But, But, But Thats My Band!

[groupielove]

omg!! i cant believe this thread has come up- i feel the exacttt same way... except its worse for me, seeing as i have a very awful history with one of the girls who i accidentally got into KOL.. basically, im going to twooo KOL concerts (cant complain), coz this girl wants to go a show

it all started off with me showing off my KOL images gallery. and then she started getting into the music... its just soooo damn annoying. im so bloody territorial and its driving me insane, inside.

i think Neon makes a good point. if u love it - let it go. not that im gonna stop listening to KOL (no way in hell).. but i think i should let go of the anger.. its making it worse

i first listened to KOL when ASH came out. so i cant help but feel attached. jebus i must feel like a typical 16 yr old female

ok... when i click 'post reply'... my negative attitudes towards KOL getting bigger will disappear (hopefully haha)... all im gonna say is, fingers crossed, hopefully KOL's music wont become shit because of their expanding fan base. ive seen it happen before. and i love them too much!!!!!!!!!

ok.. lasttt thing i wanna say is - it was kinda nice while it lasted. u know, being one of the few people who knew who they were. i think thats whats subconsciously annoying the hell out of me. i just came to a significant realisation.

[underawaterfall]

It's the nature of the beast: you can have your favourite band stay your little secret, try in vain to get your friends to like them, act exasperated when they don't (even though you're really actually happy because they stay 'yours'), have the chance to see them in smaller intermate venues, but have to deal with the negatives such as smaller tours out of their home country, and the constant chance of the band disolving or being dropped due to lack of interest.

If they get big, you get your chance to say 'I told you so' to your friends, go to bigger tours with higher production values in less intimate venues, get the chance to hear 'your' band experiement and grow more in the studio due to a higher budget, but negatively have to deal with tossers who claim them as their favourite band for like forever because they know their big radio hit, and deal with the forboading thought they might 'sell out'.

Can't have it both ways...well not at the same time at least. You just have to be happy that you get to see your band grow, that they are achieving success, and hope that they keep on creating what they want to create, not what big business tells them to.

I am lucky at least in that, save a few friends, nobody I know has a clue who KOL are, so they remain my little secret

[newtonab]

we should officially give this band to the middle east. Then they might like us! Now we just need a good Sitar player


.... ?

[mrsjjfollowill]

^^^hahaha thats too funny newtonab
in an interview with Jared they asked him where he'd less like to play and he said Iraq....

[fingersinthedirt]

i am so glad this thread came up. i have been wanting to rant for a while.

it seems that every band i come across, no one knows who they are. sometimes i enjoy being the only person that knows them and sometimes i wish i had more people to rock out with.

in the town i live in, no one knows kings of leon. i want so badly to just put them in a room with speakers surrounding them and blow their ears out with a song like trani, or mollys chamber. and watch their ears bleed as they crap themselves.

i know, in the YAYM days i would force feed my close friends with them and they just didnt take to them. and the bad thing is, i am almost positive that in the next few years, everyone is going to own a kings of leon cd. and they are going to be asking.."have you heard of this new band from tennessee? its three brothers and a cousin and they are awesome!!" and to which i will respond.."yeah i have, they are the band that i played to you three years ago and you said they sounded like shit and that the singer couldnt sing."

they are the kind of band that will hit it big in the states, eventually, and they will lose fans, just because everyone else likes them. its bound to happen.

i can remember two years ago, a friend of mine had a huge party in the middle of a field. me and my closest friend (who is also a massive kings fan) were on the back of a truck (piss drunk) air guitaring to YAYM in its entirety. everyone looked at us like, "who are these guys and what the HELL are they listening to. for shit sakes, play some skynrd!!"

im not sure what i will do when the day comes that KOL is a household name. i want to say that i will be just as faithful as i am today, but who knows? it would be nice to walk up to some guys at a party in a field air guitaring to some band and say "who are these guys and what the HELL are they listening to? for shit sakes, play some kings of leon!!"

[sovietkitsch]

fingersinthedirt said:

they are the kind of band that will hit it big in the states, eventually, and they will lose fans, just because everyone else likes them. its bound to happen.

People actually do that? They stop being a fan 'cause the band they love gets popular or mainstream? Wow, I can't imagine something like that happening to me. People who don't like a band anymore just 'cause other people do, aren't real fans, I think.. right?

[fingersinthedirt]

i dont know how to explain it. but its true.

[sovietkitsch]

I think I know what you mean. I believe those 'fans' are just poseurs, liking an 'underground' band no one has ever heard of. I just hope this doens't happen to the kings.

[fingersinthedirt]

yeah. agreed.

i talked to a guy at the St. Louis, Missouri show back in May 2007. he came alone because his friend quit listening to them because they "looked" more mainstream. its sad.

im not a fan of "fall out boy" but didnt something like this happen to them? i read somewhere that they were dubbed "sell out boy" by some of their fans because they went really mainstream. who cares. just an example i guess.

i have been a KOL fan for so long that they could wear dresses and sing covers of britney spears and i am still going to like their music.

[lauralimonada]

cheesecake134 said:

Your Regina Spektor story also reminds me of a friend of mine trying to introduce me to the new and upcoming band Modest Mouse. I was like "Dude, I was telling you about them SEVEN years ago!" I'm glad she's getting into them, but shows how much attention she paid.

