The Kings of Leon...SOMEONE FETCH ME A WEAPON AT ONCE!

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I've never even heard a nanosecond of their music, but based on this cover picture alone, I want to devote the rest of my life to making sure their lives are filled with torment, regret and pain.

Someone convince me why they shouldn't be slain. How is their music?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"The best debut album of the past 10 years!" NME

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex i slagged off this band last week on ILM !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

THE WORST NME COVER OF ALL TIME

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

alex in nyc, dom and dj martian in the same room. now if i just place this bomb i made earlier here.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Themses The Strokes fer Southern folks. Er at least tryin'.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Those suspenders on the far left there are pretty special...

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll say this though; they're songs aren't exactly shitty so much as they're all the kind of song you get the distinct impression you've heard before and didn't quite like then either and definitely don't like it now. At least what I've heard.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

but who is buying into this retro bullshit? their album prior to release was number 1 on amazon's UK pre-order chart, surely the teenage kids can't be following the dumb NME ?

it's 2003 and the NME thinks retro bar boogierock is it ! what is the world coming to ! what is Steve Sutherland doing all week at the NME!

if Mr Abusing/ TTT in Melody Maker was still going: Kings of Leon and NME would be ripped to shreds !

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Judging from the EP, all the people who think they're "Southern Rock" or "garage rock from the South" have never heard Lynyrd Skynyrd OR the Swinging Medallions. Who the EP mostly sounded like was the Black Fucking Crowes; if you wanna talk '70s stuff, I'd say maybe Pablo Cruise, Orleans, or the Doobie Brothers. Except with no hits. I dunno; maybe their album's better (haven't heard it, and am not looking forward to listening to it). But until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume this is one of the stupidest hypes of the year so far.

― chuck, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

''it's 2003 and the NME thinks retro bar boogierock is it ! what is the world coming to ! what is Steve Sutherland doing all week at the NME!''

heh...those exclamation marks are a real killa. well done martian.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex you requested a weapon, now attack that hair !

Someone hold the f-ing long haired retro hippy rockers down !

http://www.outdooredge.com/images/Shears-500.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Who the EP mostly sounded like was the Black Fucking Crowes; if you wanna talk '70s stuff, I'd say maybe Pablo Cruise, Orleans, or the Doobie Brothers. Except with no hits.

Lordy, if this is true, then my violent ire is justified!

As an aside, I saw Chris "Black Fucking Crowe" Robinson in Rockit Scientist on Carmine Street last week, chatting endlessly about The Coral to the gent behind the counter. No, I didn't say anything.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Last time I saw Chris Robinson I thought he was Chewbacca. Boy was I disappointed.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

And you two didn't slug him for his crimes against music because...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

they're too busy crushing on his wife

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

...I thought he was Chewbacca.

(x-post! Um no not quite Stevem. Althought that's not to say I wouldn't hit it...)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Aye, whilst Chris Robinson is slagged on and silent passerby think evil thoughts, he goes home later and pounces on a willing Kate Hudson.

Anyway, for Southern rock goodness there's always the Yayhoos. Dan Baird for president!

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Southern rock that...

A) is, like, really Southern

B) really, y'know, rocks

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Never having actually read NME, I find myself wondering -- is that a serious headline on the cover? Is this band supposed to be looking mean? Must we discuss the suspenders?

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Why did i know that Alex started this thread before i opened it?

Not that i'm disagreeing, mind you.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, by that token my band is Southern rock.

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hm. In reviewing my earlier statement, I realize now that I left the door open to apply it to every rock band from the South extending all the way to REfrigginM, who I suppose aren't quite Southern rock. Must rethink position.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Must include: a) beer drinkers b) hell raisers.

Therefore Peter Buck might count, but Stipe is SOL.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

>>Anyway, for Southern rock goodness there's always the Yayhoos. Dan Baird for president!<<

I thought they sounded like some whitebread alt-country powerpop shit...i.e., they rocked even less than the Georgia Satellites (or Replacements) used to. As hypes go, I'd probably take Kings of Leon, who at least had some small semblance of '70s afternoon-rock GROOVE.

