Brandon Flowers; Our Generations Bruce

So here is the link to an article discussing the need for our generation to recognize new bands, and giving Brandon the title of our "Boss".

http://www.dailyfreepress.com/remmert_the_boss%2C_the_bible_and_sam_s_town-1.1355751

I got this from The Victims site, which is The Killers official fan club, and I was surprised at the reaction by many of the Victims. A lot of them really disliked the comparison on Brandon to Bruce, but they were missing the writers point.

For one, no where in the article does the writer actually say that Brandon Flowers is equal to Bruce Springsteen. This whole article is about what my blog is trying to be about; the fact that new rock music is being missed out on, ignored. Our future "classics"...what are they going to be? If we play our cards right, and give notice and credit to our generations rock music, it WILL be songs by The Killers, Coldplay, Keane, Kings of Leon, Franz Ferdinand, etc...

But we are MISSING IT.

I think fans of The Killers still have the critics words about Sam's Town in mind when they read this article, which is not what he's doing. Critics compared Sam's Town to a Springsteen album, which I always hated, for sure. When You Were Young may have a Born To Run sound to it, but no other song on that album sounds Bruceish. Sam's Town is unlike any other album out there, and I agree with Flowers when he said it is one the the greats of the past 20 years (which he got slammed for. Well, he's right, so SHUT IT). For that to CONSTANTLY be compared to Springsteen was ridiculous. I think that critics were too busy reading other critics' reviews to really listen to Sam's Town, and see it's uniqueness and it's genius.

But this article isn't doing that. The writer asks, "Who's our generations Springsteen?", not "Who is equivalent to Springsteen?". He says Brandon wants to be one of the greats in rock and roll, and that The Killers aim to be one of the biggest bands, which is no secret to any music fan. How many times have you heard The Killers say that exact thing? All the writer is doing is lining up our generations musical greats, naming Brandon Flowers as one of them.

I think he's right. We will see Brandon Flowers (and hopefully The Killers!) for years and years to come. Brandon has such a passion for music that makes him unable to stop making great music, and I really don't see that happening any time soon. Brandon will make music until he dies, I'm pretty sure, and I only hope that's the truth. A lot of "pop" bands like Nickleback, and Buck Cherry are missing A LOT. They aren't going to be here for the Super Bowl 30 years from now, promise. They don't have what The Killers have when it comes to song writing. I always like The Beatles and The Who, etc. for a long long time, afraid that no bands of my generation could measure up to their greatness. Then I heard Hot Fuss and Sam's Town, and found a new radio station.

There ARE greats out there, we are just missing them. The writer is trying to make people acknowledge that, is all. He is NOT comparing Brandon Flowers to Bruce Springsteen. He is comparing what Brandon is about to what Bruce has always been about; a great love for making music, and being great about it, and one who is not afraid to go out there and push it on you.

It's a complement. And it's a shame that us fans had to hear the comparisons of The Killers to Bruce Springsteen when it came to Sam's Town that we missed the point of what this writer is trying to say.

So I say, he's right. Brandon Flowers is one of our generation's greats, and I can't wait to see what he has to say when my kids and I sit down and watch the Pre Game show for the Super Bowl 30 years from now.