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Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

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Album Review

Release date: 18 August 2000

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

'Rated R'

Desert rock grown up

Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme was the genius behind one of the '90s most unheard and influential bands, Californian 'desert-rockers' Kyuss . They famously rehearsed in the Palm Springs desert, made sprawling, drug-addled, psychedelic sex rock and spawned a whole genre - 'stoner rock' - without even meaning to. After Kyuss split in '95,...

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Queens of the Stone Age News

Queens Of The Stone Age to live-stream Los Angeles show on May 23

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Listen to all of '...Like Clockwork' live from The Wiltern later this week

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Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R: Wikipedia Album Entry

Rated R is a 2000 album by Queens of the Stone Age, containing the first appearance of former Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan, and the first significant appearance of Nick Oliveri, on a Queens of the Stone Age record. Oliveri appeared briefly on the band's previous album (Queens of the Stone Age) in a voice sample.

Los Angeles based drummer Gene Trautmann plays on tracks 1, 6, 7, and 9.

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Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R Lyrics

Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer Lyrics

Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol
Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, Marijuana, Ecstasy and Alcohol

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Queens of the Stone Age - I Think I Lost My Headache Lyrics

You know why they called and just let it ring
No reply, the door was open, I swear
Ain't no use in pickin' up
You know why

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Queens of the Stone Age - Tension Head Lyrics

Everyday I wake up feeling this way
I take it downtown with all the action going down
I strike your match, strike your match, cook it up

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Queens of the Stone Age - In the Fade Lyrics

Cracks in the ceiling, crooked pictures in the hall
Calm and breathing, I'm leaving here tomorrow
They don't know, I never do you any good
Laughing is easy, I would if I could

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Queens of the Stone Age - Quick and to the Pointless Lyrics

I don't even know what I'm doing here
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Little girl walkin' down the street

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Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters in the Parasol Lyrics

The walls are closing in again, oh well
The walls are closing in again, oh well
I seen some things I thought I never saw
Covered in hair

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Queens of the Stone Age - Better Living Through Chemistry Lyrics

The blue pill opens your eyes
Is there a better way?
A new religion prescribed
To those without the faith

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Queens of the Stone Age - Auto Pilot Lyrics

Silent hell on the marble slab
The best trip that I've ever had
Higher than a jet plane, pass it around
My drinks on empty, need another round

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Queens of the Stone Age - Leg of Lamb Lyrics

You're a head case with a smile
Can't stop to make up your mind
Education is so lame
When you bitch and you moan

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Queens of the Stone Age - The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret Lyrics

Well, I've got a secret, I cannot say
Blame all the movement to give it away
You've got somethin', that I understand
Holding it tightly, caught on command

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