Volumes 9 & 10

Desert Sessions, Volumes 9 (I See You Hearin' Me) & 10 (I Heart Disco)
Compilation album by The Desert Sessions
Released	September 23, 2003
Recorded	February 8–15, 2003 at Rancho de la Luna, Joshua Tree, CA
Genre	Rock
Label	Ipecac Recordings (IPC44) Rekords
The Desert Sessions chronology
Desert Sessions, Vols. 7 & 8 (2001) Desert Sessions, Vols. 9 & 10 (2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Guardian	[2]
Pitchfork Media	(7.4/10)[3]

Volumes 9 & 10 is the fifth compilation album by the hard rock ensemble The Desert Sessions, a side project of Josh Homme. It was released in 2003 on Ipecac Recordings. 9 & 10 features PJ Harvey, Ween's Dean Ween, Marilyn Manson's (and formerly of Nine Inch Nails) Jeordie White, Eleven's Alain Johannes, as well as Queens of the Stone Age's Troy Van Leeuwen (formerly of A Perfect Circle) and Joey Castillo (formerly of Danzig).

Track listing

1. "Dead in Love" (4:42)
2. "I Wanna Make It wit Chu" (3:42)
3. "Covered in Punk's Blood" (1:43)
4. "There Will Never Be a Better Time" (4:11)
5. "Crawl Home" (3:01)
6. "I'm Here for Your Daughter" (0:47)
7. "Powdered Wig Machine" (2:40)
8. "In My Head...Or Something" (4:41)
9. "Holey Dime" (3:34)
10. "A Girl Like Me" (3:10)
11. "Creosote" (2:34)
12. "Subcutaneous Phat" (3:49) [incorrectly numbered as 11 on some discs resulting in two 11s]
13. "Bring it Back Gentle" (5:48)
14. "Shepherd's Pie" (4:31) [absent from some copies]

Track 1-6 are from Volume 9, tracks 7-12 are from Volume 10, while track 13 and 14 are bonus tracks exclusive to the CD edition.

• "In My Head... Or Something" was re-recorded for Queens of the Stone Age's fourth album Lullabies to Paralyze as "In My Head".
• "Covered in Punk's Blood" was occasionally played live by Queens of the Stone Age during 2005. Along with "I Wanna Make It wit Chu", it appears on their 2005 live CD/DVD package Over the Years and Through the Woods.
• "I Wanna Make It wit Chu" has been re-recorded for the Queens of the Stone Age's fifth studio album, Era Vulgaris as "Make It wit Chu".

Personnel

• Joshua Homme: Vocals, guitar, slide guitar, percussion, piano, drums, lap steel guitar, backing vocals, bass, Crumar, production, mixing, engineering
• PJ Harvey: Piano, tenor saxophone, backing vocals, lead vocals, bass, melodica, pandeiro
• Joey Castillo: Drums
• Alain Johannes: Flute, Pro-One, mandolin, vocals, piano, Rhodes, guitar, Ebow, production, mixing, engineering
• Josh Freese: Drums, bass, Crumar
• Dean Ween: Guitar, piano, bass
• Brian O'Connor: Bass, percussion
• Twiggy Ramirez: Bass, guitar
• Dave Catching: Pro-One, guitar, engineering
• Troy Van Leeuwen: Fun Machine, guitar
• Chris Goss: Guitars
• Jeff "The Tuff Gentleman": Bass, bass clarinet, Crumar

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