the killers - are they killer?

Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey_j7-wIo4U

I watched this clip 10 times before bed.

sigh, so excellent

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJHbOJOlp-9/

that new album they were talking about might be on its way even sooner than expected?

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

"there's dignity in calloused hands" lol this guy.

they had me up until the gospel choir

I am loving this album. They are best when they embrace anthemic ridiculousness <3

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

long story short: this caught my attention and i reacted favorably.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAqcpc4e6hU

The Youth have reclaimed and repurposed them:

I can’t believe I’m old enough to see younger ppl romanticize my teen years pic.twitter.com/SGCOSkFS1t

— 𝓇𝑜𝓈𝒶♡𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓁 (@artetriste) March 8, 2021

"mr. brightside" is a deathless song

kind of incredible

It kinda hit me last night that's almost a "Louie Louie" of the 21st century.

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.

also accepted: kelly clarkson since u been gone as the purest quintessence of aughtness, but that's it.

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!

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y020G_d8QHU

Robbie Nevil?

That's just the way it goes.

I can see this being Mr. Flowers's final form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlucGdeT37E

Every time I hear the song I think of Robbie Nevile, even if I don't hear it.

or Aaron Neville

idk what "c'est la vie" is reminiscent of but i love it

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?

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

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

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

album pressure machine out august 13, same producers as imploding the mirage so i'm very excited

!!!!

this is good news.

wow

it feels like exploding the mirage just came out
but time moves v slowly for me lol

nice. i'm digging how some artists have been dropping albums more quickly as of late.

this one is a quarantine album they made because they had ideas leftover after finishing imploding the mirage & they couldn't tour. they've apparently started work on another one already too

praise be

Gonna be wild when all these acts tour for the first time in years behind three albums.

So I idly saw they had a presale going for next summer's stop here, I checked and literal back of the house final row tickets were perfectly acceptably cheap so I guess I'm going to see these characters, much to my surprise. I just want to see what an actual 21st century rock band that made an arena-level career out of it that actually lasted said whole century so far is all about live, I guess.

lol ned i thought you couldnt stand them
softening over the years i guess

Perhaps! It was never a deep loathing, more like a ‘wait what?’ Brandon’s messianism is actually enjoyably ridiculous now.

I feel the same

i don't think anyone would have expected that they'd have the most longevity out of their whole wave of bands, or that they'd end up putting out their best album 16 years after their debut

It feels like it took several years for people (ok, me) to recognize the band's (Brandon's?) ridiculousness as a feature and not a bug. He seems to have figured it out a lot better than Bono ever did, balancing camp and pretentious grandiosity in a more convincing manner.

Helping Flowers' case immensely is that he doesn't read, or at least doesn't drop book titles in interviews

Ignorance is bliss.

i have inadvertently read some of the lyrics for the new album, and hoo boy

think it's gonna work tho