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| Queens of the Stone Age Ranked
I feel like this is a pretty common opinion for fans, but let me know what you all think. I love the top 4 and listened to them hundreds of times. I also saw them live in 2013 and they were amazing! | | 9 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
In Times New Roman...
Their first dud in my opinion, with better production/mixing than Villains but sounding muddled and uninspired to me. No standouts or songs I loved, just a consistently fine rock album from beginning to end. | | 8 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Era Vulgaris
The band went "robot rock" on this one, obviously far from my favorite style from them, widely considered their weakest release. While all their other albums are better (until Times New Roman), this still has some great songs like Misfit Love, 3's and 7's, Into the Hollow, and Suture Up Your Future. The bonus track, The Fun Machine Took A Shit and Died, is also good for a larf. | | 7 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Villains
This grew on me since its initial release, being only slightly better than EV. The opener, Fortress, and last 3 songs are my favs. I really like the remnants of the ...Like Clockwork sound that linger here, especially in the middle songs. | | 6 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
A fantastic bridge from Kyuss to the Queens of the Stone Age sound. It has a few duds, but there's plenty of strong material that measures up to their following three albums as well, along with containing plenty of attitude for a fun listen. | | 5 |  | Them Crooked Vultures
Them Crooked Vultures
An excellent supergroup release involving Joshe Homme, John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin, and Dave Grohl from Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, and Nirvana. It essentially sounds like a QotSA album to me, and I'm surprised that this isn't more popular given how much personality and attitude it has. There's plenty of great songs that measure up to lots of QotSA material. | | 4 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Lullabies to Paralyze
This has a wonderfully nocturnal feel to it, sounding like a Halloween album in many places. Lullabies has so much variety and enjoyable, moody rock songwriting from start to finish. Someone's In The Wolf and Long Slow Goodbye are two of the band's best songs. | | 3 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Rated R
This album has always been pretty bewildering to me, possibly the craziest project Homme has been involved in. There's three entertaining joke songs, one of their most poignant songs, In the Fade, and Chemistry is an amazing mind-bending pseudo-prog rock jam. There's a few annoying parts, but most everything is so interesting and well made, with Oliveri's contributions adding an energetic, anarchistic edge too. | | 2 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
...Like Clockwork
This functions as Joshua Homme's singer-songwriter record in many ways, and it's incredibe. Some complain there's not enough fast or heavy songs on here, but I say who cares. There's no filler or weak tracks here, with I Appear Missing being the best song of 2013. | | 1 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf
What can I say about this that hasn't been said? The drumming is incredible, nearly every song is perfect and many ahead of their time, and radio show skits make for frequent moments of hilarity. This album introduced me to the band way back in early 2013, and remains one of my top favorite modern rock albums. | |
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04.17.14 | pretty good ranking | collins
04.17.14 | i need to give 2 another shot | BMDrummer
04.17.14 | Good ranking, I love all of their albums. | mandan
04.17.14 | There's no wrong way to rank this band, since it all depends on personal taste.
