Comments on: Brandon Flowers Feels Contained by Nirvana, Led Zeppelin

By: FlowerGirl

FlowerGirl — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:53:09 +0000

I really don’t understand why everyone is so damn pissy about Brandon’s comments. So he wants to do better than past bands, so what?! And why do people care that he has an ego, so far I would say he has earned it!!

Please shut the fuck up about his comments being disrespectful, they WEREN’T!!!!!!!!!!!

By: KillersLOVER

KillersLOVER — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:03:15 +0000

First of all, by reading little excerpts from the actual interview you are NOT getting the whole story. The author has only posted the parts of the interview that make the exact people Flowers is talking about angry.That would be the first 2 individuals that responded to this article. The author was obviously looking for this type of response.
Secondly, what’s so great about those bands anyway?? The fact that the lead singers are dead??? Apparently the only way to get put on a pedestal is to kill yourself with drugs or blow your brains out!
The Killers are a talented band, Flowers’ lyrics are genius. Take the time, have a listen. And don’t give me that crap about the lyrics to “Human” we are all sick of hearing about it. He wrote that song that way for a reason.
As far as European success goes, if those are they only British bands you know of then your musical taste and knowledge is so limited that you shouldn’t even be commenting here. Muse, Pet Shop Boys, Coldplay, Chemical Brothers, Radiohead, Queen, David fucking Bowie to name a few.
Get your head outta your ass, he has ambitions. Nothing wrong with that. I admire that he has the balls to say so.

By: Mars, God of War

Mars, God of War — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:58:36 +0000

Perhaps the gods of bespackled blazers transcended time and space–as the powers-that-be oft do–and changed the laws of logic. Otherwise, I can’t get a handle on how a band from the early 90s managed to slime their grungy little asses into the ranks among artists like Zeppelin. I mean, Zep certainly had their cloudy pedestal in 1990. How did Nirvana trick music fans into accepting them? I considered spectacular music, inherent hipness, after-the-fact sheik (as suicides often facilitate), expert timing, discrete, passionate fanbase, and undeniable sincerity–you know, all of the things that usually constitute an epic band–but soon threw these distinct possibilities out the window out of respect for the higher-level reasoning with which Mr. Flowers MUST operate. It was too obvious.

So now I’m interested, and I demand a follow-up. I must know why the lead-rambler (his labored squeakings hardly qualify as singing) of a passionless, lackadaisical hack-parade thinks his uninspired hogwash deserves even shared sentence space with Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, The Beatles, ad infinitum. It can’t be easy as it seems. He must be a supergenius.

And as far as European success goes, I hear The Spice Girls, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams are planning a tour.

By: Ankit

Ankit — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:01:31 +0000

Brandon should Shut the fuck up!! NIRVANA and Led Zeppelin are legends he has got no right to comment like this..being ambitious is not bad but not at the expense of disrespecting someone..All I can say Grow up!! and let ur music speak for itself..