I’m trying not to make this become a music blog, but I cannot NOT post my latest addiction to KOL. Kings of Leon is just good, plain ol dirty guitar rock. It’s like Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, and the Black Crowes all got together to form VOLTRON a jam session soaked in tragic and passionate lyrics. Check out the poetry in Arizona on their latest album Because of The Times:

The taste all I ever needed
All I ever wanted too dumb to surrender
She shakes like the morning railway
Checking me out with someone on her shoulder

The lamp flickers in the bedroom
She must feel as awkward
Whorehouse Arizona

And I go stand up to a giant
Say that I’m a fighter too drunk to remember

My face laying on the pavement
Tasting something awful
I hate it when that happens

And she waves thinking that it’s sexy
She must be plum crazy
I kind of think I like her
Kind of think I do

And on the same CD is the love affair within True Love Way:

I want in, 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
She’s a poor one and it hurts me so
And it’s a dark path and a heck of a cold
And she can feel me like she did before

Oh we’d be so free
Happy alone
Sharing a smile
So far from home

Push in and I pull it away
It a hard part but the true love way
Girl you’re wanted like a wanted man
With your smart mouth and your killer hands
With a potion oh that I have made
For a young man its a heck of a wage
And i feel crazy when I see your face

Cause we’d be so free
Happy alone
Sharing a smile
So far from home
And we would laugh
Laugh till we cry
Making a song
Making me lie

And people say I’m crazy for walking this town
And people say I’m bigger for walking this town
And people say maybe that its coming around
And people say I’m bigger for walking a…

And we’d be so free
Happy alone
Sharing a smile
So far from home
And we would laugh
Laugh till we cry
Making a song
Making me lie
Happy alone

Both songs represent their lyrical genius. There’s also Fans, Knocked Up, Black Thumbnail, and Ragoo to just name a few. Almost every song has the potential of being release as a single. This CD is the second actual CD I’ve purchased in the past 4 years. Everything else I bought (does borrowed count?) digitally. Because of the Times is THAT good.

UPDATE: Kings of Leon are playing The Joint in Las Vegas on September 11. I have already bought my tickets, now I need to convince my wife to come along with me (I told her it would be the religious experience she had been seeking for). Maybe I’ll just have to find someone else that appreciates good music.

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