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Last Active 11-09-22 2:34 am
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| | Queens of the Stone Age Ranked | | 1 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
...Like Clockwork
Their creative zenith, the band got emotional for an entire album for the first time, dropping the bravado. This sounded dated and derivative of the band's influences to me for a long time, but it has grown on me like a weed. It's the only Queens album with no subpar tracks. 10/10. | | 2 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf
The best representation of the band's riffy, diverse sound. A few subpar tracks hold it back from perfection. 9/10. | | 3 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Rated R
The most diverse QotSA album, ranging from riff rock, to delicate ballads, to psych/prog epics, to hardcore attacks. 9/10. | | 4 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
A natural evolution from Kyuss's sound. The band retained the desert vibes from their previous group, but turned down the heaviness and turned up the psych elements. Hispanic Impressions gives me a headache, but other than that, this is an excellent and cohesive set of tracks. 8/10. | | 5 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Era Vulgaris
The most maligned Queens album outside of Villains, but I've always thought this nailed what the band was aiming for. Matching the album art perfectly, this is a vulgar, strange, and cartoonish take on the Queens sound that is engaging outside a few underbaked or bland songs. 7/10. | | 6 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Lullabies to Paralyze
A really exciting premise for an album brought down by inconsistent songwriting, tone, and production, as well as being too long. That said, tracks 1 through 9 and 14 are all excellent, though I wish the guitar tone had more bite. Skin on Skin is awful and the others can be decent if I'm in the right mood for them. 6 or 7/10. | | 7 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
In Times New Roman...
A solid rebound from Villains, but this lacks the focus and quality control that Queens' golden run had. Appropriately moody and emotional, but it often lacks the conviction that Like Clockwork had to make that style of songs something special. 6/10. | | 8 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Villains
This attempts to be fun, goofy, and braggadocious, but generally comes across tacky, lacking confidence, and obnoxious. The album review describing this as a midlife crisis in album form encapsulates my feelings on it entirely. When listening, I picture Josh balding with a beer gut in an ill-fitting leather jacket drinking cheap beer, rather than a band coming off a career-high album completely without filler. Tracks 1, 2, and 10 hit the sound the band was aiming for, but the rest of the album is very much a mixed bag and can be hard to sit through. 4-5/10, depending on how patient I'm feeling when listening. | |
JDubb
04.08.24 | Top 4 is top 4, but not exactly my order. 5 should be last - so bad…after 8, l lost interest totally and haven’t been able to listen to 7. | Kompys2000
04.09.24 | Lullabies way too low ur trippin
Also what are the subpar tracks on sftd | JoyfulPlatypus
04.09.24 | I've been doing a deep dive into QOTSA's discography lately. Only have their debut to rate at this point. And I gotta say, 5 might be 1, for me at least. Was shocked to see it's one of their lowest avgs on the site. | brendanissnaz
04.09.24 | Gonna Leave You and Another Love Song are the subpar tracks on SFTD. Good songs still but definitely weaker than the others. Lullabies is great but it's got a handful of their worst songs to offput the strong ones. | VlacDrac
04.09.24 | Imagine getting filtered by Era Vulgaris. | JohnnyoftheWell
04.09.24 | Gonna Leave You is top 5 on SFTD and highlight of this band's butt rock era (insofar as they ever moved on from it). Shit is to Lanegan what Millionaire is to Oliveri
Lullabies is definitely too low, but the real evils here are the new one over Villains (which at least pushed for new inspirations, however hamfistedly) and the common or garden snooze rawk of the s/t being anywhere outside of the bottom half | VlacDrac
04.09.24 | How is SFTD Buttrock? | MeatSalad
04.09.24 | There's some occasional butt rock vibes on sftd, Do It Again comes to mind | Wildcardbitchesss
04.09.24 | As long as we can all agree In the Fade is most definitely the best QOTSA track | artiswar
04.09.24 | 100% | Cyuss
04.09.24 | This is pretty much my list, but I'd swap self-titled and EV | DoofDoof
04.09.24 | 1. Songs for the Deaf (only answer to which is their best, sorry, no debate)
2. Queens of the Stone Age (smoothed out Kyuss!)
3. Rated R (dummy run for SFTD)
4. Lullabies (messy but when it’s hot it’s hot)
5. Like Cockwork (aka no goatee no energy, good enough for a plodder though)
6. Era Vulgaris (unappealing overall but something there)
7. Times New (next to nothing there)
8. villains (nothing there) | bobbydylan
04.09.24 | hardest band for me to rank, my ranking changes daily. when 7 of your 8 total album releases are at least an 8/10 and have at least 2 or 3 albums which easily could be a 10 (SFTD, RATED R, Like Clockwork) | deathschool
04.09.24 | This is correct. I haven’t heard 7, but idk why I should bother. | neekafat
04.09.24 | 8 way too low try again | Wildcardbitchesss
04.10.24 | well I guess it’s time i spun Like Clockwork. Rated R and Songs for the Deaf were incredible but I feel like they fell off after that.
But damn seeing you place it above those two records and noticing how high that avg is, like holy shit I didn’t know it was sitting pretty at a 4.2 lol | FowlKrietzsche
04.10.24 | Wildcard you absolutely need to check Like Clockwork | Wildcardbitchesss
04.10.24 | Damn I didn’t realize how heavy everything was for the band during that era. I’ll get on it. I love how jokey QOTSA can feel at times but Like Clockwork sounds even more up my alley if it’s as brooding and depressive as it comes across. | artiswar
04.10.24 | Like Clockwork has always put me right to sleep. It doesn't even feel like a QOTSA album | Wildcardbitchesss
04.10.24 | I thought it was pretty good but yeah def not on the level of Rated R or SFTD. At least not on first listen, i have a feeling this record is a grower.
Haven’t jammed Villains or the new one either. Do I even bother? | artiswar
04.10.24 | Honestly? No. But if you want more QOTSA they have some good songs. But they are bottom of the barrel releases from them imo
I've heard Clockwork is a grower as well but it has yet to grow on me 10+ years later | Wildcardbitchesss
04.10.24 | Actually now that i think about it I remember hearing this song on the radio and thinking “wow this just sounds like a shittier queens of the stone age” lo and behold that song was The Way You Used to Do lol |
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