thanks to my bud mayfuck for remembering i was waiting for this to leak!

i don't have a ysi, though i could create one tonight if necessary

there is a "coooome wiiiith meeee" bit at the start of The Bones that is better than the one on the zwan cd.

i haven't given it enough listens to make a definitive statement, but i will say there are some nice catchy songs. a few duds. 'one of the best albums in the last 20 years' or wahtever flowers said is obviously a ridiculous statement

the main point of this thread is to say that bill's 'coooome wiiii-iiith meee-eee' is no longer the best

suck it bill

I listened one time and thought it sucked. I will probably give it another chance. My friend thinks it sounds like meat loaf.

i will let you know my thoughts after i grab the torrent tonight.

it sucks

I heard it was sourced from a webcast so it might sound better on the real cd. I got it from oink and the guy claimed it was from cd but it sure sounded bad in terms of quality.

it is pretty bad, as i knew it would be.

hot fuss was consistent all the way through, but this...this is bad.

I liked a lot of Hot Fuss but it wasn't 100%. This album sounds a lot like some of their b-sides from Hot Fuss which I didn't really like. It could be the type of thing that grows on you, or maybe not.

I haven't heard it but the general consensus seems to be everyone hates it. With a passion.

this has been on projectw for over a week

l2use pw

i wanted to like it because i heard 'when you were young' on the radio and thought maybe they were a good band in spite of the singing

maybe i'll try again

I wasn't paying close attention while listening but my brother said he uses a different singing voice on this album and I think I noticed that too. One that sucks I guess. I bet it will grow to a certain extent. Some of the songs at least. I'm going to wait for the real CD cause I think all of these are stream rips, even the oink one.

I wasn't paying close attention while listening but my brother said he uses a different singing voice on this album and I think I noticed that too.
yeah, he sounds like bruce springsteen. like, whoa.

I was waiting for this leak. Now that I've listen it a couple of times I think that It didn't hit me.... Not at the 1st time, or the 2nd, or the 3rd. By now I can't find anything interesting as I do find in Hot Fuss :-(

this album is quite disappointing. i thought the first one was alright, i listen to it every so often, but this is just crap.

every so often he has a cool line in the lyrics, but those keyboards are too much, and the songs aren't nearly as catchy as Hot Fuss

i agree with deadaswarhol...the songs don't really grab you as much...at least on the initial listen. a few of the tracks were cool, but with all the hype I was hoping for something a little more risky....

i also thing the songs could have been a lot more dynamic...but it seems that each track pretty much goes no where compared to how it starts out.

According to Monte:

Monte> the killers album has now been properly scene
Monte> The_Killers-Sams_Town-2006-uF

Maybe it will have better audio quality. I'll try to find it.

Something about this album causes my laptop speakers to buzz and crackle, I can't even play it on there at all. I've read that if you go to 0dB (CLIPPING!) it can fuck up certain types of speakers. Guess I'm lucky with these harman/kardon speakers, they cant handle it, shit. They need to quit producing/mastering albums like shit.

Oh I MP3Gain'd them and it quit doing that.

I think some of this album is going to grow on me. And his voice isn't that different afterall, but the songs are just not as good. Whatever, I like the single now and I didn't when I heard it a week ago.

According to Monte:

Monte> the killers album has now been properly scene
Monte> The_Killers-Sams_Town-2006-uF

Maybe it will have better audio quality. I'll try to find it.

thats the one i got --- sounds final to me.

Well not on my laptop. DISTORTION!!!!!!

ITS LOUD AT ANY VOLUME, YOUR HONOR

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/deadster/gotti.jpg

Should've just called it Sam's Club.

I've decided to give The Killers the benefit of the doubt based on the fact that Mr. Brightside is the greatest song of our time. I'm listening to Sam's Town again and it's gradually growing on me. I've started to really like the single When you were young, and I can dig the first track as well. I think this album will end up being decent in the end. It's common for me to not pick out individual tracks as being too distinct when first listening to an album so that's also part of it.

Uncle Johnny has cool guitars. that song is alright

I've decided to give The Killers the benefit of the doubt based on the fact that Mr. Brightside is the greatest song of our time. I'm listening to Sam's Town again and it's gradually growing on me. I've started to really like the single When you were young, and I can dig the first track as well. I think this album will end up being decent in the end. It's common for me to not pick out individual tracks as being too distinct when first listening to an album so that's also part of it.

Uncle Johnny has cool guitars. that song is alright
jesus christ

Alright. Here are my findings: Some songs are are decent. The single is awesome. At least half of the songs basically are lame. Final answer!

And I found the one that sounds like Meat Loaf. It's the one with River in the title.

Going to pick it up right now.

I've decided to give The Killers the benefit of the doubt based on the fact that Mr. Brightside is the greatest song of our time.

overstated. mr.brightside is a brilliant song, probably my favourite pop/indie song of last year, tied with bloc party's helicopter. but not the best song "of our time".

has dead never heard promiscuous

the killers use that same fuckin synthesizer in every song

the killers use that same fuckin synthesizer in every song


I use the same condom when I fuck your mom. :D


The album is ok, it is growing on me thou.

Best songs on there(as of now)

Sam's town
When You were young
For reasons unknown
Read my mind
Exitlude

I like the river song and the bones song.

just read the Allmusic review of Sam's Town and they basically trash it, but then give it 4/5 stars compared to Hot Fuss's 3/5 stars. What the hell.. Anyway I found the review quite interesting. Check it out, I will post a little of it. Ok I decided to quote the entire thing.

