Queens of the Stone Age's Rated R Gets Tenth Anniversary Deluxe Reissue

Rated R, the 2000 sophomore album from Queens of the Stone Age, was the moment QOTSA stopped being the Kyuss guys' new band and started becoming the heaving, spitting, strutting monster we know today. The band started out opening track "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" by chanting, "Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol" a bunch of times. They then spent the ensuing 11 tracks doing everything they could to simulate every effect of every one of those drugs, all through the...

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