Aha Shake Heartbreak

Gets marginally better as it goes on, Razz has a Pixies thing going on. I wouldn't consider this to be even one of the 10,001 albums I have to listen to before I die, however. Favorite Tracks: Razz, Four Kicks

Ugh, this sucked. Very bland and I wasn’t a fan of the lead singer’s voice.

Was going to give this 2 star for sheer boringness, but once i started listening to the horrid lyrics it’s got to be lower than that

I just hate his fucking voice. This is so bad. 1/5

Vile hillbilly vibe

when the album is so shit it makes you bring out the numerical scores that you really quite fiercely forsake. i swear this is the music that plays in hell. this is, bar none, as bad as i ever expect it to get. this is a misogynistic rapetastic squealing hellfire about being a mudslinging american imbecile and that is the peak of artistry it has to display. pointless and vile work by pointless and vile people. 0/10, mathematically impossible as that is

I can't believe that Kings of Leon have been judged worthy to appear on this list, but I am grateful this album is only a merciful 37 minutes of squeaky-voiced singing and pedestrian indie guitars and drums. Tedious, I really have nothing good to say about this. Not beautiful, not notable, not fun. I was going to say not surprising, but then I found out that although this perfectly replicates the UK landfill indie sound of the early 2000s, these guys are actually American. This moment of mild surprise was the only time during my listen when my brain registered anything other than mild irritation. Bravo, chaps!

Crap

Interesting. Rot with so much emotion.

Classic rock for epic bacon IPA millennials. A standard issue southern rock rolling stones cover band who heard the strokes first album and jumped on the trend to become, somehow, arena filling corporate indie stalwarts. Too bland to be bad, they're the buffalo wild wings of 2000s hipster rock.

Ooft. I thought I liked Kings of Leon... I remember back in high school, jamming out to "Use Somebody" and "Sex on Fire" and feeling like this was a pretty cool band for cool people (which I was most definitely not). This album was dreadful. So much amazing, culturally significant, high quality and varied music got left off this list - whole artists that by all rights should have been represented and just aren't - and for what? This? At least with some of my other 1 star albums I can see why one might make an argument that despite being quite bad they hold some musical significance or do something that warrants hearing once from a purely educational standpoint - you know, it's not enjoyable but at least I feel I've gained some intellectual value from hearing it. Not this one. Sorry.

The big two zero zero. Album 200 is here I wish I had a better 200th. The music is fine like actually the production and music sounds really good but his voice just ruins this whole record for me. It’s not good at all

Aptrist amerikansk rock. Orkar ens inte bli upprörd hur usel sångaren är. Jag orkar knappt lyssna överhuvudtaget faktiskt Helt meningslös musik

Amerikansk indierock igen - helt utan usp. Det är för mycket av den varan på den här listan. Förstår inte på vilket sätt detta skulle vara en omistlig skiva att lyssna på innan jag dör. Här finns inget jag känner behov av att lyssna på igen.

Vet inte riktigt vad detta bidrar med till rockhistorien. Det rockas på utan att beröra det minsta. Som så mycket annat inte uselt, men definitivt inte bra. Desto fler album vi haft med desto tydligare blir det att 00-talet utgör ett svart hål i musikhistorien. Inget vi behöver göra bäst i att glömma så fort vi kan. Det löser det på egen hand.

The only thing that sucks more than the way this was mixed was the singer of this band. Taking terrible lyrics and taking them to the absolute extremes of grating. I couldn't wait for this to end.

Didn't know this band is as big as it is. This was not that great in my opinion. I only enjoyed some of the instrumentals on some of the tracks.

I can't sing. At all. So I never thought I could be a front man in a band. Turns out you can if you just go for it! You just will sound like shit.

How the fuck is this even on here? 3 songs in and I’m checking to see if the album is over yet. I somehow made it to 7 songs and regretted every second of it. Fuck this

The songs are relatively short at least.

I only know of this band as a one hit wonder from the album that came out after this album. The music is ok. The singer's voice is an affectation and bad. At least when other singers adopt a singing voice it is not to the detriment of their songs. Listening to this makes me really hope that there is a Black Crowes album on this list.

This list of albums is padded heavily with huge singles that are in otherwise dud albums. If there's one thing I'm taking away from this 1001 album project it's how blatantly critics pander to flavors of the week.

not my stuff

There is no reason for this to be on this list.

Yikes.

Lowkey incoherent.

"Two brothers and a dream....to deliver the BEST artisan burgers imaginable" stop-and-clap hipster drivel. Waste

They heard Queens of the Stoneage and decided to be the opposite, by making shitty unmemorable music.

