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Aha Shake Heartbreak

Kings of LeonAudio CD
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (208 customer reviews)

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The first thing that strikes you about Kings of Leon’s fifth album, Come Around Sundown, is the sheer musical diversity of its songs, which touch on everything from gospel (spiritual, up-tempo rocker “Radioactive”), angular post-punk (“The Immortals,” “Pony Up”), bonafide country (“Back Down South”), and even ’50s-style doo-wop ... Read more in Amazon's Kings of Leon Store

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (February 22, 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: RCA
  • ASIN: B00078XKD4
  • In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (208 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,946 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Nomadic Southern evangelist Leon Followill may take soap suds to the mouths of the kinfolk wunderkinds--his three sons and a nephew--in Tennessee quartet Kings of Leon, whose second album spins enough cuss phrases and sexual allusions to leave Dolly Parton flushed. But the peculiar 20-something longhairs also fuel up on a filthy shotgun bass and relentless guitar riffs, complementing the delightfully discordant drawl of vocalist Caleb Followill to whittle a 35-minute grab bag of garage rock, English blues, sixties psychedelia, London Calling-ska, spaced-out country waltzes and front-porch, red-state revelry. Without revising its 2003 debut Youth & Young Manhood, producer Ethan Johns (The Jayhawks, Ray LaMontagne) steers the band down a similar mischievous road, integrating poles-apart rhythms and techniques into an energized jumble of rotating tempos and lyrical bombshells. Putting faith in earth-shakers like "Velvet Snow" and "Pistol Of Fire," the wound down and pleasing "Milk" and its yodeling cousin "Day Old Blues," the Kings ultimately escape Preacher Leon’s retribution, rendering him speechless--save for a simple "amen." --Scott Holter

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Aha Shake Heartbreak demonstrates a new level of musical creativity for the band but also retains all the raw vitality and emotion that made them so irresistible in the first place.

Customer Reviews

I went out and bought the album and listened to it one time through. heidi  |  22 reviewers made a similar statement
I paid good money for this CD only to find it wont work on an ipod due to copy protection. Donald Burke  |  22 reviewers made a similar statement
All the songs are good with a few exceptions. C. Meegan  |  13 reviewers made a similar statement
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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars KICKS THE CRAP OUT OF THE DEBUT (4.6 stars) December 16, 2004
Format:Audio CD
First things first.

This is not like the debut album. Aha Shake is much more dynamic record. It stops and starts on a dime and the music has been pushed a bit more in all directions. Now don't get me wrong, it's still the same basic sound found on Youth and Young Manhood, it's just a bit more polished and thought-out in all areas.

You get indie-style radio friendly rockers like King Of The Rodeo and (the first single) The Bucket. But you also get a nice mix of slower numbers like Milk and Day Old Blues. The main difference from the debut is the slow numbers do MUCH more than slow the tempo. Milk is almost experimental in it's sparce arrangement and vocal delivery, while Day Old Blues pushes the idea of what is a chorus.

I found this record just as enjoyable as the first but I feel it has more to offer for the long haul, and that's just one reason why it's been one of my favorite records this year.
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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It breaks my heart to give this disc 1 star, because it is fantastic. It is awe-inspiring and balls out freakin rock n roll the likes of which this world needs more of. And I love it. The problem is that the Digital Rights Management nonsense that BMG and RCA have forced on their consumers with this disc is insufferable and should not be tolerated. The issue is that you CANNOT play this disc on your iPod. Not only that, but the lable FAILS TO MAKE THIS CLEAR in any of the packaging on this disc, which means that you don't find out you are screwed until AFTER you blow your ten dollars and get this home.

This is seriously a giant middle finger to consumers. Who in thier right minds would release, in this day and age, a product that is unusable on a technology that is embraced by 99% of the potential audience? And it could only be outright greed that would force a company to overlook mentioning this fact to its customers. The album is available for download on iTunes. How hard is to put some kind of notification on the CD packaging that would have enabled me to not waste 10 bucks on the CD and instead download it from iTUnes?

Finally, to play this CD on your computer, you are forced to download a piece of software called MediaMax. I'm sorry but I refuse to put a piece of potential data mining software on my system simply to listen to one band's music. Who knows what kind of security holes are in this piece of software.

All in all, BMG, RCA and the Kings of Leon should be ashamed of this. FIX IT. And I want my ten dollars back.
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68 of 79 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Best Album of the Year...worst DRM October 31, 2005
Format:Audio CD
I feel pretty strongly that this album is the best album this year. Seriously. Songwriting, musicianship, production are all far outside what anyone else is doing today in modern music. The sound of this album is completely unequaled when compared to most other current recordings.

That being said, the DRM appears to be far worse then everyone here is claiming. There is evidence that Sony is employing rootkit techniques to install hidden files on your PC that cannot be removed. Not being able to easily copy files to an iPod is one thing, installing hidden unremoveable files on your PC is another.

Do a google search for "Sony" and "Rootkit", or check out this site:

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars It'll Bartend Your Party
Out of the Kings Of Leon Discography, I have always considered this album to be a classic. Before the tamed approach they began to fall into they were energetic and free spirited;... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Justin
5.0 out of 5 stars Big KOL fan!
I recently began to listen to Kings of Leon songs beyond the ones on the radio, and couldn't get enough. Each CD is a little different, but I thoroughly enjoy them all!!
Published 1 month ago by Jason Korn
5.0 out of 5 stars Kings of Leon
Not taking away from their more current hits, Aha Shake Heartbreak is a great collection of their earlier works and is a definate must-have for any Kings fan!
Published 3 months ago by Vaughn Bremer
5.0 out of 5 stars Best kol album
My favorite kol album. Great mix of sounds and songs on this album from king of the rodeo, to milk, to four kicks. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Pen Name
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellence achieved
Twas' a great album. All of Kings Of Leon albums are awesome! I am quite happy with my product! I love this band too :)
Published 5 months ago by Sumaita Hasan
5.0 out of 5 stars Kings of Leon..still at their best!
this is KOL second great album, which together with their first album YOUTH AND YOUNG MANHOOD, i would say contains Kings of Leon rawest, hardest, most intense, most careless, less... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Black Mamba
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Explosive and Unbelievable
This album is amazing, but I wouldn't expect anything leS's from the Kings. They have amazing baselines and caleb's singing is to die for. Still rocks in 2012.
Published 9 months ago by Elizabeth
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Straightforward Rock Album
Can't make out the lyrics very well, but the music is so good I don't care! I would highly recommend this album, especially for the $5 price! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Ryan M. Goldman
5.0 out of 5 stars this album is a classic
This is the first Kings of Leon album I bought, and I'm amazed how good it is. It's awesome! Great songs, very innovative and original. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Jim H
5.0 out of 5 stars My fave KOL
Simple, melodic and filled with lot's of interesting rhythmic songs. Love the way that Caleb purposely sings phrases making you say......"Did he just say what I thought he did? Read more
Published 18 months ago by Okiegal
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CONTENT/COPY-PROT... CD
hear, hear brother. i second everything you said. the software they 'say' allows you to play it pretty much crashes every time. i say a big 'F' to bmg, i'll just redownload it on limewire, and maybe i'll sell it at concerts for $2. I had to do that anyway just to put 'cowgirl' on a mix cd i... Read more
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