Generic, thoughtless and bland are three words I'd use to describe them. I've had this opinion right from their first album but it is interesting to note that they seem to be the band that music snobs are picking on at the moment for being too mainstream. As you said mitty, whatever floats your boat, but IMHO they're too much like a watered down version of Joy Division or Interpol for me.

EDIT: I should also add that at 37, you're not too old to be understanding modern music!

The laws of music snobbery dictate that mainstream music is generally bad; under the notion that if lots of people like it, it can't be good.

Personally, I've enjoyed the last 4 albums from The Killers... Can't wait for the rumored album of covers... Flowers doing 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' is a pisser...

Hot Fuss was brilliant and epitomised that new-indie sound with the cold guitars and distant atmosphere. After that they just went down hill with sam's town and that rubbish new one.

Yeah, Hot Fuss was ok, but I got so sick of hearing 'Mr Brightside' on the radio all the time, that I just couldn't listen to them anymore. I nearly bought that album, it was out at the same time as Franz Ferdinand and that whole new wave post-rock movement was starting, but The Killers felt too hollow to me, compared to Franz Ferdinand or Interpol.

'Bones' was good too, I liked the shitty synthesised horn blasts and the Russian chorus, but the album it came from didn't sit right with me.

Hearing 'Human' played 6 times a day on Absolute Radio didn't make me want to listen to their latest album.

Also, I think that Flowers chap is a bit of a twat.

Originally Posted by Linux_insidev2

They just don't have any taste and prefer to listen to Keith Urban

I wasn't aware that The Killers or Keith Urban were the only musical choices available. :/

Originally Posted by mitty

for instance, I can't stand Triple J and if I saw that guy "The Doctor" ahead of me on the road, I'd accelerate hoping to hit him

Take that back!

Granted their newer albums aren't as good as their first, Hot Fuss; I still love them.

they just cancelled their fuji rock appearances (here in japan) which isn't cool. they've got some good tunes i guess

I haven't listened back to the live podcast, but I have no doubt it would've been me badmouthing them.

When We Were Young comes across as a song written for fat sixteen year old girls who want a boyfriend. Bones then seems to be the track justifying sex to those same fat sixteen year old girls. And yet, paradoxically, they still manage an undercurrent of religion that makes them seen like little nore than a glorified Christian rock band.

Flame on!

if you like them that's all that matters. Many people pretend their musical opinion is important, but it's not. And you can do a lot worse than the Killers.