Post by toodrunktoremember on Jul 30, 2008 18:17:40 GMT
KOL were number 4 in the top 25 bands making America cool again 
Should have been number one obviously. They were beaten by: Glass Candy [3] (I have no idea who these guys are), Lil Wayne [2] (who is not a BAND so therefore shouldn't have been able to beat them in said list) and Vampire Weekend [1] (who I love but I love KOL more).
There's a little article about them in there but I just got a new scanner and I have only touched it once and that time I very nearly broke it beyond fixing, so I'm a bit scared of it at the moment
Sorry..
EDIT: So I have so little to do today I figured I would type it out:
"They came to steal the hearts of The Strokes' fans with their taut guitars, their even tauter trousers and their Nashville boyband schtick. And we adored them for it. Then they tried to bugger it all up by writing albums with no singles on, taking loads and loads of cocaine and barking like Black Francis mid-castration. And we adored them even more.
Caleb's facial hair is the closet they've ever come to a 'special effect', yet we've forced them to play arenas and headline Glastonbury for us. Much as they've fought against it, heck, turns out them there Followill boys are gonna be superstars whether they like it or not, dagnamit.
So, with their upcoming fourth album "Only By The Night", KOL have bitten the Big Music bullet and decided to become the monumental, Marshall stack-shagging, balls-out enormoband that we ordered way back in 2003. Riffs like ack-ack fire from a Messerschmitt made completely out of AC/DC albums roar from 'Crawl'. U2 atmospherics get deeply southern-fried untill they rattle like snakes and hum like Pentecostal choirs in rapture. Suddenly the Kings sound like a Coldplay fan's new favourite 'dangerous' rock'n'roll band.
They're the only group of their generation to find big chart success at home aswell as abroad. The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs were too spikey and sophisticated to cross over to the rock apes of Middle America. But Kings of Leon, in their girls' jeans and rolled-sleeve cowboy shirts, radiate an alluringly glamorous and decidedly un-Christian take on mainstream Americana. For all the beatings they received in truck stops across the US for looking like 'fags', they're exactly what the modern too-young-for-Springsteen rock jock dreams of being, ie sexy in an androgynous '70s Lynyrd Skynyrd sort of way but oozing enough testosterone to sprout a full beard from a freshly razored chin by noon. They are, in essence, a ragged rock show on Brokeback Mountian.
Kings of Leon: classic, yet cool. For that reason alone they're set to be the first decent US act in decades to threaten stadium status. They're already the groove and groin of America; soon they'll be the heart and soul".
Should have been number one obviously. They were beaten by: Glass Candy [3] (I have no idea who these guys are), Lil Wayne [2] (who is not a BAND so therefore shouldn't have been able to beat them in said list) and Vampire Weekend [1] (who I love but I love KOL more).
There's a little article about them in there but I just got a new scanner and I have only touched it once and that time I very nearly broke it beyond fixing, so I'm a bit scared of it at the moment
Sorry..EDIT: So I have so little to do today I figured I would type it out:
"They came to steal the hearts of The Strokes' fans with their taut guitars, their even tauter trousers and their Nashville boyband schtick. And we adored them for it. Then they tried to bugger it all up by writing albums with no singles on, taking loads and loads of cocaine and barking like Black Francis mid-castration. And we adored them even more.
Caleb's facial hair is the closet they've ever come to a 'special effect', yet we've forced them to play arenas and headline Glastonbury for us. Much as they've fought against it, heck, turns out them there Followill boys are gonna be superstars whether they like it or not, dagnamit.
So, with their upcoming fourth album "Only By The Night", KOL have bitten the Big Music bullet and decided to become the monumental, Marshall stack-shagging, balls-out enormoband that we ordered way back in 2003. Riffs like ack-ack fire from a Messerschmitt made completely out of AC/DC albums roar from 'Crawl'. U2 atmospherics get deeply southern-fried untill they rattle like snakes and hum like Pentecostal choirs in rapture. Suddenly the Kings sound like a Coldplay fan's new favourite 'dangerous' rock'n'roll band.
They're the only group of their generation to find big chart success at home aswell as abroad. The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs were too spikey and sophisticated to cross over to the rock apes of Middle America. But Kings of Leon, in their girls' jeans and rolled-sleeve cowboy shirts, radiate an alluringly glamorous and decidedly un-Christian take on mainstream Americana. For all the beatings they received in truck stops across the US for looking like 'fags', they're exactly what the modern too-young-for-Springsteen rock jock dreams of being, ie sexy in an androgynous '70s Lynyrd Skynyrd sort of way but oozing enough testosterone to sprout a full beard from a freshly razored chin by noon. They are, in essence, a ragged rock show on Brokeback Mountian.
Kings of Leon: classic, yet cool. For that reason alone they're set to be the first decent US act in decades to threaten stadium status. They're already the groove and groin of America; soon they'll be the heart and soul".
. Us folks in the states can't really get ahold of NME.
