Wiretap: Mr. Brightsnide

Rolling Stone just reviewed the Killers new album Sam's Town, and it pretty much gave the pretentious twats a smackdown for being, well, pretentious twats. Choice words from Rob Sheffield (via Stereogum):

"So this is the Killers in 1980s Springsteen-clone mode: better than Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers; not as good as John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band; about even with Billy Hixx and the New Breed. (That was Rob Lowe's band in St. Elmo's Fire, though the Killers have better fashion sense.) In the single "When You Were Young," Brandon Flowers blares about highways, heartaches, mountains, Jesus and the devil, and sprains his larynx trying to sell lines like "We're burning down the highway skyline/On the back of a hurricane." (Hurricanes don't burn, actually; check your copy of Neil Young's Guide to Weather Metaphors.) So why is it the single? Because it's the closest thing to a good song on the album."

What Brandon Flowers needs to do is shave that stoopid beard, put on his eyeliner, and dance, monkey, dance. God, we hate it when musicians get all serious. Next Thing you know, the Bravery is going to put out a folk rock ablum inspired by John Denver.

Read the full review here.


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