Video: The Killers [ft. Lou Reed]: "Tranquilize"
Lou Reed's presence in the Killers' latest video reminds me of Marianne Faithfull's appearance in Metallica's nadir-period clip for Reloaded's "The Memory Remains". Reed's here as a grizzled, wrinkled, shaky-voiced addition of bygone-era hipster gravitas on a video and song that's otherwise maudlin, self-serious garbage, trudging and tuneless. In this case, the garbage sounds (slightly) more like Bruce Springsteen than Audioslave, and it has a children's chorus. Wow, Sam's Town came out a year ago last month. Happy belated birthday.
[from Sawdust; due 11/13/07 from Island]