re: Who are some good bands like Kings of Leon?

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Or it's because they didn't have a record label breathing down their neck and made the kind of music they wanted to make. It was pure unrefined rock and roll akin to early Rolling Stones

I loved the first two albums. They just aren't the same band anymore and haven't been for years

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Or it's because they got progressively better at playing their instruments.

The below is the first reference to it I could find from a google search, but it isn't the only one.

Interviewer: Do you think that the experience playing live helped create some of the changes between [A-ha Shake Heartbreak] and “Youth and Young Manhood?”

Jared Followill: Yeah, definitely. I think that’s all the difference just because since we recorded that’s all we’ve done is play live for a year straight basically. There was really nothing else in it. We wrote most of the core of the songs during soundchecks and stuff like that, and we just got a lot better on our instruments having played all those shows.