Kings of Leon - "Only By The Night" Era

[EPG]

Just barely got the album right now. Let you guys now how I like it. "Use Somebody" is amazing!

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Jul 26, 2009 16:43:16 GMT -5 Active Aggressive said:

Hmm:

1. Radiohead
2. Kings of Leon
3. The Killers
4. Led Zeppelin
5. Arcade Fire
6. Mariah Carey
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
8. Coldplay
9. The Strokes
10. DMB

*The first three are fixed and the others vary maybe. I snuck Mariah in there because she is my favorite SINGER...not necessarily favorite artist but I didn't want to leave her out.

There's nothing on ur list I don't like.

[Active Aggressive]

;)

Are you not Tweeting anymore?

[martss]

This band rocks my world. Love these dudes.
Saw 'em live. AWESOME.

[Active Aggressive]

Yah. I can't wait to see them again in September!

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Jul 27, 2009 6:34:15 GMT -5 Active Aggressive said:

;)

Are you not Tweeting anymore?

Not that often, too busy :(

[blurple]

#1 and #3 album on iTunes!

[Chelsea Press 2]

from Billboard.com

Kings Of Leon Ready Remix Album, Live DVD
by Gary Graff, Detroit | August 26, 2009 11:24 EDT

Even though Kings of Leon continue to tour in the wake of 2008's platinum "Only By Night," the group is planning a couple of new projects for the fall -- and is starting to focus on its next album.

Though both are untitled and unscheduled at the moment, the quartet plans to release a live DVD and a remix album in the coming months. The former was filmed at London's O2 Arena in July, an appropriate locale since, as drummer Nathan Followill tells Billboard.com, "England is really the first place we broke...We figured what better place to make a live DVD than where the fans have been the craziest for the longest?" The show featured some choice rarities, and Followill says "we just put the cameras in the back of our minds and acted like they weren't even there."

Even more exciting, however, is a remix album that came to life after Kings of Leon learned that other artists such as Justin Timberlake and Pharrell had started working on revisions of the band's songs. Mark Ronson, Kenna, Lykke Li and Linkin Park are also contributing remixes, according to Followill.

"It's neat to have these people who we would've jumped at the chance to work with ourselves...coming to us before we even get a chance to ask them," the drummer says. "It's amazing to hear your song played by these people who are so creative. Most of the time it takes me two or three listens to even wrap my head around, 'Oh man, that's our song...'"

While all that is going on, Kings of Leon are pondering the release of another single for "Only By Night" -- Followill is thumping for "Notion" -- but will not, as rumored, be contributing anything to the soundtrack for "New Moon," the second film in the "Twilight" series. Frontman Caleb Followill, meanwhile, is preparing for a fall appearance as a guest judge on "Iron Chef," which brother Nathan, who's getting married in November, says "is awesome...Me and him are really big fans of nice meals and nice wine, but we just let him do it because I'm usually so drunk by the end of the meal that I probably would not make any sense on that show and they would have to bleep out a lot more than they could use."

Amidst all this, Kings of Leon has been working on new material, mostly at sound checks, and has "a good eight or 10 ideas kicking around" according to drummer Followill. "The new stuff is all over the place," he reports. "I call it 'Aha Shake...' but by guys that are a little grown-up and a little better at their instruments. There's stuff that sounds like Radiohead. There's stuff that sounds like Thin Lizzy. There's stuff that sounds like The Band. We're pretty much to the point now where...we can be experimental and try stuff we would've been scared to death to try on the first couple of records. Now we find ourselves being a little more adventurous."

The group plans to enjoy the holidays at home, but Followill doesn't expect the quartet to stay at rest for long. "At the end of every record cycle," he notes, "we're like, 'Dude, we're taking a year off.' We get home and after two weeks of sitting on our ass we're like, 'Y'all wanna rehearse or something?' and that gets the creative juices flowing and leads to writing and before you know it, we're back at it."

[WotUNeed]

KoL have already officially released remixes by Ronson ("Pistol of Fire"), Kenna ("My Party"), and Lykke Li ("Knocked Up"), so it'll be interesting to see if that article is talking about new remixes by these folks, or just throwing on the old ones. I hope the former.

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'I hope both. The remix album wouldn't be complete without Ronson's "Pistol of Fire".

Thin Lizzy? The Band? ...Sounds great! I love KoL...

[busyboy]

Kings of Leon clash over royalties

Rockers Kings Of Leon are at war over royalty payments - bassist Jared Followill has accused his brother Caleb of attempting to cash in on the band's next album.

The Sex On Fire hitmakers scored a massive international hit with their last record, Only By The Night, which became one of the highest-selling albums of 2008.

But the success has fuelled the notoriously volatile relationship between the family band, and Jared Followill admits their latest fight is over song-writing credits for their upcoming fifth album.

He says, "We started seriously writing the songs when we got back home from tour. I got a call from Caleb going, 'I'm sitting here writing the next album by myself.' And we're like, 'Oh no, you're not!'

"We ended up going to his house so that when the record comes out he can't go, 'Dude, I'm getting 70 per cent of this s**t.'"

While guitarist Matthew adds, "We basically go to his house for the royalties."

Jared admits he has always found it difficult working with his brother, especially when they first formed the band: "Caleb was really weird when we first started. Everything that I thought was charming about us, he wanted us to lie about.

"For me, it's hard even having an opinion on this band. If I wasn't involved, I can't imagine liking us a lot, just because I only control 25 per cent of it. In every song there's something I wish I could change. Each one of us are like that, though."

uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/12102009/364/kings-leon-clash-royalties.html&e=l_news_dm

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Nu Nirvana!

[Active Aggressive]

Oh GAH! If they break up, I will jump off the nearest bridge.

[switch]

They can NOT break up. No no no no no no.


NO.

[areyoureadytojump]

4/3/10 BB200:

56 KINGS OF LEON ONLY BY THE NIGHT 9,959 -6% 10,585 1,867,317 (1xp)

[Active Aggressive]

Beautiful sales! That's what I like to see!

[PDC1987]

4/24/2010 Billboard 200

63 KINGS OF LEON ONLY BY THE NIGHT 6823 -23 8819 1891980

[busyboy]

The new album is titled Come Around Sundown and will drop on October 19th.

[marcjm]

They are touring, but I am disappointed they are not coming anywhere near me.

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^ I know, right?

[Call Me Crazy]

I hope the album is better than last time. I was really disappointed after I bought it for "Use Somebody" and really didn't love any of the other songs on it.

[starr]

From Lloyd's Twitter:

August 9

Just watched Kings of Leon live on dvd. I think Caleb Followhill has THE DOPEST voice in all of music.