The Killers - Pressure Machine (8.13.21) Album • Page 23

Dustland and what

 

Neon Tiger?

 

Listen to Battle Born also if you haven’t before, it’s very much the practice run for ItM. It’s like Wonderful Wonderful was a detour they took after Battle Born and then made the real follow up to that record with ItM.

 

just an absolutely insane take

 

dustland and spaceman, surely??

good pitch but Sam's Town still has WYWY and read my mind on it so I'm sorry but I will fight you here

 

Own Souls Warning and Caution also have a better shot at both being top 5 for me

But yeah Sam's Town

 

Yeah like there are at least five songs on Sam’s Town alone better than anything on D&A, let alone all the great tracks from other albums

 

i really agree with this

still no fuckin clue why ppl hate battle born

 

Yeah me neither (speaking as someone who has only heard it as of this weekend lol). I was grabbed immediately from Flesh and Bone all the way to the end. The title track owns. The two bonus tracks on the deluxe edition are great too.

 

it'd be Soul's Warning and Dreams Run Dry from that album for me, but they may have been knocked down by all the fucking phenomenal songs on Pressure Machine lol. gonna have to see how time changes things, but I feel like I'm just going to love PM more and more

 

The Cars worship on the ItM title track puts it up there for me in terms of song I love most

 

Yep, mystifies me to this day.

 

Dreams Run Dry is right there for me too

In The Car Outside is becoming the standout from this for me but it's just much harder for me to isolate the standouts just cause of the consistency of PM haha


Also Battle Born is great and the fact that I've seen people rank it last is baffling

 

One of my absolute favorite Killers songs is “This Is Your Life”, I’d be curious to hear what you’re favorites are!

I’ve always been a fan of Day & Age. I feel like people just really really were not expecting that album after Sam’s Town lol

 

I’m not the only one that loves “The Rising Tide” right???

Eh, even if I am that’s ok. Love that song. One of my favorites by the band.

 

That song owns. One of Dave's coolest guitar solos, IMO.

 

Super nit picky but in terms of their discography I really dislike that they have the word “bone” in three songs across three different albums lol

“Bones” from Sam’s Town (with, I gotta be honest, maybe the dorkiest music video I’ve ever seen)

“Flesh and Bone” from Battle Born

“Fire in Bone” from ITM

 

Great track. Really good sequencing decision to put it right after Miss Atomic Bomb (a great ballad) too imo.

 

@Craig Manning have you written a review for this album yet? Looking forward to reading it!

 

I think the pitchfork review has some valid points in that this album heavily invokes the opioid crisis but is ultimately like “what if the mountains were in your backyard tho?”. Feels like getting hung up on something minor tho. The songwriting here is so good and to diminish it to “they didn’t make the one point i wanted them to” is textbook lazy
journalism

 

I was actually just working on it! Hopefully will get something done and ready to post by the middle of this week.

 

That PF review also made it sound like they'd been sacrificing songwriting to write anthems like they've been writing Imagine Dragons songs the last few years or something

 

The PF writer is so much more removed than BF who effing grew up there! That’s what makes it such a shitty thing for them to say

 

I feel like if they went “macro level” as far as addressing rural life issues then there would be a review whining about how they didn’t do the album as a relationship / micro level lol

I never understand any write up where the piece of art gets chirped at for being what it’s not / the opposite of what it is. “The new Foxing record has a more pop sound / vibe! I wish it was all acoustics and harmonicas!” ok but it’s not, so review what it is not what you wished it was

 

My take was half in jest. But if I had to rank them based on my own self-stated premise:

1. A Dustland Fairytale
2. All These Things
3. Read My Mind
4. My Own Soul’s Warning OR Caution
5. Spaceman

It’s a cop out to not include Mr. Brightside. That’s a song I just don’t listen to intentionally because I love it and it’s still not overplayed for me. But as a result, it never comes up on my very favorite Killers songs, even though it is.

As for the other records: I can live without anything on WW and even BB. I LOVE songs on those records but not enough to boot anything else off. PM is still far too new. And then on the other records, WYWY and Sam’s Town are close, as are Jenny, Smile and Change Your Mind. Hell, same with Human and This Is Your Life.