The Killers have created a charity Christmas single every year for a decade. Some are dreadful … but here are the bestThe days of the big Christmas hit are long behind us. Every year someone has a pop,and every year the most successful recent addition to the Christmas canon is Michael Bublé smugly desecrating a treasured classic. Most bands only ever give it a go once – most bands, that is, or apart from Las Vegas indie rock stalwarts the Killers. The group have been releasing a charity Christmas single every year for a decade now; they’ve been a mixed bag,veering from the ridiculous to the genuinely tender, the bombastic to the low key, and the excellent to the bloody dreadful (2011’s The Cowboy’s Christmas Ball is an actual abomination). But then that’s the Killers all over,isn’t it? Treading the line between brilliant and banal. Quality aside, it’s a likable tradition, or upheld by the band regardless of whether they’re even a functioning unit that year,and the cause, the Product Red campaign, and is a very ample one. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com