MEH[T] CROOKED VULTURES

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 11:30am by

MS reader AcidBeagle sent us the below YouTube embed of a brand new Them Crooked Vultures track called “Mind Eraser.” It’s pretty good (pretty, pretty, pretty good!), but that’s about as far as I’m going to go with it.

While the prospect of a Grohl/Homme/JPJ union was indeed tantalizing in theory, the partnership has turned out to be pretty “meh” in practice. It’s perfectly fine boogie/blues/whatever rock music, but would anyone ultimately give a shit if not for the star-studded cast of characters involved? Methinksnot, but you be judge.

-VN

  • jason

    Whatever. You get points for a curb your enthusiasm reference.

  • http://www.myspace.com/uglydirge aaron m.

    maybe it’s just me, but parts of this bear a DANGEROUS SIMILARITY TO CERTAIN QOTSA MATERIAL.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyRDgMYqbuY

    • Kuranes

      Or Eagles of Death Metal.

    • blah

      man i cant imagine why this band would sound like QOTSA at all

      why dont you give john fogerty shit for sounding like creedence while you are at it

  • Fufkin

    What did you expect?
    Houses Of The Holy Ghost?

  • Sammy

    Yay Curb! Boo this whatever it is.

  • Facebook User

    15 SHOTS WITH BEER AS A CHASER…FOLLOWED IT UP WITH THE MIND ERASER!!!
    The Waste’s Mind Eraser is better.

  • Glorious Johnson

    LARRY DAVID YOU FUCK!

  • brian roach

    Yea, been very disappointed with both tracks i’ve heard from this. Agree, if it wasn’t Homme/Grohl/JPJ no one would care…

  • http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&contributorid=19569360 Garske

    This song is killer, New Fang isn’t THAT great, but this one is excellent.

    Then again I just have a huge BROner for anything Grohl and Homme do… so that may be a biased opinion.

  • http://www.kingdomofnoise.blogspot.com MetalMatt

    I’ve been a big Homme fan for a long time but, yeah, meh.

  • Cornrow Wallace

    They should release an instrumental version of this record because I love the music but the vocals, especially the Dave Grohl, is killing it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Gavin/1396340262 Mark Gavin

    I’m enjoying this.

  • metalguy

    THIS SONG IS AVAILABLE ALL WEEK AS A FREE ITUNES DOWNLOAD TILL NEXT TUESDAY(ENDS MONDAY NIGHT) if anyone actually likes this shit

  • http://www.last.fm/user/groverXIII groverXIII

    That was great. I love the horn outro. This album sounds like it’s going to kick ass, in spite of what you guys think.

  • TheMarsPelicanInIsisChains

    Downloaded it yesterday and it grooves the shit out of me. I’d give a large fuck about it even if you played it for me then told me it was something made by members of iwrestledabearonce.

  • SourDeez

    Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop