Kings Of Leon..

DEEP
DEEP Posts: 274
edited August 2007 in Other Music
There is no other band that has hit me like Kings, besides Pearl Jam of course. What are some other bands that have hit you like that? Ones that you liked from the first listen.
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    do you mean just newer bands like since pearl jam or ever?

    My Morning Jacket was a slam dunk for me
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    DEEP wrote:
    There is no other band that has hit me like Kings, besides Pearl Jam of course. What are some other bands that have hit you like that? Ones that you liked from the first listen.


    KOL and Arcade Fire for me... i like other bands, but i love these guys... awesomeness encapsulated
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • thunderDAN
    thunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    I heard KOL back in 2005 with The Bucket and hated that song. I saw them at Lollapalooza and now I love them. I just got the Live in Soho from Itunes yesterday, it's kick ass.
  • ||Release_Me||
    ||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    My Morning Jacket - i heard Gideon and i was sold.
    I didn't particularly like KOL when i first heard them about 6 months ago. Gave the new album a spin and loved it! Great band.
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  • chimpat
    chimpat Posts: 590
    thunderDAN wrote:
    I heard KOL back in 2005 with The Bucket and hated that song. I saw them at Lollapalooza and now I love them. I just got the Live in Soho from Itunes yesterday, it's kick ass.


    Yeah man, I picked that up on itunes last night, great stuff!
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Hmm i have their first two albums and did not like them. i saw them live and was not impressed by the songs too. Mostly the lyrics and singers voice don't do much for me.

    Eveyrone seems to rave about the new one.
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  • dont_go_on_me
    dont_go_on_me Posts: 877
    i was so-so about them until I saw their Lolla set. I thought they were fantastic. Great energy, great musicianship, rockin' time!

    It seems to me like the singer tries too hard on the album...hard to explain, it's just that he seems to really dramatize his vocal styles. Live, it's more tamed down and natural sounding...not annoying like on the records:)
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  • dharma69
    dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    By the end of the year *knock on wood* I will have seen KOL 5 times this year alone.

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  • yellowled24
    yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    DEEP wrote:
    There is no other band that has hit me like Kings, besides Pearl Jam of course. What are some other bands that have hit you like that? Ones that you liked from the first listen.
    Im there with you mate! Kings are my second favourite band...and I just found out theyre playing at a festival in my town next year...yeah!! :D
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  • little_wish
    little_wish England, The North Posts: 532
    I had never heard KoL before Nijmegen, and as soon as they took the stage I was sold!
    Incredible!
    I got home and got every album and have had them on repeat for almost 2 months now!

    I was sold on Muse when I first heard Absolution. I had never heard anything by them before but that album knocked me off of my feet.
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  • thunderDAN
    thunderDAN Posts: 2,094
    don't_go_on_me wrote:
    i was so-so about them until I saw their Lolla set. I thought they were fantastic. Great energy, great musicianship, rockin' time!

    It seems to me like the singer tries too hard on the album...hard to explain, it's just that he seems to really dramatize his vocal styles. Live, it's more tamed down and natural sounding...not annoying like on the records:)


    I know what your saying and agree with you. I like their live stuff better becuase his voice is too country/twangy/black crows on the albums. Don't get me wrong, I still like the albums, but I just like the live stuff better for that reason.
  • MKTerp
    MKTerp Posts: 66
    KOL did hit me right away, but they've grown on me even more, and I love the new album. MMJ was a bit slow - when I saw them open for PJ, I thought they sounded ok, but then when I checked out the albums, they really hit me pretty hard.

    The one that hit me out of nowhere recently is Muse. I had no idea they were that good. I didn't "discover" them until a couple of months ago, and loved them at Lolla.
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Local H, Nine Black Alps, DBT, Nirvana, Rival Schools, King Prawn, ATD-I, Placebo etc etc.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    without going through my entire music appreciation history i'm just gonna say the drones
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  • Can You Say Octopus?
    Can You Say Octopus? Posts: 105
    from Itunes turned me on to the Fratellis. Costello music is a really great record.
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  • azwyldcats
    azwyldcats Posts: 711
    Looking forward to seeing them in San Fransicko on 9-4-07.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Sawyer wrote:
    -The Hold Steady (i fucking love these guys)

    first one i thought of. also:

    mmj
    brand new
  • Kricket
    Kricket Posts: 707
    intodeep wrote:
    Hmm i have their first two albums and did not like them. i saw them live and was not impressed by the songs too. Mostly the lyrics and singers voice don't do much for me.

    Eveyrone seems to rave about the new one.

    I feel the same about their lyrics but I've only seen them once and it was at Lolla and they were cute (haha) but I wasn't into them. I'm not big on MMJ either but I liked their set at Lolla....maybe it was cause they were afer KOL???
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    I dont understand the fascination with this band at all. Think the vocals are pretty awful and the songs just dont do it for me.
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  • gusturtle
    gusturtle Posts: 443
    going to see them at the fox in atlanta in october. can't wait!!!
    they blew me away when i first saw them at the tabernacle several months ago.

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