originality?

He only wants to make music for everybody ... That always means extreme originality is involved ... Just kidding, I don't care who he is and I don't listen to music for everybody ...

Why am I Here typing this ! Ahhhhhhhh !

I have seen The Killers open for Morrissey- and they put on a great show!

I was right there when the equipment caught on fire at the House of Blues in Chicago- and I got Brandon's bottled water (Ice Mountain, btw).

Their debut album is great, but I must confess I find the entire album tedious to listen to in it's entirety-

They have great potential- but something is missing- does anyone else feel the same way???

Brandon's stage presence could be a bit more animated, too???

Always-

Ken Stavitzke

The Killers rocked live, and Moz only allows bands that he likes to open for him.

Missed the pyrotechnic version of their show though...

has anyone else heard their cover of "Why dont you find out for yourself" It's wicked.

For me, the Killers are at the top of the list of bands that should spend less time name-dropping and more time actually learning from their professed idols.

For the moment, I'll put aside the general alt-shlock quality of their music (Matchbox 20 with an electronic edge, or Prodigy's easy-listening alter ego, if you prefer). What strikes me is that, if they're genuinely into Morrissey, wouldn't his work have impressed upon them the value of putting anything-- wit, social commentary, a fleeting moment of effort-- into their lyrics? It's hard to see how anyone could really care about Morrissey's music, and refer to it so frequently, and then turn around to lazily slop out so many songs that say absolutely nothing at all.

They really don't have a single lyric that couldn't have been written by an especially dull 15 year old in the process of teaching himself English with a rhyming dictionary. Am I forgetting about Mr. Flowers' fascinating tale of somebody telling him that someone else's boyfriend looks like a girl, which then leads him to the conclusion that "it's not confidential, I've got potential?" No, it's just that it's achingly stupid, like all of their output.

There is nothing in any of their songs, or interviews, or the millions of magazine spreads that have been put forth to market them, that indicates that they have ever spent more than 5 seconds thinking about anything beyond how to best get into heavy rotation on MTV and Clear Channel. Though it's hard to pinpoint what exactly is so incomplete and unsatisfying about their music, I think the problem in large part emanates from this core defect.

Don't get me wrong, though, they do have some very nice outfits.