Vinyl Record
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R on LP vinyl. A 2000 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2000
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2000 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Rated R is Queens Of The Stone Age's 2000 breakthrough into a larger, stranger version of itself. The self-titled debut had established the machine; Rated R opens the doors and lets bad ideas, guest voices, hooks and absurdity into the room. Feel Good Hit Of The Summer announces the provocation immediately, but the album's real range comes through The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret, Leg Of Lamb, Auto Pilot, Better Living Through Chemistry, Monsters In The Parasol and In The Fade. Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri turn heavy rock into something slyly pop-aware, with Mark Lanegan's presence adding dusk and gravity. In 2000, as guitar music was split between nu-metal aggression, post-Britpop fatigue and indie underground renewal, Rated R felt like a dangerous sideways move: too funny to be macho, too heavy to be polite, too melodic to stay hidden. It is the record where Queens Of The Stone Age stopped sounding like a fascinating desert offshoot and became a band with its own crooked universe.
Rated R matters because it expanded QOTSA from a lean desert-rock project into one of the most inventive heavy guitar bands of the early 2000s. Its mix of menace, humour, pop structure and narcotic drift set up the wider breakthrough of Songs For The Deaf.
For collectors, Rated R is a central Queens Of The Stone Age title because it captures the band at the moment the language opened up. It belongs between the stark debut and Songs For The Deaf as the record where the weirdness became more colourful, more collaborative and more durable.
Sly early-2000s heavy rock with desert riffs, druggy humour, melodic hooks, guest-vocal shadows, tight grooves, sudden mood shifts and a clean sense of danger.
Recommended for: Collectors building the core Queens Of The Stone Age run; Listeners who want heavy rock with wit, hooks and strange turns; Fans tracing the path from the debut to Songs For The Deaf.
When was Rated R released? Rated R was released in 2000 as Queens Of The Stone Age's second studio album. Which songs define Rated R? The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret, Feel Good Hit Of The Summer, Auto Pilot, Better Living Through Chemistry and In The Fade are central. Why is Rated R important in the Queens Of The Stone Age catalogue? It widened the band's sound beyond the debut's stripped-down desert pulse, bringing in more melody, guest voices, humour and atmosphere.