Never been a fan beyond their first two singles, but I gave this a spin because of all the talk. It was OK but honestly the title track was the only thing that made me look up. And I guess people who like the album don't like the title track? To me it's a kind of perfect '80s movie soundtrack pastiche, like Bryan Adams singing with Tom Tom Club or something.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
I saw the Killers at Bonnaroo a few years ago, they put on a good show and the crowd was definitely into it β I was honestly kind of surprised how many songs most people seemed to know. Brandon Flowers is such a weird presence. He totally had star quality on stage, but it was more like late-night talk-show host star quality than rock star quality.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
I saw them open for Morrissey in a small club, shortly after the debut was picking up steam. The only thing I remember about it was one of the Killers' amps bursting into flame.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
I love the title track.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
It definitely jumped out at me as significantly different enough in tone or approach or whatever that I was glad to discover it was the last track. Like, I dunno, "Love Makes the World Go Round" on "True Blue" or something. Or sonically akin to Ric Ocasek writing for Broadway.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
Feels like it really hits its '80s stride with "Lightning Fields." "Fire In Bone" mines the same nebulous Rorschach references as the 1975, imo (is that Wang Chung I'm supposed to think of? because that's what I'm hearing tonight.)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
And yeah, as far as anthemic camp goes, "My God" is the best, and probably would have made a good final track, because how do you beat that?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
Probably the first Killers album I've enjoyed all of, though I think Battle Born came close
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
Can't wait for the remix album (Imploding the Bellagio) and deluxe edition (Imploding Luxor)
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
I knew these fuckers would eventually cover it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHn_wrST3_Q
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 October 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
oh god i could kiss themthis is so good!!actual studio performance vid herehttps://youtu.be/ey_j7-wIo4U
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 October 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
holy shit, no shame
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 October 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
In a good way!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 October 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey_j7-wIo4U
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 October 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
I watched this clip 10 times before bed.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 October 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
sigh, so excellent
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 October 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHbOJOlp-9/
that new album they were talking about might be on its way even sooner than expected?
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 15:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y020G_d8QHU
new song, an Imploding the Mirage outtake. it's pretty good and interestingly off-kilter for them. really lovely arrangement too
― ufo, Friday, 29 January 2021 09:20 (three years ago) link
"there's dignity in calloused hands" lol this guy.
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 January 2021 11:05 (three years ago) link
they had me up until the gospel choir
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 29 January 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
I am loving this album. They are best when they embrace anthemic ridiculousness <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 07:18 (three years ago) link
OTM. Though for me it falls in a strange void, great while I'm listening to it but not great enough that I'm actually going to listen to it. I should tell people in my house just to put it on occasionally.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 14 February 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
i put some more jameson into my carcass and then posted this to the youtube electic blue cover comments. i think i'm pretty otm:
why is this awesome? it's awesome because it's true. brandon earned that smile at the end. there are more obscure songs to choose which could have shown his taste and erudition concerning forgotten culture and more obvious songs that SCREAMED i'm so 80s in a way that is still in the water today but this is the sweet spot - this is what the airwaves were like at the time. what, brandon was six when this came out?
icehouse fans, don't get me wrong, i'm not saying this is lesser 80s bobka. by way of example, on my computer, inxs' don't change shows up per algorithm on my screen. that's a great 80s song, also one of the best songs of all time. actually the greatest song of all time. brandon should cover that. it should be a constitutional amendment that brandon should cover that. however, anyone knows the greatness of don't change. electric blue, and go with me on this, some people weren't there at the time. or else they forgot. brandon has the genius to know, he knows.
what i'm saying, is some things are great because they are timeless, but timelessness loses out in the end because it belongs to everyone and to all times. this is so of its time, and we are edified when someone brings that time back into the light. thank you brandon for being that light.
a bit effusive, but i stand by my sentiment. duchamp says something something something abt an artist pointing at something and whatever. this was a great thing. it's a great thing.
― slugbuggy, Sunday, 21 February 2021 07:04 (three years ago) link
brandon flowers is a cool dork. thrre are nerds, and geeks, but those are defined by their mastery. dorks are enthusiasts, they love love love things. the strokes were music nerds, they killers were music dorks. all hail the dorks.
― slugbuggy, Sunday, 21 February 2021 07:20 (three years ago) link
it's like a duchamp readymade, the purest distillation of a readymade in the history of art. there it is, the thing. lookit. lookit the thing, it's awesome. did you lookit before? no, but lookit.
