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Post by csolis on Feb 26, 2005 21:43:43 GMT
daisy u think u could post the interview?
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Post by daisy on Feb 26, 2005 22:05:53 GMT
i would, but.......... a. i'm pretty sure it HAS been posted, try doin' a search, or just have a look around, and b. Morag said she would, and c. I'm a lazy bum, sorry  !.xx ..........just checked, Britchick already posted it..........ON THIS THREAD.xx |
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Post by csolis on Feb 26, 2005 22:15:06 GMT
know what u mean about the lazy bum thing!!! im supposed to be washing dishes right now but i dont want to!!!
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Post by Clair on Feb 28, 2005 12:41:36 GMT
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Post by appleshaker on Feb 28, 2005 12:46:27 GMT
 i cant see it britchick help!
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Post by sarah on Feb 28, 2005 12:52:41 GMT
you just have to register x
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CigarettesAndSongs
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Post by CigarettesAndSongs on Feb 28, 2005 14:05:47 GMT
positive review i like the quote going to hell has never sounded so much fun.
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Post by Clair on Feb 28, 2005 14:11:17 GMT
i cant see it britchick help! here you go: Kings Of Leon, Down From The Mountains By Sean Daly Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 28, 2005; Page C01 After a childhood spent traveling the path to salvation with their evangelist father, the three Followill brothers (plus a cousin) in the rock band Kings of Leon hit their late teens, opted for fun over fundamentalism and took a turn down Damnation Lane. Sex, drugs, etc., have proved a profitable detour for these fallen Tennessee angels, who fine-tuned their original brand of hellbilly boogie at a sold-out 9:30 club Saturday in preparation for their upcoming gig as U2's opening act. The Kings of Leon, ranging in age from 18 to 25 and all in need of a sandwich, some sun and a trip to the Hair Cuttery, are an odd story and an even odder band. Although U2's Bono, a plethora of music snobs and a good chunk of the U.K. would surely disagree, the shaggy group (named after their father and grandfather) aren't the easiest dudes to fall in love with. Family band the Kings of Leon, who performed with garage-rock swagger at the 9:30 club on Saturday. (Jo Mccaughy) Sure, their 2003 debut, "Youth & Young Manhood," went multiplatinum across the pond. The follow-up, "Aha Shake Heartbreak," was released to much fanfare last week. And the gig with U2 certainly won't hurt. Nonetheless, the Kings have yet to make a major splash in the United States. There are understandable reasons for that. First of all, twang-rich singer Caleb Followill's garbled delivery -- especially on such new tunes as the arty, obtuse ballad "Milk" -- is often reminiscent of Jodie Foster in "Nell." Oh, you remember that cinematic squirmfest from 1994, don't you? Foster played an orphaned mountain woman who created her own language: "Chicka, chicka chickabee" and so on and on with the backwater gibberish. To Caleb, who likes to coo and yodel over his family's swaggering arrangements, Nell probably made perfect sense. This is not a good thing. Their albums take some getting used to. Also, perhaps because the Kings were for so long sheltered from popular music, they often sound on record as if they're still figuring out what rock music is supposed to sound like. Yes, this makes them a fine sociological experiment, but many of their songs feature clunky rhythms and jarring tempo changes that don't always mesh. And as for lyrics, well, 50 Cent is more subtle. The typical Kings tune is a violent coming-out party of cocaine, loose women and gunplay -- church-ditching kids in a carnal candy store who know the good Lord gonna get 'em. It can get almighty silly. But now let's get to the good stuff. The Followills have said that if "Manhood" was an all-night party, then "Heartbreak" is all about the next-day hangover. Indeed, their sophomore effort deals with conquests and consequences, especially on the sublime "Soft." As heard on the album, "Soft" -- built on vaguely Latin rhythms à la Talking Heads and a furious Pixies-style break -- is a stuttering, stop-and-start song about manly frustrations. It's good -- but it