LuckyNumber7
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I thought Human really gave them a new stab at midstream radio. I always assumed Day & Age did well despite fan criticism.
Am I the only one who absolutely hated his solo album? Besides "Crossfire," I found nothing salvageable from it.
Well, that's disappointing. Am I the only one who absolutely hated his solo album? Besides "Crossfire," I found nothing salvageable from it.
Day and Age is unfairly ignored. Aside from the meandering last track, it's an enjoyable 40 mins and it didn't have the skippable filler of the previous two albums.
The last track is my favorite of that whole record.
The last track is my favorite of that whole record.
Caught my first Killers show the other day in St. Paul...I've gotta say I was very impressed! The crowd was kind of lethargic and lame for the first few songs, but the band delivered and had the place bouncing from about the 4th song until the end of the show. My only disappointment was that they did not play Flesh and Bones.
The new songs that were played (The Way It Was, Miss Atomic Bomb, From Here On Out, Runaways, Battle Born) sounded soooo much better live than on the album. After the the show my friend and I both came to the conclusion that The Killers really did not do the new songs justice with the production style used on Battle Born--- a grittier feel would have been much better than the super polished production. That said, I enjoy the album.
I was there too! I caught them at the same venue six years ago and this show definitely topped the prior one. Brandon's stage presence and enthusiasm has come a long way since then, which might have something to do with it. That being said, the band sounded good as did the songs themselves.
I did watch the show from the front row at the rail, and it didn't seem to me that too many people weren't into the show. Yet again, maybe my viewpoint had something to do with it? The GA crowd seemed to be pretty into it, and even the people in the upper levels looked like they were standing for almost the whole show. We even had a few crowd surfers come over towards the end of When You Were Young!
There were also quite a few U2 fans that I talked to before the show too, which was interesting. I guess there's some crossing of fans for both bands for whatever reason. One woman I spoke to even claimed that both bands were the only ones she would follow on tour! Very cool...
I was there too! I caught them at the same venue six years ago and this show definitely topped the prior one. Brandon's stage presence and enthusiasm has come a long way since then, which might have something to do with it. That being said, the band sounded good as did the songs themselves.
I did watch the show from the front row at the rail, and it didn't seem to me that too many people weren't into the show. Yet again, maybe my viewpoint had something to do with it? The GA crowd seemed to be pretty into it, and even the people in the upper levels looked like they were standing for almost the whole show. We even had a few crowd surfers come over towards the end of When You Were Young!
I saw the crowd surfers! The intensity definitely kept building throughout the show. I was about 3 layers deep from the rail on the far right of the stage, and the enthusiasm initially was a lot higher in the middle for the first few songs and that spread out to the whole floor after a few songs. Brandon is definitely one of the better frontmen I've seen in terms of trying to get the audience involved constantly.
BTW, I saw your video of Bling on youtube. (unless there is another trevgreg2 stalking you), you definitely had a pretty prime spot! My friend and I probably could have been pretty near the front/center but were lured away by the Eagle Street bar until about 7 o'clock!
I saw them on Monday in Raleigh, they were fantastic as usual.
Of note for us U2 fans is that Stuart Morgan (Adam's bass tech) is still doing bass tech duties for Mark Stoermer (The Killers' bass player). Mark has a regular guitar that he plays for one song and Stuart deals with that one too...last time I saw The Killers (last summer) he soundchecked it by playing a bit of Desire and during soundcheck on Monday I swear he played the main riff of Mothers Of The Disappeared, of all things!!