"
Burn the Witch" is the third single released from
Queens of the Stone AgeQueens of the Stone Age is an American Grammy Award-nominated rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. Originally formed under the name Gamma Ray by guitarist Josh Homme, following the breakup of his previous band, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age developed a style of...
's fourth album,
Lullabies to ParalyzeLullabies to Paralyze is the fourth studio album by hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age and was released on March 21, 2005. Debuting at number 5 on the Billboard chart, the album sold 97,000 copies in America during its first week of release, eventually topping over 342,000 copies as of March,...
. Many of its lyrics run parallel with the dark,
folkloristicFolklore is the body of expressive culture, including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which...
theme for this album. It has been introduced by Josh Homme when played live as his favorite current song.
Along with "You've Got a Killer Scene There, Man...", it borrows heavily from the blues, probably because
ZZ TopZZ Top is an American rock trio, formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, by Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard...
's legendary guitarist and singer
Billy GibbonsBilly F Gibbons , nicknamed the Reverend Willie G, is a musician, actor, hot rod and car customizer and perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs...
appears on lead guitar and backup vocals.
"
Burn the Witch" is the third single released from
Queens of the Stone AgeQueens of the Stone Age is an American Grammy Award-nominated rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. Originally formed under the name Gamma Ray by guitarist Josh Homme, following the breakup of his previous band, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age developed a style of...
's fourth album,
Lullabies to ParalyzeLullabies to Paralyze is the fourth studio album by hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age and was released on March 21, 2005. Debuting at number 5 on the Billboard chart, the album sold 97,000 copies in America during its first week of release, eventually topping over 342,000 copies as of March,...
. Many of its lyrics run parallel with the dark,
folkloristicFolklore is the body of expressive culture, including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which...
theme for this album. It has been introduced by Josh Homme when played live as his favorite current song.
Along with "You've Got a Killer Scene There, Man...", it borrows heavily from the blues, probably because
ZZ TopZZ Top is an American rock trio, formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, by Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard...
's legendary guitarist and singer
Billy GibbonsBilly F Gibbons , nicknamed the Reverend Willie G, is a musician, actor, hot rod and car customizer and perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs...
appears on lead guitar and backup vocals. Gibbons also plays on a cover of his own band's "Precious and Grace", a bonus track on the album.
The song involves an exchange of vocal lines between the
falsettoThe term falsetto refers to the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave. It is produced by the vibration of the ligamentous edges of the vocal cords, in whole or in part...
of Homme and the twin baritones of Gibbons and
Mark LaneganMark Lanegan is an American rock musician and songwriter. Lanegan began his music career in the 1980s, forming the grunge group Screaming Trees with Gary Lee Conner, Van Conner and Mark Pickerel...
. Gibbons does not regularly tour with the band, so the other vocal was performed by Lanegan, until he stopped touring with the band. Currently, Josh Homme sings alone with backing vocals from the rest of the band, who lack either of the studio musicians' deep growls. In the previous line-up, Homme played bass and
Alain JohannesAlain Johannes Moschulski is a guitarist and, along with his partner Natasha Shneider and drummer Jack Irons, a founding member of the band Eleven...
played a quite different version of Gibbons' solo. This song (its remix by UNKLE) was also featured in and on the soundtrack of 'Saw II.'
Track listing
- "Burn the Witch" (Castillo
Joseph Willam Castillo is an American drummer currently playing with Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal. He joined the band in 2002 after the departure of Dave Grohl.-Musical career:...
, HommeJoshua Michael Homme is an American rock musician and record producer. He was a founding member of the stoner metal band Kyuss, as well as the founding and only continuous member of the hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age , in which he mainly sings and plays guitar...
, Van LeeuwenTroy Dean Van Leeuwen is an American musician and producer. Van Leeuwen began playing music at young age and started playing guitar at age 13. Soon Van Leeuwen was playing in various local bands such as Jester, 60 Cycle and later Failure...
) - 3:38
- "No One Knows" [live] (Homme, Lanegan
Mark Lanegan is an American rock musician and songwriter. Lanegan began his music career in the 1980s, forming the grunge group Screaming Trees with Gary Lee Conner, Van Conner and Mark Pickerel...
) - 7:49
- "I Wanna Make It wit Chu
"Make It wit Chu" is the third single by Queens of the Stone Age from their 2007 album Era Vulgaris. Originally a track on Desert Sessions Volumes 9 & 10 entitled "I Wanna Make It wit Chu", the song also appeared on the band's live DVD Over the Years and Through the Woods before being rerecorded...
