Only By The Night

This might be their best album, imo

This didn’t age super well for me but I liked it when it came out. Still like Revelry.

id give it 3.5. some good songs on there

I can pretend, like most people on this site, not to like this album and give it a 1, but I actually like it. It has some good tunes.

A lot to like here, great hooks, full sound, and consistently good songs.

A solid album, doesn’t hit quite as much now as when I was in my teens, but still good Fav songs: Notion, Be Somebody

Enjoyed this album while talking a nice Sunday drive.

Kings of MID

I really had to separate my impressions of this band from when I first heard this album in the late 2000s and approach this with a fresh set of ears. I did not like it then. Now I think I appreciate it what’s going on here a bit more. I don’t love it, but I certainly don’t hate it. I’m feeling a 3 on this one. It’s grown on me a bit with this listen.

For an album that is considered alternative and pop rock, there is neither anything interesting nor super catchy. Besides, there is a melodramatic tone that I'm not buying at all and I think comes across as unauthentic. I'll blame the vocals for it, as the vocalist sings with a tedious raspy and overly accented voice which feels like he is in the verge of burst into tears. When it comes to the instrumentation, it is way better than the singing. It shows some influence of other genres, like the fast tremolo picking that sound very post-rock, some indie rock melodies and even a garage rock type of distortion in a couple of tracks. However, despite of the influences, I didn't find the instruments very appealing, with the exception of some really great bass lines in the songs "Manhattan" and "Be Somebody". Anything else is just decent at best. Before concluding, I must mention that I first listened to this while having breakfast, and when "17" started with the phrase "Oh, she's only seventeen", I I almost spit out what I was drinking. I don't understand what is it about singing about teenagers, it is super creepy. I can understand that in the 60's and 70's it was unfortunately normalized, but this album being from 2008 just makes the song even creepier and unjustifiable. Anyway, this is a very forgettable rock album.

The Good: We are in the presence of royalty! The Bad: We don’t like blue blood… The Ugly: misreading Only By the Knights… Let’s look at the positive here; which is that this album really placed the band in the spotlight. Good for them, and truth be told, it’s not a bad album… What I will keep with me is that I enjoyed the drums… and the guitars too at times… but the voice… the voice is what has started to make me dislike the band. Worse, I have found out that I am to listen to one more album by this band as Mr Dimery has deemed them good enough for THREE FUCKING entries on his list, and this can only be justified by the simple fact that most music which came out in the ‘00s is shit, allowing for three albums from a mediocre band to be included. I will be the skipping record here, but I have to share, again, the injustices of this 1001 album list: Bee Gees don’t have Saturday Night Fever included, because it is a soundtrack album… the two albums they do have on this list are of the more folksy kind. Supertramp has 1 album on the list, and it isn’t Breakfast in America! The ‘90s… missing artists like Ben Folds Five, Cracker, Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies… yet I have to listen to fucking crappy British bands from the Manchester/Liverpool kind, because they are oh so good… My list of 1* albums is too long… and out of spite I would give this album 1* too… but the album has it’s merit… just don’t know why they have 3...

Cannae see past that weird vocal performance

This was pretty good, albeit a little boring. Favourite Track(s): Revelry, Use Somebody, Sex On Fire Least Favourite Track(s): 17, Crawl

In much the same way that The Killers’ Hot Fuss album has been blighted by the torturous overplaying of Mr. Brightside, this album has its own seam on to battle in the shape of ‘Sex on Fire’. However, unlike Hot Fuss, the rest of the album cannot be saved by the remaining tracks. Whilst there are some redeeming songs, most of the listings were fairly indistinguishable from each other and left me somewhat disinterested well before the end of the album.

Look, it’s got some really top notch tunes. But they should stay as singles. As an album, it’s really grating.

Dull but listenable. Folky / country KOL all the way.

Muzyka jak z radia, nie podoba mi się głos śpiewaka

I really enjoyed Kings of Leon's first album when it came out, but in listening to this one, which has a couple of massive hit songs, I can't help but feel it all sounds a bit dated. It was kind of a slog to get through.

classic. very young liv era album. lot of throwbacks

Kings of Leon again? Eh. It has been a while. Last I wrote about these guys, I was surprised that they weren't a theater-kid band solely because of a single one-off joke in a Community episode, but now that I can go into an album of theirs knowing what to expect, I'm less thrown off by their material than I once was and I think I can appreciate an album like Only By The Night more than I could with Aha Shake Heartbreak back in November 2024. But is that even true? Can I appreciate this more? I'd say so, but not to that much of a degree. I do think that the instrumentation on this album is genuinely pretty good and songs like "Sex on Fire" are as popular as they are for a reason, but I do still have issues with this that hold the album back from a higher score. For one, I'm still not huge on Caleb Followill's vocals. I'm not as annoyed by them as I once was, but they're still not my thing. I think the lyrics are probably where this album falters the most and it's not particularly close. Even on songs like "Sex on Fire" which I do like, things are a tad questionable. I think the lyrical focus on romanticism works decently well on songs like the vampire-influenced opener "Closer." Wait, did they name the album's opener "Closer" on purpose or was just a coincidence? If that was on purpose, I have to commend them for that, as that's actually pretty funny. But back to what I was saying, other songs like "17" are somewhat uncomfortable. Overall, I do like Only By The Night and I can see value in here that makes inclusion on a list like this justifiable, but I'm still not really a fan of Kings of Leon in general. Good album, but not great. Strong 3/5.

Favourite Songs: Closer Sex On Fire I Want You

Yes

I’ll admit it I liked it

I remember hearing these guys on the radio (probably SiriusXM Alt Nation or something like that). The songs "Use Somebody" and "Sex on Fire" were played A LOT - both on the radio and also you'd just hear them out and about too. The were overplayed, in my opinion, so I don't feel compelled to spend a lot of time on them. Upon listening I also remembered the songs "Notion" and "Crawl" also getting some radio airplay. I always thought Kings of Leon were "ok", but never made me want to proactively seek them out. I'll be honest, I am pretty surprised this is on this list since it always seemed like fairly generic stuff to me. Like a bunch of guys got together and said "let's make a rock record" in 2008 and proceeded to follow every rule and not try to do anything too adventurous. I was even more surprised when I saw they had THREE albums on this list. Huh? Maybe I don't understand them. Ok so let's listen... For the most part, the singer is vaguely Black Crowes-ish, the music is vaguely southern rock combined with stadium rock and generally "alternative" rock with a modern pop music production style. As with many voices, this guy's voice kinda annoys me. I could probably ignore that if the melodies and music and lyrics were more compelling but most of these songs don't really grab me. It's not that any of these songs are so "bad", overall they just aren't that interesting. I swear the ascending bassline in "Revelry" comes from a Faces song. But I can't figure out which one. I went back and looked at my albums from around this time and found that some really good albums came out in 2008 - such as the first Vampire Weekend album, Flobots - Fights with Tools, Beck - Modern Guilt, and Death Cab - Narrow Stairs. Also the previous year (2007) had some absolute classics such as Radiohead - In Rainbows, LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver, MGMT - Oracular Spectacular, and Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga. I think this just reinforces why I was thinking these guys were more middle of the road at the time - compared to all of those ones. After listening 3 times, I did end up clicking "like" on 4 songs - "Closer", "Crawl", "Revelry", and "I Want You" - which means I'd be ok if they showed up on my automated playlists. Liked songs on Spotify: 4/11 Rating: 2/5

There's nothing wrong with this album or Kings of Leon in general, I just never want to listen to it again. In part due to the slightly shouty, slightly cracked cool-indie-kid voice of the lead singer (and the singers of every other similar band of the era) as well as songs whose choruses, often the USP of the genre, just aren't that good to my ears. 'Sex on Fire' is a textbook example. It would be petty to give it less than a three because it's musically accomplished but this will only grace my Spotify in future if/when commanded by the capricious gods of the 1001 Album Generator

diossss, nunca lo he escuchado completo pero amo amo amo las canciones de este álbum, mera chimba, no tengo quejas, puros temazos

6 / 10

What a fall this band took. Great first album, good second album and everything else is terrible. This album just goes by at the same pace, no exciting moments or dynamism. Ugh.

