* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[AwesomeMusic/QueensOfTheStoneAge Enough to garner its own page.]]
* AwardSnub: Many people ''did not'' take kindly to the band losing the "Best Rock Performance" Grammy to Music/ImagineDragons. Josh Homme even lampshaded this during a live performance soon after, jokingly announcing that he was performing an Music/ImagineDragons cover. Needless to say, the audience was not amused by this.
* BrokenBase: When the audio for "The Way You Used to Do" was released, the fanbase was pretty split on it, mostly because it was the first available song from ''Villains'' and it was very different from their other stuff. The fanbase mostly solidified again by the time the album released.
** ''Era Vulgaris'' is pretty divisive, with opinions ranging from "a typically solid Queens of the Stone Age record" to "a major low point in an otherwise stellar discography." This is mostly due to the album's less mainstream and oddly mechanical/industrial sound. It doesn't help that the fan favorite TitleTrack was omitted from the final album and, instead, released as a B-side.
* CoveredUp:
** '' I'm going out west, where the wind blows tall...'' from "Goin' Out West" by Music/TomWaits from ''Music/BoneMachine''.
** The songs "Avon", "Monsters in the Parasol"[[note]]under the title "Monster in the Parasol"[[/note]], "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel like a Millionaire", "Like a Drug", "Hangin' Tree"[[note]]under the title "Hanging Tree"[[/note]], "Make It wit Chu"[[note]]under the title "I Wanna Make It wit Chu"[[/note]] and "In My Head"[[note]]under the title "In My Head...or Something"[[/note]] were all originally performed by The Desert Sessions. Though The Desert Sessions was also founded by Josh Homme, the Queens of the Stone Age versions are better known. On the flipside, the Desert Sessions version of "Rickshaw" is far more popular than the original 1996 Gamma Ray[[labelnote:*]]the original name for QOTSA, which wasn't kept for [[Music/GammaRay obvious reasons]][[/labelnote]] demo.
* CriticalDissonance: ''Era Vulgaris'' received solid critical reviews but a very mixed reaction from fans (see BrokenBase above). A little after release, a few of the critics that gave it rave reviews even retracted said praise, feeling they were simply riding on the momentum the band established with their previous three albums[[note]]Rolling Stone, for example, gave the album a four star review but later chose to not include it in their list of the "50 Best Albums Of 2007"[[/note]]. Fortunately, over time, the record gained further appreciation among fans (see VindicatedByHistory below).
* EndingFatigue: "I Think I Lost My Headache" ends on about three minutes of horns repeating the same riff over and over, taking the total length of the song up to 8:40, which is about three minutes too long. And on top of that, [[NoEnding it doesn't even end]].
* EnsembleDarkHorse: "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire" is one of the most popular songs on ''Songs for the Deaf''[[note]]it probably helps that Nick Oliveri does a pretty good MetalScream[[/note]], even being featured in ''VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderground'', but was never released as a single.
** "Smooth Sailing" is the most popular song on ''...Like Clockwork'' , and being made a single only helped the song.
** Basically the entire first album. Until the reissue, it was extremely difficult to find, but is extremely popular in the fandom and contains classic tracks like "Mexicola", "Regular John", "Walkin' on the Sidewalks", "How to Handle a Rope", and "You Can't Quit Me Baby".
** As for band members:
*** Nick Oliveri, known for [[FullFrontalAssault playing naked on stage]], being a druggie, [[DomesticAbuse a wife beater]], and many other bad things.
*** Troy Van Leeuwen is also fairly well known. It helps that he's a TallDarkAndHandsome SharpDressedMan.
*** Joey Castillo, while commonly seen as a ReplacementScrappy due to having to [[ToughActToFollow live up to]] Music/DaveGrohl, many found his crazy fast drumming style to be appealing.
*** Jon Theodore, though that's what happens when you hire the guy from Music/TheMarsVolta to drum for you.
*** Michael Shuman is pretty popular, but he's mostly only known as "that bassist with the [[MetalScream horrifying scream]]".
* EpilepticTrees: Every song is about Nick Oliveri. Yes, even [[HoYay "Make It wit Chu"]] and "Skin on Skin".
* FandomRivalry: QOTSA fans outright despise Music/ImagineDragons due to the Grammy incident (see AwardSnub above).
* FriendlyFandoms: With Music/NineInchNails, which is helped by Josh Homme and Trent Reznor being friends and both having collaborated more than once.
** In 2014 the bands have embarked on a joint tour where they decided who will perform first by the toss of a coin.
** Also with Music/ArcticMonkeys fans, due in no small part to Josh's close kinship with the band.
* MorePopularSpinOff: Of Music/{{Kyuss}}.
* SignatureSong: "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" and "The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret" from ''Rated R'', along with "No One Knows" and "Go with the Flow" from ''Songs for the Deaf'', are their most recognizable songs, with "Regular John", "Little Sister", "3's & 7's", "My God Is the Sun", "I Sat by the Ocean", and to a lesser extent, "The Way You Used to Do" not far behind.
* TearJerker: "I Appear Missing," which seems to be about Josh Homme's near-death experience and ensuing four-month bedridden depression during the recording of ''...Like Clockwork''.
** "How to Handle a Rope", despite being [[EpicRiff freaking]] SugarWiki/{{awesome|Music}} the lyrics are seriously depressing.
** Their cover of "Christian Brothers," like Music/ElliottSmith's original.
** "In the Fade" is this in a much more existential manner. Despite our attempts to hold onto life, we cannot. In the end we all die, and we just have to accept it. We have to just, as the song says "Live till you die". Unfortunately this is mitigated by the track ending on (well, [[FadingIntoTheNextSong fading into, actually]]) a reprise of "[[OdeToIntoxication Feel Good]] [[ListSong Hit of the Summer]]"...
* ValuesDissonance: The R&B influenced "Make It Wit Chu" is a song that wouldn't go over well if it were released today, due to society now being much more sensitive towards things like cultural appropriation than in 2007. Particularly, the song's title and Josh's attempt at sounding like a black R&B singer in the chorus would likely be seen as racially insensitive today.
* VindicatedByHistory: ''Era Vulgaris'' has gotten this, somewhat. The album was, for a long time, seen as the weakest Queens record, with criticisms ranging from its bizarre mix of rock and industrial to having tired/bland songs. Over time, however, a number of fans have grown to appreciate its weird and disjointed style. And, though still considered to be among the weaker records in the [=QOTSA=] discography, it's certainly more appreciated now than it was upon release.