tracks pkaying.

INSTANT CLASSIC. QOTSA RULES.

This riff is pornographic, holy fuck

The solo and bridge of this song are a highlight of this album.

This is my new early morning track to start off days.

When qotsa finds a synth

I'm gonna blast this through the streets when we party after the coronavirus saga is over

If by any chance this is the actual page of qotsa....Josh Homme you're my hero

One of my favourites for building and building and building! It just keeps growing

This last decade has flown by. Every yr more Inconsistent across the board... But Josh Homme has never failed me. Even going back to listen to Kyuss and all his side projects especially TCV and EODM efforts this dude sounds different every album however we know its a sound only his bands have. The dude is wicked.

QOTSA is God

I feel like Josh make this his autobiographical song because the energy, tension, and nervousness of it personifies him.

i love to imagine how Josh comes up with his vocal portions. Like sometimes I feel he just busts them out while in the shower or cooking dinner or driving down the road. They're so enthusiastic hahahaha

Favorite song from this record.

Ok so im a hard-core QOTSA fan and I would be able to pick my favorite 2 songs per album through out the years . Here are my picks. 1. Self titled =give the mule what it wants/ if only 2. Rated R= In the fade/ Auto pilot 3. Songs 4= mosquito song/ Song 4 the deaf. 4.Lullabies to Paralyze= I never came, long slow goodbye. 5. Era Vulgaris = misfit love, wanna make it wit chu 6. Like Clockwork = I appear missing, I sat by the ocean 7. Villains = Un reborn, Villains

Honestly just wish the guitars had that classic QOTSA distortion but this album is still an 8.5/10 for me. Great songs and grooves, and lots of riffs to learn!

one of my favorite qotsa songs. i still get chills when the intro turns into the main riff. a truly wonderful song

Queens of the Stone Age= Rock n Roll

I don't know how yall do it Queens but after all these years I'm still rocking to your music. Hats off

From the second this album dropped I knew it would stand among their best works. I'm so glad to see people catching on, because it didn't seem like a critical success right away. But these tracks are a culmination of a band who have progressed so far yet remained true to themselves over the course of decades. I love this track and I love this album, and I love everyone still along for the ride!

Really one of the best tunes they've ever written...DAMN!!!

This is just perfection. It's my favorite song on the album. Old gritty feel meets...stranger things?! Amazing.

That build up to the opening riff is sick.

"Life is hard that's why no one survives." Best line ever

What a way to start an album! that part at 4:10 is just mind blowing, gave me goosebumps

it's stuck in my brain. i imagine being anywhere and having it come over a radio and improve the atmosphere immediately. rush hour would be over in 5:41 if everyone had this playing in their cars.

Absolute Masterpiece

Best opener to an album I've ever heard.

"Life is hard, that's why no one survives" So true

Wow, there's like a Bowie / Talking Heads sound going on in here. Love it.

"Life is hard, that's why no one survives" Such a good line and so true

Probably one of the best QOTSA album openers to date. Except maybe millionaire.

This is my anthem now.

Finally bought the album after seeing them live and im kicking myself for not buying it sooner. This song is like a kick in the teeth to get this album going.. Loving every second of villains..

This song makes me want to open Google Chrome and download Internet Explorer

Josh is a God sent ,, best music i've heard in the last 20 years . from Kyuss to Qotsa to Eagles of Death Metal , and all the Desert Sessions , Thank You Josh for keeping me sane!!

I've replayed the intro like 10 times, it's so chilling and epic

this gonna be great live

Vocals are very Bowie-like. Loving this song.

17 in 73, when the needle hit the groove, i commenced a moving. Maybe the most smooth lyrics in this decade...

The hook riff in this song makes that "synthesis" \m/.

Queens of the Bowie Age

Bad ass modern Psychedelic rock song by them! I totally dig it!

1) Failed feet put me in grave 2) On heavens and started listening to this 3) Ressurected I encountered this killer riff 4) This riff made my feet dancin 5) My dancin feet failed me and I died 6) Failed feet put me in grave

That riff is unFRICKINdeniable.