“Molly's Chambers” by Kings of Leon

"Molly's Chambers" was the 2003 debut single from Kings of Leon, heard first on the Holy Roller Novocaine EP and then on their debut album Youth and Young Manhood, and it sounds like a garage band that raided the attic for records older than its members. Caleb Followill, Nathan Followill and Angelo Petraglia wrote it, and Ethan Johns produced, engineered and mixed it, keeping it all rattle and wobble: a greasy, loping riff, drums that won't sit still and a vocal slurred like the bar just closed.

The title is lifted from a line in Thin Lizzy's take on the Irish folk standard "Whiskey in the Jar", and it's old slang for a brothel, which tells you what kind of evening this is. A slower alternate cut, "Molly's Hangover", rode along on the CD single, and the 10-inch vinyl was limited to 6,000 copies.

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