Brandon Flowers (of The Killers)

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Flamingo is the debut studio album by American singer/songwriter and The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, which is set to be released on September 6 in the UK and September 14, 2010 in the US. The album is named after the Flamingo Casino & Flamingo Road. The album was produced by Stuart Price, Daniel Lanois and Brendan O'Brien.

1. "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas"
2. "Only the Young"
3. "Hard Enough (featuring Jenny Lewis)"
4. "Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts"
5. "Playing with Fire"
6. "Was It Something I Said?"
7. "From Nogales to Magdalena"
8. "Crossfire"
9. "On the Floor"
10. "Right Behind You"

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i think the single is AWFUL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD5I7lVMmLo

yeah, that was horrible

i don't like the Killers but i will listen to them.

i won't even download this album based on that song.

I am going to barf. What a waste of a perfectly decent singing voice.

I think he should be sent to an internment camp and flogged every day with a knotted rope

Bee OK, if you don't like the Killers and hate this single (otm but whatever) what is the purpose of starting still another one-sheet rehash thread?

Flowers and Train are competing for worst single of the year, although I can easily imagine Flowers singing "Hey Soul Sister."

Its not horrible, but its not very good either.

this should be an electro album or something.

the killers -- and brandon flowers -- began to be terrible pretty fast (like starting with half of that one sort of good disc they had).

I love Sam's Town because it is melody and bombast and overreach and I am naturally attracted to collisions like that, but yeah, wow, this is bland.

i just can't stand most "bombastic, bar-band-vibe" springsteen homages.

Oh good, a fellow Arcade Fire hater.

not hater, really. more like, indifferent-er.

That's more accurate with me as well come to think of it. But anyway, back to trashing Brandon!

man he sucks

although really, who gives a shit

His agent?

lol

children by the millions wait for brandon flowers to come around.

probably more people than i realize x-post

I can only suppose that the burden of growing a mustache, Mormonism, wearing bolo ties, supporting three bandmates uglier than you, and thinking the Pet Shop Boys adore you has been hell on his voice and sensibilities.

brandon flowers may be terrible but this thread sure isn't!

I'll ruin it.

I expect several of these songs to be awesome. The Killers are dope!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GJn2aeX-ZI

lol like you mean it

apparently "Spaceman" is a recurrent favorite on KROQ.

He really has moved into the "And now the new single from Howard Jones, 'Everlasting Love!'" phase of his career.

Sure it's not this HoJo song, Ned?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgxW0tBKqOw

When I first heard "Crossfire," I remarked on my twitter feed thusly:

"Congrats, Brandon Flowers. You're now the owner of John Parr's long-vacated solo career."

"Imagining Brandon sitting around saying "Can I commit fully to this 1985 thing I have going on?" Then a Tom Cochrane lp fell from the sky."

Did the other 3 guys want a vacation or something? I don't get why the next Killers album had to be marketed as a solo record.

I don't get why the next Killers album had to be marketed as a solo record.

and has leaked

and has been officially released

Caught a brief clip of another song on the radio last night and it sounded way better than the single. Mildly curious now, given my love for his main band.

HI I'M BRANDON FLOWERS

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f308/sotoalf/spin-brandon-flowers.jpg

children by the millions wait for brandon flowers to come around.

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, July 31, 2010 5:42 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

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so he has two album cover, here is the second one:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514knXUSUPL._SS500_.jpg

Looks like he's got plenty to think baout there.

UK tv spots for this have a voiceover which is meant to sound like yr typical american Rock FM DJ, spouting some real bs:

"Do you like this music? I love this music, it's become my favourite song....almost. Well I ermm, well I'm not gonna go into it, but you should go out and get it, that's my recommendation. It's the debut solo album from Brandon Flowers, who I love, he's my favourite singer, called 'Flamingo'. Wonderful album, Brandon Flowers, great singer, 'Flamingo', brilliant. Out now."

I was about to mention that advert - it sounds like it's actively supposed to be taking the piss.

