{"product_id":"queens-of-the-stone-age-queens-of-the-stone-age","title":"Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Allmusic guide:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eHearing Queens of the Stone Age's long out of print debut many years after its initial 1998 release does pack the shock of revelation: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/josh-homme-mn0000828897\" class=\"name-link\"\u003eJosh Homme\u003c\/a\u003e’s tightly wound blueprint for QOTSA was in place from the very beginning. Where \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/homme-mn0000828897\" class=\"name-link\"\u003eHomme\u003c\/a\u003e’s previous outfit, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/kyuss-mn0000776011\" class=\"name-link\"\u003eKyuss\u003c\/a\u003e, were all about expansion, Queens of the Stone Age were about compression, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/homme-mn0000828897\" class=\"name-link\"\u003eHomme\u003c\/a\u003e 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 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/homme-mn0000828897\" class=\"name-link\"\u003eHomme\u003c\/a\u003e 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 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/rated-r-mw0000063796\" class=\"album-link\"\u003eRated R\u003c\/a\u003eand \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/songs-for-the-deaf-mw0000223645\" class=\"album-link\"\u003eSongs for the Deaf\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/homme-mn0000828897\" class=\"name-link\"\u003eHomme\u003c\/a\u003e retained enough of the desert spaciness of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/kyuss-mn0000776011\" class=\"name-link\"\u003eKyuss\u003c\/a\u003e 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 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/homme-mn0000828897\" class=\"name-link\"\u003eHomme\u003c\/a\u003e’s past and future intertwining.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Veritas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038240784619,"sku":"VVA0948","price":35.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0653\/5692\/3115\/files\/4343275-3185465.jpg?v=1762459761","url":"https:\/\/www.vinylveritas.com\/products\/queens-of-the-stone-age-queens-of-the-stone-age","provider":"Vinyl Veritas","version":"1.0","type":"link"}