Queens of the Stone Age To Release 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Rated R
Monday, 28 June 2010
Written by Nigel Sachdev
One of Rolling Stone's top 100 albums of the decade, Rated R from Queens Of The Stone Age marks its 10th anniversary with the expanded, two-CD Rated R - Deluxe Edition, which will be released on August 3rd 2010 through Interscope/UMe.
Added to the original album is a second disc with six B-sides and the band's memorable summer 2000 Reading Festival concert - featuring nine previously unreleased songs, including live versions of Rated R's "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer," "The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret," "Better Living Through Chemistry" and "Quick And To The Pointless."
The B-sides are "Ode To Clarissa"; "You're So Vague," a spoof of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain"; covers of Romeo Void's "Never Say Never" and the Kinks' "Who'll Be The Next In Line"; a live version of the album's "Monsters In The Parasol"; and a re-recording of "Born To Hula," an early QOTSA song. The other Reading Festival tracks are concert takes on "Ode To Clarissa," three songs from the band's debut album ("Regular John," "Avon" and "You Can't Quit Me, Baby"), and "Millionaire," a song originally from Josh Homme side project Desert Sessions.
Issued in June 2000, Rated R was QOTSA's breakthrough, the band's second album but first on a major label. Led by singer-songwriter Josh Homme and emerging from influential California desert rockers Kyuss, QOTSA debuted with a self-titled album in 1998 that instantly earned the group accolades. After a tour, QOTSA returned to the studio with Homme's long-time collaborator and co-producer Chris Goss (of Masters of Reality) as well as former Kyuss bassist-singer-songwriter Nick Oliveri. The result was Rated R, which guested Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan (lead vocals on "In The Fade") and Judas Priest's Rob Halford (backing on "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer"). But it was the anthemic "The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret" which became the band's most popular song.
Rated R was, as its NME reviewer wrote, "the best, most important rock album for years."
A gold album, four Grammy nominations, seven more Modern Rock Top 40s and 10 years later, Queens Of The Stone Age revisit a landmark album with Rated R - Deluxe Edition - available to buy from August 3rd.
Queens Of The Stone Age will return to the UK for the Reading And Leeds Festivals this August, while Josh Homme and his Them Crooked Vultures bandmates will perform a benefit show at Brixton Academy on July 5th. Proceeds from that show will go towards treatment for Eagles Of Death Metal bassist Brian O'Connor, who was recently diagnosed with cancer and is without medical insurance. Tickets are onsale now.
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The B-sides are "Ode To Clarissa"; "You're So Vague," a spoof of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain"; covers of Romeo Void's "Never Say Never" and the Kinks' "Who'll Be The Next In Line"; a live version of the album's "Monsters In The Parasol"; and a re-recording of "Born To Hula," an early QOTSA song. The other Reading Festival tracks are concert takes on "Ode To Clarissa," three songs from the band's debut album ("Regular John," "Avon" and "You Can't Quit Me, Baby"), and "Millionaire," a song originally from Josh Homme side project Desert Sessions.
