Sick, Sick, Sick
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| Single by Queens of the Stone Age from the album Era Vulgaris |
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| Released | May 8, 2007 | ||||
| Format | Digital download (only) | ||||
| Genre | Hard rock | ||||
| Length | 3:34 | ||||
| Label | Interscope Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Joey Castillo Chris Goss Josh Homme Troy Van Leeuwen |
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| Producer | Chris Goss and Josh Homme | ||||
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"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.[1] A Sick, Sick, Sick EP was also given a limited release, containing the song and three B-Sides: "I'm Designer" (remix), "Goin' Out West" (Tom Waits cover) and "Christian Brothers" (Elliott Smith cover). The song features Julian Casablancas of The Strokes on backing vocals and Casio synth guitar.[2]
[Sick, Sick, Sick] is the Fairy God Prince of the Gutter, touching everyone on the head and releasing them from their shackles of guilt.
—Josh Homme in interview with Dose magazine, May 2007.[3]
Additionally, the song appears in a 3-song pack - Along with other Queens of the Stone Age songs "Little Sister" and "3's and 7's" - as downloadable content for the music video game Rock Band.
The song, just like "No One Knows", was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the Grammys, but both times were beaten by their friends, Foo Fighters. "No One Knows" was beaten by "All My Life" and "Sick, Sick, Sick" was beaten by "The Pretender."
[edit] Music videos
Director Brett Simon shot a video for "Sick, Sick, Sick" on April 25 in the Los Angeles area, featuring the band performing "at a dinner party audience of one", [4] at "this kind of LoCal local remote homemade…church-castle…in East L.A."[5].
Liam Lynch directed two official alternate videos for the song:
- "The Bulby Video" featuring the bulb from the single and album cover
- A third version, released on queensofthestoneage.de on May 30, was made by Lynch at his expense, i.e. without being commissioned, outside of the label, but once it was finished the label picked it up and made it the official video for Germany. The video which stars Lynch, Josh Homme, and Wendy Rae Fowler (in her fourth appearance in a Queens of the Stone Age video, among them "Burn the Witch") was shot at Lynch's house in front of a green screen, without any crew. Later animation similar to the "Go with the Flow" video was added.
[edit] References
- ^ Queens of the Stone age unveil new album artwork. Uncut.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-09.
- ^ Rollingstone.com "rock and roll diary", retrieved April 7 2007
- ^ Adler, Heather (2007-05-08). Album Spotlight: Josh Homme spills on new Queens of the Stone Age record, Era Vulgaris. Dose.ca. Retrieved on 2007-05-11.
- ^ QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Films 'Sick, Sick, Sick' Video, Blabbermouth.net Apr. 28, 2007
- ^ Josh Homme, Joey Castillo (interviewees). Queens Of The Stone Age interview (.wmv). Virgin Media. Retrieved on 2007-05-09. Event occurs at 0:14–0:24.
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