Brandon Flowers (of The Killers)

i'm listening to it (obsessively) here: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/95794596.html

"I Can Change" = only the second best song to bite Bronski Beat, but still amazing

oof shame about that last song, but otherwise great record

the first song mentions highways and dogs and fleas and I almost threw the computer across the room

he still sounds like he studied Springsteen's "Darlington County" like a hieroglyph.

not wild about "Diggin' Up the Heart" but otherwise this sounds really good

the first song mentions highways and dogs and fleas and I almost threw the computer across the room

baby it's a dreamland

going to see him in august and I am already excited and ahhhhh

this is a good album and man alive he still sounds like he rues the day his Mormon god made him straight

interested in producing a ballet set to this album

i can't stop listening to "never get you right", my lord

I have to review this officially and am literally trembling w/anticipation.

This album is far better than I would have expected it to be, probably better than it has any right to be.

"between me and you" is fantastic, wow

the album would be a fraction better if the title track were the closer

there's even a lyric about dogs and bones

"Diggin' Up the Heart" is the best Kenny Loggins tribute in years

Diggin' Up the Heart is my favorite after a cursory listen

so I reviewed it: http://www.spin.com/2015/05/review-brandon-flowers-the-desired-effect/?utm_source=share-fb&utm_medium=button

pitchfork is dumb #535980982743

must admit I LOLed at the bruce springsteen ebooks zing

p4k's committed to a hard stance of dismissing the killers/flowers (which tbf was understandable in numerous instances), so they're not gonna walk back on that now, regardless of the fact that if twin shadow had released this album it'd be BNMed 0 to 100 real quick

also funny that the hyperlink to their 5.2 review of hot fuss happens to use the text "still-terrific debut album"

anyhoo, liked this a lot, didn't really expect to, song construction and production are great, his voice is made for this sappy synth-crooner shit, the lyrics are silly at best/atrocious at worst but it doesn't really damage the songs' overall effect

this album is great

next up please: brandon flowers/daniel lopatin collab

...because you want to make something real. You want to make a Phil Collins record.

i'm into this

This album is wonderful. Still Want You is my current favourite. Those backing vocals in the second verse are just everything.

"between me and you" destroyed me

― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:05 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm gonna just lie down and die with "between me + you" on repeat

― uberweiss, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 7:11 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AND THERE'S A POWER IN LETTING GO

― uberweiss, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 8:23 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

i had just texted those lyrics to my sister in all caps then came here to post them and saw uberweiss had things under control.

http://i61.tinypic.com/28hpobp.jpg

I go see the man tonight!

listened to "Can't Deny My Love" for the first time since early May

Love "Lonely Town", especially the middle section " do you hear the thud when I fall" etc. The whole record is ace

<autotune>
now i'm standing
outside your house

mr veg was on board with the new album on paper - we listened to it in the car & as I'm
swooning & flailing he says "Its uh, a bit ~dancier~ than I thought"

:D

<autotune>
now i'm standing
outside your house

I was weirded out by that injection of autotune at first but I think without it that part just sounds too creepy

I can bend
I can break
I can shift
I can shape
Blaze a trail through the driving rain
Girl, I can change for you
I can change for you

GUYS IT WAS SO GOOD

did he dance

1) I haven't danced that much at a show in a long time.
2) He's such a good frontman*
3) At one point he said that it was the part of the show where the audience could chose a cover from a couple they'd been rehearing. He started to list off the covers and for the first he said, "A great song called "Don't Change" by INXS" which received p much no reaction from anyone in the crowd except me who literally yelp/screamed and jumped with excitement (which made people turn around and stare at me) because that's one of the best songs ever. Sadly, they didn't play that or any of the others he listed but opted for an older song instead. I'd prob have passed out if they had done it so it's ok.
4) He did a cover of a Buster Poindexter Song.
5) Did I mention that he was totally fucking amazing and engaging and great?

x-post - Oh yes he did. He is the cutest dancer!

*I'm sure I've probably told this before somewhere on here but I saw The Killers open up for Stellastarr* at the Electric Ballroom in London in 2004 a couple months before Hot Fuss was released. I had no idea who they were at the time but after watching them I said, "Whoever that band is they're going to be huge - the lead singer was fucking amazing.". It's the only time I've ever been blown away by an opening act I had never even heard of. A couple months later they were on the cover of the NME etc and I was like holy shit it's that dude!

at what point did he take his clothes off?

xp yeah i saw them on that tour too, i remember thinking they felt like a one-song band (that song being 'mr brightside') but they definitely had a special ~something~ (unlike e.g. stellastarr*)

x-post - Sadly never. He really is so beautiful. Gah.

Anyway, Al, he probably wears the magic mormon underpants ;_;.

Though I'm not sure how they'd fit under jeans that tight. huh.

he can change!

lol!