KINGS OF LEON
Aha Shake Heartbreak
RCA
· I've never met anyone who digs Kings of Leon that I've liked.
First time around, the Kings of Leon cruised along on that misguided wave of ’70s throwback business that had everyone dressed up in trucker hats and throwing down a dollar for the Best Of Lynyrd Skynyrd (ha ha ho hum) at yard sales. Aha Shake Heartbreak is their difficult second album, and the boys in the band are not quite ready to be international superstars, but more than willing to suck even harder this time around.
A group of Hanson-like siblings from the South, the Followill brothers get deep in songs like "King of The Rodeo" (bleh), "The Bucket" (heh) and "Razz." Everything blows with these guys, right down to their conceptual rocker beards (now – shock of shocks – gone!) and tight little pants.
A friend of mine somehow ended up suffering through a show by the Kings of Leon and his memories involve a band onstage talking about "poon," an audience member demanding a girl on her boyfriend's shoulders show everyone her tits (which she did), and finally deciding he'd had enough after a half-full pint of beer hit him in the head. I also once worked with a fellow who really dug these guys and he was a right jerk of the highest order.
So, besides the record itself making me wish for something heavy to fall on me (or better yet them) while it's playing, to borrow (and paraphrase) a pearl of wisdom from Sloan: "It's not just the band I hate – it's also their fans."
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