Because Of The Times

Customer reviews

• Voll aufdrehen !!

  Written on 16. May 2014 by Reto Frei 71.

• die glühbirne is echt toll

  Written on 22. May 2011 by weisch wiä.

  wow, super schönes super cover mit super farben. fantastisch anzusehen

• Nehm ich in meine Liste auf!

  Written on 21. February 2011 by c-real.

  Wow, das tönt ja mega geil! Tja, man sollte nicht immer gleich alles was im Radio läuft als Quatsch abtun. Manchmal (aber ganz selten) läuft sogar im Radio was Gutes...

• UIUIUI

  Written on 01. December 2008 by Boba Fett.

  von wegen album des jahres. album des JAHRHUNDERTS ist besser!!!!!!

• MEISTERWERK

  Written on 25. September 2007 by ham on rye.

  Album des Jahres!! Ohne wenn und aber!!

• Massive!

  Written on 21. September 2007 by Lonely Town.

  Wow, ich höre dieses Album tag ein tag aus, daher, nach mehreren Monaten ist es Zeit, dieses Meisterwerk zu kommentieren.
  Seit The Strokes' Is This It hatte kein Album so einen Effekt auf mich. Die Kings of Leon fand ich schon seit dem ersten Album Youth and Young Manhood genial! KOL a band to stay... Genial, mehr gibt es nicht zu sagen über diese 3 gebrüder und ihrem cousin.

• Album des Jahres?

  Written on 21. August 2007 by Rosu.

  Für mich ist es das...sofar...
  Hammer-Album...WOW...

• ohne worte

  Written on 13. June 2007 by murmel.

• vielschichtig und differenziert

  Written on 03. June 2007 by RolfWyss.

  Der zweite Longplayer des Quartetts aus Nashville, "Aha Shake Heartbreak", erschien bereits 2004. Für den Nachfolger ließen sich die Amerikaner bewusst Zeit. Das zahlt sich jetzt aus, denn die Kings Of Leon holen nun zum großen Schlag aus. Die vier Söhne eines Priesters klingen diesmal um einiges entspannter als vor drei Jahren. Standen damals noch dreckige Gitarrensounds und wütende Gesangsattacken im Mittelpunkt, so lassen sich Nathan, Caleb, Jared und Matthew Followills diesmal durch nichts und niemand aus der Ruhe bringen. Bereits der hypnotische Einstieg mit "Knocked Up" zeigt, dass die vier viel dazugelernt haben. Trotz aller Entspanntheit wissen sie allerdings immer noch, wie ein guter Rocksong klingen muss. Nummern wie "McFearless", "Black Thumbnail" oder "Charmer" sind aber trotzdem weitaus weniger aggressiv als das alte Material der Band. Unterstützt von ihren langjährigen Produzenten Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Ben Kweller) und Angelo Patraglia liefern Kings of Leon ihr bisher bestes und vielseitigstes Album ab, auf dem sie sich keine Schwachstelle leisten. Wer eingängiges Radiofutter sucht, sollte sich aber anderswo umhören...

• saugut

  Written on 03. June 2007 by mockingbird.

  She's such a charmer oh no....
  She's always looking at me....
  
  i bi ou am luege (zuelose) u zwar am aubum 2007...

• Lobeshymnen

  Written on 21. May 2007 by Thomas/Thöme.

  Eine sackstarke CD! Manometer, läuft bei mir in Dauerrotation. Wächst mit jedem Durchlauf mehr, und das sind die geilsten Alben, die auch nach Jahren noch Hammer sind.

• Hammer!

  Written on 27. April 2007 by Georgia.

  Dieses Album ist der helle Wahn! Ein Song besser als der andere, läuft bei mir zur Zeit rauf und runter. Und diese Stimme... genial!

• meine Fresse

  Written on 13. April 2007 by 24-7 Punisher.

  goht jo ab wiae aen toeff!!! mit dae doves und shout out louds und rapture momentan s'best wo giz.

• !!

  Written on 03. April 2007 by viehme.

  einfach stark!

• WOW

  Written on 30. March 2007 by tulips.

  ach du schande, dieses album ist richtig gross. ich meine GROSS. der sound ist etwas erwachsener gewordener ohne allerdings erwachsen geworden zu sein. meines erachtens noch grossartiger als aha shake heartbreak.