"up and coming" modest mouse?? haha! that's more than hilarious!

ok here's what i think. i've been on both sides of this dilemma. i grew up in san diego and should've heard about blink 182 during the way early days when punk-rock was emerging. but i didn't. i heard about them when "enema of the state" came out which was their first mainstream breakthrough. the "what's my age again?" video was all over MTV ect ect. That's when i started loving them. and i got so much shit for it from fellow san diegans who were like, "i saw them when they played to 20 people and i know all their old stuff and their new stuff is too pop or commercial." i felt like i had to prove that i was a true fan. i bought all their old stuff and loved it even more than enema. now i don't give a shit, i know i'm a true fucken fan.

and now with KOL i'm on the other side of things. they're still not big in the u.s. and i knew about them back in the ASH days. so when their next album makes it huge and some songs become MTV anthems, i'll be there to say, "i knew about them before they got big" but i would never judge someone who didn't get the opportunity to know them in the "old days." that's that. no judgment.

[sovietkitsch]

You know what, Laura, you're actually right about that. I have this one friend, who never heard of Kings of Leon before On Call, but she fell in love with them immediately (who can blame her, right?). She wanted to know more of their stuff and we exchanged b-sides and all and I was actually happy that she was that interested. At the festivals she was the only one who wanted to go stand front row with me and we had an amazing time. I just know she really loves the music and isn't into them only 'cause they had one hit single over here.

But then I have this other friend who borrowed my Is This It CD and said to me she liked it. But our other friends often laugh at my obsession with The Strokes, and after they said to her: 'Omg, you're listening to them?' she instantly returned the CD and hasn't talked about them ever since. That's really sad.

[SozzellLovesKOL]

Wow, serious? That's strange. I'm really awkward with my possesiveness over the kings. I recentley made friends with someone at college and today found out she really likes kings of leon. And funnily enough, i actually liked it! Being able to talk to someone about them felt really good 'cause i used to go to a chav-infested school before. However, my friend who i took to the KOL gigg in July today, told me that after about 5 long awaited months she is finally falling for KOL. She said she really likes Aha Shake and kept singing the songs. For some reason i really don't like it. It's annoying, i wish i didn't care. It's just me being selfish, i know. But i can't help it

[fingersinthedirt]

opportunity being the key word. ive played KOL for many people. those are the people that aggrevate me.

the ones who diss them when you show them. but when they come around they act like theyve been a huge fan the entire time.

thats my argument.

[SozzellLovesKOL]

Exactly. What i said up there ^^^ about the mate who now after a long time likes them. Used to screw up her face and go past a KOl song if it came up on her itunes - but i can't say she's in love with them now. She's just saying Aha Shakes grown on her, a lot!

[lauralimonada]

^yea, it's all about opportunity. people who diss them for no reason, then fall in love with them when they see a bunch of videos and stuff...that's messed up.

this makes me wonder if there's a band out there right now that i would probably love but haven't heard of them yet?

[lawnalot]

lauralimonada said:

^yea, it's all about opportunity. people who diss them for no reason, then fall in love with them when they see a bunch of videos and stuff...that's messed up.

this makes me wonder if there's a band out there right now that i would probably love but haven't heard of them yet?

there absolutely 100% is! i find i go through spells, when i was younger and grew out of pop i remember finding a few amazing bands but being sooo in need of more and i just didnt no them

then other times u get inundated with amazing music, say some1 burns u some cds or something, then thers not enough hours in the day!

i became introduced to modest mouse, fionn regan and the shins all at the same time, i thought i would explode with love and emotion...

so yeah im sure ther is if u look in the right place

[razzz]

interestingtrash said:

nooo i know exactly what you mean, except i haven't been a fan since YAYM... i was musically challenged back then. i feel pretty selfish thinking this, but when i saw the wembley pictures Rachy roo posted in the tours section with the insanely huge crowd, i couldn't help but think, thank god they don't play such big gigs here. i want nothing but amazing success for them, cuz well, they certainly deserve it, but i love my intimate shows, i guess

"musically challenged" I like the way you put that!
I first heard of KOL whenever the Four Kicks video came out,
and ever since then I've listened to more and more of them.
Around here, I don't really hear too much of them, just with couple kids at my school, and I don't remember if the show in June was sold out. The local radio station plays them, but I've only heard them play their new stuff, so idk, I'm not complaining, but then again, I don't live in the UK, which I'm guessing is where they're the biggest...

[razzz]

fingersinthedirt said:

opportunity being the key word. ive played KOL for many people. those are the people that aggrevate me.

the ones who diss them when you show them. but when they come around they act like theyve been a huge fan the entire time.

thats my argument.

All of the people I've showed KOL to, it may just be a few, a couple actually, but the Kings are pretty much their favorite band now. It's nice having just a couple of friends who love them just as much as you, so you can blare their cds in your car at 1am and just drive around town!

[juice1335]

I have been an obsessive and posessive fan since the YAYM days, I don't post much (more of a reader), but I have been feeling this way for awhile, and I feel the exact same way as most of you (AKA, biggest music snob ever). My biggest problem is that I feel people are into them for the wrong reasons and the wrong songs. How many people do you know whom claim to love KOL only know On Call, Mollys, Cali, Bucket, Milk, 4 kix...I live in the US, so take that into account. I guess its inevitable in our day and age when looks, fashion, gossip, radio and media can make anyone popular ie; everything on the radio, Nickleback, all EMO, etc...

I am just glad to have this site and everyone on here because its so refreshing to have people out there feeling the same way as me about this band, they changed my life, I cannot wait to grow old with them.

[alitahearts]

I am the exact same way

I freak out when people talk about the kings or when I hear them on commericals or something like that

then i feel bad because i should be happy for how much attention they are getting..

its just not as fun to listen to music that everyone listens to