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When seminal Palm Desert outfit Kyuss called it a day in 1995, few would have predicted that towering, red-headed guitarist Josh Homme would pivot to form one of the most popular and influential bands of the next 25 years. Effectively a one-man show at its outset, Queens Of The Stone Age was originally dubbed Gamma Ray, but the German power-metallers of the same name forced a change. Reworking a nickname given by legendary producer Nick Goss (‘Kings Of The Stone Age’) into something less aggressively macho, the eventual QOTSA moniker would be emblematic of the sex and swagger with which they would take over the world.

“Rock should be heavy enough for the boys and sweet enough for the girls,” Josh explained in interviews early on. “That way everyone's happy and it's more of a party.”

Staying true to the collaborative nature of the scene that spawned them, there’s been something of a revolving-door membership around Josh, with luminaries like Kyuss bandmate and Mondo Generator-frontman Nick Oliveri, Nirvana / Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Screaming Trees legend Mark Lanegan and great keyboardist Natasha Shneider coming and going. Particular credit should go to guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, though, who’s been a constant since 2002 and has done much to maintain focus on their sense of effortlessly thrusting cool. QOTSA’s unwavering cool factor is the one constant across this low-slung Top 20: that inimitable aura of knowing they’re the very best at what they do without ever really appearing to give a damn…

20. First It Giveth (Songs For The Deaf, 2002)

Featuring the dream team of Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, Mark Lanegan and Nick Oliveri, the third Queens Of The Stone Age LP was jam-packed with bangers that could easily tower over the catalogues of lesser bands. Third single First It Giveth fits that bill. Playing on an extract from The Book Of Job (“The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away”), its lyrics are a bittersweet examination of how drugs can be an inspirational force for musicians, but how they eventually negate that influence and leave said musicians too washed-out to actually perform. Its music video – a compilation of live clips from the time – lives long in the memory for its footage of scary Nick onstage in the nude.

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When seminal Palm Desert outfit Kyuss called it a day in 1995, few would have predicted that towering, red-headed guitarist Josh Homme would pivot to form one of the most popular and influential bands of the next 25 years. Effectively a one-man show at its outset, Queens Of The Stone Age was originally dubbed Gamma Ray, but the German power-metallers of the same name forced a change. Reworking a nickname given by legendary producer Nick Goss (‘Kings Of The Stone Age’) into something less aggressively macho, the eventual QOTSA moniker would be emblematic of the sex and swagger with which they would take over the world.

“Rock should be heavy enough for the boys and sweet enough for the girls,” Josh explained in interviews early on. “That way everyone's happy and it's more of a party.”

Staying true to the collaborative nature of the scene that spawned them, there’s been something of a revolving-door membership around Josh, with luminaries like Kyuss bandmate and Mondo Generator-frontman Nick Oliveri, Nirvana / Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Screaming Trees legend Mark Lanegan and great keyboardist Natasha Shneider coming and going. Particular credit should go to guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, though, who’s been a constant since 2002 and has done much to maintain focus on their sense of effortlessly thrusting cool. QOTSA’s unwavering cool factor is the one constant across this low-slung Top 20: that inimitable aura of knowing they’re the very best at what they do without ever really appearing to give a damn…

20. First It Giveth (Songs For The Deaf, 2002)

Featuring the dream team of Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, Mark Lanegan and Nick Oliveri, the third Queens Of The Stone Age LP was jam-packed with bangers that could easily tower over the catalogues of lesser bands. Third single First It Giveth fits that bill. Playing on an extract from The Book Of Job (“The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away”), its lyrics are a bittersweet examination of how drugs can be an inspirational force for musicians, but how they eventually negate that influence and leave said musicians too washed-out to actually perform. Its music video – a compilation of live clips from the time – lives long in the memory for its footage of scary Nick onstage in the nude.

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