I heard that, sounded like Jeff Goldblum? Sounding a little flustered after being unexpectedly told to gush about Brandon Flowers, for some reason.

http://i53.tinypic.com/23rrh4o.jpg

this song is still good

So many copies of this album were still on the racks in the final days of Borders "Going Out Of Business" sales in 2011.

hahaha. a lot but this track is solid

markers which of the ten songs on this album are you referring to

the picture of those four guys above is from the old cnn crossfire

so: crossfire

not sure if i've listened to anything else, and if i have it certainly wasn't the whole record. this was more of a thing i heard a lot in my car in 2010

I just watched the vid for "Only the Young", which it turns out I sorta know, altho I thought that was Chris Daughtry singing

video's kind of pretty in an overproduced/'cinematic' way. might hafta jack some of Flowers' lol-dancing moves next time I'm wearing a tux

he might be cuter now than he was when he sold records

xp okay "Crossfire" blows hard--I don't hear anything close to a hook, the lyrics are distractingly bad, the chorus starts like bad U2 & the piano makes me want to clean Coldplay's clocks

if it were still 2010 & this song were to come on at a place where I was drinking wine with my mom for some reason, she would probably describe it as a 'hot mess' & get angry if I suggested that the singer resembled Springsteen in any way, shape, or form

that being said, if someone can convince me that the song feat. Jenny Lewis is at all sexy, I might give that one a listen

"crossfire" was dope, markers otm

it's so weird when lead singers make solo records that are virtually indistinguishable from the band's sound while the band is still together, though

These lead singers want the satisfaction of paying people to do what you want

On the press run for this record Flowers made it sound like he was all ready to make a new Killers album and the other guys wanted to take a break and be with their families and stuff

is that what "Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts" is about

"Can't Deny My Love" is so good.

Insanely good.

Sounds like he really liked the Haim album.

I posited a bit ago that it sounds like a refugee from the soundtrack of 'The Lost Boys.' Also, he looks like he's doing a Glenn Frey impression on the sleeve art. I give a thumbs up to both of these things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDuVc2Wt18

yeah but you weren't posting often on the solo Eagles thread. You can't know the horror.

I could imagine it, which is why I steered clear.

i like this guy. he's handsome and has a workable schtick that transfers to different genres.

oh I thought this was the Ted Cruz thread

lol

80s fetishism has eaten itself, but if that's a bed you want to lie in, how can I deny your love

As played out as 80s revivalism is, this feels like one of the first times in a while that I've heard someone bring back the orchestral hit stab.

I think there's plenty of "cool eighties" revivalism/revisionism to go around (some of it good, some of it bad), but few people have brought back "not-cool eighties" styles and done it as great as this song. imago can say whatever, but this is a different kind of thing. Plenty of people have redone New Order. Not many have redone Mr. Mister.

it's too weird for 'whatever' - it's uncool 80s fetishism eating itself, hyperrealised & without sanity - i can understand the love - everything has been thrown in, then some more added just in case

I dunno, can one just appreciate the way songs sounded (new-at-the-time technology and production techniques) and were constructed (melodies, swells and flows and cadences) without wishing the world was the same place it was 30 years ago? I think so, because that's me. I don't consider it a fetish. I just consider it one of the ways I like songs to be written and how I like songs to sound. Don't pay attention to dopes in youtube comments who are always saying "music was never as good as it was when I was in high school!" That's bullshit. There always has been and always will be good music. But I think it's a perfectly legitimate practice to pull from one sound of one time to expand on what was added to music in general when that style was brand new. Nobody bags on jazz dudes or composers who do this. People only have a problem when it's framed inside pop music.

^^ Nice post, JF.

this song (and the whole new album) is produced by ariel rechtshaid so yeah Kitchen Person is otm about the haim sound

i like this a fair bit though, surprised it isn't getting more hype

He spent a year recording the album in Vegas and L.A. with producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Vampire Weekend). They ended up calling in guest appearances from Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Haim's Danielle Haim, as well as session hands including Joey Waronker, Kenny Aronoff and Bruce Hornsby, who plays on two tracks. "Nobody plays piano like him," Flowers says of Hornsby. "There's a particular emotion that he conjures up, which I associate with being a teenager."

