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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Jaguar on July 13, 2006, 11:30:00 am
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Yuck!!!
I'm listening to it now over the radio. :(
Sounds like some song from out of the 80s that took its basis from the popular synth sounds of the times but then was completely remixed and homogenized to fit into the major lable hit formula mold to infect our radios with sickly mold spores. Pathetic!!!
Thank God it's short.
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You can't be right... this is going to be the best album of the last 20 years, remember?
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Yeah, Stereogum had a snippet of it the other day. I caught these awful lyrics:
Can we climb this mountain?
I don't know
Higher now than ever befoooore
I know we can make it if we take it slow.
Let's take it easy
Easy now
Watch it go.
We're burnin down the highway skyline
on the back of a hurricane
that started turnin when you were young.
When you were youuuuuuung.
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are you sure thats their new song?
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The 40 second snippet can be found here (http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/2006/07/whats-happening-i-got-you-covered.html).
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Sounds like some song from out of the 80s that took its basis from the popular synth sounds of the times but then was completely remixed and homogenized to fit into the major lable hit formula mold to infect our radios with sickly mold spores. Pathetic!!!
Cool, just like their first album. Can't wait!
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No, it's worse!
Much worse.
At least the first album was catchy. This really has all the sounds of a throw-away.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Sounds like some song from out of the 80s that took its basis from the popular synth sounds of the times but then was completely remixed and homogenized to fit into the major lable hit formula mold to infect our radios with sickly mold spores. Pathetic!!!
Cool, just like their first album. Can't wait! [/b]
Smackie what do you think the odds are we kick off the OC's season 4 with some new Killers...yeah! :)
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Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Sounds like some song from out of the 80s that took its basis from the popular synth sounds of the times but then was completely remixed and homogenized to fit into the major lable hit formula mold to infect our radios with sickly mold spores. Pathetic!!!
Cool, just like their first album. Can't wait! [/b]
my thoughts exactly.
the killers are and were absolutely terrible and a waste of existance.
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http://www6.islanddefjam.com/www2/av_system/go.wax?link=ERfw543735Kl1158Q6me4C26-78070 (http://www6.islanddefjam.com/www2/av_system/go.wax?link=ERfw543735Kl1158Q6me4C26-78070)
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Originally posted by Fico:
[fico's link]
holy shit is that bad!!
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The lyrics just really reminded me of Freelove Freeway (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/freelove_tablature.shtml) from the UK Office.
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Originally posted by distance:
Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Sounds like some song from out of the 80s that took its basis from the popular synth sounds of the times but then was completely remixed and homogenized to fit into the major lable hit formula mold to infect our radios with sickly mold spores. Pathetic!!!
Cool, just like their first album. Can't wait! [/b]
my thoughts exactly.
the killers are and were absolutely terrible and a waste of existance. [/b]
Yeah, seriously...when have the Killers been anything BUT the above listed gripes?
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Originally posted by Alex:
Originally posted by distance:
Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Sounds like some song from out of the 80s that took its basis from the popular synth sounds of the times but then was completely remixed and homogenized to fit into the major lable hit formula mold to infect our radios with sickly mold spores. Pathetic!!!
Cool, just like their first album. Can't wait! [/b]
my thoughts exactly.
the killers are and were absolutely terrible and a waste of existance. [/b]
Yeah, seriously...when have the Killers been anything BUT the above listed gripes? [/b]
Oh, please! I'm sure Mr. Google Gone Wild could find all of yas shitting over yourselves trying to track down tickets to their sold out show! :roll:
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My main thought was how weak his voice sounded.
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Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
My main thought was how weak his voice sounded.
Yeah, the whole thing sounded weak I thought. It was like that on the radio too. I kept wondering if we were hearing some watered down unmastered pre-release. I heard it on HFS so I'm not too sure they would chance airing something all that questionable unless they got an okay from the label. But those labels are slooowly understanding the power of the leaks, so you never know.
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I saw them opening for Stellastarr* and Ambulance LTD once...actually twice, since I went to Alley Katz and The Black Cat for that tour. We left laughing at how bad they were.
I still can't believe they got big enough to sell out Merriweather.
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Originally posted by Alex:
I saw them opening for Stellastarr* and Ambulance LTD once...actually twice, since I went to Alley Katz and The Black Cat for that tour. We left laughing at how bad they were.
I still can't believe they got big enough to sell out Merriweather.
Ha! I was at that Alley Katz show. Didn't see the Killers though; had no idea who they were.
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What's so amusing about this song to me is that its exactly what he said it was going to be: new wave-ish Bruce Springsteen.
I think I hate it.
I will say that the first five tracks on "Hot Fuss" were pretty awesome.
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Originally posted by Alex:
I saw them opening for Stellastarr* and Ambulance LTD once...actually twice, since I went to Alley Katz and The Black Cat for that tour. We left laughing at how bad they were.
I still can't believe they got big enough to sell out Merriweather.
Can Stellastarr or Ambulance LTD sell out Merriweather?
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Oh, please! I'm sure Mr. Google Gone Wild could find all of yas shitting over yourselves trying to track down tickets to their sold out show! :roll:
Actually, everyone has been pretty consistent in their opinions.
Here's the daily flashback post. This one is from Relaxer, circa August 2004:
It's like cotton candy, sounds real good at the time, but am I going to listen to it again past September? Nah... They opened for the (absolutely amazing, breathtaking, going-to-take-over-the-world-eventually) Stellastarr and they were very good, particularly the singer who has a good strong voice and the right look (although his whole my-life-of-constant-empty-sex-is-so-boring attitude gets a little tiresome). One of their songs, probably either 'Somebody Told Me' or 'Mr. Brightside', will be the breakout song on a soundtrack or Fox show, the singer will get a few magazine covers, and then they'll come out with a 'difficult' second album and fade into the musical canvas along with 3rd Eye Blind, Phantom Planet, Remy Zero, the Rembrandts, etc.
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I'll admit to being something of a fan of the Killers' "Hot Fuss" album, though I do think there is a certain cotton candy element to their music and haven't listened to their album in nearly a year and haven't missed it. I've also never understood how they got to be bigger than Stellastarr* who I think are way better. I love Relaxer's description of Stellastarr* which echo my own sentiments.
The 40-second snippet that ggw linked to is gag-me-with-a-spoon bad. Awful, awful, awful. Fico's link to the full song is better mixed and is almost bearable if I ignore the lame lyrics. :roll:
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I was a fan of Hot Fuss, it's just a catchy bunch of tunes. Nothing wrong with that. Didn't care for them live though. Not much personality or musicianship.
I'm fairly confident that the new album will be another batch of catchy pop tunes. But I don't think a 40 second snippet is a fair way to judge. I'll wait for the actual release.
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Yep, nothing new there. Can't wait for the video, maybe it will be as awesome as the new Panic video of people walking around with fish tanks on their heads, um yeah, I totally understand that whole concept, well, not really, but it's Panic, aren't they like the new Killers?*
*written under extreme trauma from thinking about the Killers and Panic simultaneously, head about to combust.