Editing Queens of the Stone Age (album) (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| title = Professional ratings (original release)
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Erlewine">{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |title=Review: Queens of the Stone Age – ''Queens of the Stone Age'' |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |work=allmusic.com |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/queens-of-the-stone-age-mw0000042915 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2Score = B−<ref name="Sinclair">{{cite web |last=Sinclair |first=Tom |title=''Queens of the Stone Age'' |publisher=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |work=ew.com |url=http://www.ew.com/article/1998/11/13/queens-stone-age |date=November 13, 1998 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev3Score = 8/10<ref name="Empire">{{cite web |last=Empire |first=Kitty |author-link=Kitty Empire |title=Queens of the Stone Age – ''Queens of the Stone Age'' |publisher=[[NME]] |work=nme.com |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980902095638reviews.html |date=October 2, 1998 |access-date=March 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817183841/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980902095638reviews.html |archive-date=August 17, 2000}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Q">{{cite journal |title=Queens of the Stone Age – ''Queens of the Stone Age'' |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=159 |date=December 1999 |pages=126–127}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev5Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Hunter">{{cite web |last=Hunter |first=James |title=Queens of the Stone Age: ''Queens of the Stone Age'' |publisher=[[Rolling Stone]] |work=rollingstone.com |date=December 10, 1998 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/queens-of-the-stone-age-19981210 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Queens of the Stone Age |last=Gross |first=Joe |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |year=2004 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/669 669] }}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev7Score = 7/10<ref name="Gross">{{cite journal |last=Gross |first=Joe |title=Queens of the Stone Age: ''Queens of the Stone Age'' |journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=15 |issue=1 |date=January 1999 |page=119 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YG5YubNw1pgC&pg=PA119 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating-Christgau|dud}}<ref name="Christgau">{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |title=Consumer Guide |work=[[The Village Voice]] |url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv1198-98.php |date=December 15, 1998 |access-date=March 13, 2017}}</ref>
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''Queens of the Stone Age'' received generally positive reviews from critics. Writing for ''[[NME]]'', reviewer [[Kitty Empire]] scored it 8 out of 10, comparing it to Kyuss and saying that "for all its indisputable primitive charms, ''Queens of the Stone Age'' is actually a step forward in stoner evolution. The guitars are still flint-hard, the tunes still load-bearing. But the sound roaring out of the speakers is far sleeker and more hypnotic than the dumb chug that [[stoner rock]] has periodically devolved into in Homme's absence. The excellent 'Regular John' sounds almost [[motorik]], as though [[Neu!]] had level billing with [[Black Sabbath|[Black] Sabbath]] one strange night. There are [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]] and [[maraca]]s on the very un-stone age 'I Was a Teenage Hand Model'. And Homme—who didn't sing in Kyuss—frequently swaps his bone-dry metallic tones for something a little more soulful on songs like 'You Can't Quit Me Baby'."<ref name="Empire"/> Tom Sinclair of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave it a B− rating, remarking that the band "delivers a workmanlike collection of heavy music that's just a bit too cerebral to fall under the stoner rock rubric ([[Fu Manchu (band)|Fu Manchu]]). ''Queens of the Stone Age'' is intermittently potent, but when you hear the ripped-off 'If Only' (a.k.a. [[the Stooges]]' '[[I Wanna Be Your Dog]]'), you can't help but think QOTSA might be a great band—if only they could write a song that good on their own."<ref name="Sinclair"/>

James Hunter of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the album four stars out of five and commented that the band had "found a vital place between art-metal seriousness and pop pleasure. It begins right away with the trancelike 'Regular John', a track that layers Homme's yelping guitar accents over a fuzzy groove. While other metalheads play around with [[music sequencer|sequencers]], Queens of the Stone Age have something a little more heated and classical in mind. The rest of the album charges on with its compelling contrasts between Homme's papery vocals and the surrounding rampage. Sometimes the songs explore pure heaviness, as on the wall-rattling 'Walkin' on the Sidewalks'. But more often they thrillingly toy with elements like vocal hooks ('You Would Know') and metal frenzy ('How to Handle a Rope') without giving in to either."<ref name="Hunter"/> Writing in ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'', Joe Gross scored ''Queens of the Stone Age'' 7 out of 10, saying "While there's really nothing in this collection worth trading in those [[Melvins]] albums for, it's strangely compelling to hear how Homme and his cohorts killed many an afternoon in a thick [[Tetrahydrocannabinol|THC]] haze with [[Can (band)|Can]]'s ''[[Tago Mago]]'', then worked it into their patented [[effects unit|pedal]] abuse."<ref name="Gross"/>

Reviewing the album after Queens of the Stone Age had gained mainstream success with 2000's ''[[Rated R (Queens of the Stone Age album)|Rated R]]'' and 2002's ''[[Songs for the Deaf]]'', [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[AllMusic]] remarked: "Hearing Queens of the Stone Age's long out of print debut many years after its initial 1998 release does pack the shock of revelation: Josh Homme's tightly wound blueprint for QOTSA was in place from the very beginning. [...] There is sex and swagger to ''Queens of the Stone Age'', there's a swing to the rhythms, there's a darkly enveloping carnal menace buttressed by muscle and lust that keeps the album from being an insular stoner headpiece. Certainly, there's enough sinewy force to suggest the mighty brawn of ''Rated R'' and ''Songs for the Deaf''; Homme retained enough of the desert spaciness of Kyuss to give ''Queens of the Stone Age'' an otherworldly shimmer, a hazy quality he later abandoned for aggressive precision, so this winds up as a unique record in his catalog, a place where you can hear Homme's past and future intertwining."<ref name="Erlewine"/> Critic [[Robert Christgau]] viewed the album negatively, however, rating it a "dud" in his ''Consumer's Guide'' column for ''[[The Village Voice]]''.<ref name="Christgau"/>

''Queens of the Stone Age'' was eventually [[music recording sales certification|certified silver]] in the United Kingdom in February 2006, for sales exceeding 60,000 copies.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/platinum/platinumright.asp?rq=search_plat&r_id=32519 |title=Queens of the Stone Age, ''Queens of the Stone Age'', Silver, Fri Feb 3 2006 | publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]] |date=February 3, 2006 |access-date=March 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930231758/http://www.bpi.co.uk/platinum/platinumright.asp?rq=search_plat&r_id=32519 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=September 30, 2007}}</ref> It was listed in the 2010 reference book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]'', the only Queens of the Stone Age album to be included.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Robert Dimery |author2=Michael Lydon |title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition |date=March 23, 2010 |publisher=Universe |isbn=978-0-7893-2074-2}}</ref>