Blues for the Red Sun

Blues for the Red Sun

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Blues for the Red Sun is the finest album by short-lived rock gods Kyuss. With guitars tuned way down and amps turned way up, Kyuss's deafening assault switches from light to hammering in a blink on some tracks ("Thumb," "Thong Song"), while slowly building on others ("Freedom Run"). They achieve full rock bliss when they're relentless. By updating Black Sabbath from the perspective of psychedelic jammers out of the Arizona desert, Kyuss established the blueprint for the entire stoner rock movement with this 1992 release. Even its makers never matched it, let alone beat it. --Robert Burrow

Tracks:

Thumb
Green Machine
Molten Universe
50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)
Thong Song
Apothcaries Weight
Caterpillar March
Freedom Run
800
Writhe
Capsized
Allen's Wrench
Mondo Generator
Yeah

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Blues for the Red Sun is the finest album by short-lived rock gods Kyuss. With guitars tuned way down and amps turned way up, Kyuss's deafening assault switches from light to hammering in a blink on some tracks ("Thumb," "Thong Song"), while slowly building on others ("Freedom Run"). They achieve full rock bliss when they're relentless. By updating Black Sabbath from the perspective of psychedelic jammers out of the Arizona desert, Kyuss established the blueprint for the entire stoner rock movement with this 1992 release. Even its makers never matched it, let alone beat it. --Robert Burrow

Customer Reviews:

you've been burned by my lighter.......2007-06-29

how could any album that includes an angry song about lighter burning be bad? all i have to say. PERIOD...

Rock.......2007-06-09

It's a pretty natural inclination to want to categorize and disseminate styles into little boxes. I mean, hell, would you really want to say that The Beatles and Good Charlotte are in the same category?

But let's look at the other side of that same coin--ARE The Beatles and Good Charlotte in the same category? Is the definition of 'classic rock' versus 'pop punk' really just the distinction of quality versus lame-osity, reinvention and creativity versus cashing in on spiky hair? Could it really be that the pavers of possibility in rock can really sit in the same cordoned room with the posers with paychecks?

Kyuss, believe it or not, makes me think that the possibility is just that.

Look at the other reviews and tags that question the category of this band. Grunge? Metal? Stoner rock?

Man, let's just call this rock. Heavy rock, the rock of Wine Cooler Blowout by J.J. Paradise Players' Club and Trance States in Tongues by Zen Guerrilla. Rock that may make you shake your booty some, but definitely gets you in the mood to score. Rock that lets you bob around the room , throw some hair (if you have any), or just veg out and let whatever it is that's got its claws into your brain have free reign. From driving rockers like "Green Machine" to bassy meditations like "Mondo Generation," you'll know where Queens of the Stone Age came from and why the brilliant opening of Songs for the Deaf ("You're listening to KLN. Clone Radio - We play the songs that sound more like everyone else, than anyone else.") is such stinging satire, because rock IS a category as broad as the ocean these guys made ripple with their heavy sounds, and this album is a Kyuss classic--a great spot to start, if you're only starting.

Best of the Best.......2007-01-06

Kyuss does have a greatest hits album, and it's solid, but it doesn't hold a torch to Blues for the Red Sun. Kyuss has always been pegged as a "jam band," but that doesn't really do them justice. How many riff bands invent a new genre of music?
Kyuss are the original stoners, and this album is a fan favourite for good reason. John Garcia, one of metal's most tragically unsung heroes, just wails on this record. Unlike today's whiny, sobbing emo and nu- metal- types, Jon Garcia can SING. He's got an almost definitive rock and roll voice.
Of course Josh Homme on guitar and backup vocals is a big part of why Kyuss rock- he's the Midas of heavy metal music. But this record is really propelled by Garcia on vocals. Check him out on Danko Jones's new record, Sleep Is the Enemy. The man's a genius!

Not Quite the Real Thing.......2006-09-28

Kyuss are pretty good, and this is their best album, but if you want to hear some real, punishingly heavy, unbelievably distorted acid-rock you have to hear the double guitar attack of the Gibbons brothers. And that means you have to go to Bardo Pond on this site and listen to the samples of "Tommy Gun Angel" or "Flux" on the album Lapsed. All it will take is 30 seconds of each to hear what's missing here. Even if you're bugged that I seem to be dissing your band, give the Pond a listen anyway.

The greatest hard rock/heavy metal album of all time.......2006-08-16

Why this is the greatest heavy metal or hard rock album ever released, bar none:

1. Impeccable musicianship. I defy you to name one band with a better rhythm section than Nick Oliveri and Brant Bjork.

2. Gargantuan riffs. Kyuss is twice is ambitious as Black Sabbath and just as gifted when it comes to crafting minor key hooks.

3. Incredible composition. Ominous silence, dramatic buildups, explosive thrash carnage and spaced out jam sessions are deployed with precision to evoke the emotional responses that the listener needs to feel he is completely immersed in an all consuming psychic (and psychedelic!) journey.

Furthermore, every song is informed by the previous and subsequent songs. As a result, the entire album plays as an organic whole, yet does not grow monotonous.

4. A signature sound. Tune the guitars down to C. Play them out of bass amps. Add plenty of fuzz and reverb. Its brilliant. The sound is huge. It just coarses through you like nothing else.

5. Great attitude. John Garcia's manly, laid back megalomania is just plain fun. And his coarse snarl adds a very complementary rough edge to the impeccably precise arrangements crafted by Homme, Oliveri and Bjork. Listening to Kyuss makes you feel like you're king of the world and you just don't give a...

This is the best album ever. I hope you buy it and "get it" the way I do, because it has really opened my mind to how truly inspired a rock band can be. I literally see music differently than I did before I bought this album.

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you've been burned by my lighter
Rock
Best of the Best
Not Quite the Real Thing
The greatest hard rock/heavy metal album of all time

Blues for the Red Sun
Kyuss
Manufacturer: Chameleon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

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50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)
Thong Song
Apothecaries' Weight
Caterpillar March
Freedom Run
800
Writhe
Capsized
Allen's Wrench
Mondo Generator
Yeah

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Customer Reviews:

you've been burned by my lighter.......2007-06-29

how could any album that includes an angry song about lighter burning be bad? all i have to say. PERIOD...

Rock.......2007-06-09

Best of the Best.......2007-01-06

Not Quite the Real Thing.......2006-09-28

The greatest hard rock/heavy metal album of all time.......2006-08-16

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One of America's great songwriters.......2001-03-09

Amid the Cole Porters, Irving Berlins and George Gershwins of the world, Harold Arlen tends to be forgotten. And yet, when the greatest song of the 20th century was recently voted on by a distinguished panel of critics, whose song came out on top? Mr. Arlen's (Over the Rainbow). Here is a superb cross section of Harold Arlen songs by a cast ranging from Judy Garland to Bing Crosby to Ethel Waters, spanning decades and spanning a wide range of styles, from jazz to ballads, poignant to funny. Although the sound is not ideal, as many of the recordings date from the 30's and Pearl's objective in remastering has always been to achieve the fullest musical sound rather than to reduce surface noise, this is a minor complaint given the rich and mind-opening selection of great music found here.