Greatest day of your life

[chessikah]

Sorry if there's already a thread like this!


Tell about the greatest day of your life = the day you found out KOL existed/started to like them (if you thought they were strange, ugly and rude at first)!

If the greatest day of your life was when you got married/had kids/discovered chocalate milk just forget about that day for now.


For me it was January 31, 2009... 6 months and 4 days today I'm a new fan, yes, but no sex somebody-ier.
It was when I saw a ÝouTube-video of Use Somebody someone had done. It was black and white pictures of the boys in a tour bus, from 2003. So, naturally, I thought they were a 70's band and that they all were like 60 yrs old now.
Anywaays, I really loved the song. When I found out they were still young and fresh and non-wrinkly I was even happier.
I listened to Red Morning Light, 4 kicks, Molly's Chambers and Soft and then I was totally hooked.

How about you?

[antroolez]

I found out about them in about Febuary/March 2003, my best friend's dad friend...yer...worked on a radio station and had their EP...played it to me in the car when I was on holiday in Cornwall and I remembered the name and went home and downloaded Youth and Young Manhood before it even came out I think

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[Elly]

2003! ..Was at a mates house and he was blastin "Wicker Chair" i asked who the band was he said KOL...i bought the EP then months/yrs down the track eventually bought everything they made/did ... became virtually obsessed with em.. and as they say .. the rest is history!

[cupcakesforyou]

I think it was around December of this year (I'm not a Use Somebody/SOF-er either) I didn't even know Sex on Fire existed until two months later. A band at my school called the Break played Molly's Chambers and On Call at our holiday assembly. I went to their gig on a later day too, and they played the Bucket and California Waiting too. So, that's how I found out about KoL.

[beplumcrazy]

i started listening to KOL back in college... i moved out of my tiny ass farm town where they only played country music and the one rock station only played stuff like limp bizkit/linkin park/ metallica so it was hard to branch out musically (and myspace/youtube/ the internet in general wasn't as good back then for finding new stuff!

so i moved away to college and became best friends with the girl in the dorm room next door who introduced me to all kinds of new music... i made copies of a lot of her CDs (the strokes, the white stripes, ect...) and i believe that's how i first stumbled on to KOL by looking for similar bands at the time... first song I heard was Molly's Chambers

[usa1950]

I am a rarity in that I'm an American who is also a big soccer (football) fan. I've been playing a soccer video game called FIFA for years and years, buying the new one each year.

FIFA 2004 used Red Morning Light as the opening song, i.e. you turn the game on, the song plays with the game title and some I bought and played the game one day, bought Youth And Young Manhood the next.

"I now say now-now-now -- HEY!! HEY!! Another dirty bird is coming out at ten!"

Such a unique sound, crunching guitars w a distinct Southern Rock feel, but with a modern garage rock edge to it. And that voice... nothing around back then like that at all, and there still isn't.


Here it is.....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU1qaaZNvzc

[usa1950]

Aug 19, 2009 15:10:26 GMT usa1950 said:

I am a rarity in that I'm an American who is also a big soccer (football) fan. I've been playing a soccer video game called FIFA for years and years, buying the new one each year.

FIFA 2004 used Red Morning Light as the opening song, i.e. you turn the game on, the song plays with the game title and some video footage plays. FIFA games have been well known for their soundtracks, often uncovering relatively unknown music. I bought and played the game one day, bought Youth And Young Manhood the next.

"I now say now-now-now -- HEY!! HEY!! Another dirty bird is coming out at ten!"

Such a unique sound, crunching guitars w a distinct Southern Rock feel, but with a modern garage rock edge to it. And that voice... nothing around back then like that at all, and there still isn't.


Here it is.....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU1qaaZNvzc

[timgrw]

My room mate in Uni in England during my final year in 2003 used to keep me awake playing music all night and it bugged the crap outta me. That was until he put on KOL one night. Out of bed I got to ask him who the hell were that band. They sounded awesome, he was playing RML.
That summer I saw them at a festival here in Ireland, date was July 13, 2003, and the following December (December 16, 2003) I saw them in Dublin. However, the following Christmas, exactly a year after I had seen them in the Olympia in Dublin, I went back to England to visit some uni friends and we went to see KOL in Wolverhampton, and although I already loved them, that was the night I was sucked in and hooked. Oh the hairy boys were good, a breath of fresh air. How I long for those days of teeny tiny venues again! My lasting memory from that night is Caleb tuning his gee-tar with a ciggi hanging out the side of his mouth.

[benief]

2003. I remember hearing the song 'Wasted Time' and though it was pretty cool. However, i was going through my Pink Floyd/Zeppelin etc stage and didn't think much of it.

A few months later I snuck in to see the Strokes (about 4 years underage at the time) and Kings were the support and I was impressed so bought the album at the show.

