[Bruce Wang]

"The Man" is awful.  Hopefully there are some better songs on it.

The remix of The Man is better, but sad to report that that's better than the rest of the album (only listened once).

A couple tracks from Brandon Flowers's last album are as good as the better Killers songs, and much better than his first solo effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX5fAb76r-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUBOadQZYR4

I recently had this epiphany that Arcade Fire, The Killers, and The Black Keys are the 3 biggest and best active rock bands of the 2000s, meaning their first commercial release (single, EP, or LP came out after Dec 31, 1999 as measured on a 2 x 2 matrix with commercial success on one dimension and critical success on the other dimension.  I recently saw Arcade Fire (who I would contend is the biggest and best of those 3 though I personally like The Killers more).  Great band especially live, but they could not fill half an arena.  Tells you something about the state of rock music.

[Bruce Wang]

"The Man" is awful.  Hopefully there are some better songs on it.

The remix of The Man is better, but sad to report that that's better than the rest of the album (only listened once).

A couple tracks from Brandon Flowers's last album are as good as the better Killers songs, and much better than his first solo effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX5fAb76r-U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUBOadQZYR4

I recently had this epiphany that Arcade Fire, The Killers, and The Black Keys are the 3 biggest and best active rock bands of the 2000s, meaning their first commercial release (single, EP, or LP came out after Dec 31, 1999 as measured on a 2 x 2 matrix with commercial success on one dimension and critical success on the other dimension.  I recently saw Arcade Fire (who I would contend is the biggest and best of those 3 though I personally like The Killers more).  Great band especially live, but they could not fill half an arena.  Tells you something about the state of rock music.