Kings of Leon are SO overrated.

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s had so much more enthusiasm than KOL. I was front and center for KOL the lack of live energy and stage presence influenced me to take a peak at YYYs, i caught Heads Will Roll, and Date With The Night, YYYs tore shit up, KOL looked bored.

Kings of Leon are SO fuckin awesome!!! Saw them live 3 weeks ago and they blew me away…best new band of the 2000s!

Wow denton, you’ve definitely never seen them live. Also Edward Keyes, please dont ever compare the Kings to U2. They definitely are not that full of themselves, at least not yet.

Kings of Leon ARE so overrated. You’re right. And I bet they’ve sold out as well. I bet their old stuff was amazing and now they’re just trying to appeal to fourteen year old girls? Right?

Sorry for my sarcasm, which is as cliche as your comment. I dislike myself as much as you right now. Damn you, internet!

I have been a big KOL fan since CD 1. back to nitty gritty southern drunk rock. I left halfway through their set friday night. Songs from Youth and Young manhood were trying to sound like Revelry, or one of their quite pretty new songs. there was 10 minutes left of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and i enjoyed that more than the 45 or so odd mintues i saw Kings.

overrated by their sudden popularity. hopefully their egos don’t eff them up for good. they used to be way better, now they are mimicking U2 which is a joke.

Continued…yeah their music has changed and the old stuff was better (I prefer Aha Shake Heartbreak, its my favorite album of all times), but they’re still a great band.

Overrated? Yeah right, they’re awesome and really talented. And yeah their music has changed and the older stuff is better (Aha Shake Heartbreak is my favorite album of all times) but they are still one of my favorite bands…KOL still rocks.

KoL know how to bring it and they are truly brilliant live. Best band in the world.

KOL’s old stuff is definitely better than the last two albums they’ve put out. The new stuff is too “polished”, but they are still one hell of a good live band. Best band in the world? No, that would go to Pearl Jam, my friend.

Kol are a great band…I have seen them live and they were great ….just for having one off night…the boys might not have felt themselves and yet just for lacking a bit of energy on one night after touring for how long? They get all you people writing abuse about them. You either like them and stick by them through their hard times or you dont like them…get over it and don’t bitch about them online :/ in my opinion xx

kings of leon are a great band. all their albums are great, period. rarely can you pick up a cd these days and listen the whole way through loving every song but that is the case with KOL. they were also an outstanding live act in my opinion. as a longtime PJ fan, i must say KOL has supplanted eddie and the boys as the best rock band in the USA.

If you think KOL is overrated, then obviously you have never listened to their music or seen them live. I saw them about 3 weeks ago at the Izod Center and they were perfection. Their setlist was amazing (although I would have loved to see them do some more of the older stuff, but they did preform “Trani” which made me super happy) and can we just talk about how their opening song “Closer” flowed from the stadium filling sounds of classical music…simply genius. Kings of Leon IS one of the best bands. No one can deny that they are really talented, musically, conceptually and lyrically. Like Caleb said, “you’d better learn to love us.” How amazing was it that Eddie sand “Slow Night So Long” with them, I would have loved to see that, probably one of the best collaborations in rock history! Aside from KOL though, can we just talk about how amazing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs probably were…I would have loved to see them perform “Heads Will Roll,” its a constant on my iPod : )

KoL are overrated? Got any more cliches to throw at them? How about calling them sellouts? You might as well say that too, even though you would be wrong on both counts.

I find it so hilarious that most of the people who say KoL are overrated are those who have only heard Sex on Fire and Use Somebody and have never seen the band live.

This band has an impressive catalog of music which has always been full of great melodies and catchy hooks, and Caleb Followill has a distinctive and soulful voice, the likes of which you just don’t hear in rock music anymore.

As far as selling out goes, becoming popular =/= selling out. Selling out is when an artist does something they don’t necessarily like or feel comfortable with just to make money. This band is still making music that they love and enjoy playing.

Now, if they start selling KoL action figures and lunchboxes at Walmart, or allowing their songs to be played in TV commercials for SUV’s, you might have a case. Til then, not so much.

I was at ACL and saw KOL from pretty close up. I thought they were posers. I wish I’d gone to Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

saw KOL in Oklahoma City last night. No posing there! Sorry ya’ll missed it. they were unbelievably fantastic. U2? (don’t get that comparison at all!) Joe Cocker? no, just KOL with a touch of Black Crowes. Good old southern rock. yep, I agree.. perfection. bought the house down! in Europe they are rock royalty. maybe we should listen a little closer.

It annoys me when people say kol are sell outs. What about Jay-Z. He’s way more of a sell out. Rock bands always get more stick. The music sceen has changed. This is not the 60s. We’ve all sold out. Do you drink coca cola!

In my days I’ve seen literally thousands of acts, ranging from The Sex Pistols to Stevie Wonder. The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s on Friday night turned out to be one of the best shows of my recent memory. They killed it, period.
I originally got ACL tickets because Beastie Boys were on the bill, but Friday I learned that the YYY’s are not only a fitting stand-in but that Karen O is a force to be reckoned with in herself.

