The Killers - "Bones"

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Still haven't heard the album, but I like this more than the first single (video is horrible, tho).

I take your thoughts on THE NEW KILLERS SINGLE.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

That's the video at the drive in movie & such?

It's tuneful.

― BIG HOOS aka the cabdriver (hoosteen), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The synth-horns are as awful as the video.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

yes the synth horns are horrendous...this after that fucking awful string section on the first track...the first record was bad but this one is somehow even worse....surely the band themselves don't suggest those ridiculous production quirks in every track.....

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the synth horns; it's like Andrew W.K. I don't see how the Killers could possibly work as a less cartoonish entity.

― Tim Ellison is number one proponent of Beatle!!!Mania!!! on nu-ILX (tim ellison), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I was listening the Chameleons “Up the Down Escalator” in my car last week and I couldn’t help but be reminded of the Killers at certain points. They certainly have their differences but I also think they're one of the bands that the Killers sound like they're copying the most at times.

― Bizarro Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

And very very badly at that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Dolby et Decorum est...

― Johnny Cash Rules Everything Around Me (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

This song grew on me after I was initially completely repulsed by it, which I realized recently is an apt description of my relationship with almost every Killers single.

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck the haters, the synth horns are ace.

I loathe the vid, through.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the one track on the album I absolutely can't stand and always skip to the next track. When those horns start is about the moment when I skip.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone heard australian band Eskimo Joe's recent stuff (like "Black Fingernails, Red Wine")? It's a lot like the Killers' recent stuff except people don't think of it is as cartoonish at all.

And yet i totally think of the Killers as cartoonish.

Odd.

― Tim F (Tim F), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"When You Were Young" ended up as my number-two single of the year, and "Read My Mind" would have been a superb followup. Alas.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't you want to come with me?
Don't you want to feel my bones on your bones? It's only natural.
Don't you want to swim with me?
Don't you want to feel my skin on your skin? It's only natural.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The video kinda sucks but I have to say, Tim Burton's CGI skeletons do a pretty good job of mimicking Brandon Flowers' incredibly awkward bodily movements.

― Al (Alex In Baltimore), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

bling (confessions of a king) should have been the single

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Funny that they got Tim Burton to direct the video, and the song reminds me of latter-day Oingo Boingo.

― Phil Freeman (unperson), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember hearing this at one of their warm-up gigs, thinking it would make an excellent single, then being totally befuddled when I heard the album version. I still haven't gotten comfortable with the synth horns or the Queen-y gang vox parts yet.

― Baron Von Jigglesworth (Baron Von Jigglesworth), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the 'latin' touches to this (e.g. the bit before the chorus), a bit. video concept is boring 7 years after 'Hey Boy Hey Girl'.

― sede vacante (blueski), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

now wondering if The Killers could've written a better (or just synthier and more bombastic) version of The Strokes 'Whatever Happened To...' like what I'm hearing in my head.

― sede vacante (blueski), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

am i imagining this or are there some european techno remixes of this?

― djh (djh), Thursday, 28 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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