{"id":3784,"date":"2017-08-24T16:01:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/24\/queens-of-the-stone-age-villains-review-josh-hommes-chemsex-vikings-beef-up-their-myth\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T14:01:21","slug":"queens-of-the-stone-age-villains-review-josh-hommes-chemsex-vikings-beef-up-their-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=3784","title":{"rendered":"Queens of the Stone Age: Villains review \u2013 Josh Homme&#039;s chemsex vikings beef up their myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their self-image may be cartoonishly macho, but there are sweet and supple melodies galore on this Mark Ronson-produced seventh albumQueens of the Stone Age\u2019s new album opens with a spot of self-mythologising. \u201cI was born in the desert, May 17, in 73,\u201d croons Josh Homme on Feet Don\u2019t Fail Me. \u201cWhen the needle hit the groove, I commence to moving \/ I was chasing what\u2019s calling me.\u201d Since the departure of frequently nude bassist Nick Oliveri 13 years ago, Queens have had a largely stable lineup, familiar to most listeners as Homme and some other blokes who could have \u201cI\u2019m in Queens of the Stone Age\u201d tattooed on their foreheads and still provoke the question: \u201cI\u2019m sorry, what band are you in?\u201d The myth-making is likely all Homme\u2019s. Over the course of Queens of the Stone Age\u2019s 20-year career, he has been adept at making it clear what the band represent, and manipulating perceptions. Their breakout song, 2000\u2019s Feelgood Hit of the Summer \u2013 whose entire lyrics were repetitions of \u201cNicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol, c-c-c-c-c-cocaine\u201d \u2013 helped create the image of chemsex desert vikings, riding out of the mountains on choppers to set up generator parties at which all attendees swallowed kilos of pills and had it off with anything that moved: man, woman or motorcycle. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2017\/aug\/24\/queens-of-the-stone-age-villains-review-josh-hommes-chemsex-vikings-beef-up-their-myth\" target=\"_blank\">Queens of the Stone Age: Villains review \u2013 Josh Homme&#039;s chemsex vikings beef up their myth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their self-image may be cartoonishly macho, but there are sweet and supple melodies galore on this Mark Ronson-produced seventh albumQueens of the Stone Age\u2019s new album opens with a spot of self-mythologising. \u201cI was born in the desert, May 17, in 73,\u201d croons Josh Homme on Feet Don\u2019t Fail Me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}