the killers - are they killer?

i like every single one of their singles a lot though

^ That. Also B. Flowers is v v dreamy.

^ that

omg, i never really looked at him until this snl performance

REALLY!? How could you not? He's seriously beautiful.

#1 rock star crush in high school

he was cuter pre-bad facial hair but yeah

tru!

his face is a masterpiece! :)

Handsome dude with atrocious taste in jackets.

Hey - come to chatz! Surprisingly there are still a couple of us there.

Brandon Flowers is, I suppose, pretty handsome. I like a few of their singles a lot, When You Were Young and Read My Mind, also smile like you mean it.

This is one of those bands which I don't find bad but don't find very good either. A couple of memorable singles, a batch of annoying ones (what's the name of the one that sounds like a gay parade? I'm not a soldier? I seriously hate that one)... I find it hard to excuse their musical existence past 'hot fuss'.

I'm not a huge fan but have enjoyed scattered moments of their back catalogue - Jenny, All Things I've Done, Reasons Unknown.

Why I'm more interested in the new 'un though is the presence of Stuart Price, who is producing the new album and has been responsible for jaw droppingly good remixes of Mr Brightside and When You Were Young.

Human has possibly the worst lyrics ever in a Killers song but it also has all the hallmarks of a great Thin White Duke production.

Whether he can repeat that trick 10 times for an album remains to be scene but it at least means I'm more interested in the new one than I would be.

Human has possibly the worst lyrics ever in a Killers song but it also has all the hallmarks of a great Thin White Duke production.

And atrocious lyrics are hallmarks of the real Thin White Duke's songs too!

One of their singles has made my year-end singles list since 2005 (last year's Pet Shop Boys remix of "Read My Mind" may be my favorite), even though their albums are overblown. I haven't heard "Human" yet.

the lyrics don't bother me at all. and i think that performance was totally engaging.

Someone please to post pics of Brandon on SNL plz okthxbye

If he worked out a bit more and lost the bland roundness of his face, he'd be hawt.

Are we human or are we dancer? WHAT?

Tune's not terrible though.

is he supposed to be saying "denser"?

Danza.

I know! I was watching this, wondering if he just forgot the "s" the first time, but no. "Are we human, or are we dancer", singular, for the entire song. I've defended their horrible lyrics in the past, but uh, not this time. Wow. I liked the second song much better.

'Are we human or are we dancers' wouldn't be a vast improvement, seeing as you have to be human to be a dancer (unless there's some kind of monkey that dances).

I'd have thought Flowers would be sporting some pretentious facial hair by now, but overall the band has exactly the correct amount of hair to indicate they're ready for album #3. Love the Brian May look.

Let's not ask for too much from Flowers' lyric-writing. Still, I think "dancers" would make the awkward lyric less blindingly obvious. The shitty lyrics on "Mr. Brightside" were easy enough to ignore if you wanted.

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I love the single. The treated guitar arpeggio is a great hook.

Does this obviously sound like JLC produced it?

If he didn't, it draws heavily from his "Mr Brightside" remix.

it's "denser"

Don't see any problem with the roundness of his face above, it just looks hawt. Though working out a bit rarely hurt anyone.

I interpret the chorus lyric as: "Are we 'Human' or are we 'Dancer'?"

Which i imagine tells the story of a community of robots trying to determine what their current functional settings are.

Which doesn't make it less ridiculous, but does it make it kinda scan.

Pretty good song anyways.

This song is waiting for the right remix for liftoff.

i love his salute. he's an intense frontman in this performance.

i'm always on the verge of liking this band but something is always wrong. their songs are kind of shapeless. i agree that he's a great frontman, tho

He's so awkward. They're so awkward. Every song, even the ones I like, teeters on the edge of collapse as a result of a misplaced guitar riff or Flowers' pinched vocals. To me it's endearing; they're trying hard to combine the daftness of "Hold Back the Rain"-"New Religion"-era Duran Duran with a glossy mirrorball pulse.

I still stand by my "new wave Meatloaf" comparison.

is there gravy on this New Wave meatloaf?

I kind of agree with Alfred on a musical level: there's something slightly off-sounding about even their best works (probably my favourite of their originals is "When You Were Young" and even that doesn't escape this, it's just too powerful to deny).

A small part of the magic of JLC's remix of "Mr. Brightside" lies in how it calmly fixes everything, not just about that song, but about the band itself. JLC's that realtor who comes in and straightens the mirror and the paintings before casually declaring the place open for inspection.

I have hopes for the new album but it's checked by the fact that these will still be "originals". It's difficult to imagine it coming out sounding as pre-remixed as the best stuff on Confessions on a Dancefloor.

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Not yet, but I give them one more album before they do something like "I'd Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)".

Somebody Told Me is their best song.

Got a feeling JLC might actually do a better job with the Keane album because he'll be less constrained by the band themselves.

the keane album sounds like the killers.

LC's that realtor who comes in and straightens the mirror and the paintings before casually declaring the place open for inspection.

He also polished the brass, installed new fixtures and a pedestal sink, replaced the wall unit A/C with central air, and serves the wine in stemless glasses.

i want it to be "denser" but i still think it's "dancer" which he rhymes with "answer"

http://intensities.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/omgwtflol-the-killers-human-2008/

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This is actually pretty great. It's got a sleekness they've never really had, the surfaces are shinier and the melody has a great way of glancing off the chord changes.

http://cdn.stereogum.com/img/killers-press08.jpg

what is with all the fur with this band

it's that dude on the right that's a fucking choad.

No, the drummer is the choad. The drawback to watching SNL in HD? Having that Jason Lee looking mook making his ridiculous faces in plain view.

I like almost anything by the Killers, but this new song comes across flat and insincere. I don't really want to see them go in this dancey direction, either. And yeah "Are we human or are we dancer"? Yikes, it's hard to get past the outright rongness of that lyric.

As for Brandon, he isn't really all that hawt after all. I couldn't remember what he looked like until now.