The Kills: C/D?

Ah, but you see, that is my style. for instance, I started this thread waaaay before most people on here started thinking they were rubbish.

But anyway. The Kills. Yes?

It's quite pathetic for me to say I'll only like a band if they can prove to me they mean it, man, to the point they'd be throwin' their lives away. But, I'm sorry to say, that's the way the rock'n'roll cookie crumbles my friends.

I have to admit, I like the EP. And they do have good live charisma. It's Patti Smith fronting the Mary Chain, which is a good thing. But I am NOT ready to crown a band the saviours of anything until I've heard more than one EP.

My initial impressions are good, but it's too soon to tell. And anyway, who came first, the Kills or the Raveonettes? I can't actually tell their EP's apart... They're derivative, but I like what they're derivative of, so I won't complain.

They played last. I left a few songs into their set because of how bad and pretentious it all seemed. It may have been the setting, though; I bet it's tough to be effective coming after such energic, rockin' bands when you're trying your hardest to look "cool" and "detached."

In retrospect, I'm sad I left early for three reasons:
1. There was free birthday cake for everyone afterwards.
2. The Body played a secret set in the freight elevator after their set.
3. I had no idea how talked up they'd become; this was before the album came out, and I believe was actually their first (or one of their first) shows in the US. If I had known how loved they'd become, I would have stuck around so I would have more valid arguments against them.

(But, c'mon, how many years since the original and STILL with the rips from "You Really Got Me" with no energy but also no Kinks-style mastery of deadpan, and not even the courtesy to cut it short and snappy after 3 minutes instead of degenerating into possibly the least freaked-out instrumental freakout I've ever heard for another two minutes? Maybe this is more Trux love; I mean, if they've started copying the twenty minute drum solo RT did when I saw them then no amount of free cake could make up for that, that's all.)

brilliant tune!!

i'm a bit late with this.

Sorry, but this belated discovery of a point in time when the good-thinking minds of ILM had yet to notice The Music were redefining "rubbish" for the 21st century, even after just that first 7", has struck me down cold and obliterated my train of thought. The Kills, wha?

I quite liked them. And VV was really sweet.

GUYS, LISTEN TO DISCOUNT; THEY SUCKED, DUDES!!! DON'T BELIEVE THE UK INDIE CRAP HYPEMACHINE

GO LISTEN TO ORTHRELM

Anyone heard their new one?

God I hate this band with all my heart... Who cares about this when you have the Raveonettes ?

Still love much of the first album and live they have an awesome, mesmerising, dynamic.

The second album was okay and there are a few great tracks off it. This most recent single does nothing for me.

and who cares about the Raveonettes when you have the JAMC?

xp

Single "URA Fever" didn't do too much for me either but as an opener it's ok. But then, the rest of the album: RAAAH!! I played it in the car on the way home yesterday and that's just about the perfect situation for these songs. It's filled to the brim with steeringwheelbanging moments - boogie, hooks, animalistic moaning (t.rex?) - fucking awesome. Things slow down for bit on the beautifully floaty "Black Balloon", but from "Cheap and Cheerful" to "Hook and Line" this rocks like a motherfucker.

I've always felt ambivalent about this band... several traits I don't like but 'Black Balloon' is so perfect that makes me want to try harder to like the rest they have to offer.

Black Balloon sort of reminds me of Spoon... they do that sort of minimal rock song which keeps building up.

like other guitar bands i love, the ilm hivemind hates'em (usual suspects etc).

have to say after 2 days of non-stop on-u sound, the mix up of the kills with the congos on their last album sounds f*ckin' brilliant.

Loved the first two albums, really didn't like the third, and thought the most recent one was fine.

just to clarify : 'usual suspects' = reference to the bands i like that no-one else here does.

So I've turned my mind around them. I love them. Sure they're trying to ape Royal Trux + VU but I can't think of many better rock bands to ape if given the chance.
If anything I think they're too concious about making some sort of 'fashionista' rock and it seems they wont evolve their style at all if they continue that path. Lou Reed managed just fine without the trends, might as well imitate him all the way through.

my friend was once really into them so i got a lot of exposure by osmosis (saw them live a long, long time ago), but not much really stuck with me. still remember "u r a fever," though, which does all-style/no-substance in a really fun way

Definitely more style than substance with them but they have some interesting sound dynamics, they even remind me of the Pixies on some songs where they alternate between silent and loud. I think they should be re-evaluated at some point, it seems ilm hates them and the rest of the world didn't care much about them.

I liked their last album a lot