Solid album, but I don't think it deserves to be one of the 1001

Not bad! I added “Use Somebody” to my Generator playlist

This album was held up by the singles, nothing much else to see here except the off kilter boring first song or the off kilter quirky interesting closer. The singles are only just ok

The first solid album I’ve heard of theirs, def a few weird songs but overall good. This is a light 4, not as heavy hitting as some of the others.

eh fine. i don't really like his voice

Like it 3/5

Didn’t hate this one as much as I thought I would. 2.5

Only gets 4 instead of 5 stars because of '17' which is discordant and frankly creepy

It's another of those "meh" albums. It's ok, nothing remarkable, nothing horrendous. I like Sex on Fire but it also makes me laugh, because it sounds like a song made specifically for a movie, and not a "real" song.

Good alternative band. Good sound, and music.

Groupe inconnu. Quelques morceaux sympa ('Crawl' et son riff de basse, 'Be somebody' plus dynamique, 'Manhattan'), mais rien de bien marquant par ailleurs. Les morceaux sont plutôt mous, j'ai fini par faire autre chose en gardant l'album en musique de fond. Pas sur d'avoir envie de l'écouter de nouveau. =>2/5

One of the last really solid rock albums to get substantial radio play.

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Generic, bland, or any other word for basic can describe this album.

I understand this is probably most popular but I love Aha Shake Heartbreak and Because of the Times. Mostly cause those were out in my formative years of learning what music I like. Still good Sex is on Fire is a big hit and other but yeah give me some of the older stuff.

It’s a cliche to say that as soon as a bad gets popular they’ve fallen off, but in this case it’s true. I really liked Kings of Leon prior to this album, particularly the album that immediately preceded it (Because of the times). This album somewhat resembles that album but with all the interesting edges sanded down to make relatively benign music for the radio. 2.5

2.4 Today is a great day. Today is the last time I will ever willingly listen to Sex on Fire. God is great I am quite familiar with this album, I liked early KOL but its one of those bands I started to dislike once they became popular. Had the CD in the car but only really put it on because it was there and I didn't want to listen to the radio.

Yeah, not bad, but not incredible either.

It started off good - Closer - some tension building and Crawl had that heavy bass that rocks. Then Sex on Fire - ugh I HATE that song it was too overplayed. After that all I noticed was how much I was annoyed by the singers voice and I couldn't get back into the groove. I'm giving this 3 stars because it is an improvement over the last album that we had of theirs. But in no way is this requisite music to listen to before you die.

One or two good ones, the rest just didn't impress.

Enjoyed this more than I expected...thought it was a pretty well constructed album overall.

This is a band that had run it's race already but still churning out the same "middle of the road a bit indie a bit rocky" stuff. Sex On Fire has been played to death, and I'm done with this. Not necessarily bad, but just a band that overstayed their welcome.

Who put this garbage album on this list?

I liked a lot of the music, and while the singer has a unique vocal style, I didn’t care for it in a lot of the songs.

Surprisingly enjoyable! Having been tangentially familiar with KoL from radio play back when, I never gave their album a full listen. However, now that I have, I think they have way more depth than has been attributed to them. They are talented musicians, with great feel for rock sound. I like their hits, but surprised more by their B-sides!

i wanted to like this more but besides the two big hits the rest was just meh

Цей постарішав краще за південний рок альбом, що ми слухали до цього. Колись був на фесті, де Кінгзи були хедлайнерами дня. Концерт мені сподобався, але головне що я виніс з нього це початок пісні Revelry, точніше два рядки про dancing machine. Дуже довго ще їх наспівував. Є хіти, є відверті філери, тексти місцями постаріли не дуже. Три зірочки здається чесною оцінкою

Важко мені якось зібрати до купи думки про цей альбом. З одного боку тут є просто мегахіти нульових-десятих, а ми з одним з гуртів, в якому я грав на гітарі, колись каверили use somebody і це було дуже весело, скажу відверто. Але з іншого боку тут купа філеру. Та і не сказати що альбом постарішав якісно, хз. Думаю якщо без ностальгії то 3, а якщо з ностальгією то 3.5 десь.

Unredeemable garbage.

1: Sex On Fire 2: Use Somebody 3: I Want You

3.6 hard carried by Sex on Fire and Use Somebody

Sex on Fire is one of those songs that feels like a classic even off of first listen

They sound good but I much preferred the lowfi sounds of Youth and Young Manhood

7/10

use somebody and sex is on fire are absolute tunes no doubt you guys just don't know how to have fun but i cannot give more than three stars for an album that contains a love song called 17 which is about exactly what you think it is

I spent a long time living in Vancouver, and once in a while things would go well & I'd wonder if I should move there for real, try to make a go of it. every year something would happen to remind me to get the fuck out. when I moved away in 2024, it was a bunch of hippie ravers at the park spinning poi blasting a dance remix of Sex on Fire. this band sucks. multiple albums on the list is a big time loser move.

And on my birthday, of all days

In generale un bel sound, mi è piaciuto

Good album yea

6.5/10 - is this rating blinded by nostalgia? Possibly. Was KOL my favorite band in late middle school early high school? Absolutely. Did 17 age like milk? Oh God it did.

There are the classics on this album that are good, as well as a couple of good ones I didn't know (Closer and Crawl). It's not amazing though and not something I would go back to. Strong 5/10

Good 2000’s rock

It was ok. Such a grunge-y voice that he only sounded unstrained on a couple of songs.

A few ok songs but nothing to give it a higher rank

I really like this album and don’t really get all of the hate reviews.

There wasn't really anything that memorable about it though, actually it was fairly boring. But overall it was alright I guess. I've definitely heard worse but it was a chore to get through it because of how bored I was listening to it.

This album came out at such a flashbulb-memory-filled time of my life, so listening again was an experience in time travel. I loved these guys when this album first dropped, especially the whisky voice of Caleb Followill. I was anticipating slinging an easy 5 stars their way but this re-listen, in 2026, it fell a little flat. Not sure I can explain why.

This is a really rather mediocre record!

Eh. I suppose this should be here. But there’s more interesting stuff released that year. 2.3 stars.

Oh come on. Really, this has had that many streams and probably no doubt as many actual units of sale back in 2008. What is it that people get from this? What have they been listening to that's lead them to think this is good. It is an out of body experience as you literally know what is coming next in each song, ah here we go the drummer is going to double time on the snare, the singer is going up a notch, a bit of chunk a chunka guitar, and then some wooo whoa whoa wooo whoa slightly echoey backing vocals. Then a bit of chumpy chumpy guitar and then the solo, voila! And the heavy man heavy man lyrics, there had to be a I'm looking around what do I see type thing. Weird, so weird. This is just straight out weird, did good pop music never happen, am I set adrift in a fantasy world, I've been reprogrammed to not like the best music like this? Dunno, something is going on.

