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Era Vulgaris
Era Vulgaris (album)
Era Vulgaris is the fifth full length studio album by American hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age. The album was completed in early April 2007 and released on June 8, 2007 in some countries, June 11, 2007 in the United Kingdom and June 12, 2007 in the United States...

is a studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by American band Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. The band's line-up has always included founding member Josh Homme , with the current line-up including longtime members Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo , alongside Michael Shuman and...

 first released in 2007 which was since published in various editions.

Main track listing

All tracks were written by Joshua Homme
Joshua Homme
Joshua Michael Homme is an American rock musician, and record producer. He was the guitarist and 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 sings, plays guitar, and serves as the...

, Troy Van Leeuwen
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...

 and Joey Castillo
Joey Castillo
Joseph Willam "Joey" Castillo is an American drummer currently playing with Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal...

, except where noted.
  1. "Turnin' on the Screw" – 5:20
  2. "Sick, Sick, Sick
    Sick, Sick, Sick
    "Sick, Sick, Sick" is a Grammy nominated single released by Queens of the Stone Age from their 2007 album Era Vulgaris. It was released on May 8, 2007 as a digital download only from the U.S. iTunes Store...

    " (Homme, Goss, Van Leeuwen, Castillo) – 3:34
  3. "I'm Designer" – 4:04
  4. "Into the Hollow" – 3:42
  5. "Misfit Love" – 5:39
  6. "Battery Acid" – 4:06
  7. "Make It wit Chu
    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 The Desert Sessions Volumes 9 & 10 titled "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...

    " (Homme, Johannes, Melchiondo
    Dean Ween
    Dean Ween is the stage name of Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr., American guitarist and half of the alternative rock group Ween.-Biography:...

    ) – 4:50
  8. "3's & 7's
    3's & 7's
    "3's & 7's" is the second single by Queens of the Stone Age from their 2007 album Era Vulgaris. It was released on June 4, 2007 and followed the digital download-only "Sick, Sick, Sick"....

    " – 3:34
  9. "Suture Up Your Future" – 4:37
  10. "River in the Road" – 3:19
  11. "Run, Pig, Run" – 4:40

Bonus tracks

  • "Running Joke" – 2:54
    • UK/Japanese/Australian/New Zealand/Vinyl/iTunes
      ITunes
      iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

       release bonus track.
  • "Era Vulgaris" (featuring Trent Reznor
    Trent Reznor
    Michael Trent Reznor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor is also a member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30,...

    ) – 4:20
    • UK/Japanese/Australian/New Zealand release bonus track. Previously released as both a contest-winning promotional single (You Know What You Did) and as a free download.
  • "The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died
    The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died
    "The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died" is a song by the rock band Queens of the Stone Age.It was originally intended to be on the band's fourth studio album, Lullabies to Paralyze. The tapes were assumed stolen but were, in fact, lost....

    " – 6:55
    • Japanese/Brazilian/Mexican/German/Dutch/Russian release bonus track. An earlier, rougher studio take was previously released as a 7" single that was given out to fans at a Brixton Academy show after the band could not play there several times. The song was noted on the sleeve of Lullabies to Paralyze
      Lullabies to Paralyze
      Lullabies to Paralyze is the fourth studio album by hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on March 21, 2005. The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200, and sold 97,000 copies in America during its first week of release, eventually topping over 342,000 copies as of March, 2007...

      . This is a new version of the song, and a free CD single containing the song was given away with preorders of Era Vulgaris through certain websites.
  • "White Wedding
    White Wedding (song)
    "White Wedding" is a song by Billy Idol that appeared on his album Billy Idol . Although "the Big 80's: Episode I" of VH1's Pop-up Video trivia show claims Idol wrote the song to voice his displeasure with his sister's fiance , on an episode of VH1 Storytellers, Idol claimed that there was never...

    " (Billy Idol
    Billy Idol
    William Michael Albert Broad , better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X...

     cover) – 3:48
    • Best Buy
      Best Buy
      Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States, accounting for 19% of the market. It also operates in Mexico, Canada & China. The company's subsidiaries include Geek Squad, CinemaNow, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in Canada operates...

       exclusive download when album is bought. Also available on the "Make It Wit Chu" CD single. Also on the limited Canadian tour edition of Era Vulgaris.
  • "Goin' Out West
    Bone Machine
    Bone Machine is a critically acclaimed and award-winning album by Tom Waits, released in 1992 on Island Records. It won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, and features guest appearances by Los Lobos' David Hidalgo, Primus' Les Claypool, and The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards.Bone...

    " (Tom Waits
    Tom Waits
    Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...

     cover) – 3:24
    • f.y.e.
      F.y.e.
      F.Y.E., standing for "For Your Entertainment," is a chain of entertainment media stores in the United States. As one of many Trans World Entertainment brands, it began in 1993 and was expanded in 2001 after buying out and rebranding mall-based Camelot, Strawberries, Record Town and Coconuts stores...

       exclusive download when album is bought. Initially available only on the album's US release date, June 12, 2007. Subsequently made available on the "3's & 7's" 7" single, as well as the import version of the "Sick, Sick, Sick" single.
  • "I'm Designer" (Primal Scream Remix) – 3:45
    • Circuit City exclusive download when album is bought. The Primal Scream Remix was included on the "Sick, Sick, Sick" single. The Circuit City download was another remix of this track, titled the Hot Chip Remix with a running time of 6:28.
  • "Needles in the Camel's Eye" (Brian Eno
    Brian Eno
    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

     cover) – 3:21
    • Available on the "Make It Wit Chu" CD single and the limited Canadian tour edition of Era Vulgaris.
  • "Christian Brothers
    Elliott Smith (album)
    Elliott Smith is the second album recorded by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. It was released by Kill Rock Stars on 21 July 1995 in CD and vinyl LP. It was Smith's first full-length release on the label....

