Does anyone have this CD? How is it? The clips I can hear on websites seem decent...
Thanks!
Killers - Hot Fuss Opinions?
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- KVRAF
- 2139 posts since 15 Jul, 2003 from ex-NJ, PA
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- addled muppet weed
- 111304 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
its ok for that kind of thing
but-the single they have in the charts has annoyed me byt having the chorus repeated over and over
something about you with a boy who looked like a girl i went out with blah blah
but yeah if your into indy pop rock go fer it
but the zutons who killed the zutons is better
but-the single they have in the charts has annoyed me byt having the chorus repeated over and over
something about you with a boy who looked like a girl i went out with blah blah
but yeah if your into indy pop rock go fer it
but the zutons who killed the zutons is better
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- KVRist
- 452 posts since 22 Mar, 2002
I think it is a good album but I cannot help but be amused by a US singer singing with an English accent, normally it is the other way around.
elbaggio.com
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- KVRist
- 169 posts since 16 Mar, 2002 from Wales. For our American viewers that's "in England".
Love it! One of the best albums of 2004.
Steve.
I know I have got a negative edge, that’s why I sharpen all the others a lot.
I know I have got a negative edge, that’s why I sharpen all the others a lot.
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- KVRAF
- 3364 posts since 16 Feb, 2004 from atop a katamari
honestly? i think it's a f**king awesome album.
it's been a while since i've been genuinely interested in a particular band. the killers have some absolutely excellent songs, and a really great sound. i'd snap it up, it's always playing here
it's been a while since i've been genuinely interested in a particular band. the killers have some absolutely excellent songs, and a really great sound. i'd snap it up, it's always playing here
Kick, punch, it's all in the mind.
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- KVRist
- 336 posts since 7 Nov, 2004 from New Zealand
I dig what I've heard anyway.
Definitely gonna buy it!
For some reason I thought they were Australian...guess not?
Definitely gonna buy it!
For some reason I thought they were Australian...guess not?
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neverwhere2012 neverwhere2012 https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=23348
- KVRist
- 420 posts since 30 Apr, 2004 from grand rapids, michigan
listen to more US punk bands thenbaggio wrote:I think it is a good album but I cannot help but be amused by a US singer singing with an English accent, normally it is the other way around.
i really dig the killers, though the rest of the album sounds not much like "somebody told me". i love damn near every song on the cd -- the mastering of the disc, on the other hand.... blech....
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2139 posts since 15 Jul, 2003 from ex-NJ, PA
Thanks for the responses. I have enough "music points" at BMG club for a free CD -- so I was thinking about this one. I think I will place my order today
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- KVRAF
- 7316 posts since 7 Mar, 2003
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- KVRist
- 75 posts since 29 Apr, 2004
Kind of a Duran Duran throw back. 80's New wave with a new millinium feel. I am sick of rap/RnB, Nu Metal and
Emo alt Rock that has been dominating the radio lately.
Hot Fuss is one of my "Years Best" picks.
Emo alt Rock that has been dominating the radio lately.
Hot Fuss is one of my "Years Best" picks.
(A23, MV, NO BVDS)
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-Albert Einstein"
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-Albert Einstein"
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- KVRer
- 7 posts since 30 Nov, 2003 from florida
if you want to hear o good album, skip this radio manufactured piece of shite and pick up The Arcade Fire's new album "Funerals" It will blow your mind. top notch shit that is truly different than this major label radio garbage.
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- KVRian
- 1045 posts since 23 Jul, 2001 from Jersey Is Where America's At
The Killers CD is decent. Nothing amazing as at a few points it just falls off, and there's something weird about the mix that just bugs me (the bass on the first track sounds off to me, and the lead synth sounds sound almost like pads with all the reverb and delays on them, but that's prolly just me, not my thing).
I haven't heard the Arcade Fire album, but the few songs I've heard on satellite radio were good but I'm bothered by the fact that the guy sings way too much like Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse. I mean Isaac Brock has an extremely distinct voice, and what are the odds that someone else just happens to sing just like him? This one I'm not alone on either, all my friends who own the album and think that it's good will agree with me that it's kind of strange.
Now on to an AMAZING album: The Comas - Conductor. There's not a bad thing about that album. Has a great kind of lofi (but in a wierd futuristic kind of way) vibe, and is one of those records that just becomes better and better with every listen. Kind of a break up album, but with a futuristic kick, songs about office jobs to being a hologram to interstellar queens. Hard to explain, but if you like the Killers and the Arcade Fire, and want something in a somewhat similar vein only with a lot more depth The Comas album is the way to go. Check it out. The bonus DVD has a basically what is a long video for the album which is really cool too.
I haven't heard the Arcade Fire album, but the few songs I've heard on satellite radio were good but I'm bothered by the fact that the guy sings way too much like Isaac Brock from Modest Mouse. I mean Isaac Brock has an extremely distinct voice, and what are the odds that someone else just happens to sing just like him? This one I'm not alone on either, all my friends who own the album and think that it's good will agree with me that it's kind of strange.
Now on to an AMAZING album: The Comas - Conductor. There's not a bad thing about that album. Has a great kind of lofi (but in a wierd futuristic kind of way) vibe, and is one of those records that just becomes better and better with every listen. Kind of a break up album, but with a futuristic kick, songs about office jobs to being a hologram to interstellar queens. Hard to explain, but if you like the Killers and the Arcade Fire, and want something in a somewhat similar vein only with a lot more depth The Comas album is the way to go. Check it out. The bonus DVD has a basically what is a long video for the album which is really cool too.
I'm sorry this post wasn't about techno.
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neverwhere2012 neverwhere2012 https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=23348
- KVRist
- 420 posts since 30 Apr, 2004 from grand rapids, michigan
as far as the whole style of music is concerned, the first cd by The Faint "Danse Macabre" is absolutely brilliant. one of those albums you can listen to on repeat for hours. their newest cd is good too, but to me, doesn't quite hit the same mark that the fiirst one does.
and i hear you on the mix of "Hot Fuss", funkybot... i think it's more the mastering though. it seems overcompressed and like they cranked way too much 12k or so with a high shelf... perhaps they abused an exciter...not sure, but that cd fatigues my ears pretty quick if i play it at slightly above a moderate level. just way too much top end sizzle on it...
and i hear you on the mix of "Hot Fuss", funkybot... i think it's more the mastering though. it seems overcompressed and like they cranked way too much 12k or so with a high shelf... perhaps they abused an exciter...not sure, but that cd fatigues my ears pretty quick if i play it at slightly above a moderate level. just way too much top end sizzle on it...