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I just got the album in the mail...
...Serious opinion coming later.
...Serious opinion coming later.
The_acrobat said:
First half of Hot Fuss > Sam's Town > Second half of Hot Fuss
ladywithspinninghead said:It's funny but while listening to this for the first time I thought it sounded like an album that would embraced more by the English than the Americans and sure enough at MetaCritic the main British mags and newspapers (NME, Q, Mojo, Guardian, Observer) gave it very favourable reviews while the American ones such as Spin, Rolling Stone, NY Times gave it a poor review.
It might just be that American music mags have better BS detectors when it comes to cliches about the open road and warm gooey American values.Flying FuManchu said:
I think most American music mags/ critics don't care for The Killers, am I wrong in the assumption? This is even with Hot Fuss...
Canadiens1160 said:It might just be that American music mags have better BS detectors when it comes to cliches about the open road and warm gooey American values.
Still undecided on the album after a couple listens through myself.
discothequeLP said:just came back from the Wiltern, what a show. the stage, lights, sound, atmosphere, everything. these guys know how to put on a fucking show. is anyone going to tomorrow?
oktobergirl said:
I was at the show, too. It was totally awesome, so high energy!! I was so exhausted and amped up we went to Canter's afterwards to come down from it. I haven't been to a show like since the Vertigo tour. KILLERS rock!!!!!!
And I loved what they opened with. Fucking EPIC!
XHendrix24 said:On the first album, The Killers were an American band trying to sound like a British band. And, for the most part, it worked.
On this album, they're an American band trying to sound like a British band who, in turn, are trying to sound like an American band. And it doesn't work nearly as well.
Songs like "For Reasons Unknown" are too bland and typical of the band, and seeming experiments like "Bones" just fall flat most of the time. Not to mention the absolutely cringeworthy lyrics. Blech. It's not the worst album I've ever heard, and it's got some decent high points and scattered hints of goodness, but most of the time they just can't put it all together. I do like "This River Is Wild" and "Why Do I Keep Counting," though. The biggest disappointment for me with this album is all the wasted potential. This band has loads and loads of it. If they could only put all of it together to make something really great..
And on a slightly off-topic side note, I find it kind of interesting to see critics of modern U2 in this thread singing the praises of this album. If this is the kind of songwriting and production some of you'd like U2 to have...well, let's just say I'll take HTDAAB any day of the week.
Flying FuManchu said:As a lyricist Flower's is fine... he may put in some questionable lines/ cliches but (if we're gonna make a U2 reference), so does Bono but it matters not as long the song as a whole is strong. The song Sam's Town is lyrically strong, as is Why Do I Keep Counting, Read My Mind, the Exitlude/ Enterlude bits, When You Were Young, This River is Wild (if not cute) etc...
menelaos said:I 've listened to the album only twice but both times I almost fell asleep..
And I am a huge fan...
IMHO it's the common second album problem...Every band, especially the new experience this... Just take a look at Franz Ferdinand, Keane, etc second albums...
I think that it is really difficult for a band that makes a mega-hit album to fulfil the expectations and to support the hype that created...
XHendrix24 said:
If you think those songs are lyrically strong, you and I obviously have very different views on what constitutes that label.
"I see London, I see Sam's Town"
"He doesn't look a thing like Jesus"
"The devil's water, it ain't so sweet"
(Basically the entirety of the Exitlude/Enterlude songs - just the existance of these is enough to make me loathe them)
Makes me cringe every time I hear them. Completely unneeded references to cities that make no sense in context, poorly developed religious imagery (attempting to emulate Springsteen lyrics and failing), and I still have no idea why the Inter/Exitludes were necessary. Was this supposed to be some kind of concept album? Did I miss that part?
Oh, and as far as "Bones" goes, if the horns weren't bad enough, the whole deal with everyone in the band shouting select lyrics in a Bohemian Rhapsody-esque fashion makes me want to hurl, to put it as eloquently as I possibly can.
I guess I should put some positive points here, since I don't want to come off as too negative, even though I don't like the album. Sam's Town the song is good minus the aforementioned "I see London, I see Sam's Town" part. And "Bling (Confessions of a King) is a pretty solid song too, minus the horrendous title.
discothequeLP said:just came back from the Wiltern, what a show. the stage, lights, sound, atmosphere, everything. these guys know how to put on a fucking show. is anyone going to tomorrow?
XHendrix24 said:"I see London, I see Sam's Town"
"He doesn't look a thing like Jesus"
"The devil's water, it ain't so sweet"
(Basically the entirety of the Exitlude/Enterlude songs - just the existance of these is enough to make me loathe them)