“Mexicola” by Queens of the Stone Age

"Mexicola" comes off the 1998 debut album from Queens of the Stone Age, back when the band was essentially two ex-Kyuss men in a room. Josh Homme and Alfredo Hernández wrote it together, words and music, and cut it as a duo: Hernández on drums, Homme singing and handling guitar, bass and keyboards. Homme produced it with Joe Barresi, who also mixed it, and Steve Feldman assisted on the engineering.

The album was mostly written and recorded in April 1998, and by the time it came out Nick Oliveri, another Kyuss alumnus, had joined on bass. Critics filed it under stoner rock and heard echoes of Kyuss, other metal bands and the krautrock of Neu! and Can.

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