Queens Of The Stone Age - Monsters In The Parasol

What this video is

Released in 2000 as part of the promotional campaign for Queens of the Stone Age's landmark second album Rated R — the band's first release on Interscope Records — this video accompanied a track that was originally recorded in 1998 for Volume 4 of Josh Homme's Desert Sessions collective. The song's psychedelic lyrical content, documented as reflecting Homme's first LSD experience, fed into a broader countercultural…

Why it matters

A key artifact of the Palm Desert/stoner rock scene's early-2000s crossover moment. The track's origins in the Desert Sessions (1998) and re-recording for a major-label album illustrate the pipeline from underground desert-collective experimentation to mainstream alternative rock production. The…

The director

Credited as director on the IMDb title record for this music video (tt8672688). IMVDb lists the director under the variant spelling 'Bob Stevenson.' No separate extensive music-video-director filmography has been independently verified for this individual…