He really has moved into the "And now the new single from Howard Jones, 'Everlasting Love!'" phase of his career.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 31 July 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Sure it's not this HoJo song, Ned?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgxW0tBKqOw
― balls and adieu (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 July 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
When I first heard "Crossfire," I remarked on my twitter feed thusly:
"Congrats, Brandon Flowers. You're now the owner of John Parr's long-vacated solo career."
"Imagining Brandon sitting around saying "Can I commit fully to this 1985 thing I have going on?" Then a Tom Cochrane lp fell from the sky."
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 31 July 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Did the other 3 guys want a vacation or something? I don't get why the next Killers album had to be marketed as a solo record.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 1 August 2010 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't get why the next Killers album had to be marketed as a solo record.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Sunday, 1 August 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
and has leaked
― Bee OK, Friday, 3 September 2010 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
and has been officially released
Caught a brief clip of another song on the radio last night and it sounded way better than the single. Mildly curious now, given my love for his main band.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
HI I'M BRANDON FLOWERS
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f308/sotoalf/spin-brandon-flowers.jpg
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
children by the millions wait for brandon flowers to come around.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, July 31, 2010 5:42 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark
a+
― friends don't understand us, adults don't understand us (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
so he has two album cover, here is the second one:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514knXUSUPL._SS500_.jpg
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like he's got plenty to think baout there.
UK tv spots for this have a voiceover which is meant to sound like yr typical american Rock FM DJ, spouting some real bs:
"Do you like this music? I love this music, it's become my favourite song....almost. Well I ermm, well I'm not gonna go into it, but you should go out and get it, that's my recommendation. It's the debut solo album from Brandon Flowers, who I love, he's my favourite singer, called 'Flamingo'. Wonderful album, Brandon Flowers, great singer, 'Flamingo', brilliant. Out now."
― Bill A, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I was about to mention that advert - it sounds like it's actively supposed to be taking the piss.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard that, sounded like Jeff Goldblum? Sounding a little flustered after being unexpectedly told to gush about Brandon Flowers, for some reason.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/23rrh4o.jpg
― markers, Sunday, 10 October 2010 01:48 (thirteen years ago) link
this song is still good
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
So many copies of this album were still on the racks in the final days of Borders "Going Out Of Business" sales in 2011.
― Interior. Ibiza Bar (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
hahaha. a lot but this track is solid
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
markers which of the ten songs on this album are you referring to
― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
the picture of those four guys above is from the old cnn crossfire
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
so: crossfire
not sure if i've listened to anything else, and if i have it certainly wasn't the whole record. this was more of a thing i heard a lot in my car in 2010
― markers, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
I just watched the vid for "Only the Young", which it turns out I sorta know, altho I thought that was Chris Daughtry singing
video's kind of pretty in an overproduced/'cinematic' way. might hafta jack some of Flowers' lol-dancing moves next time I'm wearing a tux
― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
he might be cuter now than he was when he sold records
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
xp okay "Crossfire" blows hard--I don't hear anything close to a hook, the lyrics are distractingly bad, the chorus starts like bad U2 & the piano makes me want to clean Coldplay's clocks
― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
if it were still 2010 & this song were to come on at a place where I was drinking wine with my mom for some reason, she would probably describe it as a 'hot mess' & get angry if I suggested that the singer resembled Springsteen in any way, shape, or form
― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
that being said, if someone can convince me that the song feat. Jenny Lewis is at all sexy, I might give that one a listen
― Many American citizens are literally paralyzed by (bernard snowy), Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
"crossfire" was dope, markers otm
it's so weird when lead singers make solo records that are virtually indistinguishable from the band's sound while the band is still together, though
― some dude, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
These lead singers want the satisfaction of paying people to do what you want
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 March 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
On the press run for this record Flowers made it sound like he was all ready to make a new Killers album and the other guys wanted to take a break and be with their families and stuff
― some dude, Thursday, 27 March 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
is that what "Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts" is about
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 March 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
"Can't Deny My Love" is so good.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Monday, 23 March 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
Insanely good.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Sounds like he really liked the Haim album.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link
I posited a bit ago that it sounds like a refugee from the soundtrack of 'The Lost Boys.' Also, he looks like he's doing a Glenn Frey impression on the sleeve art. I give a thumbs up to both of these things.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDuVc2Wt18
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah but you weren't posting often on the solo Eagles thread. You can't know the horror.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
I could imagine it, which is why I steered clear.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
i like this guy. he's handsome and has a workable schtick that transfers to different genres.
