The_acrobat said:
Too many people are just too anxious to bash this album. Many of you were waiting with your axes for this album to be released to let the bashing begin. It never even had a chance. The fact that you people bash "Bones" because it has horns in it is rediculous. The horns add to the music... just because they're horns doesn't mean they're automatically selling out. I think everyone just needs to stop being the witty, ironic critic of everything, and just try to actually enjoy something. This album is the best thing to happen to me in awhile, I haven't gotten into an album like this since HTDAAB, where I didn't want to eject it from my CD player.
Sam's Town will be a failure in the US. Not because it's a bad album, but because people had already convinced themselves they weren't going to like it. Everyone was convinced that it couldn't possibly be better than Hot Fuss, so they went to listen to it with an extremely critical ear. I think this album blows Hot Fuss into the ground.
Yeah, everyone's out to get the poor ol' Killers, aren't they? I mean, it's ridiculous to think that some people might GENUINELY DISLIKE this album. God forbid...
I never said that the horns in "Bones" equated to "selling out." I mean, they're
The Killers - not the most underground or innovative band to begin with - I don't think you could even make the argument that they've sold out since they've been seen as somewhat of a mainstream band since the beginning. And, in my opinion, the horns do NOT add to the music whatsoever - if anything, they detract from it because they're so cheesy and out-of-place. I've heard horns used to good effect in songs before, but they really aren't used very well in this case at all.
And I just want to mention again how r
idiculous it is to insinuate that everyone who doesn't like the album was "waiting with their axes" before the album came out, or even that everyone convinced themselves that it "couldn't be better than Hot Fuss." Hot Fuss wasn't some kind of perfect milestone of an album - it definitely had its flaws (it's generally accepted that the second half was kind of spotty in parts), and it could definitely have been improved upon. To be honest, I'm still hoping that they manage to put all the pieces together on the third album, even though if they keep going in this direction I don't see that happening.
I actually think I'm beginning to agree with Canadiens as far as the overall quality goes. I think if you compare every individual part of the album, this release is on about the same level as Hot Fuss in quality. However, the crappy parts are more widespread and even make their way into songs that are otherwise fairly well-written. I also personally feel that some of the crap in this album is a bit more glaringly obvious than in the last album, which obviously detracts from my listening experience as a whole. At this point, I really can't bring myself to listen to the album as a whole, but I can listen to some individual songs and enjoy them. I think a lot of them work better out of the context of the album, but that might just be me.
Really like it myself
