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...Like Clockwork (2013)

Where the lyrics of ...Like Clockwork take you, and where it was really made.

Drummer Joey Castillo left the band during recording, and former member Dave Grohl stepped in to play drums on the rest of the album.

Key places

Recording at Pink Duck Studios (2012)

Recording site The Enterprise (Burbank) — The album was engineered at Pink Duck Studios in Burbank, California. The point is set at city-center level, so the exact building is not marked. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• ...Like Clockwork is the sixth studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age
• Released 3 June 2013 in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States, on Matador Records
• First of a three-album run with Matador, followed by Villains and In Times New Roman
• Self-produced by the band
• First Queens of the Stone Age album with full contributions from bassist Michael Shuman and keyboardist and guitarist Dean Fertita
• Debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, the band's first US number-one album
• Reached number two on the UK Albums Chart

Background

• In 2011, frontman Josh Homme was hospitalized for thirteen days after complications from a routine knee surgery, then bedridden for four months
• During this time Homme sank into a deep depression
• The remaining members encouraged Homme to return and begin work on a sixth studio album
• The band reissued its 1998 debut album in 2011 and toured playing it in full each night

Recording

• The band began recording in August 2012, initially hoping Trent Reznor would produce the album
• Joey Castillo left the band during recording, and Dave Grohl played drums on the rest of the album
• Mark Rankin was the recording engineer
• Tumult during recording inspired the album's title

Cover

• Cover art by Liverpool-based artist Boneface
• Based on a publicity still for the 1931 film Dracula

Sources: www.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band formed in Palm Desert, California, in 1996 by vocalist and guitarist Josh Homme.
• The band was founded shortly after the dissolution of Homme's previous band Kyuss.
• Its self-titled debut album was released in 1998.

Members

• Josh Homme is the only constant member through multiple line-up changes.
• The line-up since 2013 consists of Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, Dean Fertita, and Jon Theodore.
• Former members include Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan, Joey Castillo, and Natasha Shneider.

Career

• Rated R (2000) was the band's major label debut with Interscope Records and was critically and commercially successful.
• Songs for the Deaf (2002) featured Dave Grohl on drums and was certified gold in 2003.
• ...Like Clockwork (2013) became the band's first album to top the Billboard 200 chart.
• The band has been nominated for 9 Grammy Awards.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album five stars out of five
• Erlewine wrote that the album is unusually focused for a Queens of the Stone Age record, keeping the group's hallmarks of volume and crunch
• Dan Slessor of Alternative Press wrote that surrendering to its strange charms could be one of the smartest decisions a listener makes this year
• According to Metacritic, it was the band's most acclaimed album since Songs for the Deaf (2002), with an average score of 82 from 46 reviews

Reappraisal

• NME ranked it number 335 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time later in 2013
• In December 2014 NME ranked it number 25 on its list of the 25 Best Albums of the Decade So Far
• Loudwire staff elected it the best hard rock album of 2013 in 2024
• Chris Talbot of the Associated Press ranked it second on his list of the top 10 albums of 2013
• Seventeen journalists of the Polish media company Agora SA placed it fourth among the 10 Best Foreign Albums of 2013

Records

• Debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with over 91,000 copies sold in its first week, the band's first number-one album on the chart
• Biggest first-week sales for the band since the 2005 album Lullabies to Paralyze
• Debuted at number two on the Canadian Albums Chart with 11,000 copies in its first week
• Number two on the UK Albums Chart
• In 2014 awarded a diamond certification by the Independent Music Companies Association, indicating at least 200,000 copies sold throughout Europe
• Nominated for three Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Sources: www.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title came from the tumult that surfaced during recording, which Homme framed as a sick sense of humor.
• Former bassist Nick Oliveri, fired by Homme in 2004, provided backing vocals on 'If I Had a Tail' and asked to return on bass, but Homme chose Michael Shuman.
• Elton John called Homme after hearing the record's need for an actual queen and ended up on the album.
• The cover uses a publicity still from the 1931 film Dracula, adapted by Boneface.
• Before release, the band played Club 69 in Antwerp, a show for only 69 invited couples, with tickets won through Studio Brussel.

Sources: www.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

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