Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age turned desert-rock repetition into a sleek, dangerous form of modern heavy music. Josh Homme carried lessons from Kyuss and the Desert Sessions into a band built around dry guitar tone, hypnotic riffs, clipped grooves, and vocals that often sound calmest when the music is at its most sinister. The self-titled debut and Rated R established a strange balance of fuzz, swing, and dark humor, while Songs for the Deaf pushed that language into a larger, harder arena with a road-trip concept, Dave Grohl's explosive drumming, and Nick Oliveri's more feral counterweight. Later records kept mutating the formula: Lullabies to Paralyze and Era Vulgaris leaned into unease and grime, ...Like Clockwork added wounded art-rock drama, Villains tightened the danceable strut, and In Times New Roman... returned to a caustic, scarred version of the band's core sound. Queens of the Stone Age rarely sound like conventional metal, but their influence runs through stoner rock, heavy psych, sludge-adjacent riff bands, and alternative metal because their best songs make groove, repetition, and menace feel inseparable.
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Queens of the Stone Age Discography
14 tracks
- 1 Regular John 4:37
- 2 Avon 3:25
- 3 If Only 3:22
- 4 Walkin on the Sidewalks 5:01
- 5 You Would Know 4:18
- 6 The Bronze 3:45
- 7 How to Handle a Rope (A Lesson in the Lariat) 3:31
- 8 Mexicola 4:55
- 9 Hispanic Impressions 2:46
- 10 You Can't Quit Me Baby 6:36
- 11 These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For 3:07
- 12 Give the Mule What He Wants 3:09
- 13 Spiders and Vinegaroons 6:26
- 14 I Was a Teenage Hand Model 5:02
11 tracks
- 1 Regular John 4:37
- 2 Avon 3:25
- 3 If Only 3:22
- 4 Walkin on the Sidewalks 5:01
- 5 You Would Know 4:18
- 6 How to Handle a Rope (A Lesson in the Lariat) 3:31
- 7 Mexicola 4:55
- 8 Hispanic Impressions 2:46
- 9 You Can't Quit Me Baby 6:36
- 10 Give the Mule What He Wants 3:09
- 11 I Was a Teenage Hand Model 5:02
12 tracks
- 1 Feel Good Hit Of The Summer 2:43
- 2 The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret 3:36
- 3 Leg Of Lamb 2:48
- 4 Auto Pilot 4:01
- 5 Better Living Through Chemistry 5:49
- 6 Monsters In The Parasol 3:27
- 7 Quick And To The Pointless 1:42
- 8 In The Fade 3:50
- 9 Feel Good Hit Of The Summer - (Reprise) 0:34
- 10 Tension Head 2:52
- 11 Lightning Song 2:07
- 12 I Think I Lost My Headache 8:40
15 tracks
- 1 The Real Song For The Deaf 1:31
- 2 You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire 3:12
- 3 No One Knows 4:38
- 4 First It Giveth 3:18
- 5 Song For The Dead 5:52
- 6 The Sky Is Fallin' 6:15
- 7 Six Shooter 1:19
- 8 Hanging Tree 3:06
- 9 Go With The Flow 3:07
- 10 Gonna Leave You 2:50
- 11 Do It Again 4:04
- 12 God Is In The Radio 6:04
- 13 Another Love Song 3:15
- 14 Song For The Deaf 6:42
- 15 Mosquito Song 5:38
14 tracks
- 1 Go With The Flow - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 2:58
- 2 Regular John - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 5:24
- 3 Monsters In The Parasol - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 4:39
- 4 Tangled Up In Plaid - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 4:00
- 5 Little Sister - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 2:51
- 6 You Can't Quit Me, Baby - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 9:49
- 7 I Wanna Make It Wit Chu - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 4:27
