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I was 11 in 2004 and it was this Super Great Amazing Year for me in music. I got something like 11 or 12 CDs for Christmas that year, and it was the first year I was really into following music.

I was 11 in 2004 and it was this Super Great Amazing Year for me in music. I got something like 11 or 12 CDs for Christmas that year, and it was the first year I was really into following music.

I thought it sounded like a bad lounge-act version of The Killers. Granted, I think I only heard the single (was it "Flamingo?") but I had no desire whatsoever to hear the rest of it.

I thought it sounded like a bad lounge-act version of The Killers. Granted, I think I only heard the single (was it "Flamingo?") but I had no desire whatsoever to hear the rest of it.

Not so much raw, to me, as lean. Sam's Town especially, and Day & Age, have so many layers of crap underneath each song that it all comes on a little much. There's more bombast in those albums but it all gets a little muddled under overenthusiastic production, where everything is clean and polished on Hot Fuss.

Not so much raw, to me, as lean. Sam's Town especially, and Day & Age, have so many layers of crap underneath each song that it all comes on a little much. There's more bombast in those albums but it all gets a little muddled under overenthusiastic production, where everything is clean and polished on Hot Fuss.

I don't think i can pick a favorite/least favorite album of theirs, not because I love them all SO MUCH but because they're all pretty different.

I don't think i can pick a favorite/least favorite album of theirs, not because I love them all SO MUCH but because they're all pretty different.

@avclub-4ffabf87500b89362ca0abc12daf720b:disqus I got their self-titled for my birthday whatever year that was, 2005 or 2006, and then proceeded to pretty much never listen to them again. I think it must have been built-in to their songs somehow, the ability to just completely forget they exist no matter how much you…

@avclub-4ffabf87500b89362ca0abc12daf720b:disqus I got their self-titled for my birthday whatever year that was, 2005 or 2006, and then proceeded to pretty much never listen to them again. I think it must have been built-in to their songs somehow, the ability to just completely forget they exist no matter how much you…

So did I! So did I.

So did I! So did I.

They're less Meat Loaf than they are "the Meat Loaf of" whatever genre it is that they are.

They're less Meat Loaf than they are "the Meat Loaf of" whatever genre it is that they are.

For a long time Sam's Town was my most-listened-to album on iTunes, and about half the songs were on my top-25-most-played. I just listened to that album til I couldn't stand it anymore, spent three years not listening to it at all, and then finally got back into it. I liked it so much I had to take a breather, and…

For a long time Sam's Town was my most-listened-to album on iTunes, and about half the songs were on my top-25-most-played. I just listened to that album til I couldn't stand it anymore, spent three years not listening to it at all, and then finally got back into it. I liked it so much I had to take a breather, and…

@avclub-311689549bfffcfef91ea1f8e5b98f15:disqus See, at least they're an anarchist punk band and might actually have some controversial lyrics. Fuck Buttons make electronica. Swooshy, froufy electronica.

@avclub-311689549bfffcfef91ea1f8e5b98f15:disqus See, at least they're an anarchist punk band and might actually have some controversial lyrics. Fuck Buttons make electronica. Swooshy, froufy electronica.

The ellipsis isn't in the band name, they're just doubly-weird and print it that way on the albums.