I have come to the conclusion that Mr Brightside by The Killers might just be the best song of the past ten years

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'mr brightside' is overly-emotive adolescent tripe.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Well yes but so is most pop music, 57. (This particular example of it does suck rocks, though.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

If the Killers are the new Duran Duran, are Bloc Party the new Wham! ?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes when I'm bored I like to pretend I'm wearing a suit and hold the lapels of my pretend suit and yell OIM MISTA BROITSOID

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Zarr. Mr Brightside is wikkid.

― dmun, Friday, 25 February 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It is just brilliant at any time of the day.

Morning - gets me outta bed.
Evening - great to switch on.
Night club - brings the floor alive.

― Zarr, Friday, 25 February 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello Al, long time no see.

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish there didn't have to be a chart pop version of interpol. It's a painful association to a band I've really liked and it sort of gets in the way of my enjoyment. get a life i know.

― -the-night-watch- (-the-night-watch-), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Better watch out or you'll overdose on The Killers. Imagine waking up one day and not being able to listen to anything by them!

(This is how many people already feel)

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah every fucking teen clothing shop I walk past is blaring it.

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of these new NME bands sound like the new Comsat Angels to me, if that's not too gross a slur on the Comsat Angels. I feel they could be aiming higher.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this was by Shed 7

― coco, Friday, 25 February 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello Al, long time no see.

-- the other kate (ffs!) ([email protected]), February 25th, 2005.

long time no see? I'm here all the time!

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but I'm not.

plus i think i may potentially know you from some time back. Did you ever post on SSQ?

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Hatorade is just the price they pay, destiny is calling them.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://g.myspace.com/00043/60/84/43024806_l.jpg

― Fat Anarchy on Airtube (ex machina), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

have I mentioned that the lyrics read like one of Jon's crush threads?

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 25 February 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone else noticed this? My girlfriend had to point it out to me, I can't tell if it's obvious or not.

PRETEND YOU'VE NEVER HEARD THE SONG AND FINISH THE OBVIOUS RHYME
Now they're going to bed, and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his ______

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG r00d!!

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

CHEST. NOW.

Keith Harris mentioned it in a blog post a couple days ago. I never thought of it before then.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

post on feb 16th

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but I'm not.

plus i think i may potentially know you from some time back. Did you ever post on SSQ?

-- the other kate (ffs!) ([email protected]), February 25th, 2005.

oh! yeah! so right, it has been a while.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

PRETEND YOU'VE NEVER HEARD THE SONG AND FINISH THE OBVIOUS RHYME
Now they're going to bed, and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his ______

I've probably heard this song at least fifty times in the last couple of months, but I don't remember ever thinking about this. Strange.

And yeah, rock single of the year so far, obv.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

obv :-/

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought of that. 1 Point to me.

― MG, Friday, 25 February 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mr. Brightside" is the only song that I'm potentially too embarrassed about enjoying to put on any end of year lists.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm. No I never thought of that, either. And I love the Killers, but best song of the last ten years? Um, no.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

my crush threads are TERRIBLE

― Fat Anarchy on Airtube (ex machina), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

is that photo of the guy with the earth crisis tattoo on his face floating around anywhere?

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

PRETEND YOU'VE NEVER HEARD THE SONG AND FINISH THE OBVIOUS RHYME
Now they're going to bed, and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his ______

this is like my husband's favorite part of his favorite album (next to daft punk's discovery, lately anyway). We have dubbed this trick the 'miss susie' school of lyric-writing. I think this is a really fun album, I don't get all the hate.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

me neither, i think its a fun album as well. nothing spectacular but decent enough. i'll forget about it shortly though.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll rep for this in a "wouldn't turn it off the radio" kinda way, but really it's hardly the most/best anything of the past ten years.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 25 February 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I really want to like this song. I like everything about the Jacques lu Cont remix apart from the vocal, the subject matter is - sadly - right up my street ... but I can't. It's a horrible, shameful experience for all concerned.

― coco, Friday, 25 February 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, the guitar version = Placebo!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

is that photo of the guy with the earth crisis tattoo on his face floating around anywhere?

Silly me I thought that was a girl.

The Killers suck complete balls.

