Lullabies To Paralyze - Queens of the Stone Age
Metascore
78 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    100
    This is metal that swings, heavy with a deft touch. [24 Apr 2005]
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  2. Alternative Press
    100
    The Queens have officially given us the first legitimate Album Of The Year candidate for 2005. [May 2005, p.130]
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  3. All Music Guide
    90
    They are so good, so natural on Lullabies to Paralyze that it's easy to forget that they just lost Oliveri, but that just makes Homme's triumph here all the more remarkable.
  4. Filter
    84
    Taken on its own, any one of these songs is pretty good--and some are really good--but Lullabies to Paralyze is held prostrate by an overall lack of variety not made up for by kitsch or vigor. [#14, p.94]
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  5. E! Online
    83
    Lullabies to Paralyze explodes with tight, meaty riffs, enormous pop melodies and vocals that seem to come from outer space.
  6. Stylus Magazine
    83
    If this is what treading water sounds like, I'll take it.

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User Score
8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 101 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 56 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 60
  3. Negative: 2 out of 60
  1. VladaJ
    10
    for me this is best album ever,best album of 2007, although i spent lot of time listening to it end i'm finding that this album can';t be likeable at first,and you realy must like QOTSA...so if someone say that he realy listens them and say that he don't like that album,then i can understand... QOTSA FAN… Full Review »
  2. Ricko
    3
    If you take the lead single "Everybody Knows That Your Insane" out of the mix, this is a really dull affair and doesn't do the band justice at all. Almost as if they had blown all their rock energy when making Songs for the Deaf.… Full Review »
  3. j30
    7
    A really good album, but with the departure of Nick Oliveri, the album is missing it's edge.
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