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“Burn The Witch” by Queens of the Stone Age
From the album Lullabies to Paralyze (2005)
“Burn The Witch” by Queens of the Stone Age appears on 8 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2005 and 2014. It was first released in 2005 on the album Lullabies to Paralyze. Its best result is #230 on the ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #570 alternative song of 2005 and #2,898 alternative song of all time.
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"Burn the Witch" was the third single from Lullabies to Paralyze, Queens of the Stone Age's fourth album, from 2005, and it drags the record's dark fairy-tale mood straight into the swamp. It leans heavily on the blues, and it has the credentials to prove it: ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons turns up on lead guitar and backing vocals.
The hook is in the voices. Josh Homme's falsetto trades lines with the twin baritones of Gibbons and Mark Lanegan, like a church choir that's gone over to the other side. Homme plays bass and guitar, Joey Castillo pounds the drums, Troy Van Leeuwen adds lap steel and Alain Johannes more guitar, and Joe Barresi co-produced and mixed it thick and grimy. An UNKLE remix later turned up in Saw II, and the song has also soundtracked a True Blood trailer and Peaky Blinders.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 230 | ModernRock.com Online | ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 | 400 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1019 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1308 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1312 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1351 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1411 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1391 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1381 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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