Kings of Leon have the distinction of being the only band with three albums included in various editions of 1001 Albums, all of which were subsequently removed from later editions. If that isn't a measure of an over-rated but ultimately irrelevant band, I don't know what is. On this record, they shift their ambition to trying to be the Southern Strokes to being the Southern U2. And they crank out a competent early 21st century stadium rock sound in the mode of U2 with lots of guitar effects and over-dubs, big choruses, vaguely abstract lyrics, and grand gestures. But I find it mostly crushingly dull. This album was a monster hit here in Australia (11x platinum or something ridiculous like that) and I struggle to work out what my compatriots saw in this. Interestingly, this was a big hit in Australia, New Zealand, UK, some parts of Europe, but the band (and this album in particular) is regarded as a bit of a joke in the US. I'm not quite sure what to make of that. It's not terrible and it is a reasonable length (although still I find Caleb Followill's vocals grating by the end of the record). But wildly, wildly inessential. 2.5 stars, rounding down

Alternative rock that evokes big stages at music festivals, Olympic themes, or soccer broadcast anthems, providing a rich listening experience. This album was my first introduction to the band, but it conjures a fictional sense of nostalgia that is deeply moving.

not completely soulless, but make no mistake, this is selling out

Man there is something about the lead singer's voice that I really dislike. It just grates on me. Sex on Fire and Use Somebody are both catchy songs -- I see why they have gotten so much love from radio. Otherwise, this was really just fine. I actually enjoyed the closer quite a bit and Crawl was kind of cool. For me this fell into high 3 territory that I will likely never again visit.

I feel like I associate Kings of Leon more closely with artists like The Killers and almost being in that pop realm because of the hits in Use Somebody and Sex on Fire. However, there are some pretty great bass lines, deep drums, and shreddy guitar that I would associate more with the grungier bands. Really great album here. I could see the singers voice being off-putting to some, but I don't mind it. Has almost a southern rock twang to it.

This should have been the only KoL album on this list, because it seems to be their only good album. Really like this style of rock with some pretty interesting guitar parts. You know it is a good album when the two radio hits that are on it are two of my least favorite songs that I heard on here.

This list does not need 3 Kings of Leon albums on it holy hell. Brandon is punching air right now. This is actually an album by them I'm familiar with, I actually really like the first 4 songs or so. It's just alright from there on, but Closer definitely deserves its flowers.

I really enjoyed this listen. Hadn't listened to the Kings of Leon in probably 15 years or so and surprised by how much I remembered practically every song on this album. The first half of this album is banger after banger. Really solid 2000s indie rock

Fabulous.

RoknRol!

zero albums by Donna Summer, Autechre, Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, any trap artist for that matter, Three Six Mafia, Weezer, Mitski, Death, Bathory, Sunny Day Real Estate, American Football, Coil, Burial, Eric B and Rakim, Aaliyah, Skrillex (he's important!!), Shakira, or Neutral Milk Hotel. but enough room for three Kings of Leon albums? this one also has a really ear-piercing song about making out with a 17 year old, which is pretty funny considering this came out in 2008. also Sex on Fire fucking sucks. deserves to be one of the 1001? no! none of them do!

Good but already liked the songs i liked

This is generic, but not objectionable. I much prefer the indie side of the 2000s rock revival to this more blues based rock.

This has no business on this list

From my review of their other album, "Aha Shake Heartbreak": "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)." Yeah, even this album which *has* those two songs was not good. The most bland mainstream "indie" rock imaginable... "Use Somebody" is *okay*, and it's about the only song on this album deserving of even that. "Sex on Fire" and "17" are particularly uncomfortable, especially when you realise this band is made up of three brothers and their cousin... Nobody should be singing "This sex is on fire" in a band with their close family members. The only thing worse would be if their Dad were in the band. It's another 1 star from me, and I don't hand out many of those... Kings of Leon really are doing badly here.

Natural evolution of dad rock

Good but not 'great'

I don't actually think this album or artist is very good, but I will give it a higher rating on the sole basis that sex is on fire was being played in freshers week at uni.

A friend described this album as "like U2, if they'd been raised in Tennessee by the Allman Brothers." A bit of a stretch, but I get it. Very good album.

Christian rock made by sex guys

3.1 I was unfortunate enough to be starting second year of uni when this came out, so I heard Sex on Fire and Use Somebody once or twice a night for a good six months. They're actually not bad songs, by my god after seeing a fresher belt out "someone like meee" with his eyes closed for the 200th time it starts to grate. Anyway, as usual, don't really get KoL, always seemed quite overrated. It's fine, it's just extremely mediocre. This album definitely played it a lot safer than the earlier ones, to the point where a few of the tracks were actually quite dull. Not bad though.

Standouts Crawl Use Somebody

Album 1045 of 1089 Only By The Night - Only By The Night (2008) Rating : 4 / 5 I went into this one knowing the band mostly from radio play and didn’t really have any expectations beyond that. What I found was a really solid, enjoyable album with a groove that pulls you in without trying too hard. There’s a nice melodic bass presence running throughout that gives the songs some depth, and the band’s overall feel is relaxed and confident. Nothing feels rushed or overcooked. The songs are well put together, the production is clean, and the album flows naturally from track to track. What stood out most to me was their musical personality. There’s a clear sense of who they are, and they stick to it without sounding repetitive. It’s the kind of album you can just let play and enjoy, which is often the highest compliment I can give. Definitely one I’ll be coming back to.

I like KOL's first 2 albums - the grittier, bluesy indie rock sound was more fun. Once they started trying to be U2 and write songs for stadiums of people to sing along to they weren't as interesting. Oh well.

Man, did I love this record when it first came out. I must've run this record through about 100 spins during the first week of its release. The songs were all catchy, and I considered it a great record front-to-back with no skippable tracks. I kind of wished it wasn't so polished as far as recordings go—particularly because I liked the lo-fi indie vibe of the previous records a lot—but the songs were great. Then, over the following 6 months, the rest of the world caught on. The radio played the same three or four tracks non-stop for the next two years. They toured, but concert ticket prices jumped up and the shows were chock full of sorority girls and frat bros. The guys in the band started showing up on GQ magazine covers, and the interviews they gave made them seem like super dickholes. It felt like the whole band culture (which I had admittedly just assumed of them) shifted, and these sorta scruffy indie rock kids seemed fully invested in becoming corporate rock darlings. And the record that I really loved at one time turned into a record that I started to despise. Almost 20 years has passed at this point. I can go back now and almost totally appreciate this record again—though if I never hear "Sex on Fire" or "Use Somebody" again, I'll be happy—but I don't think I'll ever really love it like I did the first few times I'd heard it; the nostalgia attached to this record for me is still pretty tainted. I still love their first three records, and I quite like the record or two after this one, even if they really did go full-blownsies with the major record label ball-licking (maybe I've just learned to accept Kings of Leon on their own terms at this point?). But I don't think I'll ever recapture the joy I initially felt with this record. 7/10 I pretty much have to round up to 4 stars. I'm not entirely thrilled about that—because I truly hate at least 2 tracks on this record now—but it really is altogether much better than a 3-star record.

some daqui meu

eh de cair o cu da bunda que esses mano tem TRÊS albuns na lista. esse eu até entendo porque foi um """"fenomeno"""", o que não significa que eh bom. MAS TRÊS?????? vai tomar no cu papo reto dito isso, eh bem paia né mediocre pra carai pqp. rock de arena da pior qualidade

No one needs to hear Sex On Fire either for the first time or again before they die. This is mostly just fine if not kind of annoying in parts. Playlist track: Manhattan

I felt nothing, what’s that? Why do I need to listen to those cliche songs before I die?