― chuck, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

And if you DO wanna hear real southern rock these days (and you don't feel like buying a Drive By Truckers or Kid Rock album), all you have to do is turn on a mainstream country station, for crissakes.

― chuck, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

There's also lots of really good actual southern rock bands -- and they're from the South. Of the U.S., I mean.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I gotta admit, Chuck, last time I heard such a station for an extended period on a trip to Louisiana earlier this year, about the only thing that stood out was the Dixie Chicks. Otherwise everything was blandly good at best and blandly bad at worst.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Many good times can be had when one combines whiskey and All Night, or Dragstrip Syndicate, or Those Peabodies, or many other fine southern combos. I'm sure they'll be in the NME any minute now.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Good Southern Rock? Taketh thine ass to a Nashville Pussy show STAT.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Eww. But that's just my opinion.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Alabama Thunderpussy, though, I've given it up for and hopefully will again.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, actually I'm not too keen on their albums (NP's, that is). But every time I've seen them in concert it's been a wonderful fire-breathing keep-on-truckin' where's-the-Beam? good time like nothing else.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Since the departure of Corey Parks, the Nashville Pussy live experience is virtually pointless.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait..Corey Parks is no longer in Nashville Pussy? Woah. That's like Jesus leaving Christianity or whatever!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

As far as southern rock goes, it couldn't possibly top Pat
Travers' "PT Power Trio." Aynsley Dunbar on drums. You just
know he's from ~~England~~ below the Mason-Dixon
line.

Dig these cuts --
"Tramp" -- from the first Stray Dog album.
"Free Man" -- from the first Point Blank album.
"Inside Looking Out" -- not southern, but very Grand
Funk "red" album.

Lotsa shuffles.

All Night do southern rock but they're out-of-luck poverty
cases.

What else do we got in the ugly, doomed and out of cash category.
The "new" Molly Hatchet. The Dixie All Stars -- an "old" Molly Hatchet and Blackfoot. The new "old" Molly Hatchet live on the
King Biscuit.

Boogie on.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Nashville Pussy and Alabama Thunderpussy, at best, always struck me as slightly better than average Motorhead-inspired hardcore bands; at worst, they were stupid novelty acts. Wearing wifebeaters and trucker's hats in the form of a stupid Hee-Haw joke just isn't enough to make me give a shit, no matter how well your Amazon women simulate fellatio on stage. Country stations these days play Montgomery Gentry and Brooks and Dunn, both of whom, at their best, rock a LOT harder. Toby Keith has his moments, too. And the parts of the new Kentucky Headhunters album that sound like Bad Company are as convincing as anything on All Night's album (which I also like; there have been a couple other things out of the stoner-rock realm in the past couple years that deserve mentioning within the same parenthetical phrase as Blackfoot or Point Blank, too, but I forget what they're called.).

― chuck, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait..Corey Parks is no longer in Nashville Pussy? Woah. That's like Jesus leaving Christianity or whatever!

Yeah, sad but true. They have some new, invariably inferior gal named Katielyn Campbell on bass. She's below on the left....
http://www.nashvillepussy.com/images/indexa_04.gif

No idea what became of Corey, but without her, who cares?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Toby Keith has his moments, too.

Wow. Didn't expect that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

>>Nashville Pussy and Alabama Thunderpussy, at best, always struck me as slightly better than average Motorhead-inspired hardcore bands; at worst, they were stupid novelty acts.<<

And anyway, didn't Antiseen do the stupid novelty part (floppy turkey-shooter hats, washboards, David Allen Coe covers, songs about the singer fucking his sister) first and better, way back in the mid '80s?

