Best Kings of Leon album?

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  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,136
    restlesssoul wrote:
    my fav will always be because of the times
    ditto
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    Youth and Young Manhood.
    5/28/06, 6/27/08, 10/28/09, 5/18/10, 5/21/10
    8/7/08, 6/9/09
  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    they all have their good points but more me it is Aha Shake Heartbreak
    2003 - Sydney x3,
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    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
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  • foofan1990
    foofan1990 Posts: 139
    Aha Shake Heartbreak - it's their most complete album in my opinion not a song on there I can skip when I put it on, probably in my Top 10 all time. It's a quick but wonderful record.
  • tcaporale
    tcaporale Posts: 1,577
    In this order:

    Aha Shake Heartbreak [Key songs: "Slow Night, So Long," "King of the Rodeo"]
    Because of the Times [Key songs: "Black Thumbnail," "Arizona"]
    Only by the Night [Key songs: "Crawl," "Manhattan"]
    Youth and Young Manhood [Key songs: "Molly's Chambers," "Trani"]

    They're all good, though. So it's understandable to put the albums in any order that you want.
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    I just have Only by the Night and that's pretty good
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,392
    Is there such a thing?!?!

    Isn't that like "What's better...being kicked in the balls or punched in the face?"

    :D
    God I hate KOL!!!

    Sorry guys.


    I'll go away now...

    :lol:
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    Aha and Because of the Times (which I'm listening to riiiiight now!)

    Yup, these would be my choices as well.

    Aha mainly because that's what they were supporting when I saw them for the first time. It's a really good album, and Because Of The Times is damn good too.
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  • Red_Dot
    Red_Dot Posts: 1,454
    foofan1990 wrote:
    Aha Shake Heartbreak - it's their most complete album in my opinion not a song on there I can skip when I put it on, probably in my Top 10 all time. It's a quick but wonderful record.

    +1
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  • Parksy
    Parksy Posts: 1,897
    AHA SHAKE HEARTBREAK
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  • lukinvedder
    lukinvedder Posts: 203
    definitely youth and young manhood, then aha shake heart break- the other albums are not to my liking what so ever-where did their whiskey filled garage/southern rock sound go? fuck radio play, go back to your roots boys
    Christchurch, New Zealand 2009

  • tcaporale
    tcaporale Posts: 1,577
    I don't think they're looking for radio play - Caleb stated he's very surprised that "Sex on Fire" became a hit and that it almost didn't even make the record, and the band's label wanted them to release "Fans" as the first single to Because of the Times, but they didn't want to as they thought it would be too big a hit - I think that's just the type of music they feel like making. You can't expect bands to just release carbon-copies of their previous albums.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,966
    tcaporale wrote:
    I don't think they're looking for radio play - Caleb stated he's very surprised that "Sex on Fire" became a hit and that it almost didn't even make the record, and the band's label wanted them to release "Fans" as the first single to Because of the Times, but they didn't want to as they thought it would be too big a hit - I think that's just the type of music they feel like making. You can't expect bands to just release carbon-copies of their previous albums.


    THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

    I get so sick of everyone ripping KOL that they changed their sound just to get huge. Every band changes their sound somewhat from record to record. Can't keep making the same record over and over.
  • PJGARDEN
    PJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    I can honestly say that I really like all their albums but Aha is probably my favorite. I really like Only By the Night and Because of the Times but I think there are too many fillers on it. I kind of wish they took the best of both and made one album out of it.
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    Because Of The Times!
    I will be what i could be
    Once I get out of this town


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  • mavi
    mavi Posts: 941
    Youth and Young Manhood. Hands down.
    "He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once" R. Browning
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    BOTT
    ASH
    YAYM
    OBTN

    :)
    wah
  • UKDave
    UKDave Posts: 5,557
    AHA....
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  • Electric Feel
    Electric Feel Posts: 198
    Their last two albums have gotten progressivley more boring. Because of the Times is still really good IMO. Black Thumbnail is amazing.

    My fave is Aha . Slow Night w/ Eddie at Lollapolooza is a must have mp3. Four Kicks is the funnest song I have heard in some time. Youth and Manhood is probably my second favorite. Trani from this album is probably their best live song, in fact this perfomance turned me on to KOL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su-PfHBuuV0
  • Electric Feel
    Electric Feel Posts: 198
    tcaporale wrote:
    I don't think they're looking for radio play - Caleb stated he's very surprised that "Sex on Fire" became a hit and that it almost didn't even make the record, and the band's label wanted them to release "Fans" as the first single to Because of the Times, but they didn't want to as they thought it would be too big a hit - I think that's just the type of music they feel like making. You can't expect bands to just release carbon-copies of their previous albums.

    Please! Clearly that awful "Use Somebody" was a blatent attempt at becoming a Radio band. . OBTN was KOL going for it. And they got it. They are playing arenas now in even mid major markets.

    Because of the Times has a fuller more structured sound, but that was not for radio with a song like Knocked Up as their single. OBTN was.

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