TIL Queens of the Stone Age chose the name because they felt "Kings of the Stone Age" was too macho. "Rock should be heavy enough for the boys and sweet enough for the girls. That way everyone's happy and it's more of a party. Kings of the Stone Age is too lopsided."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_of_the_Stone_Age



Submitted February 10, 2015 at 02:10AM by big_lebrewski http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2vc6m2/til_queens_of_the_stone_age_chose_the_name/