Queens Of The Stone Age
by Queens Of The Stone Age
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Queens Of The Stone Age bestography
Queens Of The Stone Age is ranked 5th best out of 12 albums by Queens Of The Stone Age on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Queens Of The Stone Age is Songs For The Deaf which is ranked number 129 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,914.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Queens Of The Stone Age track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Queens Of The Stone Age rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | microjude | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 8/100 | 91 |
| 2026 | JoshN125 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 17/100 | 17 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 83 Music Albums of 1998 | 56/83 | 2 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 48/100 | 11 |
| 2026 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 91/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 20 Music Albums of 1998 | 13/20 | 2 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 60 Music Albums of 1998 | 12/60 | 4 |
| 2026 |  LebowskiRams | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 66/100 | 7 |
| 2026 |  SomethingSpecial | Top 13 Music Albums of 1998 | 8/13 | 2 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 38/100 | 13 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 267 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,232 | |||
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Queens Of The Stone Age ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 39 hours ago | luukvdschepop | 767 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2026 23:23 | AledJames | 1,694 | 69/100 |
| ! | 08/04/2026 00:27 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.9/100, a mean average of 75.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Queens Of The Stone Age forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 12/01/2024 17:00 in Monthly overall chart movements BestEverAlbums 11/01/2024 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movementsQueens Of The Stone Age comments
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For my money, this is QOTSA's best album. They went on to make more diverse albums, but they never made anything as slick as this awesome debut. As cool as the otherside of the pillow...
This might be my favorite of theirs. The bass on this album is a forced to be reckoned with. (Edited)
ledemoncleaner 06/28/2015 22:20 | #144749 | TOP COMMENT
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Rock solid debut from QOSTA (one of my favorite groups), the sound mainly abridges the sandy stoner rock of Kyuss and the more diverse sound of QOSTA. There are a lot of great songs on here but the easy winner is the hooky yet melancholy "If Only", which ranks among the best of Homme's work. Other highlights include the murky and psychedelic "You Would Know", the galloping "Regular John" and "Avon", the ominous riffage of the unrequited love song "You Can't Quit Me Baby", and the imagery heavy "Mexicola". Besides that most of the songs are sufficient but not necessarily memorable in the Queens' catalog. But the music skills here are impressive, especially Homme's bass playing. All in all, a great album, but it is easily overshadowed by Homme's later work.
While I do hate the cover art I prefer th QOTSA's debut more than their subsesquant albums, this one was more unique and had a power thats missing in the rest of their discography. In first listen you may not like it much except for the opening track which is OMG. But in subsequant listens you will unravel the album and starts to see through the layers of similar sounding songs to see its hidden personality of each songs.
A solid first effort that should not be overlooked. While it only has a few standout tracks (If Only, Avon), the album holds well as a whole. I enjoy this album most when I play it front to back, whereas I often struggle to pick a song from this album that I want to hear alone (aside from the aforementioned). No dull moments that I can immediately think of.
All round a solid album, but definitely not masterworks like some of their later releases.
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