Thursday, March 29, 2007
This week's album: Kings of Leon - "Because of the Times"
Imagine if a sedated Iggy Pop fronting a 1986-era U2 recorded a Keith Richards-produced, Paul Westerberg-rewritten “Radar Love” and you’ll begin to approach the sheer awesomeness of Kings third album-opener “Knocked Up.” And that’s just the first seven minutes. A single sub-par tune (“McFearless”) taints the album, for the rest of the record the red zone-driven needle bounces between Replacements “Let It Be” great and Stones’ “Let It Bleed” brilliant. Maybe no album before has managed to come up with such a natural blend of punk, metal, new wave, garage, psychedelica and Americana.
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favorite line from that album so far - "don't take these boots off of me, if you're thinking I'm dead. I'll still be running from the demons in my head."
Best album and lyrics so far...right?
I've only heard the single ... but it seems to lack the energy of previous Kings stuff ... and it just seems a little boring and predictable. Hope the album offers more than this.
They sure do have swell hair, don't they? And they may be the best Volkswagen pitchment out there.
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