It’s the one someone has been waiting for, probably…
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Hillary Brown: Take that, Chris Martin!
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Anthony Easton: It would be inappropriate to masturbate to the image of Flowers crucified, and being water-boarded by ninjas, wouldn’t it? Because it’s a pretty hot image. Silly song, overwrought video, his drama is taking over his obv. skills, but hot.
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Martin Skidmore: People seem to work up some interest in his clothes and opinions, but I am mystified why anyone would care about the music of the Killers, let alone this solo debut. It drones along with some skill in a kind of sub-U2 half-assed epic mode, and I cannot imagine ever caring less about any single.
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David Raposa: If you’ve ever wondered what a Bono solo album (pre-Joshua Tree) might’ve sounded like, you need to think about different things.
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Al Shipley: Usually lead singers don’t make solo records this musically indistinguishable from his or her group’s sound unless they’ve already broken up. It ain’t bad, but when Rob Thomas is taking more chances than you, something’s wrong.
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Jonathan Bogart: He needed to go solo in order to turn the keyboards levels down?
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Alfred Soto: The only dream I hoped would break “the boundaries of our fear” was Flowers cutting the disco-punk album the Scissor Sisters have lost the knack for. But here he is again, breaking bread with Bono, hoping his blessing will turn Train into wine.
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Jonathan Bradley: “You’re keeping secrets on your pillow”: I see Brandon Flowers has been to the St. Bono Vox School of Songwriting. Too bad he dropped out before class turned its attention to writing choruses. This is a flimsy bore of a song, and I’d accuse it of having only the veneer of the Killers’ romantic, Sam’s Town-era Americana, except even a veneer needs something beneath it. “Crossfire” is more like the papery refuse a snake leaves behind after it sheds its skin: recognizable for what it once contained but obviously bereft of life.
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Kat Stevens: This would fit very well in Mum’s Best Driving Tunes In The World…Ever! — hummable steering-wheel-tapping tune but not likely to make you get done for speeding.
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Doug Robertson: Wow. It turns out that the members of The Killers who aren’t actually Brandon Flowers actually do make a difference. Who’da thought?
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