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Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age (1998) [Japanese Blu-Spec CD, Remastered 2010]

Posted By: Designol

Date: 26 Aug 2023 17:17:07

Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age (1998) [Japanese Blu-Spec CD, Remastered 2010]

Queens of the Stone Age is the debut studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released by Loosegroove Records on September 22, 1998. It was primarily written and recorded in April 1998 by founding member Josh Homme and his former Kyuss bandmate Alfredo Hernández, with Hernández playing drums and Homme singing and playing the rest of the instruments. Homme also produced the album alongside Joe Barresi. Bassist Nick Oliveri, also a former member of Kyuss, would join the band by the time of the album's release. Queens of the Stone Age received generally positive reviews from critics, who placed it in the stoner rock genre and drew comparisons to krautrock bands such as Neu! and Can, as well as to Kyuss and other metal bands.

In 2011, Homme reissued Queens of the Stone Age through his Rekords Rekords label, having it remastered and adding three additional tracks–two from the album's recording sessions and one from two years earlier. The reissue received a positive critical response and was accompanied by a supporting concert tour.

Hearing Queens of the Stone Age's long out of print debut many years after its initial 1998 release does pack the shock of revelation: Josh Homme’s tightly wound blueprint for QOTSA was in place from the very beginning. Where Homme’s previous outfit, Kyuss, were all about expansion, Queens of the Stone Age were about compression, Homme stripping stoner rock to its essence – riffs as heavy as granite, solos as spacy as the desert sky. The songs on Queens of the Stone Age are shorter, pulled into focus by grinding fuzz riffs that anchor the proceedings even when the instrumental sections begin to drift into the ether. Another distinguishing factor in Queens of the Stone Age is that Homme writes full-blown songs – pushing their two best songs, “Regular John” and “Avon,” to the front, giving them room to float later on – so the album isn’t just about instrumental interaction, but the crucial difference is that this isn’t music solely for disaffected males. There is sex and swagger to Queens of the Stone Age, there’s a swing to the rhythms, there’s a darkly enveloping carnal menace buttressed by muscle and lust that keeps the album from being an insular stoner headpiece. Certainly, there’s enough sinewy force to suggest the mighty brawn of Rated R and Songs for the Deaf; Homme retained enough of the desert spaciness of Kyuss to give Queens of the Stone Age an otherworldly shimmer, a hazy quality he later abandoned for aggressive precision, so this winds up as a unique record in his catalog, a place where you can hear Homme’s past and future intertwining. [The 2011 expanded reissue, released on Homme’s Rekords Rekords, has been remastered and includes three cuts from split singles and B-sides; the bonus tracks have been sequenced throughout the album and never once detract from the flow of the record.]

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com

QOTSA at Allmusic
QOTSA at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Regular John (4:38)
02. Avon (3:26)
03. If Only (3:23)
04. Walkin' On The Sidewalks (5:02)
05. You Would Know (4:19)
06. The Bronze (3:46)
07. How To Handle A Rope (A Lesson In The Lariat) (3:32)
08. Mexicola (4:56)
09. Hispanic Impressions (2:47)
10. You Can't Quit Me Baby (6:37)
11. These Aren't The Droids You're Looking For (3:08)
12. Give The Mule What He Wants (3:10)
13. Spiders And Vinegaroons (6:27)
14. I Was A Teenage Hand Model (5:03)

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