could be better. Live, it was truly great. In performance on Saturday night, "Soft" was as blistering and loud as they come, a celebratory shotgun blast of sexual dysfunction that had the guy-strong crowd singing along, "I'm passed out in your garden!" Hallelujah and pass the Viagra! That's why the Kings of Leon just might conquer America after all. When playing live, the band is deliciously unrepentant, completely unrestrained, with God left off the guest list and the Devil dancing all night. During the hour set, the quirky nuances and bouts of uncertainty found on the band's albums were replaced with jackhammer power chords and garage-rock swagger; if there was once a message, now there was only mayhem. Let there be rock. Out of the studio and in front of a crowd, Matthew Followill, cousin and lead guitarist, is a bluesy metalhead at heart, and he could make his one guitar sound like a drunken bar fight of thousands. Drummer Nathan and bassist Jared formed a frantic, double-timing rhythm section. If the Kings ever want to cover that rambunctious surf classic "Wipeout" -- or at least schedule time for a '70s-style drum solo -- they certainly have the young guns to pull it off. And as for Caleb: "I'm kind of losing my voice tonight, but I'm doing my best," said the tall, thin frontman, who was forced to ditch the loopy Nell impression and rely on ragged, punk-style howls instead, a much better fit with his family band's garage-rock approach. Such glorious, tinnitus-inducing new jams as "King of the Rodeo" and "Slow Night, So Long" -- sounding like Dixiefied Iggy Pop or perhaps Tom Petty fronting an AC/DC cover band -- had the jampacked crowd pumping their fists. And the Kings achieved full revival mania with an encore version of band anthem "Holy Roller Novocaine," a sinister gallop from "Manhood" about a preacher's son seducing a groupie and daring God to stop him. Ooh, it's a sinner's swing for sure, but going to Hell has never sounded like so much fun. The Followills' preaching papa may not approve of his kin's wicked ways, but a part of him has to be proud. After all, if there were any doubters at the start of the show, the Kings of Leon made sure only true believers left the building -- sweaty, smiling and far too tired to go to church the next morning. |
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Post by appleshaker on Feb 28, 2005 14:22:08 GMT
thank you britchick  |
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Post by Clair on Feb 28, 2005 14:26:38 GMT
 no problemo
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Post by daisy on Feb 28, 2005 16:46:19 GMT
this is a bit random, i do apologise but.........hehe, when nathan says "that's the only way we know how to play", on that FAB interview Britchick posted (the old audio one)....it reminds me of Usher (My Boo) every time :Pxx
(i'm listenin' to it now, again!)xx
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Post by girlfriday on Feb 28, 2005 20:30:40 GMT
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Post by csolis on Mar 1, 2005 3:32:53 GMT
"perhaps because the Kings were for so long sheltered from popular music, they often sound on record as if they're still figuring out what rock music is supposed to sound like"
thats what makes them fucking great!!!, cause thank the lord they didnt listen to "popular" music!!! it wouold hav just made them like any other band, but theyre not, theyre original!!! (well to me)
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Post by csolis on Mar 1, 2005 4:19:32 GMT
Oh this fucking article was AWESOME!!!! this reporter was great and asked some good questions!!! and jared seenem so cool!!! "and we just got a lot better on our instruments having played all those shows" Fuck yeah u did Jared!!! u got a lot better!!! u rock on this album!!! So with you guys and your lyrics- what’s the family reaction like? I know you grew up pretty religious. Are you nervous about your kinfolk getting upset? "Not really. Our immediate family, we care about. And- it’s like a thing to where it is kind of embarrassing. But all of the really horrible stuff Caleb wrote. (Laughs) So I can always pin it off on him. But yeah, my mom cried. " that is so fucked up Jared!! blaming Caleb for it!!! but who doesnt do it right?? he he!! Im even more fucked up cause i do it with my little bro, when i do something wrong i always blame it on him and since like im older and more "responsible" they believe me and he