1. Closer 2. Crawl 3. Sex On Fire 4. Use Somebody 5. Manhattan 6. Revelry 7. 17 8. Notion 9. I Want You 10. Be Somebody 11. Cold Desert

Already on course to be one of the year s biggest sellers, Only By the Night has sealed Kings of Leon s unlikely position as Britain s favourite American rock band. The Followill brothers (and cousin) have always been tagged as part of a southern rock tradition of family bands such as the Allmans and Lynyrd Skynyrd, a label they vehemently refuted. But the skinny lads certainly looked like a classic rock act, even as they took musical inspiration from indie contemporaries The Strokes and eighties new wave acts such as The Cure and New Order. Only By the Night is effectively a sequel to 2006 s terrific Because of the Times, their third record and the first where they nailed their own sound, a striking amalgam of bluesy vocals and post-punk primitivism. In comparison Only By the Night consolidates rather than advances their style. The appropriately incoherent Sex on Fire, already a chart topping single, is catchy but sounds lightweight next to songs like the fierce Crawl and the stadia-r...

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#here s how to get the latest iPod for next to nothing, (2008-12-04) YouriPod. co. cc So everyone wants one!!!! Stylish ,compact , everything you need and best of all here s how you can get it for next to nothing!! To get one go to YouriPod. co. cc sign up and complete ONE offer - you choose which offer best suits you maybe a dvd rental trial , bingo , a football bet , even aa cover there are loads to choose from and a lot of them are free ! recently featured in T3 magazine as a great way to get a cheap/free gadget and also the 8BC showed how this works on the newsnightYou can choose f...

#A good album for your first KOL purchase (2008-11-29) As a newcomer to KOL, having seen and liked KOL at several festival gigs on television this year (2008), I decided to buy a couple of their albums, this one, and Because of the Times. OBTN is definitely my favourite - a real grower. There s a sense of atmosphere, and production values recalling at times both U2 and Big Country, whilst very definitely remaining uniquely Kings of Leon. Whilst I like a number of the tracks on BOTT, I find some of the writing on it somewhat clunky and disjointed - great rock anthemy stuff for earlier...

#Kings Of Modern American Rock (2008-11-29) Like a lot of people I bought based on Sex On Fire and quite liked Use Somebody too. Thing is, when I listened to this in my car after buying, I realised right from the opening Closer that there is quite a lot more to it that those songs. I am a music lover and buy a lot of cds based on a whim but this is one of those albums that stands out and I know I will never grow tired of this. The lead singers voice is just outstanding and sounds just as good live from when Ive seen them on TV, they are also all fantastic musicians. Rarely do bass p...

#BIG LET DOWN (2008-11-29) Very much looking forward to hearing this album but was very disappointed by the whole thing. I found it really boring with little variation.

1. If There s a Rocket Tie Me To It 2. Crack The Shutters 3. Take Back The City 4. Lifeboats 5. The Golden Floor 6. Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands 7. Set Down Your Glass 8. The Planets Bend Between Us 9. Engines 10. Disaster Button 11. The Lightning Strike

The Snow Patrol we meet on A Hundred Million Suns is a band facing the same dilemma that Coldplay met on 2008 s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, having conquered the world with a rousing, melancholy brand of MOR indie, where now? On the surface, A Hundred Million Suns seems to suggest, nowhere especially new: producer Jacknife Lee, who first worked with the band on 2003 s Final Straw and went on to work with the likes of U2 and REM returns to the fold, and an opening brace of songs suggest that a successful formula--chiming guitars, gentle builds, and Gary Lightbody s quavering, tremulous vocal--persists. Still, Take Back The City, a windswept, electronic-tinged rocker, rather does for this band what Dakota did for Stereophonics, proving that a spot of sleek, synthetic motorik is not beyond their grasp, and there s a new, bright optimism to Lightbody s lyrics that sets the likes of The Planets Bend Between Us in light relief to some of Snow Patrol s earlier work. If you want ...

#Here s how to get the latest iPod for next to nothing (2008-12-04) YourIpod. co. cc So everyone wants one!!!! Stylish ,compact , everything you need and best of all here s how you can get it for next to nothing!! To get one go to YourIpod. co. cc sign up and complete ONE offer - you choose which offer best suits you maybe a dvd rental trial , bingo , a football bet , even aa cover there are loads to choose from and a lot of them are free ! recently featured in T3 magazine as a great way to get a cheap/free gadget and also the 8BC showed how this works on the newsnight. You can choose...

#here s how to get the latest iPod for next to nothing, (2008-12-04) YouriPod. co. cc So everyone wants one!!!! Stylish ,compact , everything you need and best of all here s how you can get it for next to nothing!! To get one go to YouriPod. co. cc sign up and complete ONE offer - you choose which offer best suits you maybe a dvd rental trial , bingo , a football bet , even aa cover there are loads to choose from and a lot of them are free ! recently featured in T3 magazine as a great way to get a cheap/free gadget and also the 8BC showed how this works on the newsnightYou can choose f...

