10 Perfect Hard Rock Albums With No Bad Songs

10. Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

The idea of hard rock started to become a bit of a caricature during the early '00s. Though there were the veins of nu metal and even a few garage rock bands making waves at the time, you could tell that some of them were wearing these retro sounds more like a costume than actually having the passion for it. Just when things started to feel a bit stale, Josh Homme kicked off an album that sent us on a trip through the desert.

Though Songs for the Deaf may be a little much for your average rock fan to take in all at once, this is one of the most airtight bunch of songs to come out of the '00s. As loud as it seems on first listen, there's a lot of variety at every turn, with Homme wearing his gnarlier influences on his sleeve for tracks like First It Giveth and You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar.

At the same time, you have songs like The Sky is Fallin and Go With the Flow that almost sound like something the Beatles would do if they were pissed off and high off their ass on some bad acid. Given the fact that most rock at the time was about the aesthetic, it's always nice to find the stuff with a little more dirt under its feet.