Over the Years and Through the Woods

Over the Years and Through the Woods
Live album by Queens of the Stone Age
Released	November 22 2005
Recorded	1998 - 2005 in Various
Genre	Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Stoner Rock
Length	74:21 (CD)
Label	Interscope
Producer	Josh Homme, Randy Wilens
Queens of the Stone Age chronology
Lullabies to Paralyze (2005)	Over the Years and Through the Woods (2005)	Era Vulgaris (2007)

Over the Years and Through the Woods is the title of a live album and video by Queens of the Stone Age. The release features material on audio CD as well as video DVD—both recorded at London's Brixton Academy on Monday August 22, 2005 and Koko on Tuesday August 23, 2005. Over the Years and Through the Woods is sold as two different packages—either a CD case or a DVD case. Both versions include the same content on the discs.

The cover art includes an assortment of stylized letter Q's, which the band has used on the covers of previous studio albums (specifically, the blue Q is from Rated R, the red Q is from Songs for the Deaf, and the yellow Q from Lullabies to Paralyze). The title font on the cover was taken from their self-titled album. The DVD content was directed by Chapman Baehler.

The atmospheric song played in the main menu is a Queens of the Stone Age track, "Spiders and Vinegaroons" from the split EP Kyuss/Queens of The Stone Age (1997).

The song "The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died" was initially slated to be included on Lullabies to Paralyze but was misplaced. During that time, the band assumed that the tapes of that song were either lost or stolen. "The tapes got lost. Actually, they were just at another studio, but we falsely accused everyone in the world of theft." (Josh Homme, 09/2005, RollingStone.com)

During every weekend in the month of November 2005, DirecTV aired an edited version of the main feature DVD content on their "freeview" channel to promote the DVD/CD release on November 22, 2005. The songs that were removed for time constraints were: "Feel Good Hit of the Summer", "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret", "The Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died", "I Think I Lost My Headache" and "I Never Came". The edited version also censored some explicit language and brief nudity from the program.

There is a hidden audio commentary for the bonus footage. It features comments from the entire band (Josh Homme, Joey Castillo, Alain Johannes, Troy Van Leeuwen and Natasha Shneider) and was recorded on October 1, 2005 on the day of their performance as the opening act for Nine Inch Nails at the Hollywood Bowl. It is accessible by entering the Sound Options menu in the Bonus section and turning on the French subtitles, or by switching the audio track while watching the footage.

Although credits for the bonus tracks were not included, two songs from the Rated R section ("Better Living Through Chemistry" and "Auto Pilot") were recorded at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio on October 4, 2000 — not "somewhere in Europe" as surmised by Homme in the bonus clip commentary. These tracks were recorded and edited by Sie Callebs and John Waters.

On the "Lullabies to Paralyze" era section, Billy Gibbons appears as a guest on "Precious and Grace".

CD Tracklist

• 1. Go With The Flow (2:58)
• 2. Regular John (5:24)
• 3. Monsters in the Parasol (4:39)
• 4. Tangled Up in Plaid (4:00)
• 5. Little Sister (2:51)
• 6. You Can't Quit Me Baby (9:49)
• 7. I Wanna Make It Wit Chu (4:27)
• 8. Leg of Lamb (3:34)
• 9. I Think I Lost My Headache (5:24)
• 10. Mexicola (5:09)
• 11. Burn The Witch (3:12)
• 12. Song For The Dead (7:47)
• 13. No One Knows (7:47)
• 14. Long Slow Goodbye (7:20)

DVD Tracklist

• 1. This Lullaby (2:40)
• 2. Go With The Flow (3:12)
• 3. Feel Good Hit of the Summer (3:41)
• 4. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret (3:44)
• 5. Regular John (5:30)
• 6. Song For The Deaf (5:09)
• 7. Avon (3:33)
• 8. Little Sister (2:51)
• 9. You Can't Quit Me Baby (10:27)
• 10. I Wanna Make It Wit Chu (5:10)
• 11. Monsters in the Parasol (3:16)
• 12. The Fun Machine Took a Shit & Died (6:41)
• 13. Mexicola (5:17)
• 14. Burn The Witch (4:37)
• 15. Covered in Punk's Blood (1:57)
• 16. I Think I Lost My Headache (5:07)
• 17. Song For The Dead (8:16)
• 18. I Never Came (5:54)
• 19. No One Knows (8:09)
• 20. Long Slow Goodbye (7:44)
• 21. Credits / First It Giveth

Bonus Tracks

Queens of the Stone Age Era

• 1. The Bronze (3:38)
• 2. Mexicola (5:34)

Rated R Era

• 3. Better Living Through Chemistry (5:54)
• 4. Auto Pilot (4:19)
• 5. How to Handle a Rope (3:29)

Songs for the Deaf Era

• 6. Quick and to the Pointless (1:34)
• 7. You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire (2:36)
• 8. God is in the Radio (11:19)
• 9. Song For The Dead (6:09)
• 10. Regular John (2:02)
• 11. Hanging Tree (3:16)

Lullabies to Paralyze Era

• 12. Precious and Grace (3:33) (ZZ Top)
• 13. Burn The Witch (2:41)

Personnel

Main Program

• Josh Homme - Guitar, Bass, Lead Vocals
• Troy Van Leeuwen - Guitar, Bass, Lap Steel, Backing Vocals
• Alain Johannes - Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals
• Natasha Shneider - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
• Joey Castillo - Drums, Percussion

The Queens Have Also Been

• John McBain
• Alfredo Hernández
• Nick Oliveri
• Milo Beenhaker
• Eva Nohon
• Mario Lalli
• Chris Goss
• Dave Catching
• Mark Lanegan
• Gene Trautmann
• Brendon McNichol
• Matt Cameron
• Billy Gibbons
• Dan Druff
• Dave Grohl
• Mike Johnson
• Nik Lucero
• "The Kid"

External Links

• Discogs