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
oh I thought this was the Ted Cruz thread
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
lol
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
80s fetishism has eaten itself, but if that's a bed you want to lie in, how can I deny your love
― u have wiked together fiords (imago), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:46 (nine years ago) link
As played out as 80s revivalism is, this feels like one of the first times in a while that I've heard someone bring back the orchestral hit stab.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
I think there's plenty of "cool eighties" revivalism/revisionism to go around (some of it good, some of it bad), but few people have brought back "not-cool eighties" styles and done it as great as this song. imago can say whatever, but this is a different kind of thing. Plenty of people have redone New Order. Not many have redone Mr. Mister.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
it's too weird for 'whatever' - it's uncool 80s fetishism eating itself, hyperrealised & without sanity - i can understand the love - everything has been thrown in, then some more added just in case
― u have wiked together fiords (imago), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
I dunno, can one just appreciate the way songs sounded (new-at-the-time technology and production techniques) and were constructed (melodies, swells and flows and cadences) without wishing the world was the same place it was 30 years ago? I think so, because that's me. I don't consider it a fetish. I just consider it one of the ways I like songs to be written and how I like songs to sound. Don't pay attention to dopes in youtube comments who are always saying "music was never as good as it was when I was in high school!" That's bullshit. There always has been and always will be good music. But I think it's a perfectly legitimate practice to pull from one sound of one time to expand on what was added to music in general when that style was brand new. Nobody bags on jazz dudes or composers who do this. People only have a problem when it's framed inside pop music.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link
^^ Nice post, JF.
― timellison, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
this song (and the whole new album) is produced by ariel rechtshaid so yeah Kitchen Person is otm about the haim sound
i like this a fair bit though, surprised it isn't getting more hype
― nose, Friday, 27 March 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
He spent a year recording the album in Vegas and L.A. with producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Vampire Weekend). They ended up calling in guest appearances from Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Haim's Danielle Haim, as well as session hands including Joey Waronker, Kenny Aronoff and Bruce Hornsby, who plays on two tracks. "Nobody plays piano like him," Flowers says of Hornsby. "There's a particular emotion that he conjures up, which I associate with being a teenager."
Another song samples U.K. synth-pop act Bronski Beat's 1984 hit "Smalltown Boy." Flowers' favorite tune at the moment is the dramatic "Still Want You." "It's fun," he says. "The chorus goes, 'Crime is on the rise, I still want you/Climate change is dead, I still want you/Nuclear distress, I still want you/Earth is heating up, I still want you/Hurricanes and floods, I still want you. . .' I love that chorus."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 April 2015 01:16 (nine years ago) link
new track released todayhttps://youtu.be/jcZ-0o53md8
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 27 April 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
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did he dance
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
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?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:12 (eight years ago) link
x-post - Oh yes he did. He is the cutest dancer!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
*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!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
at what point did he take his clothes off?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
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*)
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link
x-post - Sadly never. He really is so beautiful. Gah.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
Anyway, Al, he probably wears the magic mormon underpants ;_;.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:50 (eight years ago) link
Though I'm not sure how they'd fit under jeans that tight. huh.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
he can change!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
lol!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
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.
Appear's he's played it at other gigs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtPIUsYHFA
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
(unlike e.g. stellastarr*)
I always get a simultaneous feeling of LOL/AWW! whenever someone brings up Stellastar*.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:43 (eight years ago) link
holy shit i just peed my pants a little
he even sounds a little like Michael fuuuuck
now if only he would strip off a la Hutchence we'd be getting somewhere
omg omg
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Ban the audience at ENBB's Brandon Flowers show. What a bunch of doofs.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
right!?
he should have been all "that one cool gal is otm, i will play this for her & the rest of you are fired"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
lol YES
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:56 (eight years ago) link
joined by Tennant and Lowe behind synths
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
something about Ariel Rechtshaid's production/mixing bugs me. pretty harsh. Haim/Sky/Flowers albums can't really be cranked too loud.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Ban the audience at ENBB's Brandon Flowers show. What a bunch of doofs.― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkright!?he should have been all "that one cool gal is otm, i will play this for her & the rest of you are fired"― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinklol YES― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Aw, you guys are cute. And OTM. ;)
Thanks for the link, GP. I wound up finding that last night and swooning a little. Dreamy.
I had therapy last night and I told my therapist that I'd gone to the show and she was like, "You're the fifth person I've seen today that has mentioned being there last night!". So weird.
Also, fwiw, I still really like the 1st Stellastarr*'s first album.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
Love the Cure shout-out that kicks off the album, like 'oh, you wanna talk about the 80s?'.
― campreverb, Saturday, 8 August 2015 11:34 (eight years ago) link