#142

It starts off slow, but the second half of the album’s pretty strong and the songs are much better live :wink:

(sorry)

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#143

I’m sure I’d feel the same way about King of Leon if I were subjected that that, for sure

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#144

Nice, Nathan!

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#145

Makes me love Carlos D even more tbh

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#146

Bellend bottoms more like huhuhuh

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#147

The Almost Famous line is a decent zingg.

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#148

I hate it when Noel Fielding has a kings of Leon cd in the milky joe episode

#149

went for a 2 because the first three albums are great but then got so, so, shit after that. Surprised people look down on Because of the Times, it was a bit of a depature and move to what they would become but its got some absolute belters on there. I mean ffs, even if itis by their own admission a Pixies tribue, CHARMER!

I also really, really love King of the Rodeo, think it often gets overlooked:

think both songs display their bassist and drummer had some really interesting interplay that didn’t exist with a lot of bands of the time.

@anon19035908 are we gonna do Biffy Clyro? Think they’d be a hilarious thread but also had a similar trajectory to Kings of Leon at around the same time

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#150

It is a very, very funny book.

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#151

Best use of a kings of leon tune
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#152

Cliffy are on the list.

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#153

amazing, that’s got the potential to be a reeeeal shitshow :smiley:

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#154

Unreal, the first minus score.

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#155

It’s a really great book. Author clearly loves the music but because it’s interviews it’s not reverential about it. Really decent read.

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#156

Nah, U2 and The Who will be first.

#157

Saw KoL support Pixies in 2005 I want to say. They were quite shit compared to the other support, Teenage Fanclub.

Never really bought them as a good band, though my friends were bang into them. Kept getting asked to play covers of their songs in bands I was in, kept refusing.

All fine and fairly ignorable until that absolute shitshow of an album with ‘Sex On Fire’ on it. I must find my review I wrote about it for my college paper, tore it to shreds.

1/5, shit band, no songs, fuck off.

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#158

Torturous. Didn’t help that the manager (who was OBSESSED by them) insisted on playing each record on repeat, one a day for about two months solid.

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#159

please find that review mate! haha.

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#160

Im gonna rate U2 100

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#161

theres a story in Meet Me in the Bathroom where KoL and Interpol are staying in the same hotel (might be an NME tour or somethign) and carlos d says to them arent you the band from Almost Famous? and one of KoL calls him a vampire looking motherfucker. anyway it proper made me laugh when i was reading it, but is the only time KoL have made me feel any emotion. the worst band that people used to love

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