Villains
by Queens Of The Stone Age
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Queens Of The Stone Age bestography
Villains is ranked 6th 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 9,934.
(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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Villains track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Villains 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 | Hyggevinyl | Top 64 Music Albums of 2017 | 34/64 | 2 |
| 2026 | wizardalien | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 69/100 | 6 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Best albums from '15 to '24 | 16/100 | - |
| 2026 | Springsteen | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 67/100 | 32 |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 21 Music Albums of 2017 | 8/21 | 3 |
| 2026 | microjude | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 84/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Lincoln Journal Star 2017 in Review: Albums | 19/20 | - |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Top 100 Music Albums of 2017 | 34/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 93/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 2017 | 78/86 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 285 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 969 | |||
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Villains ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 17 hours ago |  spigelwii | 665 | 84/100 |
| ! | 32 hours ago | ASOARE | 2,481 | 77/100 |
| ! | 07/15/2026 17:58 | mash | 1,493 | 89/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. 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 12.7.
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Villains forum mentions
pedro1976 09/05/2026 05:40 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
Daydreamer 11/17/2017 10:23 in best album covers 2017Villains comments
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The Way You Used To Do is a great song, also enjoyed Feet Don't Fail Me and Fortress. Not as good as their earlier work but it's catchy and enjoyable. Even 25 years in you can't go wrong with Josh Homme guitar riffs (Edited)
pedro1976 05/12/2023 13:09 | #296905
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. (Edited)
Boltzmann TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/05/2020 19:13 | #246446
This album is as if they actually just walked up to their fans and said straight to their faces "we're not relevant anymore". I mean, they start off with funk rock for god's sake. Nothing screams "we have no ideas anymore" than jumping in a genre that they're not familiar with, which you can hear. The song's also unnecessarily convoluted and megalomanic. And the rest of the songs are equally guilty of that. The overproduction makes them sound like Muse almost, or at least very bad blur-impersonators.
Daydreamer 07/15/2019 17:02 | #239571
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).
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