Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Our thoughts on the new The Killers single

The new The Killers single 'Human' is old news already. You've may have already heard it and read all sorts of interesting things about it before now.

But here are our contributions to the return of the apparently moustache free Brandon Flowers (and friends).

1. Wow. It's quite danceable. We anticipate remixes.
2. 'Human' is basically 'Read My Mind' (the greatest Killers single of all time) re-done with big eighties bits all over the place.
3. It's probably the third best single The Killers have released.
3. Does Brandon Flowers know where his voice is going or does he just open his mouth and hope for the best?
4. 'Are we human, or are we dancer' does not make a whole lot of sense. 'And I'm on my knees looking for the answers' is the best part of the song, melodically speaking.
5. There is probably less in the way of a narrative than in say, 'When You Were Young'.
7. We wonder how it will stand up in live alongside the likes of 'Mr Brightside' and 'All These Things That I've Done'.
8. Stuart Price is very good at producing records.
9. We will listen to Seal's Stuart Price produced single 'Amazing' later today.
10. We wonder if this would have been the first single if it hadn't been produced by Stuart Price?

Make up your own mind. For us, it's brilliance didn't really kick in until five or six listens and we then went back and changed the above words 'fifth best single' to the words 'third best single'.

The Killers 'Human'

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