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

==Reissue==
Following a "deluxe edition" reissue of ''Rated R'' in 2010, Homme announced that the band would reissue ''Queens of the Stone Age'' as well, stating that the album had become "impossible to get, it'd been outta print for so long. I'm not very nostalgic by nature, so it wasn't like 'guys, remember the days', it was more like in the internet age this record should be able to get got, you know? I really like this band [[Cheap Trick]], and they were doing shows where they were playing their first three records three nights in a row, and so we started talking about 'wow, OK, we'll never get a chance to re-release this thing, and what if we just focused on the first record? I dunno if that means we're going to play it exactly start to finish. We haven't really decided. It's kind of a cool idea. [...] I'm just glad that it's not like some bad haircut when I listen to it. I've listened to it, and I love that record, and it's been really fun to try to put myself back in that headspace where I was just obsessed with trying to trance out on guitar."<ref name="undertheradar1"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VQHTxGY4J8 |title=Interview with Them Crooked Vultures (part 2 of 2) |publisher=YouTube |date=February 3, 2010 |access-date=August 13, 2011}}</ref>

The album was [[remaster]]ed by [[Brian Gardner]] for the reissue.<ref name="notes"/> The title of the song "How to Handle a Rope" was extended to "How to Handle a Rope (A Lesson in the Lariat)", and three additional tracks were added in between the album's existing tracks: "The Bronze" and "These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For", which were from the album's recording sessions and had originally been released in 1998 on ''[[The Split CD]]'' (a split release with Dutch band [[Beaver (band)|Beaver]]), and "Spiders and Vinegaroons" from the ''Gamma Ray'' sessions, which had been released on the ''[[Kyuss / Queens of the Stone Age]]'' split EP in 1997.<ref name="notes"/><ref name="Branson"/> The reissue was released through Homme's label, [[Rekords Rekords]], with distribution through [[Domino Recording Company]].<ref name="notes"/> The band, which by then consisted of Homme, guitarist [[Troy Van Leeuwen]], bassist [[Michael Shuman]], drummer [[Joey Castillo]], and keyboardist [[Dean Fertita]], scheduled a tour in support of the album's reissue.

{{Music ratings
| title = Professional ratings (reissue)
| MC = 78/100<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/queens-of-the-stone-age-reissue/queens-of-the-stone-age |title=''Queens of the Stone Age'' (Reissue) by Queens of the Stone Age |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |access-date=March 16, 2017}}</ref>
| rev1 = ''[[The A.V. Club]]''
| rev1Score = B−<ref name="Ray">{{cite web |last=Ray |first=Austin L. |title=Queens of the Stone Age: ''Queens of the Stone Age'' |publisher=[[The A.V. Club]] |work=avclub.com |date=January 11, 2011 |url=http://www.avclub.com/review/queens-of-the-stone-age-iqueens-of-the-stone-agei-49863 |access-date=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Consequence of Sound]]''
| rev2Score = B<ref name="Halle">{{cite web |last=Halle |first=Karina |title=Queens of the Stone Age – ''Queens of the Stone Age'' (Reissue) |publisher=[[Consequence of Sound]] |work=consequence.net |date=March 14, 2011 |url=http://consequence.net/2011/03/album-review-queens-of-the-stone-age-queens-of-the-stone-age-reissue/ |access-date=March 16, 2017}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Drowned in Sound]]''
| rev3Score = 8/10<ref name="Gardner">{{cite web |last=Gardner |first=Noel |title=Album Review: Queens of the Stone Age – ''Queens of the Stone Age'' (Reissue) |publisher=[[Drowned in Sound]] |work=drownedinsound.com |date=March 9, 2011 |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16023/reviews/4142198 |access-date=March 17, 2017 |archive-date=March 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317234223/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16023/reviews/4142198 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Mojo">{{cite journal |title=Queens of the Stone Age: Queens of the Stone Age |journal=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |issue=209 |date=April 2011 |page=112}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev5Score = 8.0/10<ref name="Berman">{{cite web |last=Berman |first=Stuart |title=Queens of the Stone Age – ''Queens of the Stone Age'' (Reissue) |publisher=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |work=pitchfork.com |date=March 8, 2011 |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14964-queens-of-the-stone-age-reissue/ |access-date=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[PopMatters]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|7|10}}<ref name="Branson">{{cite web |last=Branson |first=Scott |title=Queens of the Stone Age – ''Queens of the Stone Age'' |publisher=[[PopMatters]] |work=popmatters.com |date=January 11, 2011 |url=http://www.popmatters.com/review/135608-queens-of-the-stone-age-queens-of-the-stone-age/ |access-date=March 17, 2017}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Eddy">{{cite web |last=Eddy |first=Chuck |author-link=Chuck Eddy |title=Queens of the Stone Age: ''Queens of the Stone Age'' |publisher=[[Rolling Stone]] |work=rollingstone.com |date=March 29, 2011 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/queens-of-the-stone-age-20110329 |access-date=March 16, 2017}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Queens of the Stone Age: Queens of the Stone Age |journal=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |issue=167 |date=April 2011 |page=94}}</ref>
}}
The re-release prompted a new round of critical reception for ''Queens of the Stone Age''. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the reissue received an average score of 78% based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref name="metacritic"/> Greg Moffitt of [[BBC Music]] remarked that "Although less varied and dynamic than ''Rated R'', ''Queens of the Stone Age'' simply crackles with energy. At its best, it's just as electrifying, even if it doesn't maintain the dizzying momentum which rolled its follow-up to instant glory. Musically, it draws deeply from diverse pools, echoes of '70s [[hard rock]] reverberating alongside [[alternative rock|alternative]], [[grunge]], and stoner rock sounds, the latter of which mainman Josh Homme pioneered with his former band Kyuss."<ref name="Moffitt">{{cite web |last=Moffitt |first=Greg |title=Queens of the Stone Age – ''Queens of the Stone Age'' Review |publisher=[[BBC Music]] |work=bbc.co.uk |date=2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/95wx/ |access-date=March 16, 2017}}</ref> [[Chuck Eddy]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' rated it 4 stars out of 5, saying that "When the debut by Queens of the Stone Age sneaked out in 1998, it seemed like a lark: Josh Homme and Alfredo Hernández from Kyuss, tired of frying [[sludge metal]] in the desert sun, were now subjecting reborn [[acid rock]] to mechanical repetition. Soon, QOTSA would become a real band, with real hits. But they'd never again groove like this, with gurgling Teutonic drones swallowing [[The Stooges|Stooges]] chords and intercepted radio cross talk."<ref name="Eddy"/> For ''[[Consequence of Sound]]'', reviewer Karina Halle gave it a B grade and complimented the "very slight hand" of the remastering job: "Comparing the two albums side-by-side, you can hear a nice tonality in the re-release, a sharper, crisper quality that just wasn't holding up in the 1998 version. However, part of QOTSA's vital sound is the thickness of Josh Homme's guitar, the fuzz and grain that permeates from each riff and solo. That is still present, it's just a more precise distortion."<ref name="Halle"/> She also praised the added tracks, saying "All three of the bonus tracks slink in perfectly with the rest of the album, adding to the overall feel instead of subtracting from it."<ref name="Halle"/>