Another song samples U.K. synth-pop act Bronski Beat's 1984 hit "Smalltown Boy." Flowers' favorite tune at the moment is the dramatic "Still Want You." "It's fun," he says. "The chorus goes, 'Crime is on the rise, I still want you/Climate change is dead, I still want you/Nuclear distress, I still want you/Earth is heating up, I still want you/Hurricanes and floods, I still want you. . .' I love that chorus."

new track released today
https://youtu.be/jcZ-0o53md8

er,
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omg someone please ban me from this website

way better than the last one

the last one was idea driving-drunk-in-the-afternoon fare

That's Liv from The Vampire Diaries!

Also, "Still Want You" is great, roughly equal to the new song for me, though not as good as CDML obv

Yeah, I still prefer CDML, but this one is quite nice. Love the horns.

I want a "Lonely Town" cassingle now.

On first listen, more mid-tempo Brandon Flowers/Killers stuff isn't very promising. The use of the word "Gravitron" over and over again is the best part. He should make an album about county fairs. That seems like something he would be good at. I would enjoy that very much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRewzFp8XE4

this rules

really rocking that bronski beat sample

"Smalltown Boy" sample!

I love that brief Neil Tennant cameo.

Heard it on the Swiss radio, hard not to dig the sample

aoty

streaming on itunes radio here

omg

the stream isn't working for some reason (and also for many other stations)

oh and lol that link is bad. *shakes fist* itunes

can't listen in itunes but glad to hear it's good, been waiting for either he or the Killers to make a front-to-back strong record

yeah this is the most consistent thing he's done

(and i've convinced myself to love every song on battle born)

okay it's working now

"between me and you" destroyed me

i feel so attacked by this album i'm crying

i made it through "i can change" i don't know how but now "never get you right" is happening and i'm gonna pass out

same

i'm gonna just lie down and die with "between me + you" on repeat

you guys

i listened to this record five times today

AND THERE'S A POWER IN LETTING GO

Is the stream still available? I can't find it.

i'm listening to it (obsessively) here: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/95794596.html

"I Can Change" = only the second best song to bite Bronski Beat, but still amazing

oof shame about that last song, but otherwise great record

the first song mentions highways and dogs and fleas and I almost threw the computer across the room

he still sounds like he studied Springsteen's "Darlington County" like a hieroglyph.

not wild about "Diggin' Up the Heart" but otherwise this sounds really good

the first song mentions highways and dogs and fleas and I almost threw the computer across the room

baby it's a dreamland

going to see him in august and I am already excited and ahhhhh

this is a good album and man alive he still sounds like he rues the day his Mormon god made him straight

interested in producing a ballet set to this album

i can't stop listening to "never get you right", my lord

I have to review this officially and am literally trembling w/anticipation.

This album is far better than I would have expected it to be, probably better than it has any right to be.

"between me and you" is fantastic, wow

the album would be a fraction better if the title track were the closer

there's even a lyric about dogs and bones

"Diggin' Up the Heart" is the best Kenny Loggins tribute in years

Diggin' Up the Heart is my favorite after a cursory listen

so I reviewed it: http://www.spin.com/2015/05/review-brandon-flowers-the-desired-effect/?utm_source=share-fb&utm_medium=button

pitchfork is dumb #535980982743

must admit I LOLed at the bruce springsteen ebooks zing

p4k's committed to a hard stance of dismissing the killers/flowers (which tbf was understandable in numerous instances), so they're not gonna walk back on that now, regardless of the fact that if twin shadow had released this album it'd be BNMed 0 to 100 real quick

also funny that the hyperlink to their 5.2 review of hot fuss happens to use the text "still-terrific debut album"

anyhoo, liked this a lot, didn't really expect to, song construction and production are great, his voice is made for this sappy synth-crooner shit, the lyrics are silly at best/atrocious at worst but it doesn't really damage the songs' overall effect

this album is great

next up please: brandon flowers/daniel lopatin collab

...because you want to make something real. You want to make a Phil Collins record.

i'm into this

This album is wonderful. Still Want You is my current favourite. Those backing vocals in the second verse are just everything.

