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intereact!Queens of the Stone Age
Retail Price (not our price): $13.98
Release Date: 2000-06-06
Manufacturer: Interscope Records
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) 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 Stolder2) 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 (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Nothing close to Songs for the Deaf [Rating: 3 out of 5]
I bought this album after purchasing Songs for the Deaf because i could not stop listening to it. Months afterward the songs were still as incredible as the first time i listened. I got Rated R after reading the good reviews about it. Maybe its the lack of Dave Grohl, or just not being my type of music, because this hardly seems like the same band. Apart from Better Living Through Chemistry, i struggled to find a track that compared to Songs for the Deaf. Maybe it's more apt for a different genre but whatever it is, don't purchase it based on how much you enjoyed Songs for the Deaf.2) ahahahahaaha [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Im going to see them live in a couple of weeks. I remember when I first heard this cd 7 years ago, back then, this was strange music. "stoner rock", "Monster In The Parasol"??? WTF? But now it just rocks. This has the most variety of any of thier records. "In The Fade" features Mark Leagan and is a mellow trippy/grunge song. "Quick And To The Pointless" has Nick O screaming like some thrash metal veteran. "Better Living Through Chemistry" is all spacey and layered with congas and metallic riffs. Ant is a stoner rock classic. If I had to choose one album of thiers, it would be this one..3) You can count on this band [Rating: 5 out of 5]
If you like the Queens of the Stoneage you owe it to yourself to buy this record.You will not be disappointed4) 2nd best Queens of the Stone Age album [Rating: 4 out of 5]
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.5) QoTSA's best [Rating: 5 out of 5]
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.