Hey, welcome to the great albums podcast. I am Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?

2002's Songs for the Death by Queens of the Stone Age.

Music What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great by having the kind of conversation around the music that happens when you're a fan.

We talk about how we got into the music, what makes it cool, and we follow it up with a very long track-by-track review. Yeah, but we're not going to do it alone this week.

No, we are not. We actually, someone who neither one of us had met, it just kind of a nice happenstance of we were circling each other.

And, you know, we knew of each other.

And then you sent out a fortuitous email, I believe.

Yeah.

Well, what happened was there, he's friends with Ed and Alice from You Don't Know Jersey,

who came on our license to Ill and our Beatles episode.

And for whom's, you know, for whose website, I write a monthly column.

So there was he, you don't know jersey.com.

Look up Brian's pieces.

But he also writes a little bit for them.

And we'll get into that when we introduce him.

But they had similar, like kind of ran in similar circles, but never actually had formally met one another.

Yeah, so, you know, we kind of threw out some contact, and he came back and he's like,

let's do Queens of the Stone Age, which is a great choice because I think that they're one of

those bands that a lot of people have asked for

on the podcast. And they're just... And a couple different records, too, not just this one. But

they're also this weird band that like really kind of like crosses genres and fandoms, like hard rock people like like it kind of like more like indie rock people

like it yeah like they maintain that that indie cred yeah in their own way that and they're just

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