always gets in trouble!!! i feel bad soemtimes but i always do it again, i thik thats why he hates me so much!! ha ha ha "She let me leave home when I was 15, and helped me home school, and finish up school and all that. " WOW!!! thats fucking great!!! i thought he had dropped out!!! i admire him even more!!! "Man you guys need some rock. Fucking ‘a"-LOL!!! fucking hilarious!!! "I wouldn’t mind being a college student right now" believe me u would not want to be a college student!!! fuck man midterm after midterm!!! reading after reading!!! HORRIBLE!!! i just fucking failed my math midterm today!!! maybe thats why im so fucking mad!!! but i bet if i was living his life right now i would prob. like a normal life right now!! were just never content with what we have!! which sucks ass!!! "You can’t really write every song about playing shows because that’s just kind of cheesy- but you can write about doing it doggy-style. (laughs)" LOL!!! that is nasty!!!LOL!!! "Wow. These girls really like us. Awesome. There, like, willing to do everything.” And after so much of that you’re just like, “ugh.” You start seeing through them, and it just starts to gross you out- the way the girls are" u know were not all like that!!! "I’m just wondering if you had any favorite hymns or church songs growing up?" wow even though ive never really gone to church i sometimes go w/ my mom and i like when the little kids go up and sing "jesus loves me" and some others but theyre in spanish and i dont kow the names. "wanted to be an anesthesiologist because I got my appendix taken out when I was like nine. The guys who gave me the medicine- I remember as I was passing out- they were talking about the Sooners -because we were in Oklahoma- they were talking about the college football team that we support. I remember trying to talk to them and I just passed out. I remember thinking, “Man, this guy has the easiest job.” And so I asked one of the nurses, “Do those guys get paid a lot?” And she was like, “Yeah definitely.” So I was like, “Awesome, man. I want to do that.” Just like put a mask on my face- not to mention how much they huff themselves.” LOL, i wanted to be a surgeon!!! ha ha ha!! i volunteered at this hospital and was lucky enough to have an internship in the surgery dept. and see a lot of surgeries being performed, with all the blood and being able to cut people up!! it was amazing!! and surgeons make money like u wouldnt beliebve but when i found out how many years after college u had to do i was like "fuck no!!!" Apocalypse Now, isnt that the movie where that guys all like "i love the smell of napalm in the morning"? sorry its so long  , but i just loved this interview!! thanks girlfriday!!!! |
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Post by Ashlee on Mar 1, 2005 4:32:12 GMT
It's good to be Kings: Leon's boys rock their way to the promised land
By Larry Katz
Friday, February 25, 2005
Go ahead. Call 'em overnight sensations. There's no denying it.
It was only three years ago that the boys in Kings of Leon bought their first U2 CD. Now they're the designated opening act on the Irish rockers' latest megatour, which comes to the FleetCenter for three nights in May.
But why wait? You can catch the Kings on Sunday in the cozy confines of the Paradise.
``Yeah, it's crazy,'' says Nathan, the oldest King at age 25. ``To be honest with you, we had not heard that much U2 until we bought `Joshua Tree' three years ago. Since then we've gotten more CDs and familiarized ourselves with them. They're good. We're glad they're taking us out. Hopefully we won't be addicted to Guinness by the end of the tour.''
The Kings - drummer Nathan, his brothers Caleb (vocals) and Jared Followill (bass) and their cousin Matthew Followill (guitar) - have been catching up on more than U2 and the other rock icons they missed while growing up as the sons of an itinerant Pentecoastal preacher. The songs on the Tennessee band's second CD, ``Aha Shake Heartbreak,'' released this week, detail the boys' enthusiastic discovery of the first two elements of the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll equation, especially the sex part.
It also represents a musical leap forward from ``Youth & Young Manhood,'' the album that saw the Kings tagged ``the Southern-fried Strokes'' and turned them into instant babe magnets. The band is biggest in Britain, where ``Aha Shake Heartbreak'' came out in November and has sold more than a half-million copies.
