Song · Queens of the Stone Age
“In My Head” by Queens of the Stone Age
From the album Lullabies to Paralyze (2005)
“In My Head” by Queens of the Stone Age appears on 4 radio countdowns from 4 stations in 2005. It was first released in 2005 on the album Lullabies to Paralyze. Its best result is #40 on The End Top 107 Songs of 2005. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #128 alternative song of 2005.
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"In My Head" had already lived one life before Queens of the Stone Age got hold of it: it first surfaced in 2003 on The Desert Sessions' Volume 10: I Heart Disco, as "In My Head...Or Something". Reworked for Lullabies to Paralyze, the band's fourth album, it turned up first on the soundtrack to Need for Speed: Underground 2 in November 2004 and went out as a single in June 2005.
Josh Homme sings and plays bass, Joey Castillo drives it on drums and piano, Jesse Hughes slips in some flute, and Troy Van Leeuwen and Alain Johannes lock their guitars into a hypnotic, sun-baked loop that Homme and Joe Barresi produced with a dry, sly bounce. The video was another story: Van Leeuwen later wrote it off as a lame green-screen job that looked like a clothing ad.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 62 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2005 | 100 |
| 2005 | 40 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2005 | 107 |
| 2005 | 57 | Y100 Philadelphia, PA | Y100 Top 150 Songs of 2005 | 150 |
| 2005 | 180 | ModernRock.com Online | ModernRock.com Top 400 Songs of 2005 | 400 |
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