Queens of the Stone Age

This band is essentially Kyuss under a different name.

"Rated R"

  1. "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" (2:43)
  2. "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" (3:36)
  3. "Leg of Lamb" (2:48)
  4. "Auto Pilot" (4:01)
  5. "Better Living Through Chemistry" (5:49)
  6. "Monsters in the Parasol" (3:27)
  7. "Quick and to the Pointless" (1:42)
  8. "In the Fade" (4:25)
  9. "Tension Head" (2:52)
  10. "Lightning Song"--instrumental (2:07)
  11. "I Think I Lost My Headache" (8:40)

Like Songs for the Deaf, this album runs the gamut through multitudinous musical styles, some of which have nothing to do with stoner rock at all. All the songs are eminently catchy, though. Another highly recommended album.

"Songs for the Deaf"

  1. "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" (3:12)
  2. "No One Knows" (4:38)
  3. "First it Giveth" (3:18)
  4. "Song for the Dead" (5:52)
  5. "The Sky is Fallin'" (6:15)
  6. "Six Shooter" (1:19)
  7. "Hangin' Tree" (3:06)
  8. "Go with the Flow" (3:07)
  9. "Gonna Leave You" (2:50)
  10. "Do it Again" (4:04)
  11. "God is in the Radio" (6:04)
  12. "Another Love Song" (3:15)
  13. "Song for the Deaf" (6:13)
  14. "Mosquito Song" (5:38)

I haven't really been inspired to get into the "stoner rock" genre (mostly from lack of money than anything else), but when this disc came over the speakers of the used CD store I just HAD to pick it up! (The clerk seemed pretty disappointed, too...I think he wanted it for himself.) Track one begins with a parody of a radio announcement ("K-L-O-N, Clone Radio! We play the music that sounds like everything else!") that segues right into a blast of fast, THICK fuzzy guitars. "No One Knows" I'd heard before, of course...in fact, you hear it everywhere these days, as it's been used for countless movie commercials and incidental music in TV shows. (Ain't it ironic that a GOOD song is finally getting obiquitous airplay these days? I wouldn't mind it if stoner rock replaced hip-hop and nu-metal, it's long overdue...)

The remaining collection of songs are all unique and catchy, covering the range from 60's psychedelia to 90's death metal, but never straying far outside the stoner rock genre. My favorites include "Gonna Leave You" and "Song for the Deaf", but really, it's so hard to choose. Oh, and apparently, David Grohl of Foo Fighters likes this band so much, he joined the group for this album! (As a drummer, no less. He's still got his day job, though.)

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