Having said that, this is my ranking:
2, 4 & 6, 1, 5, 3. | Froot
04.17.14 | For me personally:
6) Vulgaris
5) Lullabies
4) Deaf
3) Clockwork
2) S/T
1) R | JaySpiral
04.17.14 | Pretty much my ranking, but I might switch 5 and 6. 5 gets boring to me, too repetitive. Just saw them on Tuesday, was amazing. They played every song from Like Clockwork other than Keep Your Eyes Peeled and Fairweather Friends. | NordicMindset
04.17.14 | Agreed with that top 3 | mandan
04.17.14 | Comment deleted. | scottpilgrim10
04.17.14 | Sweet ranking, I definitely agree with the top 2. | GlassGX
04.18.14 | I'd switch 5 & 6, 3 & 4, and maybe even 1 & 2. | emester
04.18.14 | Pretty much my same opinion of QOTSA albums | sapient
04.18.14 | 1+4
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Am I the only one who thinks that Qotsa are overall better than Kyuss? Both are legends don't get me wrong, but so many Queens songs just jam so hard | emester
04.18.14 | @sapient
On this site yeah. I like Kyuss more, but my closest friend thinks QOTSA blows them right out of the water | TalonsOfFire
08.16.16 | Fixed some descriptions, but overall I wouldn't change anything about this ranking over 2 years later. Still one of my favorite rock bands of all time. | Flashmobba
08.16.16 | Fun machine not love machine, and yeah it's a great song
The debut is actually my second favourite LP but at least SFTD is no. 1
| TalonsOfFire
08.16.16 | Good catch, fixed. The debut has also been growing on me over the years, especially the deluxe edition with bonus tracks. It'll never pass Lullabies for me though, I love that record. | Ocean of Noise
08.16.16 | incredibe
I don't think I gave 2 a fair chance. It's been a long time since I listened to it. As for the others I'd say 1 > 3 > 5 > 4 > 6 | insomniac15
08.16.16 | Perfect timing haha, I just bought Like Clockwork today.
Very hard to rank them because I've listened so much to all and got fond of them.
Even though I like many songs off it, Era Vulgaris is the weakest. The best is a tie between Songs For The Deaf and Lullabies TBH. I like a lot that haunting feel the latter has, plus it's the first one I got into. | Flashmobba
08.16.16 | Lullabies would probably be my 3, amazing Halloween album | TalonsOfFire
08.16.16 | Yeah Lullabies is neck and neck with Rated R for me. Both have 2-3 dud songs, and R having In The Fade and Chemistry push it to third place. Lullabies is very consistent, but only a couple songs are among their very best imo, for sure Long Slow Goodbye and Someone's in the Wolf. | Flashmobba
08.16.16 | Talons my man, you have great taste, those are all my favourites from the albums.
I guess my ranking would be
1. SFTD
2. Debut
3. LTP
4. Rated R (excellent album nonetheless)
5. Clockwork (unpopular opinion sorry)
6. Era (opener is god tier, inconsistent album) | TalonsOfFire
08.16.16 | Chemistry live was amazing, they extended it by like 5 minutes and was probably the highlight of the concert.
Era being last seems to be the consensus in everyone's rankings haha | insomniac15
08.16.16 | Skin on Skin is for me the weakest on Lullabies. I love Tangled Up In Plaid, Blood Is Love, Little Sister, I Never Came and Burn The Witch most. Long Slow Goodbye and Someone's In The Wolf are also very cool tracks.
Rated R and the debut are close behind, but the former could've been a bit more focused (I know they were drugged out of their minds during that period) and the latter lacks the diversity of its successors (although in a way that's what I like about it, is like a monolith). | Tunaboy45
08.16.16 | Good ranking, SFTD just edges Clockwork but they're both classic albums | TalonsOfFire
08.16.16 | Yeah Lullabies is full of goodies, and I'm also not crazy about Skin on Skin.
Agreed completely Tuna
I added Them Crooked Vultures because it basically sounds like a QOTSA album imo, everything Homme touches turns into some form of fuzzy desert rock it seems. Even Humbug by Arctic Monkeys had that feel to it, and all he did was produce. | insomniac15
08.18.16 | I wasn't that much into Them Crooked Vultures when the album appeared. It gradually grew on me and now I wish they recorded a follow-up. | EvoHavok
08.18.16 | I like the descriptions; you point out in concise ways their main strengths and what makes you enjoy them. | TalonsOfFire
03.10.18 | Edited this a bit. Lullabies is underrated, and pretty much tied with Rated R for third place. | TalonsOfFire
06.17.23 | Updated to include Times New Roman, unfortunately my least favorite of them all! | mryrtmrnfoxxxy
06.17.23 | bummer! i like what you said about 4 though. that's my fav | TalonsOfFire
06.17.23 | Yeah LtP is underrated, always loved it. Basically tied with Rated R for me. |
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