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:oydqoaqarijb~T1

Not even the Killers, the champions of retro new wave, think that synth rock is music to be taken seriously, and Lord knows that this Vegas quartet wants to be taken seriously -- it's a byproduct of being taken far too seriously in the first place, a phenomenon that happened to the Killers after their not-bad-at-all 2004 debut album, Hot Fuss, was dubbed as the beginning of the next big thing by legions of critics and bloggers, all searching for something to talk about in the aftermath of the White Stripes and the Strokes. The general gist of the statement was generally true, at least to the extent that they were a prominent part of the next wave, the wave where new wave revivalism truly caught hold. They were lighter than Interpol and far gaudier, plus they were fronted by a guy called Brandon Flowers, a name so ridiculous he had to be born with it (which he was). And although it was hailed to the heavens on various areas of the Net, Hot Fuss became a hit the old-fashioned way: listeners gravitated toward it, drawn in by "Mr. Brightside" and sticking around for the rest. Soon, they made the cover of everything from Spin to Q, earning accolades from rock stars and seeing their songs covered on Rock Star, too. Heady times, especially for a group with only one album to its name, and any band that receives so much attention is bound to be thought of as important, since there has to be a greater reason for all that exposure than because Flowers is pretty, right? One of the chief proponents of the belief that the Killers are important is the band itself, which has succumbed to that dreaded temptation for any promising band on its sophomore album: they've gone and grown beards. Naturally, this means they're serious adults now, so patterning themselves after Duran Duran will no longer do. No, they make serious music now, and who else makes serious music? Why, U2, of course, and Bruce Springsteen, whose presence looms large over the Killers' second album, Sam's Town.

The ghosts of Bono and the Boss are everywhere on this album. They're there in the artful, grainy Anton Corbijn photographs on the sleeve, and they're there in the myth-making of the song titles themselves -- and in case you didn't get it, Flowers made sure nobody missed the point prior to the release of Sam's Town, hammering home that he's just discovered the glories of Springsteen every time he crossed paths with the press. Flowers' puppy love for Bruce fuels Sam's Town, as he extravagantly, endlessly, and blatantly apes the Springsteen of the '70s, mimicking the ragged convoluted poet of the street who mythologized mundane middle-class life, turning it into opera. The Killers sure try their hardest to do that here, marrying it to U2's own operatic take on America, inadvertently picking up on how the Dublin quartet never sounded more European than when they were trying to tell one and all how much they loved America. That covers the basic thematic outlook of the record, but there's another key piece of the puzzle of Sam's Town: it's named after a casino in the Killers' home town of Las Vegas, and it's not one of the gleeful, gaudy corporate monstrosities glutting the Strip, but rather one located miles away in whatever passes for regular, everyday Vegas -- in other words, it's the city that lies beneath the sparkling façade, the real city. Of course, there's no real city in Vegas -- it's all surface, it's a place that thinks that a miniature Eiffel Tower and a fake CBGB's is every bit as good as being there -- and that's the case with the Killers too: when it comes down to it, there's no there there -- it's all a grand act. Every time they try to dig deeper on Sam's Town -- when they bookend the album with "enterlude" and "exitlude," when Flowers mixes his young-hearts-on-the-run metaphors, when they graft Queen choirs and Bowie baritones onto bridges of songs -- they just prove how monumentally silly and shallow they are. Which isn't necessarily the same thing as bad, however. True, this album has little of the pop hooks of "Mr. Brightside," but in its own misguided way, it's utterly unique. Yes, it's cobbled together from elements shamelessly stolen from Springsteen, U2, Echo & the Bunnymen, Bowie, Queen, Duran Duran, and New Order, but nobody on earth would have thought of throwing these heroes of 1985 together, because they would have instinctively known that it wouldn't work. But not the Killers! They didn't let anything stop their monumental misconception; they were able to indulge to their hearts' content -- even hiring U2/Depeche Mode producers Alan Moulder and Flood to help construct their monstrosity, which gives their half-baked ideas a grandeur to which they aspire but don't deserve. But even if the music doesn't really work, it's hard not to listen to it in slack-jawed wonderment, since there's never been a record quite like it -- it's nothing but wrong-headed dreams, it's all pomp but no glamour, it's clichés sung as if they were myths. Every time it tries to get real, it only winds up sounding fake, which means it's the quintessential Vegas rock album from the quintessential Vegas rock band.

i saw the killers play on the season premiere of SNL. it was really bad...

dane cook was funny, tho!

I saw that also. I had no idea who the host was.

I've decided to give The Killers the benefit of the doubt based on the fact that Mr. Brightside is the greatest song of our time.

:rofl:

:think:

:rofl:

:rofl:

:dammit:

Like, by "our time" do you mean in all of human existence or since 1980? Oh what does it matter you're still incredibly wrong.

:rofl:

:think:

:rofl:

:rofl:

:dammit:

Like, by "our time" do you mean in all of human existence or since 1980? Oh what does it matter you're still incredibly wrong.

I agree Mr brightside is one of the most mediocre songs ever.

i'm suprised i dont just eat up everything the killers put out because i'm a real sucker for clanging guitars overlapping synthesizers. but i dont know if they really do anything for me

i d/l'd sam's town today. its pretty good but i dunno

Anyone have an address for them? I'm thinking about mailing them a bill for the carpet cleaning I needed after Sam's Town induced vomiting.