Saturday, May 02, 2009

"I wanna breathe that fire again"

I purchased Hot Fuss the summer of 2004 a few weeks after it hit the shelves. I'd heard Somebody Told Me on the radio probably two or three times and knew that was music I would enjoy. I remember blasting Jenny Was a Friend of Mine that whole summer. Man I loved that song. I think I had the short-lived, hood-won't open Acura that summer...While I thought the album was amazing, I kind of expected the Killers to ultimately go the way of some of my other impulse buys...enjoy the album for awhile and don't even bother with the follow-up (James Blunt anybody?). Little did I know that 5 years later, I'd be enjoying every song of a concert. The Killers continue to impress. While Sam's Town wasn't my cup of tea as much as the other albums, what a fantastic show in Columbus on that tour...Terrific. And Sawdust and Day and Age are more great albums -- Sawdust which is really just a collection of b-sides, yet a handful of some of their best songs mixed in. All this to say, a fun show in Indy tonight. I can only hope the Killers continue to impress for another decade or so. I think a nice collection of 7 or 8 albums would be enough to allow us to ride of in the sunset never growing tired of the music.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

why didn't you write about them autographing shannon's @+#s

Philip Patrie said...

I would have let them sign my Charlie Browns and Linus.