This is a compilation of the fifth and sixth

Volume 6: Black Anvil Ego

Volume 6: Black Anvil Ego is the sixth installment of The Desert Sessions, a side project of Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme. The track "Rickshaw" is frequently included in their live set. It was the final release to be a single disc, as both volumes 7 & 8 were coupled into a gatefold...

 The Desert Sessions

The Desert Sessions

The Desert Sessions are a musical collective series, founded by Josh Homme in 1997. Artists such as Brant Bjork, PJ Harvey, Jeordie White The Desert Sessions are a musical collective series, founded by Josh Homme in 1997. Artists such as Brant Bjork, PJ Harvey, Jeordie White The Desert Sessions are...

 releases. Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. The band's line-up has always included founding member Josh Homme , with the current line-up including longtime members Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo , alongside Michael Shuman and...

 later performed "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" on their Songs for the Deaf

Songs for the Deaf

-Production and release:In September 2002, Josh Homme explained the band's goals with the release of the album:In the same month, Nick Oliveri explained the band's aims in an interview with retail company HMV:...

album, and "Rickshaw" has often been included in their live set. "Like a Drug" has been re-recorded and features on the certain special editions of Lullabies to Paralyze

Lullabies to Paralyze

Lullabies to Paralyze is the fourth studio album by hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on March 21, 2005. The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200, and sold 97,000 copies in America during its first week of release, eventually topping over 342,000 copies as of March, 2007...

. "I'm Dead" was recorded by Kyuss

Kyuss

Kyuss is a rock band, originally from Palm Desert, California. After forming in the late 1980s and releasing an EP under the name Sons of Kyuss in 1990, the band shortened its name to Kyuss. Over the next five years the band released four full-length albums, and one last split EP in 1997 with...

/Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri

Nick Oliveri

Nick Steven Oliveri is an American musician from Palm Desert, California. He plays bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and is a vocalist...

 in an acoustic arrangement and retitled "Day I Die" for the Mondo Generator

Mondo Generator

Mondo Generator is an American metal/punk hybrid band founded in 1997 by Nick Oliveri. The name of the band originated when Brant Bjork spray-painted the words on the side of Oliveri's Sunn amplifier. Mondo means "world" in Italian...

 album A Drug Problem That Never Existed

A Drug Problem That Never Existed

A Drug Problem That Never Existed is an album released by Mondo Generator on the Rekords Rekords label in 2003. It takes its name from a line in The Frogs' "I've Got Drugs ", from their album It's Only Right and Natural...

. This pair of sessions featured a wider range of musicians than previous releases, including Dwarves

Dwarves (band)

Dwarves is an American punk band formed in Chicago, Illinois, as The Suburban Nightmare, in the mid-1980s. They are currently based in San Francisco, California. Formed as a garage punk band, their career subsequently saw them move in a hardcore direction before settling into an eclectic punk rock...

 singer Blag Dahlia

Blag Dahlia

Paul Cafaro , better known as Blag Dahlia, is an American musician, producer, and author.-Music career:Cafaro is a native of Highland Park, Illinois, and is most well known as the front-man of Dwarves, a punk rock band. With the Dwarves he has written and produced 10 full length records over a span...

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Track listing

1. "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" – 2:53
2. "Letters to Mommy" – 3:42
3. "I'm Dead" – 1:37
4. "Punk Rock Caveman Living in a Prehistoric Age" – 3:28
5. "Going to a Hangin" – 5:33
6. "A#1" – 3:37
7. "Like a Drug" – 2:24
8. "Take Me to Your Leader" – 4:40
9. "Teens of Thailand" – 5:37
10. "Rickshaw"– 3:44
11. "Like a Drug (Instrumental)" – 2:25