Rated R Reissue

I just read Rated R by the Queens of the Stone Age has been reissued as a deluxe edition and while I don't necessarily need another copy of it, I am excited the album is getting some press. Ever since reading about it, I have been digging back into all my earlier QOTSA music and man do I love both Rated R and Songs for the Deaf. The trick is that Josh Homme and crew make hard rock so catchy and listenable that for me at least it has become the ultimate rock-out music. Songs for the Deaf spans many shades of so-called hard rock and then ends with Mosquito Song, an epic campfire jam that is unexpected and awesome. Rated R and Songs for the Deaf simply are really good albums. They are loud, hard, surprisingly melodic and even Dave Grohl gets in on the action. Probably some of my favorite guitar centric albums ever. Not for everyone, but you should give this desert rock a listen, if for nothing else than an excellent change of pace. I could not bring myself to just post a couple, so here's four.

Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters in the Parasol (YSI) (filesavr)

Queens of the Stone Age - Auto Pilot (YSI) (filesavr)

Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow (YSI) (filesavr)

Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song (YSI) (filesavr)