I was disappointed by the KOL performance at ACL too. The music, as always, was great but there was a lack of stage presence/energy. Caleb just stood there and sang at us for the most part. I don’t know why I was expecting something different. I came away feeling like I should have gone to see the YYY’s instead – heard their show was fantastic.

Take it from someone who’s seen Kol 5 times in the past, and only one of those times was from the Only By the Night album, and it was even before that got big…. Caleb has always just stood there and they’ve never had extraordinary “stage presence” — they didn’t need it. Their music used to speak for itself and their small following of fans were more aligned with their kind of music. When you put them in front of a bunch of frat boys and girls in mini skirts thats where the problem arises. Changed the fans and you change the atmosphere — period.

Kings of Leon are so so so very very very awful. “Mediocre” doesn’t do justice to how incredibly bland their music is. It was bad the first time I heard them as Whitesnake and then again as Pear Jam. And finally as Nickleback. They. Just. Need. To. Stop. Please.

Ummm, saw KOL recently and I too was disappointed. However, their music is as good as it gets in rock these days, but the show I saw they claimed to be sick so the set was short and talk about a lack of energy.

Anyway, bad, sell-outs, or whatever else they are not. If anything they may be a little burned out and need to get some rest. Because of the Times and Aha are two of the best rock albums of the last 15 years. The newer album my be more polished but it’s not slouch either. Take them any day over U2. Pleas.

Music is subjective but my concert experiences have ranged from Bruce to the Stones and the Kings are right up there. The music from KOL speaks for themselves, the problem is todays acts parade around the stage (ie Britney) with a spectacle because thier MUSIC cannot stand up. It says enough when the United States’ best band (Pearl Jam) in the last 15-20 years will play with them and tour with them. The negativity can go away while I will sit, drink a beer and listen to the Stones, PJ, Black Crowes and KOL.
Peace

how dare anyone say Kings of Leon are the best American band. And to the people who don’t think the Kings of Leon are sell outs, when did you guys start listening to them?

Too bad the Kings couldn’t have sucked some of Vedder’s energy to pump up their anemic show. Great music conveyed with all the stage presence of a spinning CD.

KOL aren’t sellouts, they just suck. Plain and simple. Grab yourself a Jonas Brothers CD, and you’ll find the same hook heavy, bubble gummy pop garbage that the Kings are spewing. Nice make overs by the way. We all need more boys who look like the Strokes circa 2002. Kudos, KOL, Kudos.

I wish KOL had never gotten as popular as they are right now. Their new music is ok but nothin compared to their old stuff. and i hate all the people that took up space just to listen to their two new songs. I love them and they did put on a great show. They were all I had hoped for.

Can more people please talk about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Karen O’s unbelievable rock star charisma please? Thank God I didn’t go to KOL. I saw a lot of fratty and dumb lookin’ people rushing that way and luckily saw the right show. Blew my mind.

Denton, Buddy and other´s talking shit about KOL: it looks you don´t know SHIT about music. KOL are amazing and enormous onstage… learn then talk.

K.O.L. are amazing. I think that they are growing and learning just like any other band. Of course there music is going to sound and be a little different back in the day than it is now. They are experiencing different sounds and trying new things. Why not? I think that they will only get better in time. I believe that all music must have meaning. And there music speaks from the heart and the soul. Cheers K.O.L. Keep up the good work!

I’ve seen both U2 and KOL in the last month. I’ve never been much of a U2 fan, but they blew my mind. They rocked my soul. KOL is good live, U2 is in their own league. No comparison, period.

I have seen KOL a bunch. In places like the Orange Peel in Ashville and the Neighborhood Theater in Charlotte in support of Youth & Young Manhood and Aha Shake Heartbreak. Most reciently they headlined at the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, NC in support of Only by the Night. I am not going to see them again any time soon. KOL intentionally went for the money on Only By The Night. Lastly, I am gonna call BS on the spontinaity of the Slow Night colboration with Vedder…They have done that song EVERY TIME they have been in the same venue since 2006. I saw it most reciently in June of 2008 in Va Beach. KOL opened for Pearl Jam and Vedder came on to end the set with the band.

I was at the ACL show. I have not listened to KOL before. I was pretty bored. One thing that drove us nuts (which may or may not have anything do with KOL), there were big video screens and the only thing they showed for at least 90% of the time was the lead singer. It got pretty boring. We were disappointed by the low energy set.

You guys should wake up.
BOTH of these bands are sell-outs.

I cant count how many times ive seen KOL in USweekly. Not very rockerish. I like that song Charmer though.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are the definitive sellouts of this decade next to Jack White.

I had true love and respect for both of those bands.

But then the YYY’s make an album like “It’s Blitz” in contrast to thier other albums, it would be hard not to call them sellouts.

And not to mention the fact that Karen O is singing songs for “Where the wild things are”.

Selling out is the norm now, really always has been.

The only big band that really kept their integrity was Nirvana, they never compromised. But sadly the rest of the band, and his wife are selling Kurt out.