Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Monster Mash

A few weeks back, The Killers were the musical guest [and one of the best things] on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. The second song of the performance, Bones, grabbed my attention and got my hopes up. You see unlike many of the cd's I eventually purchased this fall, I decided to not download or sample Sam's Town before it was released, so it was good to know that the second song [which is often a band's next single] was fantastic; horns, synthesizer, jaunty vocals, Brandon Flowers doing what he does best: Brandon Flowers. It was also no secret that Tim Burton was to direct the clip for Bones, and well, here it is. The video for When You Were Young, was, like the song, epic, and steeped in emotional storytelling. This video goes for the same effect, but the large number of everything that works [the nod to From Here to Eternity, the drive thru visages, Flowers' b-boy stance and fuck all attitude behind those shades], don't come together as nicely as they could have to form a pleasant and awe inspiring whole. Don't get me wrong, I still love the song, and the video is not bad. But the director is Tim *fucking* Burton. It would be wrong to not expect a little bit more, instead of wondering if the video is a promotional tie-in for The Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D.

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