Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Call it "stoner rock" if you must, but the sophomore release from the Queens of the Stone Age moves mosh music into a woozier realm. Which isn't to say it isn't plenty crunchy, but former Kyuss kingpin Josh Homme and company (including guests Mark Lanegan and Barrett Martin of the Screaming Trees) create an intoxicating brew by mixing metal, alt, and garage-rock elements together and making it smoke! --Steven Stolder

Product Description
Exclusive UK version of their 2000 album includes a bonus disc featuring 4 tracks, 'Never Say Never', 'You're So Vague', 'Who'll Be The Next In Line' and the controversial cd-rom video for the track 'Feel Good Hit Of The Summer' that's been banned. Slimline double jewel case. 2000 release. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

Tracks:

Feel Good Hit of the Summer
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
Leg of Lamb
Auto Pilot
Better Living Through Chemistry
Monsters in the Parasol
Quick and to the Pointless
In the Fade
Tension Head
Lightning Song
I Think I Lost My Headache

Album Description

Exclusive UK version of their 2000 album includes a bonus disc featuring 4 tracks, 'Never Say Never', 'You're So Vague', 'Who'll Be The Next In Line' and the controversial cd-rom video for the track 'Feel Good Hit Of The Summer' that's been banned. Slimline double jewel case. 2000 release.

Album Details

Special UK Only Limited Edition CD that features the Queens' 'feel Good Hit of the Summer' EP as a Bonus Disc

Amazon.com's Best of 2000

Call it "stoner rock" if you must, but the sophomore release from the Queens of the Stone Age moves mosh music into a woozier realm. Which isn't to say it isn't plenty crunchy, but former Kyuss kingpin Josh Homme and company (including guests Mark Lanegan and Barrett Martin of the Screaming Trees) create an intoxicating brew by mixing metal, alt, and garage-rock elements together and making it smoke! --Steven Stolder

Amazon.com

Trippy, forceful, and timeless, Rated R is rife with heavy, heady, trance-inducing post-hippie creations that recall Soundgarden and Fu Manchu. Singer/guitarist Josh Homme, founder of the defunct but much-worshipped "stoner-rock" band Kyuss, heads the group. And while he's joined by guests such as Mark Lanegan and Barrett Martin of the Screaming Trees, it's the oddball songs rendered by Homme's sexy voice and searing guitars that make this album sing. Kudos too, to the producer Chris Goss, formerly of another remarkable band, Masters of Reality. The Bowie-like surrealism of "Auto Pilot" makes it this set's classic; in fact, much of Rated R presents dark, Cocteau-like idiosyncrasies, often aided by touches of surprising humor. In the tongue-in-cheek-titled "The Feel-Good Hit of the Summer," the line "Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, Ecstasy, and alcohol" is repeated like a mantra, while "Better Living Through Chemistry," is steeped in hallucinogenic sounds. The frenetic "Monsters in the Parasol" is sonically rich, its primal riffing best ingested loud and via headphones, while "Quick and to the Pointless," boasts a raucous MC5/Blue Cheer vibe. This wondrous sophomore effort defies all categorization, except cool. --Katherine Turman

Customer Reviews:

2nd best Queens of the Stone Age album.......2007-06-27

Songs for the Deaf is their best work, but this album is a very close second and better rounded than any of their other albums. A must for any fan.

QoTSA's best.......2007-06-02

In my opinion this record is the most raw and creative of all the QoTSA's records. The addition of Mark Lanegans vocals rounded off this record. I'd say if you like unique music, and hard rock. You should own this record.

One of the great hard rock cross over albums of the decade.......2007-04-22

The music of Queens of the Stone Age is characterized by various labels: stoner rock, alt metal, punk metal, or simply hard rock or heavy metal. Of all these generally unhelpful labels I think "heavy metal" may be the least helpful. It is hard to see anything these guys have in common with Motley Crue or Judas Priest. Metallica isn't so far off, but the bands they most resemble would be some of the Pacific Northwest grunge bands like Screaming Trees or Soundgarden. It is definitely hard rock, but I'm not sure that Queens of the Stone Age is served very well by labels. I prefer to think of them as a hard rock band that has cross over appeal to a host of fans who would never dream of listening to metal, while still appealing to metal fans as well. Certainly they have achieved a critical respect that no metal bands manage to garner. Even the snootiest fan of Indie rock will listen to them along with Yo La Tenga and Big Star. What is the secret of their abilities to cut across genres and appeal to an unusually wide range of music fans? I think the key is their own strong sense of musicality coupled with an aversion to any kind of posing or theatricality that would code them as belonging to any particular subgroup. Faith No More attempted to have some crossover appeal, but their deliberate poses limited how far this was going to take place.