Somehow even more obnoxious than the more commercial Sex On Fire/Use Somebody sound that was later to come, an unbelievably shit band

Kings Of Leon is not really my thing.

I've never liked Kings of Leon, and this album confirmed that.

sleazy gross indie rock sex songs that all sound the exact same and the singer sounds like shit

My first thought upon seeing this album this morning was “wow, I didn’t realize that Kings of Leon were around as early as 2004!” I quickly learned that there was good reason for that. Not only does the vocalist have an awful, grating voice, it doesn’t even sound like he’s singing in English half the time. Also, while I recognize that it can be hard to write horny music without being completely cringy, this band did NOT stick that landing at all. Yikes

Kings of Leon getting not one but TWO albums on this list is wild. I could kind of get the other one just due to how big Sex on Fire is, but there's no excuse for this. It's not good.

quite bland

This was a tough one to get through which is disappointing because the music itself it genuinely really good and deserving of a much much higher rating. Unfortunately, the lead singer and some questionable lyrics make this album nearly unlistenable. The vocals are barely consistent while sounding forced and stretched in a way that is difficult to understand. Though the instrumentation is superb, it's not enough to overshadow just how bad this wanna be mountain inspired voice trys to be. I know (and like) some songs by Kings of Leon, and though the sound is always distinct it doesn't always sound this overdone and overpowering. Podium: 1. Four Kicks 2. [TBD] 3. [TBD] I think the band, who has some insanely talented members, would be better off if they found a front man who wasn't fronting so hard. If I could just rate the sound of the music, I'd be closer to 4 or even 5 stars, but unfortunately the only things I'll remember is the ear piercing vibrations of a voice that sounds like it's pretending to be something its not, coupled with otherwise mediocre lyrics. For these reasons I give Aha Shake Heartbreak by Kings of Leon 1/5 stars

Psh

Absolutely terrible

Man idc about this, one of the worst bands post 2000 alongside cage the elephant

This album makes me appreciate how far we've come. I can now just turn on my streaming service of choice instead of having to turn on the radio and be subjected to this shit.

Both the melody and the voice of the singer aren't interesting in the slightest

The music was mildly interesting but the singer was absolutely TERRIBLE! The lyrics largely centered on horny teen aged stuff and did not vary much. I ended up not finishing this album.

⭐️ ½

To me this album is pretty boring, nothing stood out. Songs sound very similar and are easily forgotten. Not even a catchy beat or surprising vocal run, nothing of interest to me. I wouldn't care if I never heard this album again, it did nothing for me.

I just hate it.

2nd Kings of Leon album in a month on here. Starting to get pissed off. Is it the worst music ever? Definitely not. But do we really need both of KOL’s first two albums on this list lol?

Best Song: The Bucket There are bands and albums that you think of and can put yourself right where you were when you listened to it. This band is associated with very painful memories with me so, no matter how good they may be, I will have a hard time disassociating from them. That being said, this band sucks. 1/5 for their annoying, mush mouth, wannabe Chris Robinson lead singer. Music isn't terrible but it's hard to listen to without douchey singing, "ayyooo" or something else pompous and douchey over it.

Amazing to think that people thought these Okies were cool 20 years ago. Mad props to those pigeons in St. Louis who shit all over these guys.

I was in highschool when this album came out and was insecure enough to pretend to like it to fit in more better with my friends. I must have given listening to this album a good go back then because I remember a surprising amount of these tracks. They all suck. A bunch of too-cool-for-school impressions of various pop genres performed by middling musicians in a way that feels like they have actual disdain for the music they're playing. Kings of Leon were a band that ultimately had no impact on the musical landscape. They were trendy as hell for a few years, which is undoubtedly why they're on this list. Fair enough, but living through their popularity once was enough for me.

Yeah that's not it chief

God, I really just don't like the lyrics on this thing. When they're not overly sexual to the point where it feels perverted, they make genuinely zero sense, like I'm listening to a newborn try to repeat something I said in front of its face a thousand times. The music itself starts off decent but turns to uninteresting and eventually annoying.

What a great year musically with albums by the New Pornographers, The Mountain Goats and The Decemberists only to be soiled my this album. Even Bright Eyes shitty album is better than this cacophony. Day old, day old, day old, da da hoo hoo!

Yeah, I think I don't like them like that. I like a few of their hits, but I've never just put them on to listen to.

I liked the beginning of Tapered Jean Girl but then the singing started and totally ruined it. Not a fan.

This band is so goddamned annoying in just about every fucking facet.

Some guitar parts are interesting but a lot of the repetitive sharp notes are annoying. Absolutely can’t get into the vocals.

