I preferred Stereophonics when they were a rock band. The first album is awesome and the second one is pretty good as well. I've started to listen to some of their later stuff recently and it's decent pop rock. Obviously Dakota was a really catchy single but another song I'm really digging is Stone off Pull The Pin. I was gonna go and see them in Manchester in March but the show is sold out so unless I can get cheap tickets on eBay I won't be going.