Great album all the songs are catchy and well produced. There is a lot going on, a lot of detail that is a great listen. It's not super aggressive but not too laid back either, a nice balance. This is an album that I will be listening to many more times.

I used to love this band, so this was hard to rate. I love the nostalgia but like their earlier albums more. Favorite songs: Closer, Crawl, Revelry

fun with ok sound 3/5

Enjoyed

I thought I would enjoy this more, but not so much.

These guys are the fucking worst ⭐️⭐️

Compared to the first couple of albums this is so polished it shines like a bald head in the sun, big hits and some nice ideas but just not a patch on the raw energy of the first couple of albums.

This album is such a banger. Interesting lines, cool drum parts. Bass drum gets a bit too active for my taste at times but a great record all around. 5

Omnipresent in the year of its release with Sex on Fire and Use Somebody capturing the masses with their hooks, the success wasn't underserved for a band I had tagged as just workmanlike & inconsequential. This wasn't painful to listen to and I didn't notice the lyrics / subject matter on 17 which seems to invite people's ire. It's something I owned and occasionally revisit but not worth more than a 3 here.

I only had a vague memory of Kings of Leon. Then I noticed two songs that I had heard before and really liked. I also found the intro to the first song very promising. Unfortunately, the album as a whole couldn't live up to the very good first impression. But maybe I'll give it another listen. 4/5

Husker disse rockegutta fra barndommen. Her har de sine største hits. Sex on Fire og Use Somebody (oppdaget for øvrig at Alvvays’ Dreams Tonite har samme melodi som denne sangen i refrenget, som jo er litt artig) blasta både fra radio og TV-reklame, og jeg minnes at jeg syns det var ganske bra. Har ikke hørt mye fra bandet siden, og jeg kan vel heller ikke si at jeg hadde store forventninger til dette albumet. Jeg er positivt overrasket. Sex on Fire er fortsatt en kraftfull og god sang, og nivået på de øvrige innslagene her er heller ikke så shabby. Det føles dog feil å gi det mer enn tre stjerner, da det hele er ekstremt trygt og ordinært. Top 3: Be Somebody, Closer, Manhattan

Kod mene je stvar s njima što su mi tako ok, apsolutno mi ništa ne smeta, ima pjesama koje skoro mogu reći da volim, ali nikad, baš nikad ne bih išla i namjerno upalila KOL. Zato nisam nikad čula ništa mimo najvećih hitova. Nisam ništa propuštala. Ovo odsad zvanično zovem catfish albumima, nabacaj prvo hitove da upecaš raju i onda ostalo čisti filler.

KOL aren't a bad band, but with success comes expectation and pressure to churn out the hits. This album is what happens, middle of the road dirge which loses the edge and energy that made it cut through in the first place.

reminded me of high school. loved them back then. listened to their earlier albums more but this one was still just as good. less screaming tho

Ik heb al jaren Een kop zonder haren Ik ben ze verloren Heb ze afgeschoren. Net als een magneetje Meiden zeiden, Hoe heet je? Wat doe je vanavond? Ik wil je vanavond! (Zingen!) Jeeeeheehoooooo Ik wil seks met die kale Jeeeeheehoooooo Ik wil seks met die kale Cassiere's, agentes Van net achttien lente's Maar ook nonnen van tachtig Die vinden het prachtig Door kleintjes en grote Word ik nagefloten Ze willen maar één ding Roepen maar één ding (Één, twee, drie, vier) Jeeeeheehoooooo Ik wil seks met die kale Jeeeeheehoooooo Ik wil seks met die kale Het is ook wel logisch 't Is ook kaal waarvoor ik kies Ik wil daaronder Geen haar, geen gedonder 'k Heb geen zin in een oerwoud Een bosje is echt fout Ook ik wil geschoren Compleet kaal geschoren. (Kom op dan!) Jeeeeheehoooooo Ik wil seks met die kale Jeeeeheehoooooo Ik wil seks met die kale (Springen!) Jeeeeheehoooooo Ik wil seks met die kale (Nog een keer!) Jeeeeheehoooooo Ik wil seks met die kale Jeeeeheehoooooo Ik wil seks met die kale Jeeeeheehoooooo ik wil seks met die kale

*me buying this from best buy at 16 thinking i was cool* honestly was expecting to hate this, but i'm enjoying it. it's all coming back to me. 3 stars; opening tracks are best

Craig: pretty average Courtney: an album I remember—best songs are still very good

There is something beautiful about this soft rock tune

Cool vibe

Probably one of my favorite albums of all time! Every song is a banger and flows so perfectly from the first note to the last! Also remember when my buddy first showed me these guys! Blew my mind!

Listening because technically I haven't and I "had to" to complete this challenge. This is a pretty solid nope from me. Even the big hooky songs fall flat to my ears. Where they WERE (Aha shake heartbreak) compared to where they landed with this turns me off the band. It's like they said "okay now we are a stadium band" and dusted their hands. That 'thwack' of a snare grates me. The playing is actually kind of loose, in a crap way. Singer's got pipes...but he's singing about 17-year-olds...*vomit* Christ, I couldn't even finish it. Kept skipping tracks bc BOOORING. Nah these guys for real fell OFF

3.5

Good

Includes the iconic "sex on fire" and "use somebody" - all the songs were super solid, great album

I found the songs on "Only By The Night" to be, at times, over sentimental and pseudo-sophisticated. To be sure, the album has its bright spots: it features lots of good hooks and melodies, and the production quality is first-rate. It's just that so much "alternative" music from that era has long since become tiresome.

Loved most of the songs

Sex on Fire / Use Somebody

Pretty good rock album.

Awesome

I don't dislike Kings of Leon but I definitely can't ever get excited about their stuff (though I was pleasantly surprised by their debut album that I got on here a while back). It just feels so... unremarkable. 2.5 rounding up

So good so many hits

It was okay , I’m not sure if I liked this one as much I don’t really have one that had me going back for more on this one .

O álbum que me introduziu ao Kings of leon.

Much worse rock on the radio in the mid-aughts

Here the band wanted to get out of the clubs and head for the arenas and as an example of mid-noughties arena rock, it's better than Coldplay. Damned with faint praise I suppose but some of the tunes are immense. It's good for what it does and it did what it was intended to do, so fair play. Best Tracks: Crawl; Sex on Fire; Use Somebody

Favorite Tracks: Sex on Fire, Use Somebody (duh)

Some hits I remember from when I was growing up! Also thought the first song was cool. Nothing mind blowing though

There are definitely some hits on this album. As a millennial, this came out at a formative time in my adolescence, and some of these songs are tied to important memories from that time. But aside from those nostalgic hits, the rest of the songs didn't do much for me. It's a pretty solid album though, easy/enjoyable to listen to. But tbh it's not super clear to me why this album made it onto this list. 3/5.

Passable soft rock album from the 2000s. Until the song 17, hits. Just why?