For ''[[Drowned in Sound]]'', Noel Gardner scored the reissue 8 out of 10, saying that the remastering "has actually made a palpable difference to the plumpness of the bass in songs like 'Hispanic Impressions{{' "}}, but that the extra tracks "haven't ruined it or anything daft, but also aren't cooking at the level of most of the actual album, and would have been better placed on one of Homme's jam-heavy and 'zany' Desert Sessions releases from the time."<ref name="Gardner"/> Stuart Berman of ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' also scored it 8 out of 10, but praised the added tracks, opining that "It's not often that padding out an already hefty album actually improves it, but in the Queens' case, the revised tracklist provides a more accurate portrait of how the band molded its mercurial Desert Sessions experiments into chiseled hard-rock monoliths. At the same time, the expanded edition makes the Queens' debut feel a little less like a time capsule, and closer in spirit to the playful sprawl of their subsequent best-sellers."<ref name="Berman"/> In ''[[PopMatters]]'', Stuart Branson gave the release 7 stars out of 10, remarking that the added tracks "are worked into the original album sequencing as if they were always there. They provide no revelation, though they do alter somewhat the feel of the album" and concluding that "The best songs are really good; and the other songs sound sort of like their best songs, just slightly less good. And everything remains in this meaty swath of goodness. This rerelease proves that it was always really Homme's personal vision (he even plays bass on this album); it was always sure, and not much has changed."<ref name="Branson"/> For ''[[The A.V. Club]]'', Austin L. Ray graded the reissue a B− and opined that "It's interesting to revisit the band's debut after four more albums and a dozen years, only to find it downright primitive by comparison. [...] It's a kind-of-quaint look at a band that knew what it wanted to do, but hadn't quite figured out how to do it yet. Some songs hint at the tightness the Queens [[rhythm section]] would one day embody ('Regular John'), while directionless noodling and farting synths weigh down the otherwise-taut songwriting that would one day manifest itself in pop gems like "[[The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret]]" and "[[No One Knows]]". All the elements are here, though they're on the darker end of the coal/diamond spectrum, and the mostly unremarkable bonus tracks don't do the set any favors. But when it's good, it's damn good, and through the murk, there's the sound of a band that would one day be truly great."<ref name="Ray"/>