• ^

  Written on 29. March 2007 by '.

  They don't make seven-minute doomed-teen-lover melodramas like the Kings of Leon's "Knocked Up" anymore. This is the Tennessee band's big album-opening saga, building from quiet to loud with guitar licks that sound like the Edge fried in okra, with ominous thunderclap drumrolls. Caleb Followill chokes on his story: He and his cowgirl are gonna have a baby, her mama don't like it, they don't care, they're hitting the road in a Coupe de Ville, no doubt just one step ahead of The Man. "I've taken all I've had to take/This takin's gonna shake me," Caleb declares with his usual throaty passion, gunning for the border as the guitars weave between U2 and Uriah Heep. Car + girl + lots and lots of guitar = "Knocked Up." Kings of Leon make it sound so simple -- and so funny -- they make you forget how many other bands go soft trying to run this same road.
  It's an excellent opener to an excellent third album from the Kings. Because of the Times, named after a Southern preachers' conference that the boys used to attend with their Pentecostal minister father, is a whole album full of songs inspired by the only topic the Kings seem to care about: no-good women, the kind who turn nice country boys into thieves, fugitives or corpses, and make them love every sordid second of it. These are sons of the preacher man: singer-guitarist Caleb, bassist Jared and drummer Nathan are brothers, while cousin Matthew plays lead guitar. The Followills grew up living in a car with their defrocked itinerant minister daddy, Leon, and they basically went into the same business, except they've got sticky fingers for sin. On anthemic kickers like "Black Thumbnail," "My Party" and "On Call," they flare up like Black Oak Arkansas on a jag with the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and the Amazing Rhythm Aces.
  
  When the Kings first arrived on the garage-rock scene a few years ago, they whipped up so much interest right away, nobody really minded that they weren't any good. Their Grizzly Adams beards, their Bible-thumping family background -- it all fed into their fans' Huck Finn fantasy of unspoiled backwoods boogie. Well, the back story was cute for about five minutes, but the songs didn't get the job started until their second album, the stunning (and sorely underrated) Aha Shake Heartbreak. From the sounds of the record, the Kings had met a few girls on the road and gotten their asses handed to them. There were all sorts of new energy and wit in the Strokes-Skynyrd music as the Kings unloaded their fantastic groupie tales -- the girl in "Soft" would paint your toes and let her "perfect nipples" show, while the girl in "Milk" had an hourglass body and lent you her toothbrush.
  
  Because of the Times is even better -- the band doesn't fuss with any sort of rootsy purism, which is why it gets away with retro moves that would sound soft from anybody else. Matthew Followill keeps getting more expansive dynamics out of his guitar, with salutary Euro influences -- "Charmer" has a driving guitar riff swiped from Wire's "Ex Lion Tamer," probably by way of Blur's "Song 2." "Trunk" has loony, high-lonesome oooohs over some serious swamp-blues guitar murk. Folksy ballads like "Fans" and "The Runner" remind you that the Kings could be as facile as the Black Crowes or Nickelback if they were content to aim that low. Caleb's vocals continue to defy description: Steppenwolf's John Kay after a nad-crushing motorcycle crash? The Band's Richard Manuel with scurvy? Dave Matthews getting ripped apart by wolverines? And did I mention the lyrics? Ridiculous little monsters, they are, fit to get brutally stomped into the dirt, which in fact is exactly how Caleb treats them. How good can the Kings of Leon get? On Because of the Times, they've already gone further than anybody could have guessed.

• freude herrscht indeed

  Written on 29. March 2007 by Osterhase.

  und wenn man den kritiken von der insel glauben schenken darf, ist dies das bisher stärkeste album der kings...

• Mr

  Written on 26. March 2007 by Robin Hood.

  Wird es das Album des Jahres 2007? Könnte sehr gut sein!

• Bring It On!

  Written on 26. February 2007 by Asap.

  ^_^

• live!

  Written on 01. July 2008 by me.
  This customer review refers to a alternative version.

  they should really make a live-cd, they sound so great on stage!

• NEW ALBUM

  Written on 25. June 2008 by digital.
  This customer review refers to a alternative version.

  ein neues album kommt am 22.9. :-)