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IrelandAnthony Fantano calls Perfecth Queens of the Stone Age's "weakest record"
His red flannel becomes a running joke, while listeners question his reading of individual songs and point back to Iggy Pop.
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Story of Why this story? The video drew 916 comments in its first day, 7.4 times a normal first day on this channel (124).
Queens of the Stone Age - Perfecth ALBUM REVIEW
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- 0:48Fantano frames the band's run since Villains as diminishing returns after …Like Clockwork.
- 2:26He calls Perfecth possibly the band's weakest album, arguing that its humor and songwriting fall short.
- 4:08His broader criticism is that the songs feel casual, unplanned and derivative, like demos or loose jams.
- 5:58"Mono" exemplifies his production complaints, with a distant, unpolished recording sound.
- 7:40"Easy Street" emerges as a stronger song, though he still finds the production underwhelming.
- 11:11The final verdict is a light to decent three.
The red-and-black flannel gets almost as much attention as the rating. Beneath Anthony Fantano's review of Perfecth on theneedledrop, listeners keep returning to his shirt as shorthand for a verdict they hadn't expected for Queens of the Stone Age.
The discussion is unusually busy: first-day comments came in at more than seven times the channel's usual pace, even though views were ordinary for a new review. Beyond the wardrobe jokes, listeners are picking apart specific interpretations rather than simply arguing over a score.
Fantano's central complaint is that the album sounds too casual and underdeveloped, more like loose demos and jams than a finished Queens record. He describes the recording of "Mono" as sounding as though a single microphone had been left at the far end of a room. "Easy Street" offers a relative bright spot, but he ultimately lands on a "light to decent three."
Listeners have several counterpoints. One reads "Where the Goth Girls At?" as nostalgia for growing up around Palm Desert rather than the literal pursuit Fantano hears. Others question his comparison between "Phantom Limb" and Duran Duran's "Rio." Several point out that "Sunday" appeared on Iggy Pop's Post Pop Depression, an album Fantano previously reviewed.
There's also a more personal disagreement over the opener: one listener describes stopping what they were doing to give it their full attention, precisely the connection missing from Fantano's account. The same recording can sound unfinished to a critic and absorbing to someone else, and this comment section gets down to which songs make the difference.
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It's too late Anthony I've formed my own opinion
@crustycrayfish8356See it on YouTubeRed flannel for QOTSA I’m going to need some time to process this
@mdgrallerSee it on YouTubeIt’s only love is such a hauntingly beautiful intro that I actually had to stop what I was doing and sit down. It’s such a shame you didn’t experience that the same way I did. Not every record is for everybody
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Like Clockwork was definitly a double edged sword because even though that album is undeniably fantastic, it's success has lead to this watered down QOTSA sound. No one is expecting another SFTD but Queens are definitly at their best when they are at there most ferocious
@SMB291See it on YouTubeRed flannel for QOTSA is my personal Red wedding
@Anton-wk8lvSee it on YouTubeI knew this album was going to be a certified black sheep, so to speak.
@thecosmicblueautisticSee it on YouTubeSunday is an Iggy Pop song that Josh re-recorded for this album btw, which you reviewed, Post Pop Depression
@BwheenSee it on YouTube
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