This release comes as a DVD/CD package that came out late last year but the following review is based on the CD part of this. The CD is culled from QOTSA's London shows at the Brixton Academy and Camden Koko last summer although the DVD spans all of the various line-ups the band has had thus far  and hence the "Over The Years" part of the title..

Opening with "Go with The Flow" from the band's third album "Songs For The Deaf" QOTSA deliver a veritable live greatest hits - well almost...there's no 'Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret', 'Feel Good Hit Of The Summer' or 'First It Giveth' -  spanning all four of their main albums and also the Desert Sessions side project.

The main feeling you get from listening to this disc is one of the band's almost casual virtuosity, not Dream Theater like flash, but an organic feeling that the band could change pace and direction on a whim and groove like the entire Harlem Globetrotters squad listening to James Brown just for good measure.

Notable highlights are Josh Homme's method of dealing with someone foolish enough to throw missiles at him - not only is it bizarre to think anyone would pay to get into a gig just to throw stuff at the band, but Josh Homme is feckin huge. He was described by Q magazine last year as "dressed like a city worker off duty, albeit one who could easily snap you in two -  and blistering renditions of "Little Sister" and "No One Knows".

 This CD is an excellent live document of the recent incarnation of the band, and its evident from these recordings that Homme has enjoyed his time on these shores, all I can say is come back soon and do a full UK tour next time!!

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Track List

Go with the Flow
Regular John
Monsters in the Parasol
Tangled Up in Plaid
Little Sister
You Can't Quit Me, Baby
I Wanna Make It Wit Chu
Leg of Lamb
I Think I Lost My Headache
Mexicola
Burn the Witch
Song for the Deaf
No One Knows
Long Slow Goodbye