#A nice try (2008-11-26) a good album but it doesnt come close to beating eyes open maybe their next album will

#1:55 (2008-11-19) I ve always liked Snow Patrol but something has always held me back from loving them. This is a good album - and there are some great moments if you dig deep. Engines 1:55 - sudden transformation into a beautiful melody. Does it for me driving to work in the morning. You know I love you like an ancient history brought to life - nice line. MD

#Good Stuff! (2008-11-19) Despite the pettines from other reviewers who have given this a bad review simply for being Snow Patrol, I actually think it s a good album. I think they have provided a strong assortment of songs that follows on from Eyes Open. I wouldn t say this was an outstanding album but it is worth a listen. It is an album which requires a few listens before judging it. The tracks which stand out are Take Back The City, Disaster Button and The Lighting Strike.

1. Spanish Metal 2. Never Miss A Beat 3. Like It Too Much 4. You Want History 5. Can t Say What I Mean 6. Good Days Bad Days 7. Tomato In The Rain 8. Half The Truth 9. Always Happens Like That 10. Addicted To Drugs 11. Remember You re A Girl

After cockily shrugging off the difficult second album challenge with their hugely successful Yours Truly, Angry Mob, the Kaisers deliver yet another collection of blistering rock-pop in the shape of Off with Their Head. Producer Mark Ronson returns the band to the distilled pop potency of 2005 s Employment as well as providing an all-star cast of guests: Lily Allen provides backing vocals on Always Happens Like That, classical starlet David Arnold adds strings to Like It Too Much and UK grime aficionado Sway does a star turn on the unlikely yet winning Half the Truth. Yet this is definitely the Kaiser s own show, as evinced on the wonderfully woozy Tomato in the Rain, the catchy Good Days, Bad Days, the feisty You Want History and the lovely--and somewhat surprising--finale Remember You re a Girl. Musically, Off with Their Heads ain t rocket science, and the band s insights into contemporary urban life are superficial at best--but the Kaisers still manage to mostly hit the spot. --Dan...

#kaisers flying the UK flag (2008-11-30) ive had this album for a couple weeks now and i am a big fan of the KCs. . at first i wasnt sure but after a few listens im sold!!it such a strong album and is consistant all the way through thers some really stron The Clash influences here o this album (which is great). . . my favourites never miss a beat. . good days n bad days and addicted to drugs. . you want history is a step in a new electro 80s rock movement but is also a great track. . . a definate buy if u are a KC!!

#Diminishing returns (2008-11-29) Any notion of the band trying to disregard the last album as being a minor blip is torn asunder by this one being even less inspired. Can they come back from this? Well, they ll have to start by writing some songs that don t sound like pale imitations of the songs that made them a festival favourite. Off With Their Heads is by no means an unlistenable mess, it s just something that s completely throwaway after about. . . ooh. . . one listen. Hats off to them for breaking the three years to make an album cycle, but it s not really working to thei...

#Everything Is Not Average Nowdays (2008-11-23) First album was fantastic and the spiky humour and energetic live shows went down a storm. Album number two was better produced but felt a bit lumpy and lethargic and the live shows became too arrogant. To be honest I really wasn t expecting much of this so have been very pleasantly surprised. Never Miss A Beat manages to out Ruby Ruby! Kaiser Chiefs aren t going to ever write challenging or overly clever lyrics, but what they will do is put a smile on your face. If you want the clever stuff, delve into Radiohead or U2. If you ju...

#A very disappointing birthday present (2008-11-18) Having listened to the Album at least four times to see if the Album would grow on me I have to say this is a very poor collection of tracks. It fealt as if the Kaiser Chiefs had taken all the tracks they had previously rejected for Albums and thrown them together. Incredibly disappointing I will not be buying any future albums.

#Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads (2008-11-12) To anyone considering buying this Album from the Kaiser Chiefs, In my opinion I would certain say Yes! buy this album. The first track in my opinion isn t very good - this is Spanish Metal, However after this track the Album sky rockets in quality. Tracks I think are very goodNever Miss A Beat, Like It Too Much, You Want History, Can t Say What I Mean, Half the Truth and Addicted to Drugs, the other tracks on the album which are still good but these songs stick out to me. This album really continues the Kaisers cool style and I would re...

1. Sun It Rises 2. White Winter Hymnal 3. Ragged Wood 4. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song 5. Quiet Houses 6. He Doesn t Know Why 7. Heard Them Stirring 8. Your Protector 9. Meadowlarks 10. Blue Ridge Mountains 11. Oliver James

It s now twenty years since grunge emerged from then culturally isolated Seattle and Fleet Foxes, the eponymous debut album from the city s latest heroes, demonstrates just how much American independent rock has mutated in that time. The five young members of Fleet Foxes make up a very different sort of rock band, describing their own music as baroque harmonic pop jams. Even that understates the depths of the quintet s effortless vocal harmonies and gently woozy, folky feel. Of their contemporaries only the enigmatic Midlake and My Morning Jacket at their most fragile come close, but neither could have cooked up the Beach Boys spiritual of White Winter Hymnal or its more powerful companion piece Ragged Wood. In fact Fleet Foxes happily admit to aspiring to an earlier tradition--not just obvious antecedents like the Byrds, the Association, Neil Young and, especially, David Crosby s famously unfocussed solo album If Only I Could Remember My Name but ancient English folk songs and their l...

