Kings of leon- Have they got better or worse?

[arsenalforever]

I've been a fan since i heard their first album Youth and young Manhood a few years back they mixed the Strokes and Creendence clearwater revival to great effect plus those beards and long hair made them along with Caleb's voice made them sound like a long lost 70's band. Every track perfect from " wasted Time" and "California waiting" still the second best album they've done.

The Second album aha Shake Heartbreak saw them add an 80's sound of The cure and The cars to their Mix of Boogie. For me, its still their Greatest album to date with "The Bucket","King of the Rodeo","Milk" and "Four kicks" some of the best songs they've written. it Garnered huge praise and a huge fanbase including RADIOHEAD,BOB DYLAN,PEARL JAM and U.2. The Guys had the world taking notice.


Third Album BECAUSE OF THE TIMES saw a more unCommercial sound and a new Look come to the band which for me i saw as a sellout but the songs and new sound won me over songs such as U.2-ish lead off single "ON Call" also great tracks as The Pixies Rip "Charmer" and Great tracks such as "Knocked up","FANS" and "My Party" instead of dividing their crowd it made them even bigger been their First number 1 album in the uk. I like the album myself but still it lacks the swagger and 70's feel of their first two albums for me.

Onto Their Fourth and most commercially succesful album to date with "Only By The Night",yes i know its made them what they wanted to be the biggest band around in the UK anyway but for me it lacks the Swagger and coolness of the last three Albums even though "SEX on Fire" and "CRawl" are the best things they've done it smacks of sell out and its their worse album with them sounding like a wanna be U.2 and "use somebody" is the worse case of Sell out on the Album a soppy ballad you can imagine Leon Lewis singing it soon enough or someone on the X factor:bored:

From a swaggering rock band to sell out company rockers

anyway write up what you feel of the Guys and their albums?

[Stu]

I used to love the 80's, group of lads jamming in a flat waking there mothers up vibe in the second album.

Now I rate them along with the Script, Nickelback and every other generic rock band out their. Not even interesting enough to be bad. Wholly unremarkable.

[arsenalforever]

I used to love the 80's, group of lads jamming in a flat waking there mothers up vibe in the second album.

Now I rate them along with the Script, Nickelback and every other generic rock band out their. Not even interesting enough to be bad. Wholly unremarkable.

they rocked during the first 3 albums but totally sold out with their last album:sad:, i'm sad cause they were one of my favourite acts today. Now they are releasing a Remix album with Justin timberlake:bored:

[teabag.]

i love all there songs just now their known more from sex on fire and use somebody and clearly they are not there best songs at all and it annoys me
i still love them though and they are amazing live

[arsenalforever]

i love all there songs just now their known more from sex on fire and use somebody and clearly they are not there best songs at all and it annoys me
i still love them though and they are amazing live

they are a chav band now seen as Artic monkeys dropped out of that and gone more Rockier

[xDramatick]

If they didn't become commercial, I'd never have got into them.

[arsenalforever]

If they didn't become commercial, I'd never have got into them.


going by your sigs i wouldn't think you be a big fan of their earlier stuff cause they rocked it now they suck simon cowell's cock

[teabag.]

i love all there songs just now their known more from sex on fire and use somebody and clearly they are not there best songs at all and it annoys me
i still love them though and they are amazing live

they are a chav band now seen as Artic monkeys dropped out of that and gone more Rockier
yeah thats what annoys me, people are like ugh there chavy now but i dont care they still have great songs, even some of thhere more recent albums too
i do love arctic monkeys though i dont like their new album much

[arsenalforever]

i love all there songs just now their known more from sex on fire and use somebody and clearly they are not there best songs at all and it annoys me
i still love them though and they are amazing live

they are a chav band now seen as Artic monkeys dropped out of that and gone more Rockier
yeah thats what annoys me, people are like ugh there chavy now but i dont care they still have great songs, even some of thhere more recent albums too
i do love arctic monkeys though i dont like their new album much

i love their new album best this year so far and has the best thing they've done so far in Cornerstone

i just hate bands who go from cool rock to sell out write a ballad for the chavs and rake in the millions kind of rock

[teabag.]

apparetly though arctic monkeys got boo'd at leeds doing their set because most of the songs are too slow

[arsenalforever]

apparetly though arctic monkeys got boo'd at leeds doing their set because most of the songs are too slow

yeah they played a set of new songs a few weeks before the new album was released very brave indeed. But at reading they were cited in a few mags as the best band in the new world. and they've got a great set now mixing new songs with old ones and have been doing great in Amercia.

[teabag.]

i hope there good live im going to see them in november! i have no doubt that they will be though

[arsenalforever]

i hope there good live im going to see them in november! i have no doubt that they will be though

i've seen some of their sets from Amercia and they are playing brillantly. the new album takes a few good listens before it hits you and when it does its a great change of pace. At leeds, they were playing to a festival crowd not a AM's crowd

[*mazedsalv**]

Use Somebody is one of my fave songs of the year, so i would say they have got better. I dont like those kind of groups normally.

