why do people like the Kings of Leon?

and in the end, the kings were felled by "pooping pigeons."

they sound nothing at all like . . . 38 Special

damn right; i have fond memories of .38 special.

This story is AMAZING.

Good story. Did lol.

I still like "King Of The Rodeo."

And "Charmer" reminds me of The Pixies.

Sorry, yes, I should have mentioned that the story contained much lolworthiness before I got all earnest there. :)

lol i heard about that show. word on the street is that apparently they were desperate to find an excuse not to play that particular show though

they should tour with hazmat suits

This is like the opposite of GG Allin and The Dillinger Escape Plan who throw their own crap AT the audience.

You know, when critical consensus eventually swings back to the Kings Of Leon -- as it will (okay, might) one day -- my post in here will be seen as courageously pioneering and prophetic... as well as endearingly otm, right?

St Louis pigeons otm

Hoping they play somewhere with a condor population soon.

Do their fans get their money back? If not, fuck this band. Also,

His bass tech wiped most of it off with a sanitary wipe = worst job in the WORLD

"It seems that the pigeons that live in the rafters of the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater aren't Kings of Leon fans."

who can blame them?

yes they got their money back. but LOL, i was listening to radio the other day and some director person came on and gave a statement re: the incident and asked 'listeners' to go to the website and tell them whether it has affected their opinion of them and their music, and also whether the station should continue playing kol's music. lmfao.

this is a Musical Event on the scale of Dylan going electric, and we forget the lessons it taught us all at our peril

The pooping pigeons criticize more music:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/28/kings-leon-pigeons-review-singles

Nickelback – This Afternoon
There is no word in the world that loosens a stout pigeon's bowel faster than "Nickelback". In fact, were Chad Kroeger ever to look up from his gnarly grunt-rock work-bench he'd realise the cloud of existential angst that's been shadowing him his whole life is actually a flock of circling pigeons desperate for the glory of firing a hot, wet pellet of excremental gut-juice directly into his yowling great gob. Any noble bird who scores a direct hit on Chad is made King of the Buttock Bombers and given exclusive access to our treasured cigarette butt stash for an hour. Indeed, we have been collecting our moistest excretions in a large barrel for the day we could funnel it over the turgid, formulaic dope anthem that is This Afternoon. "Looking like another Bob Marley day …" Is it? You spliffed-up, bottle-blond, varnish-faced BASTARD!

Brad Paisley for the goddamn win

LOL

their new song sounds almost exactly like X

It's linked in another thread, but the bit from the Johnny Borrell interview deserves to be posted in full:

7. KINGS OF LEON - "SEX ON FIRE"

JB: This song is basically the apex, death and afterlife of landfill indie all in one go. And, I’m actually going to demand we listen to another song right now. Can you pull up "Dakota" by the Stereophonics? Ok. When do the main vocals come in?

29 seconds.
And how about on "Sex is on Fire"?

29 seconds.
And when does the chorus drop?

53 seconds, and, fuck, it is actually 53 seconds on the other one too.
Right? It’s in the same key, at the same tempo; it’s the same macho, bloke mumbling in the verse, and a big chorus with loads of extended vowel sounds.

That's unbelievable. Although, I guess bands nicking shit from other bands is hardly anything new.
Of course not – everything I’ve nicked, I know exactly where it’s from. It’s just with this, it’s like we’ve been on this whole journey, and suddenly we’re back in the late 1990s with the Stereophonics song-formula. And look, the Stereophonics are really good at what they do, and they’ve never claimed to be anything else. But once your formula is that…well, we’re in Stadium Landfill territory.

So, Kings of Leon are the band that tell the whole story of landfill indie then?
Maybe that’s right. Their second record, The Bucket, was so fucking good. I loved that album. It was by far the best record of whatever year it came out. So, to hear them do this was just, well… ughh.

So I guess after this everyone stopped pretending to be punk and started pretending to be folk musicians?
Yeah, I guess then the era of Mumford & Sons started or whatever.

Or, “Razorlight with Banjos”, as they were also known.
Razorlight with Banjos? Ouch.