2/10 swagless

💩

Nah mate, not for me.

1. night - 0 2. rodeo - 0 3. jean - 0 4. fire - 0 5. milk - 0 6. bucket - 0 7. zoft - 0 8. razz - 0 9. bluez - 1 10. kickz - 0 11. znouu - 0 12. memo - 0 13. nobody - 0 THIZ BANK ZUCKZ BALLZ !!!!

Music as mannered and studied as their annoying, fussy hairstyles.

This is like prototype Kings of Leon - their later stuff gets more tolerable. It came and went with nothing of value. 1*

The Bucket is the closest we get to a decent track and it flies off the rails near the end of the song. Day Old Blues is ok, then you get a grating hook. Everything else, the lyrics are practically incoherent. The sound is this discernible clanging, it’s just noise, and when the sound is listenable or dare I say good like a Day Old Blues or a Bucket, the singer’s grating voice ruins it. It’s weird, cause I’ve heard a couple Kings songs before this, I heard Sex on Fire and Closer and always liked those, maybe it’s nostalgia, but either way, this kinda sucks by comparison. Maybe they just didn’t find their sound yet at this stage?

No, I didn't like that. I listened to a large part of the album. Musically, I found the whole thing quite flat. But it would have been bearable if the singer's voice wasn't so awful. I gave up after half of the album, exasperated. 1/5

These guys are not my bag

This should be better. Poor singing and doing very little that could be noteworthy. Maybe this got me on the wrong day but this isn't good and shouldn't be on this list. I don't know who this is for.

Det her var liksom overraskende lite musikalsk. Det var jo litt kule komposisjoner instrumentalt, men vokalen fikk det hele til å høres litt usammenhengende ut. Det høres rett og slett ikke spesielt bra eller spennende ut. Uff.

Første gang jeg hørte på denne var det plutselig over uten at jeg hadde fått med meg en eneste sang. Så bestemte meg for å prøve igjen og prøve å høre etter igjen, men det bare gikk rett inn ut det ene øret og ut av det andre igjen. Så må bare konkludere at det er veldig kjedelig musikk. Det har jo noen likheter med tidlig Strokes, bare med en plagsom amerikansk sørstatsvokal, men dette klikker virkelig ikke for meg. Det er utrolig nok to andre kings of leon album på denne lista, kan ikke si at jeg gleder meg.

Hmmm. Decent guitar parts, the bass is too loud, then some drunken dipshit mumbles incoherently over the top. What the hell is this crap?

Make it stop. Please.

Meh

So original! They play bar-band blues-rock! It's so retro, it's new! Not like The Black Crowes and a million other bands haven't done it. Now it's an homage, a pastiche, another fucking boring dad-rock album.

Absolute drivel. Even the hit single sucks.

I had a chance to see Kings of Leon for free at Google Next 2024. I skipped for a very good reason.

It's like they are trying to make annoying insipid music intentionally. It's like the bad Hemingway competition for rock music.

This was a great album! Could very much tell it was based on a musical, but Meat Loaf's clean vocal stylings are perfect for it. I can definitely feel the influence of Elton John, and other Glam musicians of the time all over this album. I'd 100% listen to it again (I think this was actually the first time I've listened to it as a whole)

this kinda sucks ngl

Nope

1.5, en kestä tuota laulajaa.

Can an atheist refer to this album as 'God Awful' ...? These Rockers for Christ seem to have an identity crisis and that singer seems to think he's the second coming of Eddie Vedder. PUH-LEEZE...

I never liked this band. This album sucks. The vocals are not good.

referaattia: ''pitkätukkaset, paskiaiset. tietää että rämputtaa kitaraa, koko kädellä. ylhäältä alas rämp rämp rämp rämp rämp.. ei mitään finessiä, koska taitoa ei löydy. leikkaa lettisi, saatanan anglikaani... ja mussutuslaulua, mussuttaa samalla kun laulaa.. MITÄ HELVETTIÄ? onneksi nykyään miehet on miehiä... eikä mitään tollasia. olen kuullut bändistä aikaisemminkin. odotuksena tuuri juuri sitä mitä odotin, paskaa. tältä kuulostaa paskat rolling stones albumit, varmaan paras kings of leon albumi'' taper jean girl

Nicht meine Richtung

Not for me

A band with no original ideas and a tone-deaf singer who sounds like he can only speak beginner level English walk into a studio, pick up an instrument at random, and say to each other, “Hey dudez! What if we added this to the song?” And then they did that with everything in the studio, for no apparent reason, for 37 excruciating minutes. Like, yeah, I could’ve guessed these motherfuckers were home-schooled. They sound arrogant as fuck about their basic level of musical proficiency and generally annoying as hell. A waste of my time.