[anners]

just after AHA came out, the bucket was my friends myspace song
but i kinda just listened to that, king of the rodeo, then when bott came out i knew On Call, Charmer and Fans was my favourite song ever.
Then they headlined a festival in Perth and i saw then only knowing those songs ^^ and i was just blown away
when fans came on i was bawling haha
knocked up was so epic i was like "jesus christ where did these guys come from!"
so when i got home i downloaded all 3 albums, then bought them, and here we are today

[drippingbeards]

I found out about KOL when i was playing fifa 2003 round my friends house and the opening song is red morning light and i felled in love so i bought youth and young manhood (first album I ever bought )

[jazzy]

I first realized KOL existed in 2003 when I was like ten because I watched the movie Stuck on You which had Holy Roller Novocaine, Molly's Chambers, and California Waiting. I didn't go and find out who they were because I was only ten but I just remembered loving the songs from the movie. The when I watched Distubia which had Taper Jean Girl in it, I looked up KOL and now I love them

[evil]

I had been hearing sex on fire a lot...at work and in my car. I had asked my friend if I could read her rolling stone mag with KOL on it, just cause I was curious...Ever since that day I have been listening to their music, and watching their videos/interviews. I can't seem to get enough of them. I'm on HA every single day as well! oh man KOL is a disease!!!

[lauralimonada]

my brother played "king of the rodeo" nonstop when my mom drove us to school in the fall of 2005. i loved the song and wanted more. i played that and "the bucket" and "california waiting" nonstop for a few months. i was dying to see them live but it wasn't until Oct 2006 when they opened for Bob Dylan at the same venue that they will headline tomorrow evening.

It's been 4 years of Kings of Leon lovin and it doesn't look like I'll be breaking away any time soon

[jeffica]

For my 15th birthday (2006), my friend decided to change my muscial tastes for the better (trust me, the Kelly Clarkson CD under my bed is just one surviving memento of that serious blip in taste). She made me 3 mix CDs (Love songs, Sleepy songs and one called 'Enjoy') that had a whole lot of the music that she liked. There was heaps of Radiohead (I owe that to her too), Interpol, the Dandy Warhols etc, as well as Taper Jean Girl, Soft and Milk. Taper being the first one I ever heard, I was immediately drawn to it. I bought Aha and YAYM soon after, but then forgot about them until On Call started to be played and I bought BOTT. That CD...Words can't describe how much I love it. I seriously think I would save it if my house were burning down! And the rest is history, I suppose.
So thank you F___. And thank you Kings. So much. It's probably true that all the music that I listen to now is directly or indirectly related to those CDs, and to KoL.
*feels emotional*
*puts on BOTT*

[squints_]

2003 or 2004 I forget, I was a sophmore in high school. My friend Jamie was playing "Mollys Chambers" on his guitar. I asked what he was playing and he burned me a copy of the Holy Roller Novocain EP and instantly became a fan.

But I never would have called it 'My Greatest Day Ever' until I saw them play live at Coachella 2007 or was it 2006 (i forget again) all i remember is that i kept telling my friends that they sound exactly as they do in their records and that we all wanted to fuck the lead singer.

[missus]

January 26th 2009, Triple J Hottest 100. Streaming live from Australia, listening to it here in Texas.
"Closer" came on and immediately I was all "WHO THE FUCK IS THAT?"

Not one other song of the 100 made me sit up like that one did (Use Somebody and SOF were also in it - made top 10 I think, with SOF #1).

Tracked down more songs online. Didn't know what to listen to or where to start. Ended up with Black Thumbnail and Ragoo for starters, and just never stopped.

[Savanna]

These are interesting to read! Lots of 2003'ers.


Well for me, it was their SNL performance back in November. Yep, late discovery. I'd heard RML and Molly's Chambers in car commercials when I was like 12...but I was definitely still listening to Christina Aguilera at that time. Not gonna lie about that.

Anyway...saw them on SNL, I automatically wondered who these guys were and why I'd never seen them before. I immediately got on my computer and looked them up. Every day from then on it was KoL mania; I wanted to see them live...they weren't coming to AZ anytime soon, but I wasn't having any of that. So literally a month after discovering them, I planned to see them in Louisville in January. Hopped on a plane, witnessed magic, now I'm in it for the long haul

[White Onyx Elephant]

I heard KOL for the first time in spring 2005. The song I heard was Four Kicks I guess, I'm not sure though. This guy on the radio went on and on about them and I decided to have a listen. I downloaded ASH, listened to it... and didn't like it, apart from Milk and Four Kicks. So I kind of forgot about KOL for some time, until spring of this year. I would hear either Sex on Fire or Use Somebody at least once a day at that time. I quite liked those and thought I should give them another try. I downloaded OBTN and while listening to Closer I realized that quite possibly I have a new favorite band. Getting to know their older songs and seeing them in concert proved that I was right.

[eliserichardson]

For me it was in 2005 during my Senior year of high school while I was at boarding school. I became obsessed with aha shake and then during my freshman year of college my love for them grew and I was finally able to see them live on my birthday during my sophomore year of college! Seeing them live for the first time at the Warfield was probably one of the best days ever I love going back and listening to my mixes from my senior year when I was just getting to know kol's music