Villains (studio album) by Queens Of The Stone Age
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Villains is ranked 6th best out of 10 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 126 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,710.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100 ![]() | 08/01/2025 02:32 | ![]() | ![]() | 75/100 |
60/100 ![]() | 07/30/2025 21:35 | Oid | ![]() | 82/100 |
65/100 ![]() | 07/19/2025 17:56 | ![]() | ![]() | 69/100 |
80/100 ![]() | 07/16/2025 12:20 | robertoveltri | ![]() | 79/100 |
75/100 ![]() | 06/27/2025 19:10 | Svelte8 | ![]() | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.5/100, a mean average of 73.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.
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SOLID LP, consistent quality across the 9 songs, nothing exceptional but no duds either.
Was very excited when this was coming out as great QOTSA fan. Took a bit to grow on me as I found it one of the weaker albums in the QOTSA canon. But on saying that, it's still a really good album, way better than most put out by other bands and albums within the genre and era.

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I actually started listening to QotSA more actively around the time this came out, having listened to Songs for The Deaf and Like Clockwork a couple of times before.
I noticed it was viewed as a kind of underwhelming in the band's discography but now when I've listened to them quite a bit more I don't get it at all. This is easily top tier QotSA, probably a notch a below the two classic albums, but a close competitor for their third best (along with Rated R).
Each year I find myself less and less interested in rock, but there’s something about Queens of the Stone Age’s way of slightly reinventing themselves that keeps me invested. Here they remind me of that nineties revival of glam rock, thanks in no small part to Mark Ronson’s hand in production.
Innovative but familiar. Head like a haunted house is my favourite. Personally I think it's better than Like Clockwork

Holy crap this is good. Queens are the most consistent modern rock band.

Com mais ritmo e ainda com seus solos incríveis.

This album is one of the coolest I've ever heard. Queens has always been one of my top go-to bands for feeling badass, and this album doesn't disappoint. The entire thing has an aura of "coolness" about it. I keep going back to it for that reason, and it scratches that rock itch more than a lot of other albums. I'm surprised at how much I'm revisiting it, but it gets better with every listen.

A great solid follow up from ...Like Clockwork and another great album from QUOTSA. While they are trying a little different style from ...Like Clockwork, and generally in my opinion has a lighter mood to it, which is a nice relief also from ...Like Clockwork.
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