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Rated R
Studio album by Queens of the Stone Age
Released	June 6, 2000
Recorded	December 1999 - February 2000 in Van Nuys, California
Genre	Hard Rock
Length	42:10
Label	Interscope Records
Producer	Chris Goss Joshua Homme (The Fififf Teeners)
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Playlouder (Positive) link Rolling Stone link Robert Christgau link Stylus Magazine (B-) link The Guardian 8/18/2000 NME 9/10 link
Queens of the Stone Age chronology
The Split CD (1998) Rated R (2000) Songs for the Deaf (2002)
Rated X cover
Cover of vinyl version

Rated R (sometimes also referred to as R or Restricted) is a 2000 album by Queens of the Stone Age, containing the first appearance of former Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanegan, and the first significant appearance of Nick Oliveri, on a Queens of the Stone Age record. Oliveri appeared briefly on the band's previous album (Queens of the Stone Age) in a voice sample.

Contents 1 Ambiguity of title 2 Musical style 3 Critical reception 4 Track listing 5 Rated X 6 Personnel 7 Charts 7.1 Album 7.2 Singles 8 References

There has been some confusion regarding the name of the album, since the CD inlay reads "Queens of the Stone Age Feel Good Hit of the Summer", the cassette version is labeled "RESTRICTED" and the All Music Guide refers to it as R ^[1]. However, the band's official homepage (just like the Rolling Stone) ^[2] names the album Rated R. The front cover reads "R - restricted to everyone, everywhere, all of the time" (where the "R" is replaced by the MPAA symbol for an R movie rating).

The album was originally to be called II, but was changed at the last minute. Promo and demo copies of the album are labelled Queens of the Stone Age II.

Rated R found the band experimenting with a more relaxed and eclectic sound, that was less riff-oriented than the self-titled "Queens of the Stone Age".

Rated R received many accolades and favourable reviews. It was Metal Hammer and also NMEs album of the year in 2000. Rated R was certified silver in the UK on February 16, 2001 with sales excessing 60,000 copies. ^[3]

1. "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" (Homme/Oliveri) – 2:43
2. "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" (Homme/Oliveri) – 3:36
3. "Leg of Lamb" (Homme/Oliveri) – 2:48
4. "Auto Pilot" (Homme/Oliveri) – 4:01
5. "Better Living Through Chemistry" (Homme/Oliveri) – 5:49
6. "Monsters in the Parasol" (Homme/Lalli) – 3:27
7. "Quick and to the Pointless" (Homme/Oliveri) – 1:42
8. "In the Fade" (Homme/Oliveri) – 4:25
   • Includes hidden track "Feel Good Hit of the Summer (Reprise)" on U.S. copies but separated into its own track in all other printings across the world. Nevertheless, the track is not listed on these editions, so the following songs have wrong track numbers, e.g. "Tension Head" listed as track 9 but would be track 10 on the disc.
9. "Tension Head" (Homme/Oliveri) – 2:52
10. "Lightning Song" (Catching) – 2:07
11. "I Think I Lost My Headache" (Homme/Oliveri) – 8:40

The track "Ode to Clarissa" is included in the Japanese version, the Rated X vinyl, and the Canadian version labeled + (8:40).

The special edition of the album included a bonus disc with the video to "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" along with the tracks "Who'll Be the Next in Line" (a Kinks cover), "You're So Vague" (a spoof of Carly Simon's hit "You're So Vain") and "Never Say Never" (a Romeo Void cover). The bonus disc is entitled Rated U.

• The track "Autopilot" from was later rerecorded on Nick Oliveri's 2004 Solo effort entitled Demolition Day.

• Track 6 is a new recording of "Monsters in the Parasol" from The Desert Sessions Volumes 3 & 4.

• Track 9 is a new recording of "Tension Head" previously entitled "13th Floor" from Mondo Generator's album Cocaine Rodeo.

The Vinyl edition of the album is called Rated X and includes different art work. Homme himself was unhappy with the final artwork for Rated X. At the insistence of the record company, he had to remove hand drawn images of penises he had originally intended to include.^{[citation needed]} The inner gatefold does include pornographic images, hence the "X" in the title. The cover art for Rated X is similar to the art for Rated R, only with a red background instead of blue, an "X" rating symbol instead of an "R", and without the "restricted" caption. Rated X features bonus track "Ode to Clarissa" as track 12.

• Robert Brunner – pre-production assistant
• Dave Catching – electric piano, piano, B3, guitar, 12 string guitar, lap steel guitar
• Bradley Cook – engineer
• Dan Druff – guitar technician
• Nick Eldorado – backing vocals
• Chris Goss – bass, percussion, backing vocals, producer, grand piano, noise piano
• Rob Halford – backing vocals
• Josh Homme – vocals, guitar, percussion, drums, piano, backing vocals, producer, mixing, concept
• Mike Johnson – backing vocals
• Mark Lanegan – vocals, backing vocals
• Nick Lucero – drums, percussion
• Marek – noise, mixing
• Barrett Martin – percussion, steel drums, vibes
• Scott Mayo – horn, baritone sax
• Nick Oliveri – bass, percussion, guitar, vocals, backing vocals, concept, art conception
• Fernando Pullum – horn
• Wendy Ray Moan – backing vocals
• Francesca Restrepo – art direction
• Martin Schmelzle – engineer, sequencing, assembly
• Trina Shoemaker – engineer, mixing
• Pete Stahl – backing vocals
• Gene Trautmann – drums
• Reggie Young – horn

Year	Chart	Peak position
2000	US Top Heatseekers	16

Year	Single	Chart	Peak position
2000	"The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret"	US Mainstream Rock	21
2000	"The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret"	US Modern Rock	36

v • d • e Queens of the Stone Age
Josh Homme · Joey Castillo · Troy Van Leeuwen · Michael Shuman · Dean Fertita · Hutch Dave Grohl · Nick Oliveri · Alain Johannes · Natasha Shneider · Dave Catching · Mark Lanegan · Alfredo Hernández · Gene Trautmann · Brendon McNichol · Chris Goss
Studio albums	Queens of the Stone Age · Rated R · Songs for the Deaf · Lullabies to Paralyze · Era Vulgaris
EPs	Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age · The Split CD · Stone Age Complications
Singles	"If Only Everything" · "If Only" · "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" · "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" · "No One Knows" · "Go with the Flow" · "First It Giveth" · "Little Sister" · "In My Head" · "Burn the Witch" · "Sick, Sick, Sick" · "3's & 7's" · "Make It wit Chu"
Other songs	"Avon" · "Mexicola" · "Hispanic Impressions" · "The Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died" · "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" · "Monsters in the Parasol"
DVDs	Over the Years and Through the Woods
Related articles	Discography · The Desert Sessions · Eagles of Death Metal · Fififf Teeners · Kyuss · Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator · Rekords Rekords · Screaming Trees
Categories	Queens of the Stone Age albums · Queens of the Stone Age songs