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- Summary: This is the debut full-length for the Nashville-based rock band consisting of three brothers (the sons of a preacher) and their cousin.
- Record Label: RCA
- Genre(s): Rock, Alt-Country
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California Waiting | |
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Little Mona Lisa laying by my side "Crimson and Clover" pullin' overtime I feel too close to be losin' touch By givin' in, what am I givin' up? Am I... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 21
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Mixed: 2 out of 21
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Negative: 1 out of 21
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UncutMakes you want to chain-smoke while swigging a quart of Jim by the neck and taking agreeable houswives to stud. [Aug 2003, p.110]
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Youth & Young Manhood is 2003's finest rock debut.
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If Alabama's Drive-by Truckers are the Second Coming of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tennessee's Kings of Leon are ZZ Top -- barons of boogie.
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FilterDespite their penchant for over-the-top tribute, Kings of Leon recycle classic rock 'n' roll with such earnestness and ebullience, that it's hard not to sing along. [#6, p.88]
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BlenderTheir debut throbs like the Strokes with cross-eyed parents, their songs gritty and economical, their drummer nasty in all the best places. [Aug 2003, p.126]
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There's absolutely nothing revolutionary about what these guys are pulling, but they synthesize a gritty staccato new wave attack with the arrogant, swaying machismo of old school boogie with an authority far beyond their few years.
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The songs are so generic that the only thing left at the record's conclusion is the feeling of how hollow and insubstantial the whole thing is.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 37
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Mixed: 4 out of 37
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Negative: 1 out of 37
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Aug 18, 2014
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karlhDec 23, 2005As many ''buzz bands'' do the kings of Leon create allot of love/hate divide
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frankdDec 11, 2003Killer.
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ZachDec 21, 2008
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RabRApr 1, 2004Rock N Roll at its finest. What a debut, roll on the second album.
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Oct 10, 2017
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SamWJul 2, 2005
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