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| Rollingstone |
 Ladies and gentlemen, Them Crooked Vultures — the second-best band John Paul Jones has ever been in! The Led Zeppelin guys never made much of a splash in the supergroup scene, unless you're the kind of die-hard fan who still busts out those old records by the Honeydrippers or the Firm. But when John Paul Jones got the hard-rock supersession itch, he didn't mess around. For Them Crooked Vultures, he hooks up with Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), two of Zep's smartest disciples. If these three 800-pound gorillas want to bash out an album as willfully weird and slapdash as Them Crooked Vultures, who can tell them not to? And if they do a song called "Elephants" where they basically crunch every riff on Led Zeppelin II into seven dizzy minutes, why not?On Them Crooked Vultures, the three rock stars don't exactly visit the depths of Mordor. The album sticks to the sort of low-end guitar boogie that Homme and Grohl were blasting in their Camaros when they bummed their first cigarettes. The first thing you hear is Grohl's instantly recognizable drums whomping out "Nobody Loves Me & Neither Do I," as Homme plays desert-rat guitar and Jones adds a bass line as nasty as "Out on the Tiles." Homme takes almost all the lead vocals, but he doesn't try to define or dominate the songs, mostly doing lyric goofs like "Slick back my hair/You know the devil's in there."...full text |
| Guardian |
| supergroup – the line-up features Dave Grohl, Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age – even though, as Wikipedia's entry for supergroups reveals, it is a much-abused term. Contributors have stretched its definition to the limits, to include not merely Dream Evil – manna for anyone frantic to hear a collaboration between members of Mercyful Fate, Firewind, Hammerfall and Pure-X – but Happyland, breathlessly described as "a pop-rock collaboration between Quan Yeomans of Regurgitator and Janet English of Spiderbait. The original name of the band was the Shits," it adds, for the benefit of anyone muttering, "but I thought the legendary supergroup Happyland's original name was the Shits". In case you were wondering, "it was renamed for commercial reasons." Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures Sony Music 2009 Perhaps the term supergroup deserves all the abuse it can get. Without wishing to besmirch our friends Dream Evil and Happyland, history suggests that the supergroup invariably smacks of self-aggrandisement and self-indulgence. They are springing up everywhere. As well as Them Crooked Vultures, there's Jack White's the Dead Weather, while Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith has both Chickenfoot and Bombastic Meatbats, the latter specialising in – and readers prone to panic attacks are advised to look away now – "instrumental funk-rock". It's easy to see this as a cause for grave concern. Supergroups tend to spring up in rock's darkest hours, symbolic of inspiration running low and musicians' egos spiralling out of control: the cocaine-blasted mid-80s, that terrible late 60s/early 70s era when concepts such as "jamming" were held to be a good thing. Their reappearance in the age of freefalling sales could be read as a final, horrifying portent of doom. First, members of Smashing Pumpkins, Cheap Trick, Fountains of Wayne and Hanson form Tinted Windows. The next thing you know, the sun and the air are darkened by the smoke of the Abyss, angels' tears are raining like fire upon the earth and Abbadon – the king of the bottomless biblical pit, rather than the drummer out of Venom – is rocking up with a plague of locusts shaped like horses....full text |
| Bbc |
| Supergroups are traditionally awful – from Blind Faith onwards, bands composed of people from other acts generally feature the worst of each ensemble, possibly as the members keep all the good songs for themselves. There are notable exceptions to the rule, of course – the Traveling Wilburys, for one, or Electronic – and now comes a brand new exception in the form of Them Crooked Vultures. The band is Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal, Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters and Nirvana, and John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin, and their debut album is very good indeed. Released, rather oddly, at virtually the same time as Foo Fighters’ new greatest hits collection, this album sounds by and large like QOTSA, as Homme sings and plays guitar, but with – unsurprisingly really – Zeppelin-esque touches. From Scumbag Blues, which could have fitted loudly on the second Zep’ album, to the superb single No-One Loves Me And Neither Do I, which is a distant cousin to Trampled Underfoot, this is a proper rock album that’s very aware of its roots. Homme’s wit lifts proceedings – it’s hard to imagine Robert Plant coming up with song titles like Caligulove or Interlude With Ludes – and he is well served by his rhythm section, as Grohl treats the drums like bad children in a fairy tale and Jones provides solid musical support. Every song here has a very decent riff, particularly Mind Eraser, No Chaser and the epic Elephants – the latter is almost all riff....full text |
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