I'm not a fan of The Killers in the least. In fact, I have often said that if I want to listen to The Cure, I will do so. But, since MTV aired The Killers and not The Cure this afternoon, I reneged on my self-promise. That said, I will now pay a compliment to The Killers. At least they aren't Linkin Park.
I tell you now with complete sincerity that I wanted to take a pencil to my eardrums when Linkin Park and Jay Z performed on Live 8 today. It was, in fact, worse than the tube-top wearing VJ lecturing the audience on "how ignorant we are." (I hate to break it to MTV and VH1, but some of us still read newspapers.)
The only performance that could rival Linkin Z in terms of bile rising ugliness was Green Day's cover of "We are the Champions." Freddy must be rolling in his grave. My mother, an ardent Queen fan from way back, looked as if she might cry for all the wrong reasons. Let this be a lesson to any potential rockers, never cover a song performed by someone with a voice better than yours.