Like other listeners have noted, the singing is pretty poor

I’ve never really understood how Kings Of Leon got so big. I can recognise that the music is generally decent, but I find the vocals to be so grating. I know I’m likely in the minority here, but to me he has one of the worst voices in rock music. You can understand my lack of enthusiasm for this album. To give credit where it is due, I did quite enjoy The Bucket. I never realised that was by this band, but on listening it is quite obvious. Aside from this, I could quite happily not listen to this album again.

This was really bad. The music isn’t bad, but the singing is honestly some of the worst I’ve ever heard. This predates Kings of Leon at their peak, and even their peak kinda sucks.

Un asco

Blurggh. mid wash of middle of the road tat. do one

I can imagine them scratching their chins around a big whiteboard trying to concoct the world's most obnoxious album. "No no, the part in song 3 at 2:37 isn't obnoxious enough, we need to redo that!"

Bar band music. A few deviations.

Making me listen to 2 kings of Leon albums seems like punishment but I'm not sure what I did wrong

Ass ass ass ass, worse and worse with each song

Teenagers in a shitty garage part 2

i hate this

Interesting album cover... Made it halfway thru the 5th song and just could not continue.

Insufferable singing voice

Ghastly.

(I changed my mind about the rating of this album while writing this.) This is only a 2 and not a 1 because I didn’t really think about it after finishing. I usually have a specific reason if I give an album a 1, and if I did give this a 1 it would be because of the extremely annoying vocals. I was vaguely aware of Kings of Leon before listening to this and was extremely annoyed about a song into the album by the vocals. This doesn’t even have any of their most famous songs. Why is this album here? OK, I think I convinced myself into giving this a 1.

Lead singers voice is up there with Bob Dylan for the most hearing voice. Peaced out at track 2

Omi nam

Omg more Kings of Leon?? I hate this band. The selections for this list really do need to be reigned in. My god, this band was a flash in the pan with their whole sex on fire schtick and that’s all they’ve ever accomplished. Peaked early and easily forgettable. Next!

Esto dejó un mal sabor. Tuve que ir a escuchar Echoing de su disco de 2021, una canción que es mucho mejor que cualquiera de las incluidas en este que inexplicablemente se incluyó en el listado.

Annoying.

Nem tinha muita expectativa devido ao meu preconceito em achá-los pretensiosos. Não se confirmou, mas o vocal foi mais que irritante.

Whomsoever decreed that I need to listen to two (at least) Kings of Leon albums before I die, let alone one? I would've been quite happy - ecstatic, even - with zero Kings of Leon albums.

This is just my own very biased feelings, but I did not enjoy the album at all. It’s just not my vibe. Not saying there’s no talent here, it just didn’t speak to me, at all.

Yet another ex-1001 album!™ http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex As an album, it's mediocre at best. The Bucket was my only highlight (only because I knew of it), but that wasn't enough to save me from boredom. 1.5

I don't mind the Leons instrumental schtick - kind of Strokes meets Lynyrd Skynyrd - but that voice. He is doing something that makes it like scraping nails on a blackboard to listen to. If there later stuff is tending to Coldplay vibes then let's hope the vocals go with that, as beige would be distinct improvement on this.

I cannot imagine describing this as influential or essential listening

Suburban indie rock and I hate it so much

This is just plain awful.

I thought this album was whatever, then Day Old Blues disabused me of that notion and pushed me towards an active dislike of it. The playing is whatever, the singing is awful, grating, and feels super tryhard. Incredibly, every attempt at style is wrong and bad and annoying, he doesn’t even hit something good on accident.

Træls oplevelse.... Simpelthen så ringe..

one of the most boring albums i ever heard... and the ones that weren't boring were terrible... is it the worst I heard on this list? No, Bright Flight was worse. Is it the second worst? Probably! 1/5

balls

I heard that Kings of Leon's early stuff was actually good, and I do remember the snippets of the debut I heard on every advert break in 2003 sounding alright, but I've never felt compelled to check it out because everything I've heard from them on the radio has been unmitigated shite. This is alright I suppose, the book removed it from my edition so no idea why they thought it was special over the supposedly better debut. The first track is decent enough, nice guitar noodlings. After that though I'm just getting annoyed by his voice and very affected way of singing, and the mildly bluesy rock is quite boring. Bucket is ok but basically like a less good Strokes, I've got the Strokes albums after the debut if I want to listen to that. So yeah I won't be bothering listening to the debut or this again.