When Queens of the Stone Age signed with Interscope for their second album, it was because they celebrated the "weird bands" on their roster. This was exciting to their frontman and principle songwriter Josh Homme.
"I felt like if they were excited about Primus then they’d be really excited about me and I’m not singing about nacho cheese or something, I’m singing about LSD," he explained. "They’re very close. They both make you feel bad at the end.”
So, Feel Good Hit of the Summer, then. It was simply a list of drugs repeated ad nauseam cut with insistent drum beat and riff that echoes Big Black’s Pavement Saw.
Initially conceived by Homme as a jokey, throwaway skit to sneak in at the end of their 2000 album Rated R, it was thanks to Kyuss producer and Masters of Reality frontman Chris Goss, that song was given space to get loose and became a single in its own right.
