I disagree Lore :P

nothing will be better than Hot Fuss :P

 

sliced bread?

This album is pap, hated Human when it was released and the rest of the album is just as bad.

 

Funny really, I was expecting The Killers to blow my socks off with this record, and Guns N Roses to flop spectacularly, but it's the other way round.

 

Get GNR instead.

This is clearly going to be a love it or hate it album, and after three listens I love it.

^^^ Same. I thought there was a lot of filler, then things started to click into place.

i was just wondering if we could add a poll to this thread about which the killers album is the best. or would we have to start up a new thread of that?

^ Great Idea, can either a mod or the person who made this thread make a poll!

Maybe we should wait for this album to be listened by everyone and a bit more time to really understand what we think about it compared to the others :wink:

 

So far I'm really liking it, but I don't have a final opinion yet, it's still too fresh on my ears

Dammit, why my posts keep coming out doubled :angry:

Dammit, why my posts keep coming out doubled :angry:

 

Because the board's fucked :P

 

^ Great Idea, can either a mod or the person who made this thread make a poll!

 

The only persons who can add & edit & delete polls after the thread has been posted are Ian/Jen or Stephen

"Day & Age" continues the list of one of the most disappointing records of 2008 (at least for me).

 

I liked "Human" so I was really looking forward to "Day & Age", but it's very weak I think. Far from "Hot Fuss". Most of the songs sound like pop songs back from the 80's. "Goodnight, Travel Well" is awesome though as well as "Forget About What I Said" which is the bonus track.

The Killers did good with Hot Fuss, their flashy debut of hooky Vegas new wave. Their look and glitzy synth tones were dialed directly into Indie '04, and after a few years of touring and fan base swelling, they talked big about the revolutionary nature of their sophomore effort. For all its strength, Hot Fuss wasn't any sort of grand conceptual statement, and somewhere along the way the Killers began craving grand conceptual statements. The Americana rock of Sam's Town wasn't an abject failure -- it spawned some of the band's best radio singles in "Read My Mind" and "When You Were Young" -- but as a whole, it felt clumsy and overproduced. The live debuts of material from Day & Age seemed to hint at less studio bloat. We quickly learned that wouldn't be entirely true.

 

The album's opening three tracks are some of its brightest moments and a well sequenced start, setting a template for Day & Age's sounds (synths, saxophones, new romantic redux) and themes: the Who Am I? ("Losing Touch"), the What Am I? (are they "Human" or are they dancer -- see: Hunter. S Thompson for support), the Where Am I? ("Spaceman"). They're on some existential shit, if expressed via typically banal prose. "They [the spacemen who abducted Brandon, that is] say the Nile used to run from East to West." What? He seems to litter his lyrics with meaningless turns so he can avoid actually dealing with real emotion. (See that Hunter S. Thompson reference, too; Hunter was experiential, that's how he became who he was. Flowers occasionally writes like he doesn't have first hand experience at all.) And if you still have a slot open for America's Rock Band, the Killers are still interested. Check the images of a "slick chrome American prince, blue jean serenade" in the swelling, orchestral, mid-album ballad break of "A Dustland Fairytale." So they're not over their Sam's Town aims after all.

 

Actually, not by a long shot. For better and for the worst, the Killers can't escape the clutches of their hometown. Try sitting through the cringy Vegas hotel "funk" and cheesy sax solos of "Joy Ride" (one of the most embarrassing songs of the year in any genre), and chase it with the shlocky cocktail lounge calyspo and steel drums of "I Can't Stay." Passable looks for dusty bars off the Strip, maybe. Here they inspire laughs. Take the bad and the forgettable ("Neon Tiger," "The World We Live In") with the good, though: What "Spaceman" lacks in lyrical punch it packs into its high energy, soaring synth hooks; "Human" is a successful step outside the new wave/Boss-loving mold (here a flirtation with Europop); and the galloping, infectious "This Is Your Life" does its work (but mostly because it's a good rip of this).

