|
Only By The Night | 
 enlarge
| Artist: Kings Of Leon
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 12.99
Buy New: CDN$ 9.99
You Save: CDN$ 3.00 (23%)
New (14) Used (3) from CDN$ 9.99
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 13
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 732712
UPC: 886973271223
EAN: 8869732712238
ASIN: B001C3KCSY
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
| |
| Tracks:
| • | Closer | | • | Crawl | | • | Sex On Fire | | • | Use Somebody | | • | Manhattan | | • | Revelry | | • | 17 | | • | Notion | | • | I Want You | | • | Be Somebody | | • | Cold Desert |
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Mood music at its best, with stellar musical talent November 16, 2008
Michael MacDonald (Halifax, NS CAN)
I'm partial to the Southern jams and uptempo stuff that kicked off our relationship. These guys were breath of fresh air pickled with twang and moonshine when they launched Holy Roller Novocaine. This was a great start.
These boys were not content to rest idle on the twang groove... they step to new styles with each new album, and they do so with unmatched competence. Now - I'm not a fan loyal to a specific sound, I'm loyal to the talent and to the imagination they bring to the sounds they choose to explore.
If you're looking for Molly's Chambers, Knocked Up, My Party, Four Kicks, or California Waiting, you're definitely going to be disappointed. There are elements of those tunes on this album, but these elements don't define the experience. Instead, you'll see these new songs as a natural growth for the Followill Fellows.
The predominant flavour of the album is mood, a nice meandering jammy sticky sweet mood. The album is experimental yet accessible.
Reading some of the reviews, I see a lot of disappointment -- I hope you don't let that prevent you from discovering a solid album. It's a keeper -- I guarantee you that these hooks will stay strong for the next 5-10 years. This is something rarely accomplished by young bands these days, so take the risk and get the disc.
Cheers,
Michael
 WORST! November 10, 2008
7 year KOL fan. (Toronto)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I would rate it lower if I could. No where near as good as their other 3 albums. Being "popular" doesn't mean you have to make bad music to get the loser radio crowds to buy your albums. With their first album you got gritty, raw, brilliant rock and roll. With their second album they weren't as rowdy but a completely different side to the band and in my opinion their best album. The third is great with a few songs that maybe should have been B-sides, but still a work of art. Which brings me to this terrible over produced garbage. Every song from beginning to end is the same, no character traits of KOL that came out with the other 3 albums. All you get is this way to clean, wanna be arena band. Songs like "Sex on Fire" and "Use Somebody" are their way of saying we want to be popular in north america, because 70% of the public have no taste in music and turn to the radio or MTV to here what's new, and they will eat this crap up.
Do yourself a favor and skip this album, maybe they will come back with some rock, and leave this type of music to coldplay or james blunt.
Night Music October 30, 2008
A. Peters (B.C.)
Great album! For sure more slow jams than the last albums, but the don't call it "Only By the Night" for no good reason.
The quality of the sound is very good.
Worth checking out.
Just Ok October 1, 2008
Mr. Bojangles
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not a bad album, but pails in comparision to their earlier albums. Good if you dig slow jams.
 Nickeleon September 25, 2008
Filmore Mescalito Holmes (tinymixtapes.com)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow... they sure embraced their inner Nickeleon on this album. "Sex On Fire" is one of the dumbest songs ever written, with a pointless video to match, and their utterly predictable formula for the record shows itself in spades with "Use Somebody" and "Be Somebody." It's Nickelback for indie kids. Sure, their sound has changed over time, but they aren't getting any better, just different. That means they don't have a sound of their own. They're a patchwork of dick and whore anecdotes and stage posturing. At least Moetley Cruee and KISS were honest about their intentions instead of pretending to be actual viable artist. Don't kid yourself into thinking this music will last. It's bubblegum, not the Beatles. More songs about sex and themselves, and a whole lot of squonking...
|
|
|
| |
