Welcome to Sky Valley
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| Studio album by Kyuss | ||
| Released | June 28, 1994 | |
| Recorded | Sound City in Van Nuys, California in 1993 | |
| Genre | Stoner rock | |
| Length | 51:53 | |
| Label | Elektra Records | |
| Producer(s) | Kyuss & Chris Goss | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Kyuss chronology | ||
| Blues for the Red Sun (1992) |
Welcome to Sky Valley (1994) |
...And the Circus Leaves Town (1995) |
Welcome to Sky Valley is the third album released by Kyuss on June 28, 1994.
This was the first album with bassist Scott Reeder, who took the place of Nick Oliveri in 1993 before the album was recorded. It also marks the first time that the bass guitar was used in a more conventional, contrapuntal manner, as opposed to Oliveri's Lemmy-influenced picking style that uses the bass more as a rhythm guitar, sticking to simple major and minor scales, sans the use of modes. This is the final album with drummer Brant Bjork, who left to join Fu Manchu.
There are only three listed tracks (and a fourth hidden one), but there are ten songs. Track one, for instance is actually three different songs.
In concert, the band Tool has covered "Demon Cleaner" a number of times, occasionally getting Kyuss bassist Scott Reeder to play it with them live.
The album marks the watershed in their songwriting prowess, when they moved away from angered, riff-laden songs with an alternative edge to the psychedelic experimentation that has been their enduring legacy to the stoner rock scene.
[edit] Tracklisting
- "Gardenia" / "Asteroid" / "Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop" (17:46)
- "100°" / "Space Cadet" / "Demon Cleaner" (14:50)
- "Odyssey" / "Conan Troutman" / "N.O." / "Whitewater" (18:19)
- "Lick Doo" (hidden track) (0:57)
[edit] Promo tracklisting
- "Gardenia" (Brant Bjork) – 6:54
- "Asteroid (Josh Homme) – 4:48
- "Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop" (Josh Homme) – 6:03
- "100°" (Josh Homme) – 2:29
- "Space Cadet" (Josh Homme/Scott Reeder) – 7:02
- "Demon Cleaner" (Josh Homme) – 5:19
- "Odyssey" (Josh Homme) – 4:19
- "Conan Troutman" (Josh Homme) – 2:11
- "N.O." (Mario Lalli/Scott Reeder) – 3:47
- "Whitewater" (Brant Bjork/Josh Homme) – 8:58 (contains "Lick Doo" (unlisted "secret" track))
- The above tracklist is from the promo version and some of the European issues. Most of the commercially-sold versions of the CD contain only four tracks, which is meant to encourage listeners to experience it as a full album instead of as a collection of separate songs (although in some interviews, band member Josh Homme claimed that it was done this way just so it would be "like hell to play on a CD player.")
[edit] Personnel
- John Garcia - Vocals
- Josh Homme - Guitar
- Scott Reeder - Bass
- Brant Bjork - Drums
- Lead guitar on "N.O." by Mario Lalli (of Fatso Jetson, SST Records)
- Produced by Chris Goss & Kyuss
- Engineered & mixed by Joe Barresi
- Assistant engineers: Jeff Sheehan, Wade Norton, Alexe Campbell
- Additional engineering: Brian Jenkins
- Recorded at Sound City, Van Nuys, CA
- Mixed at NRG Studios, North Hollywood, CA
- Mastered by Eddy Schreyer at Futuredisc Systems, Hollywood, CA
- Photography: Alex Solca
- Art Direction: Skiles
- Additional percussion on "Asteroid" by Peter Moffet
- Additional peculiar background vocals: Scott Reeder, Josh Homme & Madman Of Encino
| Kyuss |
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| John Garcia | Josh Homme |
| Bass: Chris Cockrell | Nick Oliveri | Scott Reeder |
| Drums: Alfredo Hernandez | Brant Bjork |
| Discography |
| Studio albums: Sons of Kyuss (1990) | Wretch (1991) | Blues for the Red Sun (1992) | Welcome to Sky Valley (1994) | ...And the Circus Leaves Town (1995) |
| Split EPs: Shine! (1996) | Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age (1997) |
| Compilations: Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss (2000) |
| Related articles |
| Stoner rock | Desert rock | Queens of the Stone Age | Hermano | Fu Manchu | Unida | Slo Burn |
