That Killers song about looking like a boyfriend is CLASSIK

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Utterly fecking mega

― Indie Innes, Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Looking like a boy, Calum? You sweettart.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Smiths
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sincerity, hooks, lyrics
+
Interpol's lame fagtastic pomposity
+
80s dance party fetishism
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Oberstian hype machine
=
Killers

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

and thank god for that.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 27 January 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked The Killers better when they had that short chick on vocals and did "Nancy Boy".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Music before The Libertines and The Killers and all that good stuff was doomed. 1998 to 2002, mebbe even 2003, = Coldplay/ Travis/ Stereophonics dominance.

― Indie Innes, Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

lame fagtastic

An apt pairing of words, Roger. But not for the reasons you'd think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

indie disco scourge upon the houses of toni and guy!!! a pox hex hex and pox upon ye all yr family

i jus can't i jus can't i jus can't control my feet

come to an indie disco

it's fun you might meet some students

The song in question is as good as Duran Duran

― elwisty (elwisty), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

How long before "tripping the lame fagtastic" becomes slang for going to dancerock shows?

x-post

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

They don't sound anything like the Smiths.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

"dancerock" is the EMF revival upon us?

― elwisty (elwisty), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link

It's unbelievable.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

TS; The Killer vs EMF vs Duran Duran

― elwisty (elwisty), Thursday, 27 January 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

this song hurts my head.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 28 January 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I like that song. I don't own the album or anything, but I sing along with it when it comes on the radio and haven't gotten sick of hearing it every day for the last six months, which is something.

― Dan I., Friday, 28 January 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

i like how he sounds so insistent that it was in FEBruary!! of last year........

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

well it's not confidential...

― elwisty (elwisty), Friday, 28 January 2005 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

They don't sound anything like the Smiths.

OTM

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 January 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Isn't it that she has a boyfriend who looks like a girlfriend?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

(But, yes, it is indeed classik.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"i like how he sounds so insistent that it was in FEBruary!! of last year........"

Also grebt is the bizarre "IN THE BACK OF THE RESTAURANT" line in "Smile Like You Mean It."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i love that line

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 28 January 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link

"IN THE BACK OF THE RESTAURANT"

hahahhahahahah

"It's like a cigarette in the mouth - a handshake in the doorway!"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 28 January 2005 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link

CUTTY OMG YOU LIKE TEH KILLERS!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw the video where the old guy he plays checkers with makes kissy faces at him and he gets all mad and stomps off flinging the board into the air.
WTF

― bprofane (AaronHz), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link

They don't sound anything like the Smiths.

True, but every now and again, I do notice a certain Morrissey-ness in what they do that's hard to put a finger on. Perhaps it's the singer's vocal style or lyrics. I do know Moz likes them so it could be the power of association, but my impression remains. Of course, I have no problem with it, it's very subtle and doesn't come across as an outright attempt to copy, but I did notice that most of the people that listed the Killers as one of the top 5 bands they hated that other ILXors liked ALSO listed Moz/Smiths. So go figure. I also hear a little Duran in them and a little early U2 (particularly the beginning of "Believe Me Natalie" - delicious, that one!). But to expect NOT to see shades of other bands in new ones, particularly in this day and age, is ridiculously unrealistic. The question should be 'does the sum of the parts overwhelm any obvious influences'? And I do believe this is the case for the Killers. They've got TUNES. Tunes that by rights should have been penned by a British band, but they're from Las Vegas and truth is stranger than fiction sometimes.

But go ahead haterz, by all means, don't let me interrupt.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link

CLASSIC OR DUD: THE LYRICS TO "BELIEVE ME, NATALIE" BY TEH KILLERS!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw the video where the old guy he plays checkers with makes kissy faces at him and he gets all mad and stomps off flinging the board into the air.
WTF

Near sure-shot for #1 video of 2005.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link

He sings kind of like Morrissey sometimes.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 28 January 2005 05:10 (nineteen years ago) link

the old guy = ERIC ROBERTS. RESPECT.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 28 January 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link

i own the album and had the chance to see the killers in concert last year and i must say that I LOVE THESE GUYS. the lyrics are fucking awesome and they just have a really good energy to them. im a college student and 'somebody told me' has become a staple at all the frat parties. on a side note, i find itinteresting that bimble compares the song 'believe me natalie' to early U2 because i am not a fan of both the song or the group.

― muse (muse), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I like this song because it's a big fake plastic Las Vegas valentine version of the whole NYC Strokes/Interpol/YYY/Rapture thing, and it's catchier than any of them. More disco, too. I don't want or need to hear anything else by the Killers, but that hook is a monster.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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