- 8 Leg Of Lamb - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 3:34
- 9 I Think I Lost My Headache - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 5:24
- 10 Mexicola - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 5:09
- 11 Burn The Witch - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 3:12
- 12 Song For The Dead - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 7:47
- 13 No One Knows - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 7:47
- 14 Long Slow Goodbye - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 7:20
14 tracks
- 1 This Lullaby 1:22
- 2 Medication 1:54
- 3 Everybody Knows That You're Insane 4:14
- 4 Tangled Up In Plaid 4:13
- 5 Burn The Witch 3:35
- 6 In My Head 4:01
- 7 Little Sister 2:54
- 8 I Never Came 4:48
- 9 Someone's In The Wolf 7:15
- 10 The Blood Is Love 6:37
- 11 Skin On Skin 3:42
- 12 Broken Box 3:02
- 13 "You Got A Killer Scene There, Man..." 4:56
- 14 Long Slow Goodbye 6:53
2 tracks
- 1 No One Knows - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 7:34
- 2 Burn The Witch - Live At Brixton Academy / 2005 3:13
3 tracks
- 1 Little Sister 2:54
- 2 The Blood Is Love - Contradicktator Remix 5:22
- 3 Little Sister - Contradicktator Remix 3:29
2 tracks
- 1 Broken Box - Fixed The Box Remix by Peaches 5:29
- 2 Burn The Witch - Unkle Remix Version 3:04
15 tracks
- 1 Turnin On The Screw 5:17
- 2 Sick, Sick, Sick 3:34
- 3 I'm Designer 4:04
- 4 Into The Hollow 3:42
- 5 Misfit Love 5:39
- 6 Battery Acid 4:06
- 7 Make It Wit Chu 4:50
- 8 3's & 7's 3:34
- 9 Suture Up Your Future 4:37
- 10 River In The Road 3:19
- 11 Run, Pig, Run 4:39
- 12 Running Joke - Non-LP Version 2:57
- 13 Era Vulgaris - Non-LP Version 4:23
- 14 The Fun Machine Took A Shit and Died 6:55
- 15 I'm Designer - Hot Chip Remix 6:28
3 tracks
- 1 Make It Wit Chu 3:50
- 2 Needles In A Camel's Eye 3:21
- 3 White Wedding 3:50
10 tracks
- 1 Keep Your Eyes Peeled 5:04
- 2 I Sat by the Ocean 3:55
- 3 The Vampyre of Time and Memory 3:34
- 4 If I Had a Tail 4:55
- 5 My God Is the Sun 3:55
- 6 Kalopsia 4:38
- 7 Fairweather Friends 3:43
- 8 Smooth Sailing 4:51
- 9 I Appear Missing 6:00
- 10 ...Like Clockwork 5:24
3 tracks
- 1 Long Slow Goodbye - Live Acoustic 5:38
- 2 Vampyre Of Time And Memory - Live Acoustic 3:50
- 3 I Sat by the Ocean - Live Acoustic 4:35
1 track
- 1 My God Is the Sun 3:55
9 tracks
- 1 Feet Don't Fail Me 5:41
- 2 The Way You Used To Do 4:34
- 3 Domesticated Animals 5:20
- 4 Fortress 5:27
- 5 Head Like A Haunted House 3:21
- 6 Un-Reborn Again 6:40
- 7 Hideaway 4:18
- 8 The Evil Has Landed 6:30
- 9 Villains of Circumstance 6:09
1 track
- 1 The Evil Has Landed 6:30
1 track
- 1 The Way You Used To Do 4:34
10 tracks
- 1 Obscenery 4:23
- 2 Paper Machete 3:22
- 3 Negative Space 3:53
- 4 Time & Place 4:26
- 5 Made to Parade 5:18
- 6 Carnavoyeur 3:56
- 7 What The Peephole Say 4:06
- 8 Sicily 4:41
- 9 Emotion Sickness 4:31
- 10 Straight Jacket Fitting 9:01
3 tracks
- 1 Paper Machete 3:22
- 2 Carnavoyeur 3:56
- 3 Emotion Sickness 4:31
2 tracks
- 1 Carnavoyeur 3:56
- 2 Emotion Sickness 4:31
1 track
- 1 Emotion Sickness 4:31
5 tracks
- 1 Running Joke / Paper Machete - Alive in the Catacombs 5:32
- 2 Kalopsia - Alive in the Catacombs 5:14
- 3 Villains of Circumstance - Alive in the Catacombs 5:57
- 4 Suture Up Your Future - Alive in the Catacombs 4:38
- 5 I Never Came - Alive in the Catacombs 5:41
1 track
- 1 Easy Street 3:51
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