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Queens of the Stone Age by Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age is an album by Queens of the Stone Age, released in 1998. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “If Only”, on 4 lists with a best position of #64.
Queens of the Stone Age, the band's self-titled debut, came out on September 22, 1998, through Loosegroove in the US and Roadrunner everywhere else. It was essentially a two-man job: Josh Homme and his old Kyuss bandmate Alfredo Hernández knocked it out in April 1998, Hernández on drums and Homme singing and playing everything else, and Homme co-produced with Joe Barresi. Nick Oliveri, another Kyuss alum, was on bass by the time it hit the shelves.
What they made is desert rock boiled down to riff and groove: fat, repetitive guitar figures locked to a hypnotic pulse, Homme crooning cool over the top. Critics filed it under stoner rock and heard Neu! and Can in the rhythms as much as Kyuss in the fuzz. "If Only" and "Mexicola" are the tracks the countdowns remember. Homme reissued it in 2011, remastered with three extra tracks.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Queens of the Stone Age on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.