No matter how you label it, this is great music. Hard rock though it may be, every song is brimming with great hooks and a number of splendid musical ideas. The band is often so ironic that one can miss the irony, such as their semi-hit "The Feel Good Hit of the Summer," which sounds like a Beach Boys title but has verses that merely repeat "Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol" over and over to a chorus that does the same to "Cocaine." The point is less to advocate the use of drugs than to make a cheap--but funny--score off the title.

"The Feel Good Hit of the Summer" could make it sound like the band focuses on gimmick songs, but that is hardly the case. "Feel Good Hit" opens the disc, but all the rest of the songs are well-arranged, clever, and brimming with musical ideas. Some have so many things going on at once that the genius lies in the fact that they neither overwhelm one another nor lessen the musical impact of the album as a whole. Mark Lanegan and Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees appear on several tracks and in fact RATED R does sound like a Screaming Trees album with a denser guitar sound and less psychedelia. There really are no weak cuts on the album or even many that are appreciably than anything else on the disc. I've asked a few friends who know the album to name their three favorite cuts and I've been amazed to see everyone come back with different choices, sometimes not citing any of the songs others or I liked most. For the record, my three faves are "Lost Art of Keeping a Secret," "Auto Pilot," and "Better Living Through Chemistry," though on another day either "Monsters in the Parasol" or "Leg of Lamb." The omission of "The Feel Good Hit of the Summer" doesn't mean I don't like the song; I do. But I find the lyrics pretty dull and I think the song lacks the musical diversity found in almost any other song on the album.

This could well be the hard rock album from the past decade with the closest thing you will find to near universal appeal. Some people who listen to nothing but very light rock won't care for it, but it you have a good ear and enjoy great music regardless of what genre it is in, this is an album every serious lover of music should own.

QOTSA strike again..........2007-03-29

As I fell in love with "Songs for the Deaf" and "Lullabies To Paralyze", I continued the trend and bought "Rated R". At first I was a little suspicious as to the quality of the cd from previous reviews but I bought it anyways. Fortunatly, I fell in love wiht this cd as well. Although not my favorite QOTSA cd, it still is essential to your collection. Joshua's guitar playing skills alone are enough for you to buy the album. I seriously suggest this cd if you consider yourself a big QOTSA fan, but if this is the first album that you are buying from them, I would buy the later two albums first.

Nesessaray for any QOTSA Fan.......2006-12-03

Though this cd doesn't come very close to matching the quality of their next cd, "Songs for the Deaf", "Rated R" is defenetely worth buying if you enjoied SFTD. It is probably their second best out of all of them, including their newest, "Lullibies to paralyze".

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Rated R

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000F6YPIC
Release Date: 2006-05-23

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QOTSA

Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000050AMJ
Release Date: 2001-01-16

Tracks:

Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
Leg of Lamb
Auto Pilot
Better Living Through Chemistry
Monsters in the Parasol
Quick and to the Pointless
In the Fade
Tension Head
Lightning Song
I Think I Lost My Headache
Ode to Clarissa

Album Description

Japanese edition of this hotly tipped hard rock outfit from west coast, featuring the bonus track 'I Think I Lost My Headache. NME has hailed them as the new Nirvana. This Japanese pressing adds a b-side from their latest UK single, 'Ode To Clarissa'. 12 tracks in all. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

The Japanese version features a bonus track: Ode to Clarissa.

Customer Reviews:

QOTSA.......2002-04-22

Its a good album. Heavy in most occasions. Melodic in some occasions. The first song, feel good hit of the summer, will really catch your attention and the second, lost art of keeping a secret, will make you want to listen to the whole album to make sure you dont miss anything QOTSA has to offer. This is an album full of rock, recommended to anyone with rock tendencies.

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