Editing Songs for the Deaf (section)

==Contributors==
''Songs for the Deaf'' was the first Queens of the Stone Age album that featured [[Dave Grohl]] of [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] and [[Foo Fighters]] on drums, who also toured with the band. He replaced drummer [[Gene Trautmann]], who started working on other projects. Grohl had admired Queens of the Stone Age since they opened for Foo Fighters, and had wanted to appear on their previous album ''[[Rated R (Queens of the Stone Age album)|Rated R]]''.<ref name="HOOK">{{cite web| url = http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/142917/20000921/foo_fighters.jhtml| title = Queens of the Stone Age Hook Up With Foo Fighters| author = Robert Mancini| publisher = MTV| date = September 21, 2000| access-date = June 19, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071015054659/http://mtv.com/news/articles/142917/20000921/foo_fighters.jhtml <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = October 15, 2007}}</ref> Guitarist [[Joshua Homme|Josh Homme]], with whom he had been friends since 1992, while Homme was the guitarist for [[Kyuss]], invited him to join in October 2000. Grohl admitted that he had not drummed for a long time and added that fronting a band was "tiring".<ref name="MTV 1">{{cite web| url = http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1454981/20020604/queens_stone_age.jhtml| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020804004928/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1454981/20020604/queens_stone_age.jhtml| url-status = dead| archive-date = August 4, 2002| title = Queens of the Stone Age Flex Their Star Power| author = Jon Wiederhorn| publisher = MTV| date = June 4, 2002| access-date = June 19, 2007}}</ref>

''Songs for the Deaf'' was the last appearance on a Queens of the Stone Age record by [[Brendon McNichol]] (lap steel) and [[Gene Trautmann]] (drums). It was also the last album to feature bassist and vocalist [[Nick Oliveri]] as a full-time member, as he was fired following the tour. The album also included the first musical contribution to a Queens of the Stone Age album by multi-instrumentalists [[Natasha Shneider]] and [[Alain Johannes]]. Shneider and Johannes, alongside Songs for the Deaf touring recruits [[Joey Castillo]] and [[Troy Van Leeuwen]] of [[Failure (band)|Failure]] and [[A Perfect Circle]] would subsequently become full-time Queens of the Stone Age members and contribute to the follow-up album ''[[Lullabies to Paralyze]]'', released in 2005.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}

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 | filename     = Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows.ogg
 | title        = "No One Knows"
 | description  = The opening of the album's lead single.
 | filename2    = Queens of the Stone Age - Go with the Flow.ogg
 | title2       = "Go with the Flow"
 | description2 = The chorus of the second single taken from ''Songs for the Deaf''.
 | filename3    = Queens of the Stone Age - First it Giveth.ogg
 | title3       = "First It Giveth"
 | description3 = The opening of the third single from ''Songs for the Deaf''.
}}

Rounding out the core recording lineup of Homme, Oliveri, and Grohl, was singer/songwriter [[Mark Lanegan]], formerly of [[Screaming Trees]], a band that Homme had toured with previously. Lanegan joined the band as a full-time member in 2001 after having guested on the band's previous album, ''Rated R'', and provided additional songwriting and lyrics, in addition to lead vocals on several songs.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}