[King Gizzard]

Worse, the first 2 albums are brilliant. I admit them being liked by everyone has made me not like them as much..cause there songs are always on TV and radio and it makes me get tired of them

[arsenalforever]

Use Somebody is one of my fave songs of the year, so i would say they have got better. I dont like those kind of groups normally.

they are pandering to the pop fans or fans who buy Snow patrol records like yourself even you admit you don't listen to these bands

[Shaun]

Prefer their old stuff, the new album is so ridiculously overplayed and overrated.

[King Gizzard]

Favourite song - Red Morning light, then it goes four kicks..the bucket..king of the rodeo

[arsenalforever]

Worse, the first 2 albums are brilliant. I admit them being liked by everyone has made me not like them as much..cause there songs are always on TV and radio and it makes me get tired of them

but its gone more commercial badly with ballads and less rockers also they don't look like a rock band but a boy's band

[King Gizzard]

*rodeo

[arsenalforever]

Prefer their old stuff, the new album is so ridiculously overplayed and overrated.

yeah its three or so good songs but the rest is filler

[arsenalforever]

Favourite song - Red Morning light, then it goes four kicks..the bucket..king of the rodeo


they had a swagger to them back then and they look like a rock band now its sell out city although the third album is good

[King Gizzard]

Damn you steve youve got me listening to them now :joker:

[arsenalforever]

Damn you steve youve got me listening to them now :joker:

as long as its the first three records:thumbs:

[Tom4784]

I like their new stuff as much as their older albums, it's a different sound and I like how they are tweaking their music with each album. They never stay exactly the same. Their newest albm has one of my favourite tracks by them if I'm honest (Closer). Calling them a 'chav' band is completely wrong as well, chavs don't like bands they like basshunter and robbing old ladies.

Finally the only thing that annoys me about this thread is the use of 'sell out'. Now i'm a snob when it comes to music but i can't stand the use of that phrase. It's a phrase used by wannabe-cool indie kids who think liking a band nobody else knows or likes makes them cool.

[arsenalforever]

I like their new stuff as much as their older albums, it's a different sound and I like how they are tweaking their music with each album. They never stay exactly the same. Their newest albm has one of my favourite tracks by them if I'm honest (Closer). Calling them a 'chav' band is completely wrong as well, chavs don't like bands they like basshunter and robbing old ladies.

Finally the only thing that annoys me about this thread is the use of 'sell out'. Now i'm a snob when it comes to music but i can't stand the use of that phrase. It's a phrase used by wannabe-cool indie kids who think liking a band nobody else knows or likes makes them cool.

Sorry Dezzy they have sold out
Remix albums with Justin timberlake, cut their hair and change their clothes when they got their first number one album and horrible sappy ballads. i like acts who don't change their style so they can sell millions of records and the kings of leon have been the worse along with Razorlight in the last few years to sell out.

i think your mad thinking their new sound is anywhere near the perfection of their first three albums but you got your own taste in musioc but for me its a awful bon jovi type record

[xDramatick]

Music has to evolve though.
You can't keep making the same style of music for years, and years. People get bored.
LOADS of long-running bands have altered their sound.
Sure, there's still something recognizable that makes them unique, but it has to develop.

[Ramsay]

definatly worse
i love their old stuff
although i dont mind their new stuff but i know they sold out
when i saw them at oxegen they played all their old stuff and i was singing along but NO-ONE else around me knew the songs they just came to hear sex on fire
made me sick

[*mazedsalv**]

Use Somebody is one of my fave songs of the year, so i would say they have got better. I dont like those kind of groups normally.

they are pandering to the pop fans or fans who buy Snow patrol records like yourself even you admit you don't listen to these bands

I dont buy any of the CDS of Snow Patrol/Kings of Leon, im not a fan of KOL, I just really love that particular song.
Im not sure its aiming for pop fans either.

[Beastie]

A lot of songs on their recent albulm sounds similar but they are still good :thumbs:

[teabag.]

taper jean girl is one of my favourate songs though

[setanta]

Yep, they've sold out and I had such high hopes for them. Aw well.

[Braden]

there not exactly doing as great now.

[Iceman]

Never liked them, never will.

1 song I like thats been played to death....

[Ramsay]

The Bucket > Everything Else

[setanta]

There first three albums are great and showed real character and balls in their music. This last one is just dull and generic. Sad really. I mean it's good, but it's not original or innovative.

[arsenalforever]

Yep, they've sold out and I had such high hopes for them. Aw well.

they had a Creendence clearwater revival feel to them which i liked
then they got the haircut and had a shave while listening too much U.2 and Bon jovi and came out sell outs

[arsenalforever]

There first three albums are great and showed real character and balls in their music. This last one is just dull and generic. Sad really. I mean it's good, but it's not original or innovative.

yeah three great albums which should have sold by the bucket loads
but their weakest album turns out the big seller

[LemonJam]

I'd heard them before they were mainstream but I didn't like them.

And with the whole mainstream thing, I can't really think of a band that's too similar to them so they haven't technically 'fitted in with the mainstream' because they're not a clone of another band really.

[arsenalforever]

I'd heard them before they were mainstream but I didn't like them.

And with the whole mainstream thing, I can't really think of a band that's too similar to them so they haven't technically 'fitted in with the mainstream' because they're not a clone of another band really.

Bon jovi mixed with u2 thats who:joker: