Brandon Flowers shares how Alice Deejay’s ‘Higher Off Alone’ impressed The Killers’ ‘Jenny Was A Pal Of Mine’

Brandon Flowers has opened up about how Alice Deejay’s 1999 dance observe ‘Better Off Alone’ impressed The Killers’ hit ‘Jenny Was A Pal Of Mine’.

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On a brand new video posted to social media, The Killers frontman spoke in regards to the inspiration behind the observe, which opened the band’s debut album, ‘Sizzling Fuss.‘ Flowers was speaking in regards to the observe he mentioned, within the “countdown to the discharge of ‘Insurgent Diamonds’” – a compilation album The Killers are releasing subsequent month that’s comprised of songs from throughout their 20 12 months profession.

The forthcoming album will embrace classics resembling ‘Mr Brightside‘, ‘When You Have been Younger’ and ‘Human’ to more moderen standalone hits resembling ‘Boy‘ and ‘Your Aspect Of City‘. The Las Vegas band have additionally included one new music on the album known as ‘Spirit’. ‘Insurgent Diamonds’ can be launched on December 8 through EMI. You’ll be able to pre-order the album here.

Talking about ‘Jenny Was A Pal Of Mine’ and his reminiscence of writing it, Flowers mentioned: “It was a extremely thrilling time. We have been actually devoted and we have been going into Ronnie’s Storage most nights and dealing these items out. And I had simply bought this keyboard, this synthesiser, a Nord Lead Two, and it was a thousand bucks. And that was some huge cash for me. And it was a really huge buy and I figured I higher learn to use this factor and apply it to this band that I used to be in.

“…Everyone was so able to their devices and all people had their components and it got here right down to the tip of the music and I felt like I wished to have one thing that was actually identifiable that I might play. And so I used to be hearkening again to music that I used to be listening to within the golf equipment on the [Las Vegas] Strip.

“I used to be serious about one thing like…this large music, this Alice DJ music” Flowers continued earlier than taking part in the music’s refrain.

20 songs for 20 years.#RebelDiamonds pic.twitter.com/zYk5VoY62f

— The Killers (@thekillers) November 19, 2023

He continued: “[It was] this huge stunning, dramatic factor that at any time when it was performed within the membership, all people was very excited. And that’s the place this got here from. So the time got here for me to give you one thing and I used to be positively pondering of these huge traces that I used to be listening to when this got here on,” he defined, earlier than taking part in the piano some extra.

Of their profession, The Killers have launched a number of albums together with their seminal debut, ‘Sizzling Fuss‘ (2004), ‘Sam’s City’ (2006), ‘Day and Age‘ (2008) ‘Battle Born‘ (2012), ‘Don’t Waste Your Needs‘ (2016), ‘Great Great‘ (2017), ‘Imploding The Mirage‘ (2020) and their most up-to-date effort, ‘Strain Machine‘ (2021).

In a trailer for the upcoming compilation album, Flowers could be heard saying: “See it’s been mentioned that what’s remembered lives, and we’ve racked up stadiums stuffed with recollections the previous twenty years, sufficient to fill lifetimes. Twenty songs for twenty years – Insurgent Diamonds.”

The web site additionally acknowledged that pre-ordering the album earlier than 5pm GMT, November 27, would unlock an “unique ticket pre-sale code” for the “forthcoming and but to be introduced 2024 tour”.

The announcement follows from the information that Flowers reportedly scrapped a complete Killers album after beforehand promising new music: “Midway by recording I realised, ‘I can’t do that,’” Flowers mentioned, including: “This isn’t the type of file… I feel this would be the… I don’t assume you’ll see us making any such music any extra.”

He added: “That is the disaster I’m in. The Killers are my id and our songs fill the seats, however I’m extra fulfilled making music like [2021 album] ‘Strain Machine’.

In different current information, ‘Mr Brightside’ was the UK’s most streamed music in Spotify historical past. The indie-rock anthem beat out Arctic Monkey‘s ‘Do I Wanna Know?’ and Vance Pleasure‘s ‘Riptide’ to high the chart.