The Killers

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 11:16 pm

I don't have the album, but I've heard them played a few times between acts at some shows I've been at recently, and they sound pretty damn cool. Worth checking out, if not purchasing.

j$ · Post by j$ » Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:38 pm

I dunno about the Killers - I mean they're undeniably good but did we really fight the pomprock wars just to let Simple bloody Minds creep back into the arena under an assumed identity?

Post by jb » Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:51 pm

That's really fine with me. I love Simple Minds.

Gazelles · Post by **Gazelles** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 3:38 pm

I heard them once and thought they were the Faint.

That is all I have to offer you on the Killers.

Poor June · Post by **Poor June** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 1:19 am

that damn chorus... i think it's just that one chorus... and i can't stand it haha...
ok soundin' song... with the chorus... that just kinda... WHAT!?!? O_o

'you had a boyfriend, that looked like a girlfriend that i had in february of last year'

(of course i have no room to talk with the song i'm doin' next week O_o)

j$ · Post by j$ » Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:29 pm

OK, slight tendency towards 1983 aside, I would like to slightly recant previous pursed lipness and say that the Killers Album, Hot Fuss, is pretty damn good actually. The production is sweet, especially on the drums. Tunes aren't bad, either. I still wouldn't shag the lead singer, though.

j$

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:40 pm

Thank the lord for small mercies.

Freddielove · Post by **Freddielove** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:22 am

Be sure to see them live if you can. The drummer is hilarious and worth the price of admission alone.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:17 pm

I've fallen in love with "Somebody Told Me." :/.

Verbatim · Post by **Verbatim** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:35 pm

Personally I am in love with any boys that can wear eyeliner and wear it well.

I think the lead singer looks an awful lot like that guy that plays in the new star wars movies what is his name Hayden something or other? Anyway thats not what I wanted to say about the killers... I have tried to get Eric to listen to hot fuss and it seems to not really be something he's into as much as me. I happen to love "All These Things That I've Done"

"I got soul, but I'm not a soldier" thats such a great line...

It's a great song very worth checking out well the whole album is really.

Yeah for pretty boys!

-Asya

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:06 pm

meh. they're good, but they kind of annoy me. i can't put my finger on it, but there's something about them.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:36 pm

j$ wrote: but did we really fight the pomprock wars just to let Simple bloody Minds creep back into the arena under an assumed identity?

Ahh, the Pomprock Wars - I still have flashbacks. I was in the 351st Puffy Shirt Brigade. My Visage fighter was shot down over Vienna after being disabled by a flock of seagulls. I sat out the rest of the war in a soft cell in Spandau Ballet Prison. I was awarded a Purple Heart - (with Poison Arrow shot through it).

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Thu May 05, 2005 3:03 pm

When I first heard Franz Ferdinand I was all "Hey, this is pretty unusual and interesting and catchy. Retro can be okay after all." Then I heard the full album, and was disappointed. Then I heard 100,000 other bands exactly like them that I had no idea were already popular, and was by then tired of thinking about it entirely.

The Killers fall into that 100,000 for me.

Gazelles · Post by **Gazelles** » Thu May 05, 2005 7:23 pm

Much agreed Sparks. There seems to be a wave of bands that all sound the same these days (Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, the Bravery, there are others I'm not thinking of).

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri May 06, 2005 7:14 am

Gazelles wrote:Much agreed Sparks. There seems to be a wave of bands that all sound the same these days (Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, the Bravery, there are others I'm not thinking of).

These days? Always ...

Gazelles · Post by **Gazelles** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:22 pm

Haha, true. I meant, that particular style of high energy, sort of retro soudning alt rock? I'm no good at classifying music.

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri May 06, 2005 5:05 pm

Yeah, I would call it the New Wave of Old Wave - it's very much like post-punk revisited, only with better production values and more of an emphasis on good-time sing-a-long ....

I still rate the FF album very highly, when by all rights I should hate it. It's just very well constructed. Other than that, I would say, if you want to hear a perfect photocopy of new wave (from the first resurgance) I would point you all in the direction of Elastica's first (but not not their second). To the point where several new wave bands (Wire and the Stranglers specifically) sued successfully for riff-stealage. However it's still a cracking, cracking album.

j$

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:04 pm

ahahaha sober liked them and they're some dumb band that totally sucks. also rufus wainwright sings about sleeping with brandon flowers on his new album.

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:24 am

Yeah what, I thought nobody liked this band.

Elias_Aquarius · Post by **Elias_Aquarius** » Fri May 18, 2007 6:00 pm

While the Killer's songs have gradually grown on me, I absolutely, positively, cannot can NOT stand "Somebody Told Me".

If I could kill one song, erase it from the radio forever, it would be this song.

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:38 am

Just stupid trend-hoppers. If it were 1995, they'd wear flannel.

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:02 pm

Maybe, but I don't mind trend hoppers if they do it competently.