The initial recording of “Make It Wit Chu” appeared on the ninth volume of Josh Homme’s ongoing side project The Desert Sessions, with a cameo from PJ Harvey, but QOTSA revisited it for their fifth album, Era Vulgaris, in 2007. “Mosquito Song” remains one of QOTSA’s most affecting tracks, though the Sam Peckinpah-esque fatalism of its lyric (“Swallow and chew, eat you alive/All of us food that hadn’t died”) showed that QOTSA even invested their ballads with an unparalleled intensity. As such, fans might have expected something dashed off, but instead they got a stunning, Mariachi-flavored workout centered upon Josh Homme’s acoustic guitar and his emotive, close-mic’ed vocal. Such was the pool of material QOTSA could dip into for 2002’s consummate, multi-platinum Songs For The Deaf that the remarkable “Mosquito Song” only appeared as the “hidden” track tagged on at the end. Rolling Stone noted that the record landed in “the place between art-metal seriousness and pop pleasure,” and the cyclical grooves of its stand-out track, “Give The Mule What He Wants,” showed Homme was rapidly outstripping the sludgy stoner rock of his pre-QOTSA outfit, Kyuss. Queens Of The Stone Age’s initial incarnation centered around Josh Homme and drummer Alfredo Hernandez, with the duo handling all the instruments on their self-titled debut album, released via Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard’s Loosegrooves imprint in October 1998. Listen to the best of Queens Of The Stone Age on Apple Music and Spotify. In celebration of the band who craft rock music “heavy enough for the boys and sweet enough for the girls,” these are the best Queens Of The Stone Age songs. After two decades and five further albums, his singular, desert-dwelling outfit still sound prophetic. However, with their major-label debut album, 2000’s Rated R, Homme’s new project, Queens Of The Stone Age, injected modern rock with a much-needed frisson of danger. In the mid-90s, when Josh Homme fronted obscure stoner-rock band Kyuss and toured with cult-level Seattle grunge outfit Screaming Trees, few would have envisaged that he was about to launch one of the most powerful and forward-thinking rock bands of the 21st Century.
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