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Average Rating: Rating: - Masterful riff-driven rock With their debut album, Queens of the Stone Age make a powerful statement on the power of the guitar riff. Repetitive, grinding, hypnotic riffs predominate, combing with Joshua Homme's lilting vocals to create a mesmerizing atmosphere that works equally well as background noise or head-bobbing fodder. Although the guitar riffs are the star of this album, there are a few surprises to be found as well. "Hispanic Impressions" is an instrumental composed mainly of bouncing guitar licks, and "You Can't Quit me Baby" and "I was a Teenage Hand Model" slow things down some for a more laid-back feel. If you like old-fashioned guitar rock, but what's on the radio doesn't rock quite enough for you, then Queens of the Stone Age are well worth checking out. Rating: - Muy Bueno QOTSA! This album, the debut from Queens of the Stone Age is everything that you could hope for from a heavy music album, in fact, it may well be the perfect hard rock/heavy metal album. From the opening "Regular John" to the awesome "lead" drums of "avon" to the bass intro to "mexicola" this album is damn near perfect! I was skeptical following the demise of Kyuss, but Josh Homme (not quite John Garcia) is a great rhythm/lead guitarist whose ephemeral vocals compliment these songs perfectly. However, it is the rhythm section that really stands out on this disc (You don't get much more "locked in" than Olivieri and Hernandez do). In addition (and as hard as it may seem), these guys are even better live, a testament to their musical commitment. Buy this CD (and pick up all the Kyuss stuff while you are at it) if you even pretend to like heavy music Rating: - Melody over Metal On Kyuss' final album, "...And the Circus Leaves Town," the band had shown a markedly different approach to their trademark desert rock style. The extended psychedelic fuzz was replaced with mellow wah-wah grooves and the songs themselves were shortened to a much more pop oriented length. With Kyuss now deceased, it should come as no surprise that these final genre evolutions on "...Circus..." were really laying the groundwork for Josh Homme's new project "Queens of the Stone Age." Now, continuing in the same vein as Kyuss' final days, QOTSA's self-titled debut is still plenty heavy, but their explorations of new and original sounds are what really make this album such an overall refreshing and inviting affair. Homme's soft waves of gentle feedback and muscular falsetto singing style replace the emotive destruction of Kyuss, finally giving the guitarist room to explore his quieter, emotional side that was always so rarely touched upon. Even the heavier numbers, "Walkin' on the Sidewalks" and "Mexicola", have a newly found warmth and personality to them that make the entire record much more enchanting. Obviously, this preference for a lighter sound brings melody to the forefront, but through Homme's ability to encapsulate so much beneath this melodic front, from Lo-fi on "I Was a Teenage Hand Model" to full-on metal on "Regular John," he proves himself to be a truly diverse and multifaceted individual who has more than enough ideas of his own to carry a band. Although Kyuss was always much more textured and intricate than their critics gave them credit for, Homme really opens up the band's shell shedding some of the unnecessary testosterone to let the overshadowed emotional core shine through. While the dissolution of Kyuss is nothing short of disappointing, Homme's revitalized Queens of the Stone Age have and hopefully will continue to capture all the glory and power of their late iconic predecessors.

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