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.

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So yes, they got better playing their instruments from a year of touring. But that's not any correlation to them writing completely different sounding music and overhauling their style/dress

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Exactly.

They went from being a no holds barred rock n roll band to a band that caters to the high school female demographic.

I can't fault them for it they made millions but they quit making honest music in the process.

I enjoy their first 3 albums.


Only By the Night is when they blew the frick up. I think most of the stuff on there is mediocre, but the song Closer is great. And their latest album was a whole lot of mediocre to me as well. I don't hate them though. Comparing them to a band like Nickelback is ridiculous and unfair.

Bobbyray stop caring what other people think of the band you like. Just own up to it.

I am a music snob but I still dig some jimmy buffet and DMB, I understand why they are hated on I just don't care.

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