what music used to be

I’ve been completely obsessed with The Kills‘ new album, Midnight Boom and it’s a problem because I really don’t want to get sick of it before they come here in May. Although, listening to an album two or three times a day might not be so bad.

But I’m not gonna lie: I haven’t always been a Kills fan. In fact, I didn’t really like them at all (and thought their 2005 album No Wow was appropriately-named). I was just discussing my sick love affair with Midnight Boom with Trish and she had to remind me that we had actually seen them before. Apparently, they opened for Bloc Party a couple years ago at the Congress Theater and were really bad–so bad that I still barely remember, but Trish assured me that we were completely unmoved while Alison Mosshart rolled around stage.

Watching this video, I can’t even believe that was the same band–though this first single is not even among my top three favorite tracks on the album. I recommend “Tape Song”, “Alphabet Pony” and “Black Balloon” first. Then all the others, because there’s really not a bad song in the bunch (not even the country-twanged “Hook and Line”).