The Killers

Brandon Flowers (vocals/keyboards), David Keuning (guitar), Mark Stoermer (bass), and Ronnie Vannucci (drums) are the four who make up the band, The Killers. They took the fashionista pop world by storm in summer 2004 with "Somebody Told Me." The perfectly stylish song pulls from the band's influences -- the Smiths, New Order, Oasis, and the Cure -- and it was just enough to get them on MTV. Part new wave and part new-millennium post-punk, this Las Vegas foursome originally got together in 2002.

Flowers had left behind his former synth pop band, Blush Response, when he noticed a classified ad in the local newspaper placed by Keuning. Both of them were huge Oasis fans, and within weeks the two composed their soon-to-be cult hit, "Mr. Brightside." Stoermer, a former medical courier, and Vannucci, a classical percussion major at UNLV, soon joined the fray that became the Killers.

Their first album, "Hot Fuss", is packed-full with eleven songs, including songs such as "Somebody Told Me", "All These Things I've Done", and the classis hit, "Mr. Brightside". Along with these songs are also two others- "Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine" and "Midnight Show"- that make a three part murder trilogy.

The first part of the trilogy, "Leave The Bourbon On The Shelf" is suspected to make an appearance at some point in the future. You'll find two-thirds of the trilogy in "Midnight Show", which starts off harking back to "Lipgloss" before veering into far darker territory than old Jarvis would ever have flirted with, in Pulp days at least, and "Jenny". These two are connected by the story of a murder of a girl by her jealous boyfriend ("There was water involved," says Brandon, cryptically, "although he didn't drown her"). The third song, Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine", is all about Jenny's boyfriend being detained and questioned for her death. The murder trilogy is said to be turned into a 25 minute movie, as the band is already making decisions as to who will take part in the acting.

"Hot Fuss", released on June 15th 2005, was followed by the limited edition with the folowing songs: "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll", "The Ballad Of Micheal Valentine", and "Under The Gun". In 2006 of October, the band released their latest album, "Sam's Town" which in Brandon Flowers opinion, depicts a positive image of America.

Albums by The Killers

Direct Hits

2013 · 16 tracks

Mr Brightside

Battle Born

2012 · 15 tracks

Battle Born

Christmas Ep

2011 · 3 tracks

Happy Birthday Guadalupe

The Twilight Saga - New Moon Soundtrack

2009 · 1 tracks

A White Demon Love Song

Day And Age

2008 · 13 tracks

Human

Sawdust

2007 · 17 tracks

Questions With The Captain

Sam's Town

2006 · 13 tracks

When You Were Young

Hot Fuss

2004 · 14 tracks

Mr. Brightside

N/A

2004 · 21 tracks

Change Your Mind

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Guest 9th Oct 2009, 21:44h

this song is crazy but i beat it on EXPERT!!!! HIGH FIVE!! anyone?

Guest 18th Apr 2009, 14:00h

Oh my gosh, I rock at this song on GH3.... Its pretty INSANE on expert. But I eventually learned it. Now Im stuck on "Thru The Fire And The Flames" Holy cow that song is hard..... :o

Guest 19th Aug 2008, 1:14h

Maybe you went over the maximum allowed characters. I will check it out (because that shouldn't be there... X-))

Guest 15th Aug 2008, 23:24h

Oh? D=
Lol, well my review was nothing special at least, so I'm good :p Just the usual "I can't wait for the new album" and "oh em gee brandon shaved." :F My review for Sawdust had been cut in half, too, but I had copied it before I posted :S

Guest 14th Aug 2008, 16:48h

Weird, weird, really weird...
And to think I have seen my share of weird.

Guest 14th Aug 2008, 11:35h

I dunno! D:

Guest 12th Aug 2008, 11:03h

Aaah! That's new... Never heard it before. What did you do?! ;-)

Guest 12th Aug 2008, 1:02h

D: My review was cut in half :[

Guest 12th Aug 2008, 1:01h

I haven't heard any of the new songs either, though someone gave me the youtube links. But I can't wait until the release date

Guest 11th Aug 2008, 13:08h

Yet another album.. It's going to be quite expensive to keep up with! I haven't heard any of the new songs, but I definitely will.
They really are one of my favourite bands.

Guest 17th Jun 2008, 4:50h

To be honest: I like them!

Guest 31st Jan 2008, 1:40h

i also like all these things that i've done alot.

Guest 31st Jan 2008, 1:37h

omg! i frikin love the killers! i love mr. brightside, when you were young and somebody told me especially. THE KILLERS ROCK!

Guest 23rd Jan 2008, 17:06h

i effing love the killers especially their songs shadowplay and somebody told me

Guest 14th Dec 2007, 4:38h

the killers are like.... kick ass, and i don't think they're homicidal or suicidal lol are they?

Guest 13th Dec 2007, 1:05h

To be truly honest, what you just said makes no sense to me what so ever.

What ARE you trying to say? I get that you don't like this band, but where are you getting all these suicidal/people who kill/jackass/wierdos - crap? Sorry, but I'm finding
these statements of yours to be rather asinine.

If you dont like them, you don't like them. At least make your review clear as to why not... i.e. their sound, the lyrics, music, what their music portrays, etc. It's really not that hard to make a decent
review, darling.

As for me, Brandon may have a bit of an ego, but I do enjoy their interesting lyrics with some twists here and there. They may not be THE best band of all time (although, that depends on everyone else's personal opinion), but they're
my favorite band as it stands.

Despite Brandon's seemingly prissy, egotistical appearance, those traits alone don't represent the band as a whole. Mark's bass (which became more prominant to me in"Sawdust") combined with Dave's guitar work fairly good.
Of course, I think it's Brandon's vocals that that appeal to me the most... It reminds me of Robert Smith's unique voice.

Even though I haven't liked every song that they've recored, I enjoy most of them due to the concepts and the atmosphere that's
created.

And excuse me for being stubborn, but I must comment on the fact that you say you're tired of them. Really, they don't get too much publicity. I can understand if it's an overplayed song here and there such as "When You Were Young." As much
as I do like that song, I'm quite sick of hearing it on the radio station I listen to the most, along with it continuously being on the top ten (on this site, mind you.) ...Personally, I think they have better songs than that.

Guest 10th Dec 2007, 0:12h

If you're so curious, find out for yourself, love.

Guest 8th Dec 2007, 12:19h

Well, why do they like to call themselves "The Killers" then?

Guest 7th Dec 2007, 20:39h

And on another note:

Who ever said they killed? I suggest you learn the origin of where they got their name.

Guest 7th Dec 2007, 20:38h

Charwello, must you always so crude?

It's a matter of opinon. Obviously you don't like them, but others do. Insulting people like that is unnecessary.

No offense, but The Killers seem to be more normal than you--at least have more intellect,
anyway. Maybe you should think before you type, love.

Reading your incessantly annoying comments is getting to be old.


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