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Over the Years and Through the Woods (2005)

Where the lyrics of Over the Years and Through the Woods take you, and where it was really made.

The band's first live release pairs two London shows from August 2005 with 13 bonus songs taken from earlier tours, and its cover is built from the Q letters of its earlier studio albums.

Key places

Monday show at Brixton Academy (2005)

Recording site O2 Academy Brixton — The band recorded its Monday 22 August 2005 concert at Brixton Academy in London. Material from this show is part of the CD and DVD release. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Tuesday show at KOKO (2005)

Live show KOKO — The band played KOKO in London on Tuesday 23 August 2005, the second London show that the release draws on. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Over the Years and Through the Woods: live album and video by Queens of the Stone Age
• Released as audio CD and video DVD, with the same content on both discs
• Main material recorded at Brixton Academy on Monday 22 August 2005
• Second recording at KOKO on Tuesday 23 August 2005, both in London
• DVD content directed by Chapman Baehler
• Sold in two packages: a CD case or a DVD case
• The band's first live release

Background

• Lullabies to Paralyze is the band's fourth studio album
• The DVD shows the band on the Lullabies to Paralyze tour period
• Main concert line-up: Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Alain Johannes, Joey Castillo, Natasha Shneider
• Bonus material recorded at various locations during each of four tours
• Bonus material recorded between June 1999 and April 2005
• Former members appear in the bonus footage: Nick Oliveri, Gene Trautmann, Dave Catching, Brendon McNichol, Dave Grohl, Mark Lanegan
• Billy Gibbons appears as a guest on two bonus songs

Recording

• The release features material from both London concerts
• Two Rated R bonus songs were recorded in Columbus, Ohio, not in Europe as Homme suggested in the bonus clip commentary
• The band's hidden audio commentary was recorded on 1 October 2005, the day they opened for Nine Inch Nails at the Hollywood Bowl

Cover

• Cover art uses stylized letter Qs representing the band's earlier studio albums
• The blue Q comes from Rated R, the red Q from Songs for the Deaf, and the yellow Q from Lullabies to Paralyze
• The band's logo is taken from the self-titled debut album

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · de.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

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

• First live release by the band
• Sold as two different packages, a CD case or a DVD case, with the same content on the discs
• The DVD content was directed by Chapman Baehler
• Main feature DVD was later aired in edited form on DirecTV's freeview channel during November 2005 to promote the DVD and CD release

Records

• Audio CD: 14 tracks, all of which except Tangled Up in Plaid and Leg of Lamb also appear on the DVD
• DVD: 21 entries on the main feature list, including a credits track, followed by 13 bonus songs
• Bonus songs recorded at various locations during four tours
• Bonus material recorded between June 1999 and April 2005
• Hidden audio commentary by all five band members is accessible for the bonus footage
• Commentary recorded 1 October 2005 on the day of the Hollywood Bowl opening show

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The release was sold on 22 November 2005 as the DVD and CD, according to the source's reference to the November promotion.
• The title screen uses Spiders and Vinegaroons, a track from the 1997 Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age split EP.
• The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died was initially slated for Lullabies to Paralyze but was misplaced; the band assumed the tapes were lost or stolen, and the song was released as a single in June 2007.
• DirecTV's November 2005 edit dropped Feel Good Hit of the Summer, The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret, The Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died, I Think I Lost My Headache and I Never Came for time, and censored some explicit language and brief nudity.
• Precious and Grace and Burn the Witch are the bonus songs that feature Billy Gibbons as a guest.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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