Trivia / Queens of the Stone Age

• Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: Josh, big time.
• Brick Joke: Done with their merchandise. They sold socks printed with LEFT FOOT written on each of the pair during the ...Like Clockwork tour. The Villains tour have them selling the RIGHT FOOT pair.
• Creator Backlash: The band did not have kind things to say about the video for "In My Head", admitting they were essentially forced into making it by their record label; Troy in particular likened it to a "fucking Gap commercial".
• Creator Breakdown: Josh has had a hellish last two decades, hasn't he?
  • He first went through this during the time between Era Vulgaris and ...Like Clockwork. In 2010, years of overwork lead to him needing knee surgery. The exact circumstances of what happened next aren't really clear:
  • According to some sources, Josh's heart stopped on the operating table from complications from anaesthetic, and was only brought back after several minutes of being functionally dead.
  • According to others, Josh contracted the antibiotic resistant 'superbug' MRSA from his surgery, choked on a breathing tube while sick, then suffered heart failure and had to be revived with a defribrillator.
  • Either way, it's clear that he suffered a traumatising Near-Death Experience, which then served to heavily influence the lyrics and tone of ...Like Clockwork.
  • Lullabies to Paralyze was this, as well. The album's darker and moodier tone was the result of Josh's frustration with Nick Oliveri.
  • Happened again after Josh and his wife Brody Dalle divorced in 2019. Their divorce was a messy one, filled with a lot of back and forth between them, along with numerous custody battles over their two children. His anguish and loneliness really show in the songs he performed in his bathroom at the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  • And then things were exasperated even further when he was diagnosed with and treated for cancer in late-2022, a fact he kept hidden from the public until In Times New Roman was released. An album that, just as ...Like Clockwork did for the hardships he faced during 2010-2012, addresses the hardships he faced during 2019-2022.
• The Pete Best: No one knows who Alfredo Hernández or Gene Trautmann are. Even fewer know that Alfredo was the band's fourth drummer (with Victor Indrizzo, Eva Nahon and Matt Cameron (yes, that one) having preceded him). Likewise, they went through about three bassists (Van Conner, Milo Beenhakker and Mike Johnson) before settling on Nick Oliveri.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: The first version of "Infinity" was recorded circa early 1999, when Alfredo Hernández was still with the band, but didn't see release until over a year later as part of the soundtrack to the movie Heavy Metal 2000.