***a good, easy listening album

Best Track - "Sex On Fire"

Honestly, fuck the haters. Kings of Leon is such a good late oughts rock band. The sound really changed from the early oughts butt rock sound. I'm glad for once a newer album is on this list. The bright melodies indicative for a historical base in southern rock and tight grooves and deep rythmns akin to motown this band is full of rich and eclectic taste. The lyrics are relatable often revolving around young love and feeling out of touch and out of place. Its real good music. Before you die album? At least once. Monitor how rock changed through out the decades.

Heard this album a few times, but 'Sex On Fire' and 'Use Somebody' so much I've lost track. These songs were really played to absurdity when they came out. Listening through the album now, I gotta admit there are some good stuff in there more than just 'Sex On Fire' and 'Use Somebody'. 'Manhattan', 'Closer', 'Revelry', and 'Notion' are for example good tunes. Still, I have a hard time not associating this album with extreme radio-friendliness and mainstream. Just feels so commercial somehow, but I can't decide if it was created that way or they just became victims of their own fame. The album is good, but not stellar. Weak 4 for me.

Very non-offensive 00-s rock. It’s so non-offensive and radio-friendly that it becomes quite boring and samey. Maybe I’m coloured from hearing Kings of Leon all the time on the radio but I just can’t get excited by it. Sure Sex on Fire is a great song with a really great riff. I really disliked the whiny raspy vocals too, it just didn’t feel genuine. Still it contains a few good singles but I just want to hear something abrasive after this.

All sounds the same. Bad love songs with messy lyrics.

I loooooved this album back in the day! It hasn't really stood the test of time though unfortunately There are some great songs here though 4 ⭐️

Dull. Sex on Fire is overplayed but still a great song and you can see why it was such a hit. Opening track is also cool, but the rest of the album is just bland and hasn’t aged well

I mean ya some good songs but idk surprised it made it on this list

This 'decidedly not indie' album had so much airplay of it's middling singles that it's all just water off a duck's back. Sex on Fire stands out because despite being overplayed, it's still fun. The rest of the singles get progressively worse and a lot of the other tracks sound like filler to my uneducated ears... Probably most telling is that all 3 albums by the group have fallen out of the book version of the project.

There’s something here, but I don’t think it ever gets fully realized. I think for the most part this album just plays it too safe, I think if they leaned more into their garage rock and country influences and tried less to sound like the other bands of the time, it’d be a lot better.

If this is on here I hope every other album is. This isn’t a bad one, it’s just more subdued than previous work. Fav track: cold desert

Really good album, every song is listenable. Arena rock that has a U2 influence. I missed this band completely at the time, enjoyed finding them here. Notable tracks include Closer, Crawl, Sex on Fire, Use Somebody, Notion, I Want You, Be Somebody.

Hmmm Sex is on fire is the reason this is a 3 - not sure on the other songs. Thought I would enjoy more than I did.

# Album Name: Only By The Night # Artist: Kings of Leon # Rating: 4/5 # Comments: A very good album imo. 2000's soft cock rock at its best probably. Doesnt quite hit a 5 but a high 4. Simple melodies, simple riffs but pretty good songs. And its got 5-6 good tracks on here. # Top Tunes: Closer / SoF / Use somebody / manhattan / revelry / notion / # Would I listen to it again? Yes

Sexy and heavy. One of the best alternative rock albums of the last 25 years, if not one of the best selling. Incredible rhythm section. Whatever happened to these guys?

Lotta songs about blowjobs on here.

Not heard this before as not a fan. Did'nt enjoy much to be honest so low rating from me.

Caught myself enjoying ‘Sex on Fire’ today, which I usually despise due to very poor drunk karaoke attempts and very mediocre singers in bars butchering it. It is actually an alright track when it’s performed by the guys who made it I suppose. It’s a pretty fun easy indie rock record, screams 2000’s. Doesn’t push any boundaries and isn’t at all experimental. That being said, it is a very enjoyable listen. The lyrics are intended to be your sing alongs classics and to potentially get more radio play is my guess. The guitar is very mellow and chilled, creates a nice ambient feeling to the record. The drumming does what it needs to do. The voice is pretty great, and I feel like the album was built around Caleb Followills voice. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing as it is amazing but we know from previous records that the rest of the band have good technical capabilities, it would’ve been nice to hear more from them on this record. Favourite tracks are: ‘Use Somebody’, ‘Revelry’, ‘Notion’, and ‘Be Somebody’.

So much music from the 2000s just feels so sterile. Use Somebody is quintessential “Target Rock”. It’s not bad, very un-offensive and safe, and it accompanies a walk through Target to find some nice throw pillows. Sex on Fire is a very overrated song. Very boring. A couple of the deeper cuts were kind of cool. I liked the opening track and the singers vocals. Manhattan was a cool vocal performance as well. But the whole record just kind of lacked an edge or something to make it stand out. Bumping down an extra star for how creepy a couple of the songs were. 2/5

just based on the fact i wouldn't add this to a playlist for the sake of it (i probably wouldnt remove it off the list though) it's a 3 very close to a 4 though

See, the problem with late 2000s music is that big labels gravitated towards marketing indie bands as AAA-class. What this did is it gave mediocre groups like Kings of Leon a bypass highway to fame. At this point in music history, you didn't have to pay your dues as a band and win fans through dedication, commitment, and most importantly, quality. As a result, popular radio and movie soundtracks got saturated with tepid material like Kings of Leon and Mumford & Sons. What I'm trying to say is, 0/5. I actively changed the radio station enough times as a result of these guys that I'm personally offended to see this album show up here. Allow me to take this opportunity to remind you, dear reader, that Songs for the Deaf, AEnima, and Lateralus didn't make the list.

2009 me was a big fan of this album.

Somehow I never got into these guys back in the day, but I really enjoyed this one.

I'd heard of these guys but never heard their stuff really, other than probably a couple of singles without knowing it was them. The album starts of with a very cool sounding track in Closer. The second track is cool too, and the third and fourth songs I've definitely heard before, Sex on Fire, and Use Somebody. I feel like I've heard Be Somebody as well--it's a good track. The album overall is quite good, and I can see why it was popular. 4/5

I remember this being released and the world tour that followed. I had tickets with a couple of "friends", but there was a lingering jealousy I had between one of them and my wife. I stopped listening to them because of this issue I had. Somehow still haunts me today, I'll never know the truth... anyway... This was a huge album for KoL, "Sex On Fire" and "Use Somebody" were massive singles. Their follow-up album didn't have as much clout. This is a decent album, but I can't shake my jealous disposition and the weird feeling this album brings me.

Cracking opening song. I know all these tunes! Super horny, dirty guitar licks. Amazing sound. Love this so much more than the other album on this list.

There’s something missing here and I can’t quite figure it out. This album sounds so….gray? The songs are all pretty good and memorable- so what’s the problem? The performances are all good as well. The songs aren’t boring as some have mentioned, or monotonous- they’re just- something’s missing! Somebody help me with this. It should be a four star but instead I can’t give any more than THREE STARS

Has no place on this list but I wasn’t mad at it, which I thought I’d be… MY sex is on fire??

just one of the most terrible things i ever heard in my life

The sex is on fire, apparently, but if this entire album was sex, it'd be 20 minutes of monotone pumping with a few good thrusts in here and there, followed by a lukewarm finish.

The radio hits here have been played to death and only crawl stood out to me from the rest by embracing a fuller and fuzzier sound. The rest while not offensive or bad, does little to invite a future relisten. Most of the songs lean on the vocal sound and the instruments are mostly servicable.

