Sam's Town and Sawdust were better than Hot Fuss. Sam's Town was one of the better albums of 2006, even though it was rather pretentious (which is why Coldplay is terrible all the time). But their most recent album is garbage aimed at eurotrash. The Killers manage to combine the worst parts of “Hot Fuss” (the uninteresting spaced out new wave trash) with the worst parts of “Sam’s Town” (the over-the-top dramatic grandiose) to create something truly awful. It's epic for epic's sake, like they want purples just because they are purple; the stats are bad for a level 20 but it's PURPLE!

Flower's narcissism and self-importance is why the Killers are one big epic fail with their recent album; I just didn’t think it would happen this fast. He's running around wearing druid shoulder pads. What the fuck. You can see it on the picture at the beginning of this article. What. The. Fuck. Songs like “This Is Your Life” and “The World We Live In” just scratch the surface of how important Flowers is trying to be on this album. The problem is, songs like “Joy Ride,” “A Dustland Fairytale” and album-ender “Goodnight, Travel Well” are so inconceivably stupid, it’s hard to take anything else seriously. "Human" is kind of catchy, but I liked it better when the song was titled "Read My Mind" because it didn't have such asinine lyrics.

The album that “Day & Age” is like Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida”, only it’s worse. Coldplay's frontman is so full of himself and that's one reason why they suck. The other reason is their lyrics are terrible ("IT WAS ALL YELLOW"... dumb. fucking. lyrics.). The saddest part is that Martin is a better lyricist than Flowers.

The album was pretty big in Europe because of this fact of life: Europeans have shitty taste in music.

If you didn't quite get it, the Killers suck. I used to like them, I even went to a concert of theirs, but Day & Age is one of the worst albums of the century.

There is plenty of good music these days. Local station's radio stream: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/streams.shtml
It usually has some good stuff on it, although recently they've been playing songs more than few times a week. playlist: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/playlist/playlist.php

Reply