Band: Them Crooked Vultures
Label: Interscope
Release: November 17, 2009

1. “”No One Loves Me & Neither Do I” – 8.4
2. “Mind Eraser, No Chaser” – 6.3
3. “New Fang” – 5.5
4. “Dead End Friends” – 5.8
5. “Elephants” – 5.0
6. “Scumbag Blues” – 5.9
7. “Bandoliers” – 6.3
8. “Reptiles”  – 4.8
9. “Interlude With Ludes” – 6.7
10. “Warsaw…” – 5.5
11. “Caligulove” – 5.0
12. “Gunman” – 5.8

Comments: Hailed as a hard rock supergroup [Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age)], I’m sure many music critics have big expectations for this album. Fact: I’m not really into this type of music. I was deceived by the first song, which isn’t that bad; it has the same kind of flair as a song by Rage Against the Machine (pretty good, but not something I’d listen to repeatedly). The rest sounds the same. I mean no disrespect by this, but it is truth. It’s stuff that I thought was way out there in sixth grade, but now I listen to and just shake my head.

Grade: 5.9