Boring

Bland alt indie rock

Actually liked this much more than I expected

bit of fluff but largely very good

Lots of bangers, it doesn't get boring though. His voice is full of emotion, the echo effect in the instrumentals create a nice contrast with his voice.

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This seems like a big departure from their earlier works. The guitar sound is much more complex, melodically and texturally, than I remember it being on "Youth and Young Manhood" and "Aha Shake Heartbreak". What an atmospheric opening track. That searing, semi-psychedelic guitar in the left ear, the throbbing, echoey guitar in the right, the wobbly synth in the centre carrying a great countermelody... Closer is a great song, no question, and I'm rather upset this is the first I've heard of it. Crawl is equally good (if not more so), with an aggressive yet surprisingly complicated guitar part that climaxes with an absolutely shredding solo towards the end. Sex on Fire is fine but comes across as a harder rendition of late-era Police tracks. It also just isn't as interesting or gritty as the previous two. Props for trying, though. (The muted guitar line in the right channel is pretty sweet.) Use Somebody is solid enough, again featuring a strong guitar line and great vocals, but it sounds like a relic of its time. Compositionally, it could easily be a Coldplay or Imagine Dragons track from the same era. Revelry is another track that seems to be big, and again it's a little too poppy for what I'm really looking for from King of Leon, but it's still very, very good. Great, conscious drumming that reminds me of Neil Peart (may he rest in peace). 17 is the kind of weird, mildly experimental thing I'm looking for. There are quite a few texturally contrasting sections packed into three minutes, and it gives the ear a heck of a lot to latch onto. I wish it were more catchy, though. The melody is stagnant and sounds almost improvised. Love the guitar solo at the end, though. (Kings of Leon are two for two with those.) Towards the end of the album, we get four consecutive strong tracks: the clean, anthemic Notion, the plaintive I Want You (again reminds me of the Police), the weirdly held-back, tense Be Somebody, and the slow, gazey Cold Desert. The latter three are a bit more forgettable, but the former, Notion, is rightfully one of the bigger songs on the record. 4/5 Key tracks: Closer, Crawl, Notion

6/10 Best songs: Sex on Fire, Closer, Use Somebody To my knowledge I'd only ever heard Sex on Fire and Use Somebody before listening to this album. What's interesting is that I knew next to nothing about the band before starting the album, and almost instantly wondered if they were a Christian band (ugh). They aren't, as it turns out; but they are heavily influenced by their pentecostal upbringing (but not in the rah-rah-god kind of way). It's kind of interesting that that influence is so apparent. That being said... Outside of the singles, the album is kind of dull. I like the production and I appreciate that the band was (is?) doing rock music during a period when rock really isn't that popular, but it's just not my thing.

Sort sounds like if Steve Winwood fronted a mediocre Cage The Elephant tribute that got too big for its britches.

I'm glad this Kings of Leon album was added at some point to the "1001 Albums" series, as it's likely the best of the three that exist in the cumulative collection (I've only listened to their debut album prior to this one). Like a few other bands and albums, it's also an utter mystery exactly why the 2005 edition included their first two albums, then dropped those soon after, and at some brief point included this one, only to drop it later (or so it seems). Also curious to read (in Wikipedia) that Kings of Leon, and this album in particular, were indeed kings in Australia and the UK and elsewhere, far more successful outside their home country than within. I particularly enjoyed the opening three tracks "Closer", "Crawl" and "Sex on fire", and also the pair "I want you" and "Be somebody", but really there aren't too many weak points on the album, and they seem so much more interesting (and clearly older and wiser) than their debut album, although I suspect their early fans might not have enjoyed their more mainstream sound on this album.

This was fine--Sex on Fire was the only song that stood out to me but I didn't really get into anything on this album.

Love a couple of tracks, I think this is a 4 star for me. I listened to it in my car first and almost gave it a 3 but listened to it again with headphones and a much better experience. Not a car album!

Love it

This album isn't very good. It has weak lyrics delivered through even worse vocals and backed by a bog standard rock band. The music is easily the best part here, and it isn't particularly good, just passable. If their big album is this bad, not to mention completely inessential, then I don't have high expectations for anything else they made(including their two prior albums on the list). Also, any song about romancing a teenager ("17") can fuck right off, especially when it's on a newer album such as this(not that older ones are exempt).

!!!!!! !!!! no notes !!!!!

Was great

I liked Kings of Leon in my teenage years, but this was the point I lost interest. Bland radio friendly pop/rock, it’s listenable but mostly forgettable, there southern edge barely shining through . This band have never been good lyrically but when the music is flat those lyrics become much more present, just look at the first line to opener Closer- “Stranded in this spooky town”. The 2 mammoth hits are memorable because they have been played so many times. I hate Use Somebody. Crawl is the only song that has that dirty rock feel. Shocked that they have 3 albums on the list and totally unsurprised that they have none in the latest edition.

Honestly, you forget how good this album is and before you know it you haven’t skipped a song and your and play 2 all the way through again.

Very lukewarm

V/rv

I enjoyed this one

Starts and ends weak, but there's a solid run of songs in the middle.

I read in this band’s Wikipedia article that they named themselves after their grandfather. If I started a band honoring my grandfather and played music like this, my grandfather would rise from his grave and kill me.

Ot was OK, but just barely/

I mean it’s leagues better than the other album by this band I got, but it’s still pretty average - this is around a 2.5/5 rounded down for me

so THAT's what the kings of leon sound like. neat!

Not really a fan of the music, but knowing that they have ties to Talihina OK gives them an extra star. A lot of my family is from there and it holds a special place in my heart.

I seem to remember the singles off this album being played constantly everywhere for a while. They’re pretty good, despite being overplayed. A couple of duds on here too, but generally listenable without anything being amazing

Nostalgia probably doing a lot of heavy lifting here. To the extent that I was tempted by a fiver. However, although I enjoyed some of the less well known tracks, probably not quite enough for a perfect score. Simpsons: No

Couple of very well known songs that give a bit of nostalgia, however I'm not sure I've ever actually even been a fan of those songs. The album was fine but very interesting.

This is their big hitter; it's better than the others, but not by much.

Some bangers and the rest alright

ok. some hits. rockish. ballads.

The opening song Closer is very good, the next one is a bit of a Bullet the Blue Sky rip-off but it's catchy after that it's really just sub-U2/Coldplay snoozefest.

Haven't listened to this album since it came out, lots of nostalgia, don't listen to much Kings of Leon these days but it was enjoyable to go back and listen to it.

Solid!

Only By The Night turned out to be a really good album, In fact, it's the best Kings of Leon album i have heard. I always thought of Kings of Leon to just be this really typical and generic rock band and i expected this one to have the sound of that stuff a lot seeing as this album has all the songs i mainly know well from these guys and while it is kinda generic rock, it was still some very enjoyable stuff that was super pleasant to listen to. The guitars are really good here and i think Caleb Followill's voice is at it's best here since the songs feel like they are really well made around it. I didn't really expect this to be that much of an improvement over the other two Kings of Leon albums i heard but that's what it turned out to be. Best Song: Closer Worst Song: Manhattan Side Note: Since this is the last Kings of Leon album i'm doing, here are the rankings: 1. Only By The Night 2. Youth And Young Manhood 3. Aha Shake Heartbreak

I like the melodies and the guitar, could get a 4 based on that but the voice gets annoying after a while and covers up the rest. Manhattan would probably be the best discovery of this album 3.5

Transports me back to 2009, when I hated it. Not as bad of a listen as I was fearing but it is still tough to listen to it all, with so many overplayed tracks. Starts and finishes with nice tracks. 2.5.

