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Songs For The Deaf
EMAILPRINTby Queens Of The Stone Age
Universal acclaim
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 118 votes
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Album Info
Label: Interscope
Release Date: 27 August 2002
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Metal, Alternative
Summary
Stoner metal is back in the form of the third LP from Queens of the Stone Age, who are supplemented for this release (and supporting tour) by drummer Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) and former Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly
The year's best hard-rock album. [6 Sep 2002, p.86]
Launch.com
This is one of the most accomplished, powerful, and entertaining hard rock albums ever made.
Read Full Review >Uncut
[A] breathtaking, virtually flawless album. [Sep 2002, p.104]
Stylus Magazine
Queens Of The Stone Age are the greatest heavy rock band on the face of the planet and soon everyone will know it.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
Whether or not Songs for the Deaf manages to break through to the ever-fickle TRL crowd remains to be seen; those people with the patience to sit through this remarkable album a few times, though, will know the score.
Read Full Review >Splendid
The bottom line is that QOTSA turns in another genre-demolishing, hard-as-titanium album in Songs for the Deaf. This is not your father's metal. It's better.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
An album that, for all of its flaws, is still easily one of the best rock records of 2002.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
'The Sky Is Fallin' is a beast.... 'God Is In The Radio' has got just such an awesome riff, like the Lord himself hotwired to a Marshall amp.
Read Full Review >Magnet
The playing is imaginative, the ideas vibrant and shimmering and the band's considerable melodic gifts sabotaged by either willfully obtuse compositional tricks or outright punk bratiness. [#55, p.84]
New Musical Express
Their world - sexual, drug-filled, and occasionally paranoid - has become progressively darker, and as such we find them nothing less than guardians of the rock flame.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Musically and vocally, the band sounds tighter and more accomplished than ever.
Read Full Review >Delusions of Adequacy
All in all, this album has everything any hard rock fan would enjoy.
Read Full Review >Blender
While cliches abound... this huge music is delivered with panache. [#9, p.154]
Playlouder
'Songs For The Deaf' is a triumph, a record forged with fire and sweat in the pits of Valhalla... It is the very essence of Rock.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
Mixes melancholy and might to a rare degree. [Sep 2002, p.104]
Mojo
All the elements which made its predecessor so great are here, but in excelsis, and occasionally excess. [Sep 2002, p.95]
Pitchfork
When these guys are on, it truly is the wrath of the righteous. However, Songs for the Deaf vacillates constantly between soaring heights and mind-numbing lows, making for a true hit-or-miss affair.
Read Full Review >Dusted Magazine
A balls-out, hateful, heavy, and catchy piece of work that rocks like it was 1994 all over again.
Read Full Review >Trouser Press
[The opening] quartet of tunes blows the band's wad, leaving the rest of the album scattered with only moderately cool mid- tempo metal, all of it delivered with gusto but not enough serious hooks to make anything stand out.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Whether the ace metal is speedy or onerous (or both, as in the case of "Six Shooter," with its shrieking insanity), it is always deployed in the service of the eccentric song structures, and every track becomes a splendid, mysterious thing.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 118 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Craig L gave it a10:
One of my favourite albums ever and I've listened to many great albums. This is the album which first got me interested in rock music and ive never looked back. A bit sad theres no Kyuss reviews on here.
David H. gave it a9:
Without a doubt one of my favourite albums ever made. Queens of the Stone Age absolutely rock! Hard! The best rock album ever! Track rating- millionaire 8.9/10, no one knows 9.5/10, first it giveth 8.3/10, song for the deaf 8.0/10, sky is falling 9.1/10, six shooter 7.6/10, hanging tree 8.7/10, go with the flow 9.3/10, i'm gonna leave you 7.6/10, do it again 9.0/10, god is in the radio 9.6/10, another love song 9.3/10, song for the dead 8.1/10, mosquito song 9.7/10, lost art of keeping a secret 8.7/10, everybody gonna be happy 8.9/10. a very high 8.8/10
Jonas P. gave it a10:
The best album ever.
Mark K. gave it a10:
Everything you could wish for in a rock album. This is the band at their best and indeed one album you must listen to before you die. Queens Of The Stone Age should be considered as one of the greatest rock bands of all time!
Mike T gave it a10:
The best hard rock album since Ozzy became incomprehensible.
snolarbear gave it a10:
A slick and powerful album. music doesn't get much better than this!
Dimitri V. gave it a9:
This is a great album and was the first album I got to know by QOTSA. This is, in my opinion, one of their best albums because its a mix of diverse rock songs though not one of them is bad. In fact, they are all good and some have even made it already as classics you just want to hear if you go to a concert of QOTSA. It has a nice groove only Oliveri could have laid down and the drums are magnificent. Josh Homme performs vocally at his best reaching from the bottom end of his voice to a decent falsetto. The reason i did not give this album a clear 10 is that, though the interludes are sometimes really funny, they sometimes get the drive out of the album. Maybe a few cuts here and there would make this album perfect.
