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Before I die, I hope to meet someone who truly believes side-B cuts like “Andy, You’re a Star” and “Midnight Show” are the heart of Hot Fuss rather than proof of the Killers’ debut being one of the most laughably lopsided albums of the past two decades. Writing for Clash, Robin Murray gave the album a positive review, but noted that it was too soon for a career-spanning release: "Charting the long rise of a true pop phenomenon, Direct Hits is almost dragged under by the weight of the band’s success – each song simply feels too fresh, too well known to warrant the archival. At least on “When You Were Young”, their Springsteen ambitions were charming: you can spot the baldfaced “Born to Run” rip in the descending chord changes and the “Thunder Road” iconography, though Flowers’ honking vocals often make it sound more like the most compact Meat Loaf song ever written. But a Greatest Hits collection is supposed to surprise you with the familiar, to tease out how many songs from a certain band you’ve heard in the wild and make you think “wow, I didn’t realize that was all them.

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Regarding the album's release, vocalist Brandon Flowers noted, "This record feels like a great way to clean everything up and move onto the next thing. Update 11/11/13 – The DVD has been dropped from this deluxe edition – it is now only a single CD with the three bonus tracks.Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Some people maybe wouldn't do so much for a 'Best of', but I was introduced to a lot of music from bands' 'Best ofs', from Elton John to The Cars to Otis Redding, Johnny Cash. They topped a night of Coachella back in 2009, but it was a sparsely attended weekend that stood as the festival's bottoming out. Regarding its inclusion, Flowers noted, "With 20/20 hindsight, this song probably should've been a single.

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It encapsulates a decade of releases, taking singles and hits from all four of the bands studio LPs. But soon thereafter, it wasn’t enough to hear Bono and Chris Martin drop “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier” in their live shows as a kind of torch-sharing.

So I always have conversations with Brandon [Flowers] about working from a smaller palette, simplifying things. Somebody Told Me” was certainly catchy, though their libido wasn’t remotely believable even if you didn’t know they were Mormons. There was a dissonance between what many listeners wanted out of the Killers and how the Killers saw themselves. This repeats the content of the standard CD+DVD deluxe edition, and adds a unique collection of 5 x 10″ vinyl records featuring all the singles on the album.

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On August 4, 2017 It was announced that Dave Keuning had left The Killers after 15 years with the band. The plural moniker generated a tentative association with the Strokes or the Vines, who were already signaling the commercial obsolescence of the "New Rock Revival. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. But we have our engineer, and we're working with a couple of surprise guests, in the producer capacity. I remember falling on my ass during ' Jenny Was a Friend of Mine', but NME gave the show a positive review, and that really helped to launch us.Vinyl reissue of the greatest hits album from the legendary indie-rockers The Killers, originally released in 2013, providing an awesome insight of their adored music for fans anew and old. This pattern would be repeated three times over and as the years accrued, we fantasized of “Human” or “Runaways” being extracted from their vestigial incubators and collected on a Greatest Hits record that would be amazing.