― chuck, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(And REO Speeddealer were even more half-assed than Nashville Pussy, if anybody's taking notes. And Nashville Pussy's name comes from a stage rant by Ted Nugent--from the same part of the South that Kid Rock is from, obviously. And now that I think of it, I can't remember if I actually ever *heard* Alabama Thunderpussy. Which probably just means more that they were forgettable than that my memory's bad.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Despite Charles' take, I find Nashville Pussy and the Yayhoos to be a blast. Right now I prefer the Legendary Shack Shakers who presumably don't rock as hard Counting Crows.

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I met Nashville Pussy once, at Fatburger in Studio City, CA. Incredibly friendly.

Corey Parks is the sister of NBA journeyman Cherokee Parks, interestingly. She'd probably be a better rebounder. I guess she's fronting some band in L.A. now, trying to stay clean. I have these details from a Danish friend of mine.

― ham on rye (ham on rye), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The artwork stolen from the first Nazareth LP almost duped
me into buying the last Nashville Pussy CD. But the listening
station saved the day.

The Parks woman is in the Hunns.

And if my memory isn't faulty the local daily crapper informed a
while back that she runs some store near Melrose that designs and sells garments for the Hollywood rocker.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Corey Parks grew up in Costa Mesa, CA, I believe. I was at NoiseNoiseNoise records one day when she stopped by to pick up a whole bunch of Hank Williams records. She is... tall.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

'california waiting' is pretty damn good. perhaps take a listen before going the hack alex. there are more worthy targets of yer venom. like jet. and sway.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i dislike kings of leon but not as much as i dislike the coral. i still haven't heard any Jet

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

jim, read this

http://www.rockfeedback.com/latestinterview.htm

who the fuck do these blokes think they are?

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.rockfeedback.com/images/jet_7.jpg

‘I would consider myself personally political, yes,’ Chris suddenly declares amidst a record-company’s rooftop, with admirable aplomb. ‘Especially over the way certain events are unfolding in America right now.’

‘Yeah,’ nods Cameron, seated opposite – the (nearest to being) mysterious one – who bizarrely notes, ‘it’s hardly Canada now, is it?’

Nic grins, ‘Well, that’s because – in Canada – everyone’s too busy growing goatees.’

Oh my sides.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

and what's worse is that the world think that this is the best Australia has to offer. crimony.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

b/w these funsters and the vines, 'the brand' really is being trashed.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

add the sleepy jackson to the equation and we might as well give up now

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

ah yes when slipshod is mistaken for eccentric.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Their music is terrible but I'm grateful to them in one way, I went to Propaganda in Soho the other night and I was feeling selfconscious as I haven't had a haircut in ages and it looks fucking terrible but it turned out the KoL were in there so I didn't feel so bad. I still didn't get any pussy tho

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The Kings of Leon look like an Eastern European slapstick comedy act.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

And Doomie was getting all excited about the Eagles revival like it was a GOOD thing. ::shudders::

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard KoL the other night on the radio and verily they sucketh.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it me or are those two guys over on the left moonlighting Strokes?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

From what I’ve heard, I think I quite like the Kings of Leon, but then, I like the first three Black Crowes albums, and even some of the fourth one, so what do I know?

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You know boogie rock, Alex K.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

It can't be true!

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Give in to the 12 bar. Do you like Give Ou But Don't Give Up?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Feh! Feh! WE DO NOT MENTION THAT ABOMINATION IN PUBLIC, NICK!!!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Only Jailbird. Does that condemn me to the scaffold?

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No. It condemns you to boogie.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

No. Please, Jesus Christ no. Think about what you're doinggggggg...

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Swivvle those hips. Keep those feet perfectly still. Pull your elbows in to your waist. Boogie...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!!!

THAT IS THE WORST ALBUM EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF FOREVER!!!

I am going to take back every nice thing I've ever said about you ever if you don't stop it right now.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

it's too late... WHOOOAAA, WHOOOAA, GET A LITTLE FUNKY! WHOOOAAA WHOOOAA, GET A LITTLE FUNKY NOW!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Get

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Your