“Smooth Sailing” by Queens of the Stone Age

"Smooth Sailing" is the funk-rock strut on ...Like Clockwork, the sixth Queens of the Stone Age album, and it got a promotional single push of its own on February 27, 2014, well after the record's 2013 arrival. Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl sits in on drums and percussion, Josh Homme sings his own words, and the band produced it themselves, with Mark “Top” Rankin engineering and mixing.

Hiro Murai's video, out that April, is a bad trip: Homme plays a businessman who falls in with a crew of Japanese businessmen for a night of booze, drugs, strippers and karaoke that ends in a beating and a stolen sports car. One of them wanders off, sees the people around him as demons with light spilling from their eyes and mouths, and kills them. By sunrise they're out in the desert, watching him bury the bodies.

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