<Tr> <Td> Rolling Stone </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Uncut </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Songs for the Deaf was Queens of the Stone Age's breakout album and garnered the band international recognition . Upon its worldwide release in late August 2002, the album peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200 album chart . </P> <P> Songs for the Deaf received critical acclaim and is often cited as one of the band's greatest albums to date . On Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 from aggregated critic reviews, Songs for the Deaf is assigned a score of 89, indicating "universal acclaim", making the album the third highest - rated on the site from 2002 . Josh Tyrangiel of Entertainment Weekly called it "the year's best hard - rock album", giving it an A. Splendid said "the bottom line is that QOTSA turns in another genre - demolishing, hard - as - titanium album in Songs for the Deaf . This is not your father's metal . It's better ." Mojo listed the album as the year's third best . Kludge ranked it at number six on their list of best albums of 2002 . NME placed the album as the sixth best, with the three singles each making the magazine's "Tracks of the Year" list over the course of 2002 / 2003 . Kerrang! rated the album at number 1 on its "Best albums of 2002" list . Music critic Steven Hyden called the album the greatest hard - rock record of the 21st century . </P>

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