Re: The Kills - Midnight Boom (2008).

by Nightjar Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:03 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It's tracks like this that make you realise how much talent they have.

by Guest Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:04 pm

And when the blood begins to flow…

by Nightjar Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:05 pm

Y'know The Velvet Underground weren't that good either.

by Nightjar Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:05 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:And when the blood begins to flow…

Was it... Coca Cola? hmm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:08 pm

It is over.

That was an interesting album that. for the most part, doesn't quite work. It feels like a duo still trying to find themselves before finally unleashing their full awesomeness on their next album Blood Pressures. That Jamie Hince is a great guitarist and Alison Mosshart is a great vocalist was only allowed to show through intermittently.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:09 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Guest Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:10 pm

Nightjar wrote:Y'know The Velvet Underground weren't that good either.

I was thinking of doing a Doug Yule era VU album for this very feature whatever

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:11 pm

Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It's tracks like this that make you realise how much talent they have.

Let's just remember that, within 3 years of releasing that album, they were making music as perfect as this:

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:12 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It's tracks like this that make you realise how much talent they have.

Let's just remember that, within 3 years of releasing that album, they were making music as perfect as this:

Warning! Video contains budgies! dontpanic

by Guest Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:14 pm

I gave it 3 too.

I wasn't that engaged to be honest. But it wasn't bad as that sort of thing goes. It was just a bit meat and potatoes alt-rock. (sic)

by Nightjar Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:19 pm

Woah!

That was hella hard work.

Not in the sense that it was musically challenging of course.

Instead, just, how can a relatively contemporary band get away with such astonishingly lazy, unoriginal, affected tripe, without at least one person in the media calling their bluff?

The whole thing reeked of a kind of inside-job industry take on cool aimed at ~~pasties~~ patsies, dimwits, pudgy critics chasing the coat-tails of an acne-blighted youth that spanned the various cool and uncool musical/cultural phases of Post-War history and culture in a decidedly uncool way.

And also... imbeciles.

It even had this Kate Moss connection.

Good grief!

Absolute sh*t.

They deserve to be trapped - Huis Clos style - in their fake budget motel room for all eternity to reflect on their cynically crap-Satan marketing strategy.

by Nightjar Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:22 pm

I didn't like it is what I am basically saying.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:33 pm

Nightjar wrote:And also... imbeciles.

It even had this Kate Moss connection.

Good grief!

Absolute sh*t.

They deserve to be trapped - Huis Clos style - in their fake budget motel room for all eternity to reflect on their cynically crap-Satan marketing strategy.

Nightjar wrote:Well...

Hmm...

Well.

That was hearteningly good.

A strong sense of band-identity and a confident, almost casual, songwriting commitment to it.

Actually, genuinely good.

I will listen to it again.

I can't give a record I've never heard before a better review.

https://hallofthewendigo.forumotion.com/t1091p120-the-kills-blood-pressures-2011

hmn

by Nightjar Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:46 pm

I did have a feeling that there was a limited amount of bands about with the word kill in them.

I did think that this was the same band, but couldn't believe it because it was backwards etc...

by Nightjar Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:47 pm

PS - I never listened to it again.

by Nightjar Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:50 pm

I think that I've had them mixed up with the band described (by Wendigans) as being a hideous.

Two blokes.

One with the face of like a tombstone.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:01 pm

In fairness, I do think Blood Pressures is head and shoulders above this one. For some reason, with that album, they suddenly blossomed in a way they couldn't have been expected to.

The stuff Alison Mosshart has been knocking out on her own, at home, in lockdown is superior to anything on this album.

by Guest Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:12 pm

Nightjar wrote:I think that I've had them mixed up with the band described (by Wendigans) as being a hideous.

Two blokes.

One with the face of like a tombstone.

The Kills - Midnight Boom (2008). - Page 6 MVA92095

by Guest Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:16 pm

The Killers?

Oh that's me that always get them confused.

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