    " (Elliott Smith
    Elliott Smith
    Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity...

     cover) - 4:22
    • Available on the "Sick, Sick, Sick" single and the limited Canadian tour edition of Era Vulgaris.

Disc 1

  1. "Turnin' on the Screw" – 5:20
  2. "Sick, Sick, Sick
    Sick, Sick, Sick
    "Sick, Sick, Sick" is a Grammy nominated single released by Queens of the Stone Age from their 2007 album Era Vulgaris. It was released on May 8, 2007 as a digital download only from the U.S. iTunes Store...

    " (Homme, Goss, Van Leeuwen, Castillo) – 3:34
  3. "I'm Designer" – 4:04
  4. "Into the Hollow" – 3:42
  5. "Misfit Love" – 5:39
  6. "Battery Acid" – 4:06
  7. "Make It wit Chu
    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 The Desert Sessions Volumes 9 & 10 titled "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...

    " (Homme, Johannes, Melchiondo
    Dean Ween
    Dean Ween is the stage name of Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr., American guitarist and half of the alternative rock group Ween.-Biography:...

    ) – 4:50
  8. "3's & 7's
    3's & 7's
    "3's & 7's" is the second single by Queens of the Stone Age from their 2007 album Era Vulgaris. It was released on June 4, 2007 and followed the digital download-only "Sick, Sick, Sick"....

    " – 3:34
  9. "Suture Up Your Future" – 4:37
  10. "River in the Road" – 3:19
  11. "Run, Pig, Run" – 4:40
  12. "The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died
    The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died
    "The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died" is a song by the rock band Queens of the Stone Age.It was originally intended to be on the band's fourth studio album, Lullabies to Paralyze. The tapes were assumed stolen but were, in fact, lost....

    " – 6:57
  13. "Make It wit Chu (Acoustic)" (Homme, Johannes, Melchiondo
    Dean Ween
    Dean Ween is the stage name of Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr., American guitarist and half of the alternative rock group Ween.-Biography:...

    ) – 4:50
  14. "Era Vulgaris (Richard File Remix)" (featuring Trent Reznor
    Trent Reznor
    Michael Trent Reznor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor is also a member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30,...

    ) – 6:06
  15. "I'm Designer (Unkle
    UNKLE
    Unkle are a British musical outfit founded in 1994 by school friends James Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy. Originally categorized as trip-hop, the group once included producer DJ Shadow and have employed a variety of guest artists and producers.-First incarnation :Lavelle and Goldsworthy were joined...

     Remix)" – 6:11

Disc 1 (Canadian limited tour edition)

(All tracks are the same, except:)
  • 12. "Christian Brothers" (Elliott Smith
    Elliott Smith
    Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity...

     cover) - 4:24
  • 13. "Needles in the Camel's Eye" (Brian Eno
    Brian Eno
    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

     cover) - 3:22
  • 14. "Make It wit Chu (Acoustic)" - 4:50
  • 15. "White Wedding
    White Wedding (song)
    "White Wedding" is a song by Billy Idol that appeared on his album Billy Idol . Although "the Big 80's: Episode I" of VH1's Pop-up Video trivia show claims Idol wrote the song to voice his displeasure with his sister's fiance , on an episode of VH1 Storytellers, Idol claimed that there was never...

    " (Billy Idol
    Billy Idol
    William Michael Albert Broad , better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X...

     cover) - 3:51
  • 16. "Era Vulgaris (Richard File Remix)" (featuring Trent Reznor
    Trent Reznor
    Michael Trent Reznor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor is also a member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30,...

    ) – 6:06


Disc 2 (Live In Amsterdam)

  1. "Monsters in the Parasol" – 3:34
  2. "Misfit Love" – 6:41
  3. "If Only" – 3:43
  4. "I Think I Lost My Headache" - 6:10
  5. "Into the Hollow" – 4:13
  6. "Go with the Flow
    Go with the Flow
    "Go with the Flow" is a song by Queens of the Stone Age from the album Songs for the Deaf, released as a single in 2003. At the 46th Grammy Awards, the song was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance.-Music video:...

    " – 3:22
  7. "Regular John" - 10:59
  8. "Avon" – 3:18
  9. "Song for the Dead" - 7:13

Recorded live at the Paradiso
Paradiso (Amsterdam)
Paradiso is an iconic rock music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.-History:It is housed in a converted former church building that dates from the nineteenth century and that was used until 1965 as the meeting hall for a liberal Dutch religious group known as the "Vrije...

 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

on 3 July 2007.

Limited edition vinyl

On 4 December 2007, Interscope Records released the album on triple 10" vinyl records pressed in Nashville's historic United Record Pressing. The LP version has been expected since the CD version's release has art that features ring marks commonly associated with vinyl records. The LP includes the bonus track "Running Joke".
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