I heard the single Bom Bom Bom or something like that and I enjoyed it. Bought the album yesterday and haven't listened to it, and I don't remember any discussion on them. Thoughts? Opinions?

Amg says they're influenced by Jim Carrol, Stooges, Guns N Roses, Jack Kerouac and Jesus and Mary Chain. Also says they sound like the Strokes amped up on AC/DC instead of Television for what it's worth.

Sounds interesting. Keep us posted.

Got 4 stars from Rolling Stone

The full-length debut by the brothers Berlin -- drummer Bosh, bassist Eve and singer-guitarist-songwriter Lillian -- is the most fucked-over hard-rock record of 2005: cursed by the collapse of the band's first label and subsequent rejection by nearly every other U.S. record company. But that hell was candyland compared to the wartime howling through Ahead of the Lions. What you hear going up in flames in the disco-AC/DC inferno "Bom Bom Bom" are the American men and women sentenced to the no-exit mess of the Iraq war: "This is our birthright, to be bought and sold/Shipped off ready to die." "I Owe" is an ode to Generation Debt: the Beatles' "Taxman" with Big Black noise. In "No New Jesus," Lillian challenges fundamentalist religion with the fury of a preacher packing John Sinclair's Guitar Army. The first thing that hits you about the songs is their intelligent design, from the metallic-Cars echo of "Bombs Below" to the son-of-Nirvana charge in "On All Fours." But without the hell-bent revolutionary zeal, Ahead of the Lions would sound like empty victory. Living Things are a band of fighters determined to make us all feel like winners.

I'd be interested in hearing this:

But not so much this:

I remember reading about these guys years ago, Rolling Stone or SPIN profiled them as a Next Big Thing and then they disappeared after their label troubles. Still interested in hearing them.

bought this last tuesday....i've spun it 7-8 times...i really like it...

i actually was thinking that it sounded like the stokes influenced by the stooges and not by television before i read that quote.....i would say it (the stooges) is a dead on description

I listened to the first 5 songs and I think it defenitely has more of a Stooges vibe. I like this alot too so far.

Its a solid album for sure. Not nearly my favorite this year, but its good.