0470. Kings Of Leon
Aha Shake Heartbreak

Very similar to their first album, Kings Of Leon's follow-up is an okay album, but not much more. Though Caleb's started to sound a bit more like he's actually interested in what he's saying (which makes it kind of meta when he, in Day Old Blues, has a line abour "boys are gonna hate the way I sing" (yes, I do listen to the lyrics of each and every album)).

For some reason I phaze out for a while during the first listen and actually can't remember one thing from two and a half of the songs (including the single Four Kicks), so I'm glad I made it a rule to listen to every album at least twice.
But still, almost all songs after Day Old Blues turns into a haze that doesn't lift completely until the bonustrack Where Nobody Knows. A track that, by the way, ends very abruptly. Even when I only replay those three tracks they elude me. and that's not a good grade.

I can't frickin' believe this has sold almost a million units.

…and then this was thankfully removed from the list.

Replaced by:

Radiohead
In Rainbows

Darn, this of course replaced Hail To The Thief in the book, but I missed it for some reason. Ah well. But you know what? I can't really say that this is better than Hail To The Thief. I mean In Rainbows is good, but it's got some ways to go.

It starts out just fine with the semi-breakbeat based 15 Step, but pretty quickly it goes down into a bog of lonely piano songs more reminiscient of a singer/songwriter album than the Radiohead we know and love.

But the reason for this making the list (even though it's not a reason for kicking their previous release off it) is that they released it as a downloadable that people could pay what they wanted for and it was kind of a success.