Day old blues

Man, the more I hear that song "Use Somebody," the more it bothers me. I mean, I didn't even know until, like, a month ago that that song was from Kings of Leon. I thought it was some whiny bastards who wanted to be The Fray.

Stop. Let's wrap our minds around this. I thought Kings of Leon were the poor man's The Fray for almost the entire summer.

WHAT?

I saw them live one time, and they were opening for Ben Kweller at Axis (fuckin' Axis), and like most of the cool music I like, they were given to me by Jess Bannon, and we were in college at the time, neither of us with cars, and we still found our way to Boston to see Kings of Leon and Ben Kweller, and I remember Ben Kweller seemed to think they were the coolest band ever, and he played a cover of "Molly's Chambers" in his own set, and damn, that was an excellent show.

And now they are the poor man's The Fray. And I am sad.