Feel Good Hit Of The Summer is the second single from Queens Of The Stone Age's second album, Rated R, 2000. It was released in Europe in late 2000 and in Australia in 2001. It's powerful, instantly recognisable bass intro also serves as an apt introduction to what is generally an energetic, feel-good and varied album. It's deliberately blatant drug references were initially rejected by the record company, but the band managed to argue their way into having it included on the grounds that it does not promote drug use. The references though are more than likely to be the reason, however, as to why it was not released as a single in the US. It has something of a cult status amongst the band and their fans, often the opener in their live shows, it appears twice on Rated R, fading in as track nine, a characteristically disorientating, "stoner" technique. It also makes a live-in-the-studio, unorthodox appearance after Song For The Deaf on the 2002 album, Songs For The Deaf.