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Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters In The Parasol

Queens of the Stone Age - Monsters In The Parasol Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rated R
Released: 2000

Monsters In The Parasol Lyrics

The walls are closing in again, oh well
The walls are closing in again, oh well
I seen some thing I thought I never saw
Covered in hair
Paul's dad is warped and bubbling, oh well
Paul's dad is warped and bubbling, oh well
And my mind is out here on another wave
Covered in hair

She won't grow

[Chorus]
You've got a monster (distress) in your parasol (body out??)
You've got a monster (dwarfs, doors?) in your parasol (of course)
You've got a monster (displeasure) in your parasol (I told you??)
You've got a monster ? in your parasol (x-nay?)
Paul's sister is an alien, oh well

Paul's sister is an alien, oh well
I seen some things I thought I never saw
Covered in hair

She won't grow

You've got a monster (distress, my pest?) in your parasol
You've got a monster (dwarfs) in your parasol (war horse)
You've got a monster (displeasure) in your parasol ?
You've got a hole in you I never saw ?
In your parasol, in your parasol

Writer/s: JOSH HOMME, MARIO LALLI
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Monsters In The Parasol

According to Josh Homme, this song is about LSD. He said so at a concert in Madison, Wisconsin in October 2005, something to the effect of "since this is a college-town, here's a song about LSD."

Josh Homme told Mojo magazine September 2010 about the lyrical content of Rated R: "People used to ask me what the lyrics were about and I got scared and said, 'They're about something for me but I need them to be about you. They're about nothing'. I was always really sad that I said that, because it's always been the opposite. I always wanted the right sounds to cradle the right lyrics. Rated R was the first time I allowed myself, psychologically, to wear a feather boa out."

Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rated R
Released: 2000

Feel Good Hit Of The Summer Lyrics

Nicotine, valium, vicadin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol
Cocaine

Writer/s: HOMME, JOSH/OLIVERI, NICK
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

The lyrics are a list of drugs: Nicotine, valium, vicodinmarijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol. Before they get to cocaine, they do utter the word "no."

Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford was recording in a studio nearby, and the band asked him to sing backup on this, which he did. When they showed Halford the lyrics, he said, "A Rock And Roll cocktail, I know this one."

Although this contains no foul language, some radio stations refused to play it and Wal-Mart banned it for a while. They eventually agreed to stock the album without a warning label, since it was already called "Rated R."

In 2007, QOTSA was forcefully removed from a rehab center in California for playing this song. They were going to play a light-hearted show for the patients there, but Josh Homme and his twisted sense of humor decided to open their set with this song, and they were immediately unplugged.

Josh Homme told NME July 24, "All of our records have some loose theme that's put a rope around all the songs and drawn them in tight… Rated R is about paranoia and about paranoia that someone's putting you in a box forever and trying to escape getting out of their box.
'You're free to do what you want as long as you do it in here' - and that is the frustration that your voice means nothing."

Josh Homme recalled to Mojo magazine September 2010: "Nick (Oliveri) and I had gone out to Joshua Tree just before New Years, 2000, and stayed at a place called 29 Palms Inn. Out of that came Feel Good Hit Of The Summer and Quick And To The Pointless. Feel Good Hit was such a great way to start that record. It said, 'Look out, here we come.'"

Homme discussed the experimental elements of Rated R with Mojo:"I used to make mix tapes for my girlfriends and friends - Can next to Bjork and Slayer and Hasil Adkins - and I wanted my own record to be like the mix tapes I was making. On Rated R I wanted to play a love song and a paranoid song and an art song and a heavy song - all on one record. There's this unseeable force wants you to conform, and I was fighting that. We'd try anything we thought was 'wrong'. We'd experiment on anything. On ourselves too. We got ourselves in an otherworldly state."

Both Kerrang and NME made Rated R #1 in their Top Albums of 2000 list. The record also came #2 in Mojo's list.