"Smooth Sailing" | |
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Promotional single byQueens of the Stone Age | |
from the album...Like Clockwork | |
Released | February 27, 2014 |
Recorded | August 9, 2012 – March 9, 2013 |
Studio | Pink Duck Studios (Burbank, California) |
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Length | 4:51 |
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Songwriter(s) | Queens of the Stone Age |
Producer(s) | Queens of the Stone Age |
"Smooth Sailing" is a song by Americanrock bandQueens of the Stone Age from their sixth studio album...Like Clockwork. It was released as apromotional single on February 27, 2014.[2]Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters,Nirvana) recorded drums on this track for the album.[3]
The music video, directed byHiro Murai, was released on April 4, 2014. It shows frontmanJosh Homme as a businessman who joins a group of Japanese businessmen on a night in the city filled with alcohol, drugs, strippers, andkaraoke. At one point, they beat up a man and steal his sports car for a joyride. One of the businessmen separates from the group and hallucinates that people around him are demonic creatures with light coming from their eyes and mouths, and he kills them before the other businessmen find him. The video ends in the desert, with Homme and the other businessmen watching their associate bury the bodies of the people he killed as the sun rises.[4]
Credits from the official Queens of the Stone Age website.[5]
Chart (2014) | Peak position |
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CanadaRock (Billboard)[6] | 50 |
USMainstream Rock (Billboard)[7] | 32 |