― slugbuggy, Sunday, 21 February 2021 08:24 (three years ago) link
are you hiding, somewhere behind those eyes
goddam, that's so sweet and innocent. the best and most overlooked lyric in pop. bam! there it is. brandon delivers it like it was nothing.
also, heart emoticon to alfred, indisputably the greatest 80s stan in the known universe.
― slugbuggy, Sunday, 21 February 2021 08:55 (three years ago) link
long story short: this caught my attention and i reacted favorably.
― slugbuggy, Sunday, 21 February 2021 08:59 (three years ago) link
also it just occurred to me to look up don't change and the killers so there it is. did the best person in the world, brandon flowers, cover the best song in the world, don't change? it's as obvious as, randomly for example, i wondered if the best person in the world, kermit the frog, also covered the best song in the world, once in a lifetime. yes, they did.
― slugbuggy, Sunday, 21 February 2021 15:06 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAqcpc4e6hU
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 21 February 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
The Youth have reclaimed and repurposed them:
I canβt believe Iβm old enough to see younger ppl romanticize my teen years pic.twitter.com/SGCOSkFS1t— ππππΆβ‘π πΆππππ (@artetriste) March 8, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
"mr. brightside" is a deathless song
kind of incredible
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
It kinda hit me last night that's almost a "Louie Louie" of the 21st century.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
that bruce version is very very declarative. list of current objectives: 1) don't change! now dammit!
i drunkendly went overboard with the effusiveness but brandon flowers is so my kind of people, it seems. i'm looking at the yuotubes, he also covers the whole of the moon and this charming man! what a fudging dork! right now i'm watching the glastonbury 2019 clip of the killers with pet shop boys always on my mind and brandon totally disappears. it's all psb, and as picasso says, good artists borrow, great artists steal, the greatestest artists just lay the eff back and let your referring to things happen as it happens and there it is as it always was.
mr brightside is like the torah: it's the essence of g dash d made visceral. what else is there from and of the aughts other than maps or hey ya! or maybe mgmt's kids that blows away all vestiges of temporal continuity and is of that time and that time alone? it's always mr brightside time, when mr brightside is playing.
brandon flowers inducted the cars into the r and r hall hall of fame and why not? what do any of rick's lyrics mean other than themselves? nothing. what do any of brandon's lyrics mean other than themselves? nothing. therein lies the essence of zen. banal relationship nothings, so beautiful, so forever.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 13 March 2021 07:56 (three years ago) link
also accepted: kelly clarkson since u been gone as the purest quintessence of aughtness, but that's it.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 13 March 2021 08:13 (three years ago) link
also, brandon flowers is equaled only by john bongiovi as the smilingest rock star in history, and that's high praise. smile on, you glorious bastard!
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 13 March 2021 09:37 (three years ago) link
So this newest/latest Killers track (at least I think it's newish?) ... just what is it it's reminding me of? Johnny Nash? Roxy Music?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 April 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
Robbie Nevil?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 April 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
That's just the way it goes.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
I can see this being Mr. Flowers's final form.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlucGdeT37E
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 April 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
Every time I hear the song I think of Robbie Nevile, even if I don't hear it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 April 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
or Aaron Neville
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 April 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
idk what "c'est la vie" is reminiscent of but i love it
― ufo, Friday, 9 April 2021 05:38 (two years ago) link
I guess it sounds a little bit like TH's "Don't Worry About the Government", something like that? Kind of like I referenced in the Beatles thread re: ELO, there's so much there that eventually you can hear almost anything you want to hear. I mean, when your latest album features explicit references to both Springsteen and Can, the sky's the limit, you know?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 April 2021 12:08 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CP9NS6EB3r2/
lol they've managed to get springsteen for their new single
very excited, imploding the mirage only got better and better for me so i hope this album will be just as good
― ufo, Friday, 11 June 2021 11:46 (two years ago) link
oh it's just a reworked version of day & age track "a dustland fairytale" with springsteen? why that of all things now i wanna hear the new album lol
― ufo, Friday, 11 June 2021 12:08 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BZ8hnLyRc
here's "dustland" with springsteen
album is planned for august, no idea if that'll be on it
― ufo, Wednesday, 16 June 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
album pressure machine out august 13, same producers as imploding the mirage so i'm very excited
― ufo, Monday, 19 July 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
!!!!
this is good news.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 19 July 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
wowit feels like exploding the mirage just came outbut time moves v slowly for me lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 July 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
nice. i'm digging how some artists have been dropping albums more quickly as of late.
― DT, Monday, 19 July 2021 22:36 (two years ago) link