Queens Of The Stone Age: Rated R
It’s been a decade since The Queens Of the Stone Age released their breakthrough album Rated R. To celebrate the band have released this 10th anniversary remastered “deluxe” edition.
Back in 2000 the The Queens Of the Stone Age’s raw, sexed-up guitar rock gave an inkling of what grunge may have sounded like if it had sprung from the Californian desert rather than rainy Seattle, and acid had been the drug of choice rather than heroin.
Album opener Feel Good Hit Of The Summer is still as annoying as it ever was but tracks like The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret and the psychedelic menace of Better Living Through Chemistry typify Rated R in still sounding spine-tinglingly fresh.
A second CD features The Queens Of the Stone Age’s 2000 Reading festival set and B-sides including You’re So Vague, a spoof of Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain.
4/5
Review: Alison Grinter
