NO ONE KNOWS
“No One Knows” is a song by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age written by band members Josh Homme and Mark Lanegan. It was the first single and second track from their third album, Songs for the Deaf, and was released on November 26, 2002. “No One Knows” was a chart success, becoming the band’s only single to top the US Modern Rock charts. The song was also critically acclaimed, receiving a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 2003 Grammy Awards. (More from Wikipedia)
Back when MTV and VH1 used to play music videos, and when I wasn’t watching anything else, I would often have one of those channels on, with my videocassette recorder at the ready, in case a video came on of a song that I really liked. Particularly when there was a song in “heavy rotation” that I really wanted, I would often have the VCR already cued up, on “hold”, so that I would miss as little of the video as possible. Sometimes I would get lucky, and I would already be recording a song when another one came on that I wanted as well.
That happened one time with “No One Knows” by Queens of the Stone Age. The time was back in the Garage Rock Revival period of the early 2000’s, when the White Stripes, the Hives, the Strokes, and several other great retro bands were really getting established. I hadn’t heard the song before, but the beat sounded good, so I left the recorder running. That song got to be a real favorite of mine, and I was particularly thrilled when I later recognized Dave Grohl – former drummer for Nirvana and front man for Foo Fighters – on drums in the video (that’s a video cap from the “No One Knows” music video above).
My wife Peggy Winfree and I were just starting to date back then, and I had already picked up a copy of their album having the odd name, Songs for the Deaf. Her son Ernie Guyton and his wife Priscilla Dodds were visiting, and I had the CD with me, so I thought, what the hell: Let me see what they think of it. I already knew that Peggy had good musical taste, even though she is a few years older than I am (okay, more than a few). I had already gotten Dido’s first album, No Angel with her in mind, and she loved it.
Well, they started bopping along to “No One Knows”, and I wound up playing the whole CD for them.
(December 2012)
