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This is mostly for Via Chicago I suspect, but I am solidly in favor of the debut album from supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. Come for the Zeppelin rehash, stay for the Queens of the Stone Age. I don't get sound on this computer, so let me know if these links don't work right.
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I like this stuff a little, but I think it's a shame that the least talented person in the group (Josh Homme) is the primary singer and songwriter.
Is John Paul Jones considered a songwriter?
For what it's worth, I think that they all have songwriting credit on every song (not 100% sure tho). But I get your gist, drischord: a new Foo Fighters album or some of JPJ's solo jams are much preferred over a collaborative and adventurous hard rockathon.
Look at the credits on any Led Zeppelin album and come back to rip John Paul Jones the songwriter. His name is all over that shit, from Communication Breakdown to Black Dog to No Quarter to Trampled Under Foot to nearly all of In Through The Out Door, when Jimmy Page was too fucked up to do anything useful. Jones co-wrote 35-40% of Zeppelin's total music and co-wrote over 60% of their greatest music.
Give me anything by Led Zeppelin or anything off the first two Foo Fighters albums above the absolute pinnacle of Josh Homme's career.
And again, I don't dislike this music. It's at worst fine, at best good. Will it stick with me the way that Nirvana, early Foo Fighters or anything by Led Zeppelin has? Almost certainly not.
Well, for the record, I was just asking the question. I know next to nothing about Led Zeppelin aside from what I've heard on the radio, I've never even owned one of their albums. I was just surprised to hear JPJ mentioned as a songwriter, because I hadn't heard that before.
Don't worry, Q. I was mocking Tex, not you.
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