"between me and you" destroyed me

― j. winters (josh), Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:05 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm gonna just lie down and die with "between me + you" on repeat

― uberweiss, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 7:11 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AND THERE'S A POWER IN LETTING GO

― uberweiss, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 8:23 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

i had just texted those lyrics to my sister in all caps then came here to post them and saw uberweiss had things under control.

http://i61.tinypic.com/28hpobp.jpg

I go see the man tonight!

listened to "Can't Deny My Love" for the first time since early May

Love "Lonely Town", especially the middle section " do you hear the thud when I fall" etc. The whole record is ace

<autotune>
now i'm standing
outside your house

mr veg was on board with the new album on paper - we listened to it in the car & as I'm
swooning & flailing he says "Its uh, a bit ~dancier~ than I thought"

:D

<autotune>
now i'm standing
outside your house

I was weirded out by that injection of autotune at first but I think without it that part just sounds too creepy

I can bend
I can break
I can shift
I can shape
Blaze a trail through the driving rain
Girl, I can change for you
I can change for you

GUYS IT WAS SO GOOD

did he dance

1) I haven't danced that much at a show in a long time.
2) He's such a good frontman*
3) At one point he said that it was the part of the show where the audience could chose a cover from a couple they'd been rehearing. He started to list off the covers and for the first he said, "A great song called "Don't Change" by INXS" which received p much no reaction from anyone in the crowd except me who literally yelp/screamed and jumped with excitement (which made people turn around and stare at me) because that's one of the best songs ever. Sadly, they didn't play that or any of the others he listed but opted for an older song instead. I'd prob have passed out if they had done it so it's ok.
4) He did a cover of a Buster Poindexter Song.
5) Did I mention that he was totally fucking amazing and engaging and great?

x-post - Oh yes he did. He is the cutest dancer!

*I'm sure I've probably told this before somewhere on here but I saw The Killers open up for Stellastarr* at the Electric Ballroom in London in 2004 a couple months before Hot Fuss was released. I had no idea who they were at the time but after watching them I said, "Whoever that band is they're going to be huge - the lead singer was fucking amazing.". It's the only time I've ever been blown away by an opening act I had never even heard of. A couple months later they were on the cover of the NME etc and I was like holy shit it's that dude!

at what point did he take his clothes off?

xp yeah i saw them on that tour too, i remember thinking they felt like a one-song band (that song being 'mr brightside') but they definitely had a special ~something~ (unlike e.g. stellastarr*)

x-post - Sadly never. He really is so beautiful. Gah.

Anyway, Al, he probably wears the magic mormon underpants ;_;.

Though I'm not sure how they'd fit under jeans that tight. huh.

he can change!

lol!

3) At one point he said that it was the part of the show where the audience could chose a cover from a couple they'd been rehearing. He started to list off the covers and for the first he said, "A great song called "Don't Change" by INXS" which received p much no reaction from anyone in the crowd except me who literally yelp/screamed and jumped with excitement (which made people turn around and stare at me) because that's one of the best songs ever. Sadly, they didn't play that or any of the others he listed but opted for an older song instead. I'd prob have passed out if they had done it so it's ok.

Appear's he's played it at other gigs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtPIUsYHFA

(unlike e.g. stellastarr*)

I always get a simultaneous feeling of LOL/AWW! whenever someone brings up Stellastar*.

holy shit i just peed my pants a little

he even sounds a little like Michael fuuuuck

now if only he would strip off a la Hutchence we'd be getting somewhere

omg omg

Ban the audience at ENBB's Brandon Flowers show. What a bunch of doofs.

right!?

he should have been all "that one cool gal is otm, i will play this for her & the rest of you are fired"

lol YES

joined by Tennant and Lowe behind synths

something about Ariel Rechtshaid's production/mixing bugs me. pretty harsh. Haim/Sky/Flowers albums can't really be cranked too loud.

Ban the audience at ENBB's Brandon Flowers show. What a bunch of doofs.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right!?

he should have been all "that one cool gal is otm, i will play this for her & the rest of you are fired"

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol YES

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aw, you guys are cute. And OTM. ;)

Thanks for the link, GP. I wound up finding that last night and swooning a little. Dreamy.

I had therapy last night and I told my therapist that I'd gone to the show and she was like, "You're the fifth person I've seen today that has mentioned being there last night!". So weird.

Also, fwiw, I still really like the 1st Stellastarr*'s first album.

Love the Cure shout-out that kicks off the album, like 'oh, you wanna talk about the 80s?'.