Queen vs Queens of the Stone Age
Originally a Pytski mashup from 2008, now remastered by Dutch Bastard. Take the magnificent stoner rock track “Go With The Flow” (and its great video!) by Queens of the Stone Age taken from the classic album “Songs for the Deaf”, and add some Freddy Mercury to create a “Queen of the Stone Age” mash.
“We Will Rock You” is built on two stomps and a clap — one of the most minimal grooves in rock history, which is precisely why it works everywhere. “Go With The Flow” runs on a riff that moves with the same unstoppable, forward momentum. Neither song wastes a note. Put them together and the result feels less like a mashup and more like a discovery: these two pieces of rock were always part of the same machine.
Ingredients
This mashup / mix is a blend of these tunes:
Queens of the Stone Age
Go With The Flow (+ interlude)
Year: 2003
Album: Songs for the Deaf
Genre: Hardrock, stoner rock
About Go With The Flow
Queens of the Stone Age released Songs for the Deaf in August 2002 with Dave Grohl — fresh from Nirvana and Foo Fighters — on drums. The album is one of the most acclaimed rock records of the 2000s, designed as a concept: a drive through the desert with the radio flipping between stations. “Go With The Flow,” released as a single in early 2003, is the album’s most immediate track — Josh Homme’s riff landing with the weight of something inevitable. The rotoscoped music video became as iconic as the song. If “We Will Rock You” is what happens when a crowd takes over, “Go With The Flow” is what happens when a riff does.
Queen
We Will Rock You
Year: 1977
Album: News of the World
Genre: Arena rock
About We Will Rock You
Brian May wrote “We Will Rock You” in 1977 after watching the audience at a Queen concert singing back to the band — and deciding to give them something designed specifically for that purpose. The stomp-stomp-clap pattern requires no instruments and no rehearsal. It appears on News of the World as a double A-side with “We Are the Champions,” making it one of the most successful single releases in rock history. Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon built a song so stripped back that fifty years later it still opens stadiums and closes sports broadcasts worldwide. The guitar solo at the end — played by May on his homemade Red Special guitar — is one of rock’s great surprise punches.
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