All the songs sound very similar to me but i don’t mind because i like the ones i knew already. Very 2000s

I know this album. It's pretty good. My friends and I were obsessed with this when it came out.

Extra star for the nostalgia

Yes...being a millennial I can't help but rate this album higher than what it perhaps deserves. However, there are some REALLY good songs like Closer, Revelry, Notion, and Manhattan. Ok fine I like the whole album.

Solid soft rock album of 00s. Sex on Fire brings some nostalgic vibes

Die spar ich mir heute (heute kann ich keine Musik hören, auf die ich keine Lust hab) und gebe aus dem Gedächtnis 3: viele Melodien, von denen ich dachte, dass es sie schon gab; kam mir immer alles sehr naheliegend vor, aber ist ja auch nicht schlecht deswegen, sondern halt einfach … erfolgreich und aufmerksam?! Ich weiß, dass es mir besser gefällt als „Youth and young manhood“. Stattdessen heute seit Jahren mal wieder Mount Kimbies (5-Sterne-Album ;)) „Cold spring fault less“ 🥰

Ich fand die erste Hälfte richtig stark, in der zweiten Hälfte finden sich ein paar schwächere Tracks. Gefällt mir insgesamt aber deutlich besser als in meiner Erinnerung und besser als die Kings Of Leon auf ihren ersten zwei Alben.

Interesting

It brings up memories of when I was a teenager trying to sing Sex on fire and repeatedly failing miserably at the word sex in the chorus

Best thing you can do with this album is point at your ginger mates penis and belt out the chorus of "Sex on Fire". Always funny. 11 / 10 banter. 6 / 10 album

Ok album for me. I just never really was into Kings of Leon. I would rate it less but for some excellent songs and songwriting. I am just not into the voice too much of the lead singer.

This is the second or third Kings of Leon album I’ve listened to now. I think I’ve realized that while they play well I’m just not interested in their musical sensibility. I find it a bit dull

I know it's run of the mill adult contemporary rock, but I will eat this album up all day. Clean guitars and a raspy voice with a solid beat.

Amazing album.

Why is this the third Kings of Leon album I’ve had in this. They don’t deserve one album on this list, let alone three. Absolutely miserable and a waste of my time.

Thoroughly depressing stuff really. It possesses all the edge of those wooden spoons that come with mini tubs of ice cream at service stations, and all the danger of the lint I just scraped out from my belly button. If this album was a meal deal, it would be a plain ham sandwich, bag of ready salted crisps and a bottle of water. If it was a car, it would be a Vauxhall Astra. If it was a football commentator, it would be Michael Owen. If it was a TV show, it would be Deal or No Deal. If it was a town in the UK, it would be Grantham. If it was a video game, it would be Euro Truck Simulator. If it was a book, it would be a phone directory. If it was a past-time, it would be staring at your guinea pig predicting when it will yawn. No offence intended to any enjoyers of those things, or inhabitants of Grantham.

Ok, I'm familiar with KoL but never listened to this all the way through and never realized they were all on the same album. It was a jam. 4/5

Fairly average 2000's indie rock album. Surprised I recognized a track on here, but there were other songs that sounded very similar to it. 2.5/5 Probably won't listen again

Maybe my favorite of the King of the Arctic Strokes, Leon the Monkey Killer bunch. But now I want to see a movie about King Leon.

My guess is that this will be the last of their albums (chronologically) that makes this list.

Mainstream explosion, complete loss of led zeppelin-like vocals and not even an ounce of the screaming seen in the previous albums, still some belters 72/100

It's solid, though nothing really is great about it.

Loved that the sound is so of the 2000s and it took me back to fond memories of my formative teenage & uni years. Nostalgia aside, there was one single I'd forgotten (Revelry) but the rest was a bit bland. I've never liked Sex on Fire. 17 is gross and creepy.

It’s fine. Drummer carries.

Comercialy successful alternative Rock from 2008. Propper Brit-Pop.

Obviously knew a few of these songs, but what I learned from listening to the full album is that I’m not a huge fan of the vocal style, even on the tracks I really liked. Still, really enjoyed Sex on Fire and Use Somebody. Liked some of the other songs but as a whole I probably wouldn’t listen to the album again. Most of it felt fine as background music but outside of the ones I already knew, it just didn’t interest me that much. Fav song: Use Somebody Least fav: 17

Could have sworn they were British. I’ve been fooled. Decent album though. Sex on fire/ use somebody are bangsrs Specific rating - 4.3 Fav song- sex on fire Least fav- crawl

Some nostalgic hits that I’d happily sing along to on a night out but other than that the album didn’t do much for me. There were points where I found the way he was singing a bit annoying and singing about a 17 year old is an odd choice Favourite song: Use Somebody Least: 17

What a bad hang. This music sounds like a pharmaceutical ad. The album is an insincere and misguided mess, & listening to it makes me question whether or not I'm a functional member of society.

Just Kings of Mid being mid. I liked the riffs on the first two tracks, but the rest were very forgettable. They’re not bad, but everything sounds samey and uninspiring. It’s fine as background music, but literally nothing stands out.

Is the only reason this is here because of Use Somebody

No thanks. Sex on Fire was the bane of my life for a good 2 years. Still hate hearing it 17 years later (I'm old).

Awesome lp!

I had liked the few songs of theirs I had heard but was generally unfamiliar with them. Great album to start with! Not a single bad song. Good clean rock ‘n’ roll

Way too criticised for going commercial. Yes its more pop orientated but the atmosphere and sound is fantastic and the song writing is solid.

meh, yup that's kol for ya

Meh. Nothing special. The singer's voice grew more and more annoying the longer the album went on. 3/10

Sometimes I think I like KoL, and other times I'm just like "meh". It's almost as if it's mood dependent.

First 4 songs were amazing, especially the lead off track closer. the second half of the album falls flat.DID NOT LIKE 17.

Mood/Vibe: the last of the 2000s indie rock and roll Standout Tracks: All of them? No skip album. Sex On Fire & Use Somebody still deserve their flowers but Cold Desert & Notion have been added to the rotation. Replay? Immediate replay to really let the album sink in. Even better the second time around. Opening/Closing Songs: The opening track is Closer and what a great introduction. We get a clear understanding of the vibe of the album, funky synth sounds mixed with that heavy guitar that permeates the album. Solid open and a personal favourite. The closing track is Cold Desert. I love the fade out and fade back in. A last moment, a last hurrah. A triumphant ending to a triumphant album. Notes: The opening song gives me Imagine Dragons vibes. This album was owned by my mother I believe? Perhaps dad, but either way it was an album that got plays in our house in the late 2000s/early 2010’s. As a result this, listening to this album was washed with brilliant nostalgia mixed in with an adult appreciation of music and what makes it so fucking good. What a brilliant album to begin this project with. 5 stars for memorable, enjoyable, nostalgic, guitar-heavy, late-2000s masterpiece.

