Your first KOL experience

[milkgirl]

Het i never liked the band i heard the 2nd album and was like you gotta be fuckin kidding me,but then i went homw one night and had the cd in my laptop and fell in love with it,then i got the first album.I thought it was just BAM!drenched in sound and naughty lyrics it really was something i never heard!
I went to a festiaval 2 see them and thought they were electric.
When because of the times came out,was it me or was it a dramatic change that took time 2 ease into....But it grew on me:)
I ended up goin to another gig in november and got 2 meet them...i mean i havnt stopped listening to thier music,constantly:)
I love thier lyrics.such crazy guys:) cant believe the transformation...they look younger now than they did 5yrs ago!!lol

[phil4KOL]

It was just before Four Kicks was released, and i used to work in a shop. They kept playing this song ever sunday morning when i was working weekends and the song was just awesome. I was highly musicly challanged back then and didnt really listen to any type of music. I found the kings, thought it was amazing, my mate happened to get me a ticket for a birmingham gig, i went, and thought it was unreal. The rocked it, ive never fell in love so quick, bit long winded lol, but there it is!

[thisharvestmoon]

i'm new to this message board, well actually i had a user name but i forgot what it was so i had to make a new one...anyway, this is my story regarding my first kol experience.

about 3 years ago i started talking to this guy on the pearl jam message board (they are one of my favorite bands, seen them 27 times) and he recommended i listen to kol. he sent me some songs but i kind of disregarded it and said "yeah yeah. not for me." i had the songs on my computer for a couple years and eventually deleted them about a year ago. i now kick myself for this.

this summer i went to lollapalooza, which was right in my backyard, and got there early to get a good spot for pearl jam. well kol went on around 2 and i fell in love with their music. black thumbnail was the first song i had ever heard from them and it was amazing. everything about it blew me away, caleb's voice to matt's riffs. after their show i spotted a friend of mine who works with pearl jam. he let me come backstage and i met kol and some other people while my morning jacket was playing. they were really nice (sweaty however, it was around 104 degrees and 100% humidity) guys. that's my first experience with kol!

[samson]

it was summer, nothing to do, was stoned and some1 played red morning light....i liked and the ball kept rolling

[mrsbrightside]

I remember hearing Red Morning light on MTV and i always used to buy NME and knew that they were practically having orgasms over these guys. I listened to it and thought hey this isnt too bad, then i heard Mollys Chambers and that was it loved them, i bought the album but shock horror i have to say i didnt like it on first listen, i thought it was too heavy for me so i never listenened to it for about 2 months. My mate bought it and couldnt stop going on about how brilliant it was so i gave it another listen, and well the rest my friend......is history!

[ticola]

a friend of mine had the ep and made me listen to it and after that i was hooked!
we saw them live the very first time they played in manchester at the manchester academy and since that day california waiting has been my favourite song!

[mrsbrightside]

^^^ I love California Waiting! such a brilliant song

[brightlights]

My friend's little sister was a fan and wanted to see them when they were touring Australia last summer. My friend and I go to gigs together all the time and her sister is like a sister to me too so i thought it would be fun to go, even though i knew nothing about the kings. So i bought ASH last november in preparation, listened to it twice and thought WTF is this?

and then a few weeks later i was walking through the city and Taper jean girl came on shuffle on my ipod and BOOM! i got it.

Then i saw them at the gig a few weeks later, had my socks completely rocked off and havent looked back

[nollafyzzil]

I saw them the Jools Holland show in 2004 right before ASH came out, they played Four Kicks and went mental, and I was just like f**k they're good, and bought the two albums as soon as I could!
I still thank Jools Holland for introducing me :]

[no1kolfan]

I couldn’t remember if I had ever posted in this thread, so I looked through and I hadn’t. So, because I think y’all might get a kick out of it…I’ll tell my story of how I came across the Kings.

