Brandon Flowers (of The Killers)

lol

80s fetishism has eaten itself, but if that's a bed you want to lie in, how can I deny your love

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.

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.

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

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.

^^ Nice post, JF.

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

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."

new track released today
https://youtu.be/jcZ-0o53md8

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omg someone please ban me from this website

way better than the last one

the last one was idea driving-drunk-in-the-afternoon fare

That's Liv from The Vampire Diaries!

Also, "Still Want You" is great, roughly equal to the new song for me, though not as good as CDML obv

Yeah, I still prefer CDML, but this one is quite nice. Love the horns.

I want a "Lonely Town" cassingle now.

On first listen, more mid-tempo Brandon Flowers/Killers stuff isn't very promising. The use of the word "Gravitron" over and over again is the best part. He should make an album about county fairs. That seems like something he would be good at. I would enjoy that very much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRewzFp8XE4

this rules

really rocking that bronski beat sample

"Smalltown Boy" sample!

I love that brief Neil Tennant cameo.

Heard it on the Swiss radio, hard not to dig the sample

aoty

streaming on itunes radio here

omg

the stream isn't working for some reason (and also for many other stations)

oh and lol that link is bad. *shakes fist* itunes

can't listen in itunes but glad to hear it's good, been waiting for either he or the Killers to make a front-to-back strong record

yeah this is the most consistent thing he's done

(and i've convinced myself to love every song on battle born)

okay it's working now

"between me and you" destroyed me

i feel so attacked by this album i'm crying

i made it through "i can change" i don't know how but now "never get you right" is happening and i'm gonna pass out

same

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

you guys

i listened to this record five times today

AND THERE'S A POWER IN LETTING GO

Is the stream still available? I can't find it.

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