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| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
What I do think is kind of cool about them is that they weren't even allowed to listen to rock music until moving out from home - that's one of the reason that their first few albums were considered so unique and light on distinct influences. |
I agree, I read an article about them in Rolling Stone and they had quite an interesting upbringing, much different than most rock bands where it's just a dude and his 3 buddies banging out shit in their uncle's garage and then became famous. They grew up singing in the choir and shit 
| quote: | | I think there's a general undercurrent on a site like this of disliking music on sight for being popular - after all, most people fell in love with EDM and viewed it as "underground" or different for at least a little while. It isn't that accessible, and many posters here pat themselves on the back for enjoying something that most people don't appreciate. None of this is a bad thing, but it does seem amusing that someone who distinguishes so readily between Luciano and Porter doesn't see a difference between Coldplay and Kings of Leon, two groups with vastly different influences even if their audiences overlap to a great degree. |
See, I don't even think their new album is that bad, but it isn't quite as creative as their others. I actually think the band agrees with this, and thus doesn't find a concert to be that exciting anymore. I'm going to see KOL in Nashville (the lady is a huge fan) and I'm hoping that they bring the house down with lots of oldies and actually play with some emotion and power rather than a "throwaway show" in Montreal. Not every show can have them doing blow off a hooker's ass, blowing up guitars and kicking midgets. Jay caught all kinds of shit for playing a track that Tiesto played, but just because it's popular doesn't mean it's not good music, and I think a lot of people overlook that. "Oh, hundreds of people like KOL because they are mindless sheep and don't know what good music is." I think that's a silly argument, if you like a certain kind of music, then you like it, and people shouldn't say shit about it. Initially I think Jay was bitching about the fact that KOL played like shit, and I'm sure he's right, they're on tour playing shows every 2-3 days, I'm sure it's gonna sound like they're a little bored of it.
Oh well, I think they're a good band, and much better than 90% of rock/grunge bands out there today, and flame me all you want, but I think they have creative songs. They have a much different sound than any band that I've ever heard, and for those saying that they sound like Foo Fighters and Nirvana need to shoot themselves in the face. 
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