Queens of the Stone Age

Really varied, interesting and weird album. I love how Josh Homme sounds on this

Hab mir mehr erwartet von QotSA

One of their weakest albums and kind of a weird inclusion, but a weaker Queens Of The Stone Age album is still great. This is their debut album, but all the musicians involved were already experienced with being in earlier bands and releasing beloved albums, such as Kyuss. The first two third are so are typical stuff for them, just Rock banger and banger. The last few tracks kind of lose me though. Queens Of The Stone Age aren't really interesting to me once they start noodling and improvising and the vocals take a back seat.

No había escuchado nunca este disco de ellos. No defraudan, pero tampoco sorprenden si ya los conoces. Me guardo: "Regular John", "The bronze" y "You can't quit me baby".

I assumed Queens of the Stone Age had more personality to them, but this was pretty bland and generic early 2000s rock

One of my all-time favourites. Like being sandblasted by guitars. The opening 3 songs are as good as any other album. I think Rated R is a smidge better, but this thing fucking rocks.

This album is really boring, I wanted to like it after hearing some of their later work. The tracks with vocals are ok and inoffensive but the instrumentals are really boring with no changes throughout and I had to skip them.

Mostly interesting, but entorely too long and convoluted to be a stand out

A band I normally enjoy listening to whenever I take a notion but never seek out too often. The opener, Regular John, was really good but it went steadily downhill after that. I hated Hispanic Impressions and it was really hard to get back into it after that.

I definitely think Songs For The Deaf should’ve been on the list instead or even Era Vulgaris.

Why is this the QotSA album they chose!? No One Knows...

An MTV2 Rock Countdown era band for sure. The line "I want you to notice when I'm not around" from 'You Can't Quit Me Baby' is straight out of Radiohead's 'Creep'. Rock bands also loved to add strings of random numbers to their songs in the 90s. "One, six, two, seven, eight/Two, six, three, seven, eight, nine", have you met your cooler big brother "4, 7, 2, 3, 9, 8, 5 / I gotta breathe to stay alive"? Nowadays if you wrote a lyric like that you'd be accused of propagating conspiracy theories. Anyway, this album is just a 3 point oh oh oh oh one.

Started out pretty hooky but kinda lost its way. Not bad 90s rock but ehh nothing special.

fine! not worse than the who. just sort of....there.......i've heard it before, I'll hear it again.

meni skroz bezvezno na svakoj razini. jedino zadnja stvar malo zanimljivija i drugačija od ostalih, ali tada je već prekasno...

I own this but haven’t listened to it much… I thought it wasn’t as good as the later albums but on revisiting (because of this project) I’ve realised it is very good

Better than Coldplay

I remember a time in my 20s (the late 00s) when it seemed like I’d always run into dudes who needed you to know about their favorite rock & roll band that they definitely liked way before guitar hero, and it was always QOTSA, Muse, or Wolfmother.

I appreciate that QOTSA made sure rock & roll stayed alive through the nu metal era, but a part of me has always felt like they were destined to be future dad rock. 20something years later, I don’t think I was wrong.

Great riffs, great album. The creepy, catchy notes from the first song stuck in my head all day

I've got a confession to make - the only QOTSA album I've ever heard (and own) is Songs For The Deaf. Why I've never explored them further is a source of great mystery to me - I'd always been meaning to, and this album proves that they had "it" from the start. In fact, I might actually prefer the more wandering, desert-ish feel of this album, without it sacrificing too much in the way of hooks and catchy guitar exploits.

It's a much more immersive experience than I'd have had QOTSA down for, where their own identity can clearly be observed in the first instance through a characteristic style of playing and guitar tone.

Undoubtedly purchase quality, and this has been the kick up the arse that I've needed to launch a solo discog effort.

This is a really weird QOTSA pick in my opinion. Admittedly, Era Vulgaris was too. I don't know why this list is allergic to Songs For The Deaf. It admittedly feels like a basic pick, but also it's just really fucking good. The self titled here *is* a good stoner rock album, but it's also in the weird position where it's worse than most of the material from Josh Homme's previous band, Kyuss (who are stoner rock royalty), but also less well developed than pretty much any QOTSA album afterwards. At this point in time, QOTSA still haven't fully developed their songwriting nuance, melodic sensibilities, or aesthetic. But, the self-titled here *does* rock pretty hard, and that is important. When this album just flexes its muscles, you get some pretty fantastic rock music. Like on Mexicola, the bass grinds under surprisingly nimble riffs, and the whole song is an exhilarating slug fest. Avon, Walkin On The Sidewalks, and others also bang pretty hard. Aside from that, the weirder moments are a little hit or miss. Hispanic Impressions, These Aren't The Droids You're Looking For, and Spiders and Vinegaroons are a little under-written. But on some songs, when QOTSA step back from the riffs a little, they leave room for some cool melodicism. Even though I am inclined towards the sound here, I have to admit this is an album with lots of flaws that QOTSA would later grow out of. While I did enjoy this, I can't go higher than a 3.

Heavy, hypnotic riffs abound......

I like it! My one complaint is that it gets fairly repetitive across the 60 minute runtime, but it's a solid debut and I'm optimistic for whenever we get their other album on the list.

Standouts: Regular John • Walkin on the Sidewalks • You Would Know • Hispanic Impressions • Spiders and Vinegaroons