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What began as a small group from the ashes of stoner rock kings Kyuss, developed within a few years the quasi epicenter of modern rock. How could this happen, you can simultaneously hear well on the second album Rated R of Queens of the Stone Age. For the tenth anniversary of the disc there is this piece of music now with some B-sides and a live performance as a bonus, as jazzed Deluxe Edition. Who should have therefore still not be the plate in his closet (there are such creatures at all?), Can now access the latest courageously.

Rated R was chosen at the time of the appearance in 2000 of some scribblers become one of the most important albums of recent years and showered in the following years with praise. From a purely musical, these are merely a pretty good rock album. His reputation is based entirely objective but rather on the fact that the rock scene at the millennium rather then starved and who Queens of the Stone Age just hit the right nerve. Also on board had been from old Kyuss days still a decent desert and Dopefeeling, played his songs but much straighter and with more technical tricks on the guitar front. "Robot Rock" was the motto. Musically they took time with no problem at the side of Chris Goss' Masters of Reality, who was then also produced Josh Homme & Co.

We also had some really clever songs in stock that could turn any Alternativedisse in a madhouse. "Monsters in the Parasol", "Better Living Through Chemistry", and the blustering Zudröhnhymne "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" and the cool hit "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" are really strong and timeless rock songs. These come with the singing of Bassweirdo Nick Oliveri "autopilot" and from here the first time emerging Mark Lanegan (Sreaming Trees) interpreted "In the Fade" two properly relaxed moments for eternity. The rest varies (supported by Oliveris screaming) and crazy Verdrogtheit between punky rowdiness. Thus have the new rock guru Josh Homme and his former entourage (almost) everything right and prepared with Rated R her big break, the hurricane-like set in as the next long Dreher Songs For The Deaf.

The Deluxe version is now in a second CD with a couple of B-sides and cover versions, as well as the appearance of the Reading Festival 2000. Especially this is a little highlight and an interesting testimony of the state of the band ten years ago. From the occupation with ex-bassist Nick Oliveri there been finally no official live document. At that time it was still a bit more wilder and crazier, which is manifested especially in the pieces of the debut, as the brutal "Regular John" or the extended jammigen "You can not quit me, baby." There is also with "Ode to Clarissa" and "Born to Hula" a couple of nice dry B-sides, as well as an oblique and extreme aggravated parody of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" (here "You're so vague") and a nice version of Romeo Void "Never say never" and a stonerfizierte rendition of "Who'll be the next in line," the Kinks.

These numbers are then but more for the completists and collectors all but complete the package as a time witness wonderful. Whether it is now equal this double-CD or the individual disk should be, everyone must decide for themselves. But to get to a piece of rock history Rated R into the house, you should not think twice, but access.