#keuning

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Q1. Favourite Brandon solo song?

There were 89 responses to this, covering 20 songs. 19% named Crossfire as their favourite with 15.7% saying Lonely Town was their favourite. These top 2 are also the 2 Brandon has called his favourite, sometimes that man is valid. 

The top 10 covered 75 (84%) responses:

Q2. Favourite Keuning song?

There were 33 responses to this question, covering 9 songs (the album contains 14). 27.3% of people said Restless Legs was their favourite.

Q3. Favourite Big Talk song?

There were 38 responses to this question, covering 14 songs. 21% of people said their favourite was Getaways. 

Q4. Favourite Mark solo song?

There were 17 responses to this question, covering 9 songs. 

Honestly, can't say these were very conclusive at all. 17.64% said that Spare The Ones that Weep and Take My Time were their favourites.

Q5. Favourite Brandon album?

71% of 93 people said that The Desired Effect was their favourite Brandon album!

Q6. Favourite Big Talk song?

60% of 45 respondents said that Big Talk was their favourite Big Talk album

Q7. Favourite Mark album?

41% of 29 respondents said that Filthy Apes and Lions was their favourite Mark album.

Q8. Who has the best solo work?

An overwhelming 91.6% of 83 respondents said that Brandon had the best solo work. I don’t think anyone is shocked by this result at all.

It’s actually not bad. Musically I really like it; I was surprised by how synth-heavy it was (I definitely expected it to be more guitar-centric), but it has a New Order vibe and I dig it. He clearly knows how to build and craft a good song instrumentally.

I think the lyrics have flashes of brilliance, but overall I was underwhelmed with them. There’s a lot of repetition and simplicity which leaves me not quite satisfied. I feel like a lot of songs just end super abruptly too? Like I’d be listening and suddenly it just ended and a new song was playing.

Obviously my biggest criticism is the vocals, which aren’t bad, but he just doesn’t have the range, so a lot of songs end up sounding similar/repetitive and it lacks a certain amount of emotion/feeling.

A lot of songs I think would have benefited greatly from the full Killers treatment, and honestly it’s a shame they were overlooked for whatever reason. Who knows if they were flat out rejected by the rest of the band or if they would have been revisited at another time, but there are definitely a handful that would have fit nicely in the Killers’ discography.

Keuning - Boat Accident

Boat Accident is takne from the album, Prismism, which will be available on the 25th January 2019, This video was directed by Russell Sheaffer, with stop-motion animation by Hannah McSwiggen, Russell Sheaffer, Aaron Michael Smith, and Jessie McIntyre,

David Brent Keuning better known as Dave Keuning or Keuning (born March 28, 1976) is a member of American rock band The Killers. He is the band's lead guitarist and backup vocalist.

The first solo song from The Killer’s lead guitarist, released in 2018. Recently discovered and a big fan - shows that he was potentially instrumental to the electronic core of Day & Age, possibly my personal favourite The Killers album.

In the present musical climate, I would draw comparisons with The 1975′s latest work (although the vocal delivery varies), in the sense of being rock inspired, but leaning quite nicely on more electronic and synthy inputs. In the song itself, there are sympathisers throughout, a high point being the electronic riff after the first chorus.