Volume 5 & 6

Desert Sessions | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Man's Ruin Records
• ASIN: B00004RI7X
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #569,633 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire

2. Letters to Mommy

3. I'm Dead

4. Punk Rock Caveman Living in a Prehistoric Age

5. Goin to a Hangin

6. A # 1

7. Like a Drug

8. Take Me to Your Leader

9. Teens of Thailand

10. Rickshaw

11. Like a Drug [Instrumental]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sand in Your Pants, August 20, 2001

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colin hunter (The Wall of Sleep) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Volume 5 & 6 (Audio CD)

The word "stoner rock" may be a cliche, and Desert Sessions' ringleader Josh Homme may indeed hate the term, but it's hard to imagine that music this odd could be drawn from the minds of men who don't indulge in one form of chemical experimentation or another. Volumes 5 and 6 of the Desert Sessions adventure find Homme and his cronies poking their noses into the punk-rock realm, with results that may infuriate stoner-rock devotees, but also are quite commendable on their own merits. The riffs tend to be crass, fuzzed-out affairs, complimented with some of the most pleasantly disturbing lyrics about topics ranging from spousal abuse to capital punishment. It's music that may take some getting-used-to, especially for fans who prefer the smooth, heavy noodling of Homme's former outfit Kyuss. It is also, however, feircely original, mind-jarringly weird, and strangely catchy. Stoner rock? Who cares. It's good.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More heatstroke rock, July 15, 2002

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colin hunter (The Wall of Sleep) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Volume 5 & 6 (Audio CD)

Josh Homme and cronies are back, eyes glazed-over, pounding out whatver music the desert tells them to. This is one of the better installments of the ongoing chemically-enhanced musical experiement. While Volumes One and Two were kraut-inspired minimal noodlery, and Three and Four were wonky, cut-and-paste death-hop (you kind of have to hear it to understand what that means), Five and Six are more straightforward rock-punk buffoonery. In a good way. "Goin' To A Hangin'" is the best thing to ever happen to eardrums. Only people who suck don't already own this album. That means you, ugly. Stop sucking and get it.

5.0 out of 5 stars If you're reading this, you've already decided to buy it, July 23, 2007

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Reviewer (Near Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Volume 5 & 6 (Audio CD)

With an indistinguishable Queens of the Stone Age flavor, Volumes 5 &6 of the Desert Sessions series is of course a required purchase for your growing stoner rock library. Don't even bother to read the rest of my review. Just buy the CD because if you're already interested in it, you know you like it, and you must have it. Meanwhile, I'll tell you that Teens of Thailand has both Kyuss and QOTSA over(under)tones as it breaks from a 3 minute 30 second instrumental into a building rockout, threatening that you may turn into a toad if you misbehave. I'm listening to this as I type because my officemate will talk to me and distract me from my work if I don't have headphones on. And I have been successfully focused until Rickshaw (track 10) started. I was so pumped to hear it I jumped on Amazon to write this review, eager to make sure as many people as possible hear this song and revel in its magnificence. Your life is less without it.