La voz de Anthony no es muy de mi agrado xd DEJA DE GRITARME POR FAVOR ESTOY SENSIBLE. Por lo demás, me gusta el sonido que tienen, se me hace un poco genérico o cliché pero hay alguna canción que he disfrutado bastante. En este álbum hay peazo de hits que han hecho historia, eso es indiscutible. Pero no ha habido nada que me haya llamada la atención especialmente

Początek bardzo dobry. Dużo wspomnień z czasów liceum. Potem już się wypłaszcza i wynudza, ale na 4 zasługuje.

I was fearing the worst here, so it could only end up being better than expected. Sex on fire is still an awful song that rock stations only play so they can say they also play modern rock. The other songs ranged from bad (17) to pretty enjoyable (the opener, Closer). It's not really bad music, but it's very milquetoast and wholly generic because of it. The singing is a bit hit or miss, it does work for some tracks. Not an album I'd listen to again, but I'd be lying if I called it one of the worst albums on here.

309/1089 - Not as bad as I thought it was gonna be. Some of the instrumentals are pretty good and show nice use of layering but the main singer's voice is quite obnoxious.

- two songs in and I REALLY like this type of music -love the all the instruments

Pretty great tbh

A really good album that is completely new to me. The singers voice and the space they leave between the singing in a lot of the songs is great. It feels very thoughtfully done. Definitely a band I want to listen to more in the future.

Surprised that there’s not one, but two albums of theirs on this list. Hearing the two main singles 1000 times over the years aside, Aha Shake Heartbreak had more going on to grab me than this, which was more of a slow burn.

Just okay.

If I could give this negative stars I would

This album came out at a transitional point in my life, it marks the time I turned in to an adult. I was an expectant Father, had my first real car (not a shitbox) and a respectable job finally. Trip listening to it end to end tbh as I haven't really since I lost my cd. That haunting opening track of Closer, the chug of Crawl, the pure extacy of Sex on Fire. Manhattan, Notion, Revelry. This is actually a banger.

Kings of American Mediocrity

Sure. Why not have this album on the list. It’s actually insane to me how popular this band is, but I guess everyone yearns for that late 2000’s rock lmao. It’s really inoffensive, there’s nothing bad to this album at all.

Not surprised if the list makers would have chosen this album on the first list, however adding this on to the later additions is quite strange. Sure I do enjoy this Sex is on Fire and Use Somebody as the average person does. But the rest of the album is like alright, but they really feel like album tracks that feel sweet, but lacking any real substance that the hits produce. Honestly it’s a good indie rock album that I’m sure my girlfriend would more enjoy than me.

And here’s the sellout album. Alt rock radio milked everything this album had (shoutout Philly radio 104.5). It’s still solid though. Favorite songs were Crawl, Sex On Fire, Use Somebody, and Revelry.

I like old KoL… if albums 1 and 2 are a bbq in the backyard, this one is processed McDonalds shit.. 2.5/5

No surprise this was quite popular concurrently while Dane Cook's star was brightest. Read into that however you'd like... Still like both and I'm not sure if I should be ashamed and/or brave in my exclamation. One of my favorite album openers: CLOSER. Jumping into CRAWL

Great top to bottom

I need some answers as to why the UK loves Kings of Leon. When their other album came up on here, I was like oh cool whatever, this is no Sex On Fire. But now we’re here and I still am wondering why they’re here. I like this album but I’m just confused!!!!

I love this album! sex on fire, use somebody and closer are some fo my favorite songs on this one!

3.5

Overwrought late oughts rock. 1.5/5.0: Bad

ive never understood the appeal of these guys. ive always thought their big singles were pretty average yet those were the better tracks from the album. also considering this came out in 2008, no one thought to tell these guys that grown men singing about teenagers wasn't acceptable anymore?

Really good,

One of these guys had something to do with the Nashville Food & Wine Festival. Weird.

2.5

Okay hear me out, Kings of Leon are like ranch dip. Like it's fine and goes with a lot of things. It has things that standout and it blends well. It comes from multiple good sources to make something cohesive. It's just pretty generic and doesn't do a lot by itself. I can completely see why they are successful and it isn't even that there isn't any heart in this, but it's just, ranch.

We don't need 3 Kings of Leon albums on this list. This is probably the one to keep tho. Sanitized production, boring vocals, and decent compositions. It's been a while, but this is a candidate for replacing the vocals with a trumpet. Replace one of the other Kings of Leon albums with the Creed album or something. I mean there was room for Kid Rock.

Bass was consistently great but rest of this was a little up and down. Manhattan, Closer and Cold Desert worked. Revelry, 17 and Be Somebody not so much

Unremarkable. The two songs I'd heard before were the only decent ones. The singer's whiny voice gets old very quickly

I actually listened to this multiple times it was very good

Like the mix of electric guitar and piano in “Notion”. “Revelry” reminds me of a song by another artist but I don’t remember the title. Oh wait, it was a song from the same album “Use Somebody”. Lol

Familiar, I enjoyed it.

Workmanlike

Better than the other Leon album I heard, good rock but nothing beyond that.

This seems to be an eariler example of the pop rock that really sucked in the 2000s. I happened to be in a great mood listening to this and I liked it. It has some hits and hit a nice sonic middle ground of melodic and anthemic. The kings got lucky with this one.

A little bit of nostalgia for this.

There's one notable thing about this album I think, and it's that the songs are written (or at least performed) by seemingly good musicians. "Closer" and "Manhattan" are both non trivial to play rock songs with relatively non-pop beats. It takes time to be able to play songs like that in time and in tune and no amount of computer can fix the first part if your rhythm section isn't actually good. The rest of this is really forgettable. The singer is distinct, but not in a good way, it sounds like he's always shouting. This is music for a suburban parent or socially inept teenager who is too afraid to listen to anything heavier and considers this "hard rock".

9/10

I can actually remember the raw, visceral response to my first listen of this album. I wasn't even mad, I was just 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥. It even starts off so well. Closer is, ironically, a fantastic opener, and then Crawl was like a polished but still gnarly offcut from this album's predecessor, the superb Because Of The Times. And then the whole thing sinks to the abyss of bland, radio-friendly pop-rock, never to return. Sex On Fire is the prime suspect here, exposing the band to a huge new audience and setting the wheels in motion for a sell out on a spectacular scale. It used to really bother me that people would associate this band entirely with that one awful song, but thankfully, I simply grew out of them and was able to stop even wasting my time, money or energy raising any excitement for their subsequent releases. I read somewhere that they actually hated those early years and felt that after this point they started to make the music that they really liked and wanted to make. Well, fair enough, I'm happy for them. But if they really want to be making stuff like 17 and Revelry then I won't be buying it. Their first three LPs were formative and hugely influential in my life. I suppose while Closer remains a great opener, it was the beginning of the end for me.

I can't say that I was crazy about this one. Kings of Leon are pretty dull all in all. It was so inoffensive that it almost became offensive. Listenable if nothing else.

i cant bring myself to care

The big riffs and solos on this dress it up as a rock album, but strip away those elements and it would probably sound a lot more like Imagine Dragons than you'd think. The pop elements - shimmering guitars on "Be Somebody," a big pulsing back beat on "Crawl" - are just as big. Almost everything about this album is big though; it's clear it's trying to be an album of anthems and meaningful songs. It sometimes succeeds, like on "Sex on Fire," which gets into a good groove and has a chorus that feels triumphant. But elsewhere, like on "Use Somebody," it feels overwrought, like it's trying too hard. The vocals are dramatic and cloying, sometimes strained. It works at times as a pop rock album, but it usually doesn't have the songs or ideas to back up the feelings it's trying for.