 

There might not be a clumsy set-piece introducing their current conceit (i.e. there's no "Enterlude" this time), but they make their overarching ambition clear with this album's "Exitlude," the exeunt "Goodnight, Travel Well." It's a sharp break from the rest of the album, sounding less like Duran Duran or Bryan Ferry than Björk (cue the "Dull Flame Of Desire" horns) and Radiohead (the second half is pure "Climbing Up The Walls"). However, cinematic exit music does not an album make. Three full-lenghts into their career, the Killers confirm their essence: a band capable of surefire radio singles, seemingly incapable of turning out a full-length without grievous missteps. They admirably, desperately want to be an outfit capable of The Great Album, but they let that ambition sink half their songs. They're a singles band. In this day and age, that's probably enough.

(stereogum.com)

Day and Age is on UK iTunes guys! :D

I've only listened to this album in full once, thanks to both Prospekt's March and non-music things in life. While Sam's Town was an album that actually clicked with me, still feeling like a solid album without whipping out the sheer number of killer singles (no pun intended) that Hot Fuss did (heck, "Read My Mind" is my favorite Killers song), I'm not really feeling the vibe of this latest album.

 

Nothing really stands out to me on first listen, though no doubt I'll give it a few more whirls, as I like "Human" more now than I did at first. But though "Human" and "Spaceman" are certainly decent, they're not gonna stand out in The Killers' singles library history. There is some nice experimental stuff like "I Can't Stay", though I could certainly do without hearing another "Joy Ride" from them.

 

Like I said, gonna give it some more listens before a final verdict.

I like Losing Touch and Spaceman.......that's about it. Really disappointing because I enjoyed Sam's Town. The Killers have always been a strange band for me. I didn't really like Hot Fuss, but I liked Sam's Town a lot. Maybe I'll like every other album from them lol. Day and Age is just really boring.

are we human? or are we dancers?

I think Day & Age is a phenomenal album, best of the year along with Viva la Vida

I think this album takes some getting used to, just like Sam's Town after Hot Fuss. I was initially not that impressed, but now think it's brilliant. I think a lot of people won't like it at first because for the most part there's less guitar and a slower pace than either of their previous two. But after listening a few times, the music is great and the lyrics are actually pretty good if you take the time to interpret them.

 

I think a lot of the reviews indicate this, some think it's great and others think it's crap. Giving it some time, most people will move towards the thinking it's great category. On the first listen, the album almost seems a bit boring because it slows down toward the end and it's hard to stay focused. After a few listens though, I find the album gets even better with the later songs.

 

So, like I said, I think it's great, and it's definitely their most consistently good album so far.

where can one listen to it hehe i've only heard human...

i remember when sam's town first came out. the reaction was about the same. some love and alot of hate then two years on most people have gotten used to it and appreciate it for what it is. i think the main purpose of this album is to bring some sort of variety in their live shows. a departure from the fist pumping synth rock anthems that their first two records possessed. i think if they choose to strip away much of the extra instruments and layers on the songs for their live show then it would make things alot more appealing and somewhat interesting.

I don't really like Day & Age, but I'll probably buy it anyway. Maybe it'll get better...

 

I'm depressed, I wanted it to be as awesome as Sam's Town, but it just...isn't.

yea i was in love with sams town after first listen. but so far the only song i can take away from Day & Age is spaceman. i really dont like the rest of it at all.... its really disappointing.

"I got soul, but I'm not a soldier" - the refrain from The Killers 'All These Things That I've Done' - has been incorporated into live performances by Bono, Robbie Williams and Coldplay's Chris Martin. The line has attracted mockery from comedian Bill Bailey, who points out that it doesn't make much sense: "You might as well sing, 'I've got ham but I'm not a hamster'

"Brandon has many phobias, including flying, mortality and the number 621. He goes to a weekly therapist session, and has the session played back to him on every plane journey he takes"

 

LMAO

lol

 

with the exception of kanye, coldplay and kings of leon, all other return albums have been, to me, disappointing - snow patrol, keane, travis, oasis, etc.

 

even day & age is a lot lot lot less than i thought it would be. arrggh!! thank god for prospekt's march :)