Another Love Song

Album: Songs For The Deaf (2002)
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Songfacts®:

  • Just like "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" from the group's previous album (Rated R) isn't really a feel-good hit, "Another Love Song" isn't really a love song. Written by Queens Of The Stone Age mainstay Josh Homme and bass player Nick Oliveri, it's about a breakup, putting the nail in the coffin of a relationship that just won't work. Oliveri told Songfacts it's about his ex-wife, as is another song on the album, "Gonna Leave You."
  • Nick Oliveri sings lead on this one. Josh Homme liked to mix up vocals on Queens Of The Stone Age albums so he's not the only voice we hear. Mark Lanegan, the Screaming Trees frontman, joined the group for this album and sang lead on three tracks.
  • In a Songfacts interview with Nick Oliveri, he talked about how he and Josh Homme wrote songs together. "A lot of the stuff I write is much better with Josh interjecting his thing onto my songs," he said. "Like, 'Another Love Song,' I had the melody, the vocal, and the lyrics, and he came up with the guitar part featuring the melody that I had with some other cool notes in there. It made the song up here instead of down there. I really believe that it made the song better."
  • There's a radio station concept that runs through the album. At the end of "Another Love Song" and leading into the next track, "Song For The Deaf," a female announcer says:

    This is W O M B, The Womb. And if you, my pets, learn to listen, I'll let you crawl back in. Here is something you should drop to your knees for, and worship. But you're too stupid to realize yourselves. A song for the deaf that is for you.

    This voice is Natasha Shneider, who played organ on the track and joined the band on keyboards for their 2005 tour.

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