Queens of the Stone Age

This was interesting, felt like prog rock and many songs were really lovely, but some of the instrumentals jarred a bit or were a bit boring.

Solid album

Heck. Yeah.

Every now and then it's my favourite Queens. Hilarious that Like Clockwork is on this list but not Songs for the Deaf. This Dimery guy is a real fuckwit.

Really solid debut, might have to check these guys out more.

Love QotSA! Haven’t listened to them in a while and this was a reminder of how incredible they are at what they do.

Having this over Rated R or Songs for the Deaf is crazy but it's still QOTSA and it still rules

I feel like nothing happened. Is that good or bad? Who knows?

The instrumental tracks were pretty cool, other than that it was kinda flat.

As positive as I am, I have a bit of a habit of giving albums pretty low scores despite being pretty forgiving in my track ratings. This is one of those cases, because I don't like this album very much, even if some of the songs are pretty alright. The vocals are just annoying, the soundscapes are kinda trash, and at 46 minutes it's still WAY too long. Maybe 6 songs off of this could make it onto an acceptable album, but it's so monotonous and I can't say I enjoy most of it.

Songs to latch on to? I enjoyed the opener. The vocals were pretty cool and the riffs were alright. The best song here is track 2, "Avon," just because of the tune and everything. Memorable and nice to listen to. From there it's kind of a stream of unlikeable boring stoner riffs. "Mexicola" is another memorable one, I just really can't stand the vocals a lot of the time.
4.6/10
DOES IT BELONG ON THE LIST: NO
REASON: it sucks dawg

Surprised Rated R isn’t the Queens of the Stone Age lp or n here. But The compiler does love self-titled American debuts by middle of the road rockers.

Josh Homme may now be remembered best as the aresehole who ruined the Arctic Monkeys but he briefly was the great hope of alternative music when he performed Feel Good Hit of The Summer but the good feelings didn’t last and it turned out he had limited talent and fewer ideas. So he went the collaboration route.

This is the album before the hit but I bought it in the wake of Feel Good …. I thought it pretty boring and derivative and never listen to it again.

Listening now it’s ok corporate rock.

Bastante aburrido. No es mi tipo de música ni de asomo. Creo que debería escuchar algo más de QotSA

Nothing that strong to say

Even though QOTSA should be right up my street, I always felt like there was something missing. I've never been able to figure out what, but they've never quite clicked for me

Not really sure why this album is on the list but not songs for the deaf? This is good but songs for the deaf is wayyy better

I’d already listened to Queens of the Stone Age a few times, but I always found their songs more “okay” than “great.”
In this context, however, things look a little different, because compared to the various pop milestones spanning seven decades, the Queens’ sound is quite distinctive and—considering that the album was released in 1998—even remarkably original. On top of that, the album as a whole is absolutely cohesive, even if, in my opinion, none of the songs is strong enough to be singled out for special mention.
This is already the second really good album from the late ’90s (the other one being “Celebrity Skin” by Hole) that I missed back then. In a way, that’s reassuring, because I actually had no explanation for why that decade was so extremely disappointing musically in my memory.

It was alright, 2.7

hey chatgpt make me a rock album

1998. Probably the closest I ever came to having indie rock street cred. I was 17 of course and in high school and green as hell. I even applied to be the music director of our high school radio station. We had a 100 watt transmitter on the roof of the school. The broadcast radius was about 3 miles, IIRC, and most of that was out into Lake Michigan (I didn't get the gig, but I was a DJ for four years). Apparently the transmitter was originally installed to be able to transmit homework assignments to students who were home sick. Diabolical.

Anyway, around that time I also started a record label with a friend of mine. Why did we decide to do that? I don't remember. I was in charge of creating the website and graphics; which, I must say, looked pretty good to me. I probably have the files backed up on a Zip disk somewhere. Anyway, this QOTSA album sounds like something that would have been submitted to our record label. Sadly, that first split 7-inch never was released, nor was it recorded. We never did any business at all, as a matter of fact. But we did get some people to send us demo tapes. My buddy, co-partner, and head of A&R, hated all of them.

Queens of the Stone Age's sound has definitely developed overtime. Being more familiar with their 2000s catalogue, this was definitely a surprising listen. Safe to say it's still absolutely awesome. The fuzzy bass driven riffs over the creative guitar parts are so nasty. Unfortunately the drum parts and the vocals are a bit too stale throughout the album for my engagement. The lyrics from the start were always on par however, with the Queens of the Stone Age sexiness and danger seen from track one. You can begin to hear their future sound breaking through on some tracks, which make the record still very fun like The Bronze, Mexicola, and Spiders and Vinegaroons. I see why they added the new tracks on the deluxe version, while half the bonuses are bangers the other are standard 90s secret tracks. It's a pretty typical debut and they're still definitely finding their footing, but it still rips in many ways.

I dig this! It's got riffs and just enough weirdo shit to be interesting, but not so much it turns me off. Solid album I wish I hadn't written it off without listening to it years ago.