#Beautiful (2008-11-30) Wonderful and haunting. It sounds both contemporary, seventies and has more than a hint of old 19th century American folk music about it.

#Not quite Fleet enough (2008-11-29) Perfectly nice, perfectly pretty and certainly musically accomplished, the Fleet Foxes sound like. . . well, it s already been said, but certainly my first impression was the Beach Boys singing the back catalogue of Crosby Stills & Nash, with an annoying overlay of reverb. Unfortunately, they also lack any originality, soul or passion, and after a while (and I ve listened to this album many, many times) the bucolic whittering and twee lyrics become somewhat dull, and sometimes even cringeworthy. For this to be hailed as unique or a breath of f...

#blandy blandy laaaaaa.... (2008-11-29) How you can you praise something as being new when ultimately it is so derivative and based purely on music of the past? Good on them for trying but it doesn t work for me. Having read the reviews here as a big fan of 60 s west coast and psych, I was hoping that I d hear something that updated and reinvented the genre. I was really disappointed to say that least. Fleet Foxes have made an album without hooks, any catchiness or listen again factor as far as I m concerned. It s sweet and cute and trying to be authentic in what it tries to d...

#RATHER GOOD (2008-11-17) HELLO? HI, THIS IS A GOOD ALBUM, THE SONGS ARE GOOD, IT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD, IT MAKES YOU THINK.

#Honest opinion (2008-11-03) After catching a track on last. fm and locating and putting the album in my amazon wishlist I got around to ordering it for myself, as no one else seems to do it for me :-( I have given this a good listen a few times and I can honestly say that I think the album is great and the tunes are still going around in my head.

1. Great DJ 2. That s Not My Name 3. Fruit Machine 4. Traffic Light 5. Shut Up And Let Me Go 6. Keep Your Head 7. We Walk 8. Be The One 9. Impacilla Carpisung 10. We Started Nothing

The debut album by Salford s The Ting Tings comes hot on the heels of their No.1 single That s Not My Name, a nugget of pop gold that comes on like a genetic splicing of Toni Basil s Micky and The Knack s My Sharona. The bulk of We Started Nothing follows a similar formula, navigating a path between the smart, angular indie of CSS, Bonde Do Role, et al and the pop mainstream. Here and there, they pull it off perfectly: the stutter-rap of Fruit Machine sees vocalist Katie White leading on some poor sap with sultry charisma and lip-gloss sass, while the excellent Shut Up and Let Me Go is snappy dance-punk in the spirit of Blondie s Rapture or Tom Tom Club s Genius of Love. Elsewhere, they branch out with mixed results. We Walk builds from quiet flourishes of piano into a surprisingly steely manifesto: Smash the rest up/Burn it down/Put us in the corner cause we re into ideas, sneers White. Rather less good is Traffic Light, a light, jazzy number that employs a number of somewhat forced d...

#Crap - THAT IS YOUR NAME ! (2008-11-12) THE WORST POP/PUNK/ROCK . . WHATERVER! BAND IN THE WORLD!please people grow up and listen to some AC/DC !Most of all VERY ANNOYING ! id rather listen to an entire CD of a toilet being flushed than this garbage !

#Who the hell gave these idiots a record deal? Utter rubbish! (2008-10-25) This has to be one of the worst groups I ve ever heard. The woman singer cannot even sing, the songs that I have heard are extremely poor and not even catchy. A feeble attempt at being punk and trying to sound like that one hit wonder from the 80s - Mickey. The punk world will no doubt feel insulted and embarrassed by this group and the woman who sang Mickey (Toni Basil) at least sounded like she could sing a few notes! There is nothing good to say about this group or any of their songs. I know p...

#not bad but not great either! (2008-10-24) Katie White sounds like Tony Basil on tracks like Great DJ, The Drums, Thats not my name while slowing down her act for Be the one which are good material which is not backed up even more by some of the duff tracks involved like Impacilla Carpisung and Traffic Lights which does not lend a great deal to a debut album as of course for every new band or solo act starting debut albums will have the odd one but NME s OTT reviews could come back and haunt them if the Ting Tings fail to come up with a different if winning formual for their second a...

#Every 8 year old should have it! (2008-10-20) First heard these early this year, about the same time as I saw the Kills. For me, they are a bit candy pop but it s a great compromise when arguing with my 8 year old daughter about what music is going on the CD player. It s worth it just to catch her doing air guitar and miming the words. . . . very badly! A fun Album.

#Fun (2008-10-09) I can t believe I bought this. When I first heard the Ting Ting s I thought they were dreadful. It sounded like really naff cheesy pop. And it is, but it s also very catchy and I have to admit I like it. The more I hear it the more it grows on me. It s not cool to like it, but that doesn t mean it s not okay to like it. It s just probably best not to admit it to people when you first meet them. That s Not My Name is probably the best pop tune of the year for me.