Kill the Killers

Feb 22, 2009 19:23

What the hell happened? From a very awesome 90's indie rock sound to very piss poor keyboard pop which makes no sense ( Read more... )

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secretrebel February 23 2009, 09:23:44 UTC
You are so right.

I can't stand the "my signs are vital, my hands are cold" lyric myself. It makes me want to kill.

The Killers are now so pathetically shit that my coworker Carol likes them. Trust me, that is not a good sign.

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thecesspit February 23 2009, 16:00:23 UTC
Trying to make 'Are we Human, or are we Dancer?' a credible couplet probably has a special place in songwriting hell reserved just for it.

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undyingking February 23 2009, 09:50:31 UTC
Heh, I'm in the camp that has never been able to see the point of the Killers, so am neither disappointed nor surprised. But then I've never been able to see the point of the Stereophonics either. Their music seems to mostly have the right sort of notes in the right sort of places, but is just not really very interesting.

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thecesspit February 23 2009, 15:59:08 UTC
"Local Boy in a Photograph" and "More life in a Tramps Vest" were great, simple indie stomp along tunes. No pretense, no arena silliness. The album had a small town feel (not surprising). Some would compare it to early Small Faces.

Not sure if there's any real point to Indie Rock and Roll :)

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undyingking February 23 2009, 16:39:55 UTC
Not sure if there's any real point to Indie Rock and Roll

Mm, I guess as genres go it's one of the more ideatively bankrupt ones ;-)

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thecesspit February 23 2009, 17:36:17 UTC
I love indie rock and roll. :) Just like most music, I'm not sure there's any great point, apart from to make me happy and smile ;)

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steer February 23 2009, 12:22:05 UTC
That first album was excellent though.

To be fair, some mad sixties catastrophists do say the Nile used to flow from east to west so I suspect it's a cool reference to Velikovsky's "Worlds in collision" or similar.

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ravensthorpe February 23 2009, 17:31:30 UTC
The Killers are no loss, there's so much better stuff out there to be listening to. When I hear of folks liking the Stereophonics though I prefer to hear "Stereolab" or "Super Furry Animals" to avoid doubting their sanity.

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thecesspit February 23 2009, 17:37:12 UTC
I have to doubt people's sanity after the twelve millionth turgid SFA album. For some reason I keep getting them as well.

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ravensthorpe February 23 2009, 17:57:45 UTC
As a rough guide, only the Welsh language ones are any good.

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