" [live] (Homme, JohannesAlain Johannes Moschulski is a guitarist and, along with his partner Natasha Shneider and drummer Jack Irons, a founding member of the band Eleven...
, Melchiondo) - 4:29
- "Monsters in the Parasol
"Monsters in the Parasol" is a song that appears as the sixth track on the 2000 album Rated R by hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age.The song originally appeared on The Desert Sessions, Volume 4: Hard Walls and Little Trips, under the slightly different title of "Monster in the Parasol"...
" [live] (Homme, Lalli) - 4:34
- "Burn the Witch" [multimedia track] (Castillo, Homme, Van Leeuwen) - 5:38
- All the live tracks are taken from Over the Years and Through the Woods
Over the Years and Through the Woods is the title of a live album and video by Queens of the Stone Age.The release features material on audio CD as well as video DVD — both recorded at London's Brixton Academy on Monday August 22, 2005 and KOKO on Tuesday August 23, 2005...
DVD/CD.
Personnel
- Joe Barresi
Joe Barresi is an American record engineer and producer who has worked with bands such as Kyuss, The Melvins, Queens of the Stone Age, Tomahawk, L7 and The Jesus Lizard. In August 2005 he started working with Tool on recording their new album, after being recommended to them by Buzz Osborne of the...
- Producer, Engineer, Mixing
- Josh Homme - Producer, Vocals, Bass Guitar, Guitar licks
- Troy Van Leeuwen
Troy Dean Van Leeuwen is an American musician and producer. Van Leeuwen began playing music at young age and started playing guitar at age 13. Soon Van Leeuwen was playing in various local bands such as Jester, 60 Cycle and later Failure...
- Lap steel guitarThe lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, from which other types developed.There are three main types of lap steel guitar:* Lap slide guitars, the first developed, which use a similar sound box to a Spanish guitar...
- Joey Castillo
Joseph Willam Castillo is an American drummer currently playing with Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal. He joined the band in 2002 after the departure of Dave Grohl.-Musical career:...
- Drums
- Alain Johannes
Alain Johannes Moschulski is a guitarist and, along with his partner Natasha Shneider and drummer Jack Irons, a founding member of the band Eleven...
- Guitar, Engineer
- Mark Lanegan
Mark Lanegan is an American rock musician and songwriter. Lanegan began his music career in the 1980s, forming the grunge group Screaming Trees with Gary Lee Conner, Van Conner and Mark Pickerel...
- Vocals
- Billy Gibbons
Billy F Gibbons , nicknamed the Reverend Willie G, is a musician, actor, hot rod and car customizer and perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs...
- Lead Guitar, Vocals
- Liam Lynch
Liam Lynch is a musician, puppeteer, writer and director. He co-created, co-wrote, played the music for, directed, and produced the MTV's Sifl and Olly Show....
- Video Producer, Video Director
Music video
the Music video features Josh Homme,
Troy Van LeeuwenTroy Dean Van Leeuwen is an American musician and producer. Van Leeuwen began playing music at young age and started playing guitar at age 13. Soon Van Leeuwen was playing in various local bands such as Jester, 60 Cycle and later Failure...
,
Joey CastilloJoseph Willam Castillo is an American drummer currently playing with Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal. He joined the band in 2002 after the departure of Dave Grohl.-Musical career:...
,
Chris GossChristopher Allen Goss, born September 21, 1959, is an American record producer and musician.-Recording career:As well as being the founding member of influential desert rock outfit Masters of Reality, Goss is also well known for his production work on albums by Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age...
,
PJ HarveyPolly Jean Harvey is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, Harvey formed the band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan. The trio released their first album Dry in 1992...
,
Jesse HughesJesse Hughes may refer to:*Jesse Hughes , pioneer and scout in western Virginia*Jesse Hughes , American musician, nicknamed "The Devil", frontman of the Eagles of Death Metal...
,
Alain JohannesAlain Johannes Moschulski is a guitarist and, along with his partner Natasha Shneider and drummer Jack Irons, a founding member of the band Eleven...
,
Natasha ShneiderNatasha Shneider was a Russian musician. She was most notably the keyboardist and vocalist in the musical group Eleven, and was the partner of bandmate Alain Johannes...
,
Billy GibbonsBilly F Gibbons , nicknamed the Reverend Willie G, is a musician, actor, hot rod and car customizer and perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs...
and Serrina Sims