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A Drug Problem That Never Existed Image
Metascore
70

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  • Summary: This is the second Mondo Generator recording for Nick Oliveri and Josh Homme (Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age), who are joined here by Brant Bjork (Kyuss) and Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees).
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Spin
    83
    Traffics full-time in the kind of raw, godless punk rock that's relegated to a handful of cuts on Queens' albums. [Sep 2003, p.112]
  2. Outburn
    80
    A Drug Problem... is like the contents of a [D]umpster: greasy, creepy, nasty, and random. [#23, p.96]
  3. Q Magazine
    70
    While there are plaintive acoustic moments, listen closely and [Oliveri's] inciting listeners to necrophiliac cannibalism. [Aug 2003, p.110]
  4. This record may not be as wild-eyed and rabid as it's predecessor, 2000's 'Cocaine Rodeo', but it's loaded with more illicit sex, insanity and glam-punk brilliance than you can shake Satan's pitchfork at.
  5. When 'A Drug Problem That Never Existed' is at its best, briefest and most brutish, it's a cracking piece of work indeed; daft, dirty and, in many ways, devilish.
  6. Blender
    40
    Oliveri needs a grounding element; without it, he just plays the Neanderthal wild-ass screamer. [Sep 2003, p.126]
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. ALIR
    Feb 10, 2005
    9
    This is album is slab of dirty, drug fuelled rock that is designed for anyone who has ever felt at one point in there life that drinking a This is album is slab of dirty, drug fuelled rock that is designed for anyone who has ever felt at one point in there life that drinking a bottle of whiskey and shouting out profanities is the way to make friends and influence. Essential Grade A Mentalism! Expand