Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times
NME.COM feature on Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Album Review
Release date: 30 March 2007
Kings Of Leon: Because Of The Times
After the four-year party, the Followills come of age
R emember Kings Of Leon? Or has it been too long? They were Tennessee’s very own apple-shaking, cinnamon-throwing, gak-hoovering answer to The Waltons, raised in the not-so-spacious backseat of a destitute 1988 Oldsmobile driven by their pa around the American south’s Bible Belt while he preached fire, brimstone and sulphurous lakes of flame to the faithful. However, after not unreasonably...
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- Knocked Up
- Charmer
- On Call
- McFearless
- Black Thumbnail
- My Party
- True Love Way
- Ragoo
- Fans
- The Runner
- Trunk
- Camaro
- Arizona
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Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times: Wikipedia Album Entry
Because of the Times is the third album by Kings of Leon. Because of the Times was released by Kings of Leon on March 30, 2007 in Ireland/Australia, April 2, 2007 in the United Kingdom and April 3, 2007 in the United States. The album has received generally positive reviews and has appeared in numerous Top-10 lists for "Album of the Year. In 2009, Clash named the album number 3 on the "Clash Essential 50", a list of the most important albums released since the magazine's inception in 2004.
Reception
The album was #6 in NME albums of the year, as well as #31 on Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums of 2007. NME said that the album "cements Kings of Leon as one of the great American bands of our times" and Entertainment Weekly called Because of the Times "an epic wide-screen movie of a CD and the band's best to date." Another reviewer described Because of the Times as, "an accomplished album of unbelievable beauty and familiar, loveable grit. Kings of Leon is maturing wonderfully and with patience, not forcing anything musically or lyrically that doesn’t sound natural." However, some critics found the album inferior to their previous efforts. Stylus Magazine rated it a C- and noted "If they wanted us to take them serious this time around, they'd at least try to be right honest about their ascent into minor celebrity and not keep on with the yokel façade. Without cautionary yarns regarding life on the tour bus or banging supermodels, the bright-eyed, legs-stretched mood of the music rings just as hollow." Dave Hood of Artrocker gave the album one star out of five, finding that " Kings of Leon are experimenting, learning, and getting a bit lost." Pitchfork Media contended that "Because of the Times sound suspiciously like a counterattack on womankind, launched from somewhere in the mid-1990s, deep inside a bruised, stadium-sized ego." It is certainly not as good as Aha Shake Heartbreak for a road trip across the United States.
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Kings of Leon - Because Of The Times Lyrics
Kings of Leon - McFearless Lyrics
Strange living with a name
They get the best of me
But I'm gon' walk away
Kings of Leon - Camaro Lyrics
She look so cool in her new Camaro
It's black as coal and it goes boy, go, go, go
I brought my bike next to her Camaro
And when I fire on a smile then she blows, she blows
Kings of Leon - Trunk Lyrics
I got what she wants
Ah, her nose, a tied knot
I got one mile to go
On down the road, on down the road
Kings of Leon - The Runner Lyrics
Hard times as we go, we know what times will change
I talked to Jesus, Jesus says I'm okay
Pushin' and jumpin', jumpin' the mountain range
And in a railroad, railroad from hell to Maine
Kings of Leon - Fans Lyrics
Home grown
Back to the rhythm and back to the beat of the radio
You ain't got the slang but you got the face to play the role
You can't play with me
Kings of Leon - Ragoo Lyrics
I wanna say here's to me gonna change the world
Now I wanna play till they kicking down the door
I'll be alright long as I ain't seen it all
And I'mma holding tight to that night we had a ball, we had a ball
Kings of Leon - True Love Way Lyrics
Warning like a substitute, I've been working awful hard for you
But you don't say, you just hold your breath
So I can't touch what I haven't yet
Kings of Leon - My Party Lyrics
Itâs changing all to yellow and itâs carving a path
So now weâre on our way
Itâs taking us on journeys
While we wipe away frowns amongst the crowded place
Kings of Leon - Black Thumbnail Lyrics
My cold, cold, sailor heart says get on your way
I ain't to proud to say but that's how I'm made
I'll be that person 'till my dying day
I try so awful hard, but I can't change
Kings of Leon - On Call Lyrics
She said call me now baby, I'd come running
She said call me now baby, I'd come running
If you call me now baby, I'd come running
Kings of Leon - Charmer Lyrics
She's such a charmer, oh, no
She's such a charmer, oh, no
She's always looking at me
She's always looking at me
Kings of Leon - Knocked Up Lyrics
I don't care what nobody says
We're gonna have a baby
Taking off in a Coup De Ville
She's buckled up on Navy
Kings of Leon - Arizona Lyrics
Now taste
All I ever needed
All I ever wanted
So hold on to surrender