I’m a big fan of an Irish actor named Cillian Murphy. Someone told me about him being in a magazine (I think it might have been Spin, but not totally sure). Anyway, I went and bought the magazine. They had a nice write up on Cillian Murphy and then had a list of his favorite albums (among them was Aha Shake Heartbreak). I had heard all of the other bands he liked and thought to myself…”he seems to like a lot of the same music I do, I’ll have to go check this Kings of Leon out”. A couple days later my best friend and I were wasting some time before a movie and went into Best Buy. I decided I’d look up Kings of Leon and buy Aha Shake Heartbreak. While we were trying to kill some more time I told my friend lets go back to my car so I could give them a listen. To my surprise when I heard “The Bucket” I got super excited because I had heard that song on the radio, but had no idea who it was that sang it (same with "Molly's Chambers" once I bought Y&YM).

Couple days later I went and bought Youth & Young Manhood and found out that Kings of Leon was to be playing the Ryman in Nashville with The Secret Machines. I managed to talk my friend into us buying a ticket and going. Granted our seats weren’t the best at that point…but I was hooked after I watched them! This was back in 2005.

So oddly enough, I owe Cillian Murphy thanks for getting me into the Kings. Hahaha. :-P

[greenman]

Must have been 03/04 and someone was flashing ASH around, i liked the cover so bought the album. On the way to my first gig in cardiff (late 05 i think) i got up to speed and bought YAYM.
Avid follower since then!

[kasi18]

Jonathan Ross got me into Kings Of Leon

[benief]

early 04'...i snuck into a Strokes gig here in Melbourne and KOL were the support band

[Gunsfromsouth ;D]

The first time I heard KOL was because they had 'The Bucket' on 'Singstar Rocks' and I instantly fell in love with the song. Meh. That is such a sad way to have found out about them.

[Deleted]

I heard them on a game, too.

FIFA 2004 which would've been released roughly in October/November 2003.

I loved the song but it wasn't until I heard California Waiting on TV that I decided to go and buy the album.

I LOVED it but when ASH came out a year or so later I reeeally fell in love. It's one of my favourite albums ever.

[lovelyyyyhead]

It was in 2003, when YAYM had just been released I think. I saw the Kings on several French magazines and I thought they looked terrible haha. I got to listen to red Morning Light on a magazine sampler, and I fell in love with it. I played it to death and then decided to buy the album. Wasn't dissapointed

[MrsFollowill]

In first year, my friend gave me a listen to a few songs from Aha and she said i could borrow her albums i took one listen and needed to buy the two albums and haven't stopped liking them

[Bornagirl76]

Sometime in early 2003 I guess, when Holy Roller Novocaine was released. I used to read all the weekly and monthly British music press so it wasn't really possible not to know about them. My friend/colleague had just moved from a job at Sony and she got a preview copy of Youth & Young Manhood. She burnt it for me in return for a copy of the first Interpol album. And that was that!

I was at Glastonbury a month or so later and went to check 'em out, but it was so rammed that I couldn't really see them (and I was kinda drunk ). I figured I'd catch them in London over the summer, but for some reason I never did, and then I left the country. While I was living and travelling on the other side of the world I kept returning to California Waiting, which was the song that made me love them more than just another hyped band. I was home for a week around when The Bucket was released, and absolutely loved it, it was so catchy. But I was in Peru when Aha Shake Heartbreak was released in Europe. I went to ridiculous lengths to try and find the album (didn't realise it wasn't released in the Americas until a few months after Europe). I finally tracked a copy down in Argentina! I worked hard for my fandom

[catinthehat]

Mine was in June 2005. I was in a summer camp thing and i was so homesick it was unreal. I went into one of the other girls rooms one day to kinda be alone and started playing her cd player and ASH was in it...i went mental for it, when she came back I asked her who it was, and then just kept listening to that cd for the duration of the summer camp non stop...i guess it helped with the homesickness....aww...

[nollafyzzil]

Aug 6, 2008 12:25:13 GMT @lowri94 said:

Mine didn't start off too good.
I remember being hooked to the Hits or TMF music channel in like 03'ish and Molly's Chamber's started being on a lot!

Quality programming!