``I think from the beginning they were just intrigued by our whole story in England,'' Nathan says from Nashville. ``The whole three brothers and a cousin who grew up in church. The whole good vs. evil routine. They love to paint that picture. They were intrigued by our beards and mustaches and a story that was so foreign to them.''
Heck, their story strikes most Americans as weird. The Followill kids spent a large part of their childhood living in the back seat of their dad's car, traveling from one Southern church to another.
``We didn't look at it as a sheltered life at the time,'' Nathan says. ``But looking back now, it was very sheltered. We could probably recognize a hit song we heard on the car radio, but we couldn't tell you who sang it or anything else about it.''
Life changed radically when father Followill - first name Leon - stopped preaching and started drinking.
``Our parents got divorced,'' Nathan says. ``We weren't in that church lifestyle anymore and it was a reality check. Every man for himself.''
Nathan says he and Caleb started writing songs ``out of sheer boredom.''
``I was tired of going to college. Caleb was tired of doing construction. We started writing songs. Horrible, horrible songs. But we kept writing and met a guy who knew a guy who knew an attorney who knew a publisher who knew a manager who knew people at record labels, and it just took off.''
Meanwhile the Kings soaked up the music they had missed growing up. One of their tutors was Boston rocker-turned-Nashville songwriter Angelo, who co-produced the band's two albums with Ethan Johns.
``Angelo took us under his wing,'' Nathan says. ``He introduced us to the music of the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground. I think he was reliving his youth through us. But we hadn't heard any of it. The Band, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline up to the Pixies, we were fascinated by it all.''
Maybe that's the key to how the Kings make old-school rock sound fresh and new. To them, it is new.
U2 fell in love with the band after the Kings insisted on playing live on a British TV program.
``U2 and us were on this same show where everything is pre-recorded,'' Nathan recalls, ``We just refused. We got up there and rocked out pretty hard. Afterwards U2 wanted to meet us. They were naming our songs and talking about certain drum fills. It was kind of crazy that they knew who we were and knew our music. We didn't think nothing of it, except it was kind of cool. And then two months ago we got a call saying U2 wants you to go on tour with them.''
Yes, life has changed for Kings of Leon. Nathan figures the key is to enjoy the rock star ride they're on while it lasts.
``We try to take it all in stride, but we're having fun now,'' he says, ``We're just trying to marry supermodels while we're still a little bit famous. And when it all goes to (expletive) and we're fat and bald, at least we'll have good-looking wives.''
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Post by csolis on Mar 1, 2005 5:38:57 GMT
ha ha, but pob. when theyre fat and bald and not famous anymore those good looking wives are going to leave them for some good looking fellas!
so Caleb's the wild child of th family huh?
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Post by Stardust on Mar 1, 2005 5:58:03 GMT
"so Caleb's the wild child of th family huh?"
the middle child usually is
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Post by csolis on Mar 1, 2005 6:57:41 GMT
they dont get enough attention!! i know how it feels, i used to be the baby until my mother had to get pregnant again (after 12 yrs!! can u believe that!!) and my stupid brother was born!!! now im sort os the middle child, well for m mom i am cause she has 3 kids but my dad has 4 and me and my older bro are the middle children but everyone LOVES my older bro and sis and my lil bro since hes the baby now and hes only like 6, he gets all the attention so no one cares about me  so i know how u feel Caleb!! ha ha |
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Post by appleshaker on Mar 1, 2005 12:06:58 GMT
ok this is kind of somthing to do with interviews.... remember that interview when caleb said that they just sit by their pool drinking beer and getting a farmers tan  ?? well check this out .....  hahahahaha! |
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Post by aranel on Mar 1, 2005 13:52:53 GMT
ok this is kind of somthing to do with interviews.... remember that interview when caleb said that they just sit by their pool drinking beer and getting a farmers tan ?? well check this out ..... hahahahaha! haha |
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