As opposed to...sucking stray bits of balls?

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm talking about a different photo than the one jon posted. unless ... you are too and somehow the photo i saw over a year ago of a dude with "EARTH CRISIS" tattooed on his face was actually a girl. that would be even more fucked up.

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 25 February 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I see.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, the guitar version = Placebo!

Yes, but *not good* -- there are (completely individual and biased) standards to be upheld here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like this song only if Roxy Music had done it.

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I find it quite epic and catchy in its radio pop sort of way. Definitely, better than most anything else that would be played on a Modern Rock Station, especially...

― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Friday, 25 February 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard this song blasting out of a Ben & Jerry's the other day. really.

It's a nice pop song, I don't know why some of you guys are all bent out of shape over it!

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 25 February 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

God damn, stop compairing them to Interpol and Duran Duran.

― mxl, Friday, 25 February 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Killers suck complete balls"

As opposed to...sucking stray bits of balls?

Well it was a joke, fans of the killers aren't good with those by the looks.

― the other kate (ffs!) (papa november), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Jacques lu Cont remix

THIS EXISTS?!?!??!?!

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 25 February 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole 1 verse thing makes me nostalgic. I don't know if it's a particularly good thing, but the time being I like it.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 February 2005 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

That Killers song about looking like a boyfriend is CLASSIK (32 matching messages)

Utterly fecking mega

-- Indie Innes (iindi...), January 27th, 2005.

Zarr = Indie Innes

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 26 February 2005 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(Photos of much wang action deleted for sanity's sake -- Mod.)

― Fat Anarchy on Airtube (ex machina), Saturday, 26 February 2005 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

at any rate, i don't understand why people with intelligence and normally good taste are falling for the killers, i really don't..

beyond that, i wonder why the killers got so huge, in general.
what about that crappy 'imarobot' band, why didn't they get big?
were they like six months ahead of the trend?
pop culture is so fucked.

i also wonder if hot hot heat sell a lot this time 'round...
any predictions on them?

― reo, Saturday, 26 February 2005 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

< will sell >

― reo, Saturday, 26 February 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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a few comments are about "heard he did some bad things but he made some great music so it's not all bad!"

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 December 2023 19:46 (two years ago)

Cancel culture is out of control!

― omar little, Thursday, 7 December 2023 20:39 (two years ago)

saw one that was like "rock stars have all done terrible things! if you don't listen to anyone who's been cancelled then you can't listen to anyone! and anyway there are plenty that have done worse!"

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 December 2023 20:45 (two years ago)

"I listen to both kinds of music! Gary glitter *and* l0stpr0phets!"

― omar little, Thursday, 7 December 2023 20:49 (two years ago)

The Killers released “Mr. Brightside” 20 years ago and hardly anybody cared.

sometimes you read a story and it feels like the first line invents a version of reality in order to facilitate the thesis, and this is one of those times...

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 7 December 2023 20:56 (two years ago)

my recollection is that this song was basically inescapable for at least a few months ... am i wrong?

― alpine static, Thursday, 7 December 2023 21:02 (two years ago)

I guess it was, but several months after release ...

The premise of this song becoming a "Don't Stop Believin'" or "Sweet Caroline" for a younger generation is interesting enough ... you really don't need that lead to make it work.

― alpine static, Thursday, 7 December 2023 21:11 (two years ago)

i remember hearing "somebody told me" first and then "mr. brightside" coming along in its wake. didn't realize that "brightside" was actually released first.

but yeah, as the article points out, it became a massive hot 100 hit and was an alt rock radio hit for some time beforehand

― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Thursday, 7 December 2023 21:11 (two years ago)

Of course it was huge in 2005. I karaoked it then and my version went top ten in 14 countries

― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 December 2023 21:33 (two years ago)

I also heard Somebody Told Me first. It was definitely an omnipresent single for a while before I first heard Mr. Brightside.

― peace, man, Thursday, 7 December 2023 21:57 (two years ago)

five months pass...

Now officially the biggest UK single of all time that hasn't got to #1 in the charts

https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-killers-mr-brightside-overtakes-oasis-wonderwall-for-uk-singles-record-3754740

― groovypanda, Thursday, 9 May 2024 10:29 (two years ago)

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