The Bucket song was written by Caleb Followill, Nathan Followill, Jared Followill and Matthew Followill. In the music video, the word "legs" (as part of "I'll swing my legs") is censored due to the line meaning to hang oneself. In October 2011, "NME" placed it at number 38 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". All songs written by Kings of Leon except where noted. The Bucket "The Bucket" is the first single taken from the "Aha Shake Heartbreak" album by the American rock band Kings of Leon. It is one of the band's most successful singles, reaching
Kings of Leon number of music labels and eventually signed with RCA Records, which initially insisted on putting a band together for the two of them. In an interview with "Billboard", however, Nathan outlined how they told RCA, "We don't want to be Evan and Jaron. We're going to buy our little brother a bass, he's a freshman in high school. Caleb will teach himself the guitar, Matthew played guitar when he was 10 and I'll play the drums. They said, 'All right, we'll come down in one month and see you guys.'" Later in the interview Caleb admitted to the brothers "kidnapping"