8. Queens Of The Stone Age – Queens Of The Stone Age (1998)

As different as the two bands would become, Homme transitioned from Kyuss to Queens smoothly — the Queens debut, when played directly after 1994’s Welcome To Sky Valley, sounds like the logical follow-up that …And The Circus Leaves Town was not. Without his bandmates in the studio, Homme improved on some of the weaknesses in his previous band’s formula: Kyuss’s machismo gave way to a cool but seductive androgyny. The biggest revelation on the album is Homme’s voice — he croons his way through the album with a smoother, more nuanced delivery than that of Kyuss singer John Garcia. Queens Of The Stone Age birthed some of Homme’s most beloved cuts (especially “You Can’t Quit Me Baby”), and some of his bad habits, including overlong song lengths, and clustering his least-interesting riffs at the middle of the record.