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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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)

Will Self?

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 26 February 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I got the dick rhyme joke thing the first time i ever heard this jeez guys

― Anyone Who Can Pick Up A Frying Pan Pwns Death (AaronHz), Saturday, 26 February 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i could have spent the last three minutes listening to mr. brightside. im afraid i cannot get anything out of ilm anymore.

― artdamages (artdamages), Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, try the "Revolver" remix.

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Thin white duke (lu cont) mix is fabulous; particularly the bit around 7min when he drops the low end back in. I never! I fall for that huge stinky cheesewheel every time.

― irrigation can save your people, Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Yeah lu cont mix is so good.

I just realised that Mr Brightside = Shed Seven covering 'What Do I Do Now' by Sleeper, with slightly different lyrics.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 13 March 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Consensus be damned - last week I pilfered a friend's copy of "Hot Fuss" and actually listened to this song all the way through for the first time. I love it! I don't understand the hate for this band - don't people here like synth- and new wave-inflected disco-rock?

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, when it's good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked "Mr.Brightside" when I first heard it, and much less so now. The video doesn't help.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

for some reason i get mtv2 on my television now even though i don't have cable and i saw this last night. is that felicity in the video?

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The video is awful, and is one of the reasons I initially didn't give the song a fair try.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

man it does look a lot like her, come to think of it.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I hated Somebody Told Me (Entertainment Weekly compared it to the Kinks, which is proof that they are the go-to band for sloppy writers) but think Mr. Brightside is pretty good from the few times I've heard it. It's the best thing on most radio stations.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 1 May 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it too.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Sunday, 1 May 2005 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I can honestly say that "Mr Brightside" was probably the best song of whatever month it was that I first heard it, like September 2004. So I can agree that it was the best song at least for one specific time frame. However, the best song of the past ten years is undoubtedly "Paranoid Android."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

When you hear "Mr. Brightside" as one of five songs a DJ plays in a set on an alternative rock station, there's a fairly decent chance that it will be the best song out of the five.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Last five songs played on KROQ in LA, as of 5.1.05, 11:25am

Jimmy Eat World - "Get It Faster"
Rage Against The Machine - "Guerilla Radio"
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
Queens Of The Stone Age - Little Sister

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed, "Mr. Brightside" is better than those songs.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 1 May 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I like "Mr. Brightside" more but "Such Great Heights" and "Little Sister" rule. I'd probably include "I Wanna Be Sedated" but Jordan Catilano kind of killed it for me.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 1 May 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

and "Guerilla Radio" has that great Tom Morello faux-harmonica break! I've never heard the Jimmy Eat World song. Man, KROQ is awesome I guess.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 1 May 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah those are all great songs--haven't heard the JEW one (LOL) though.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 1 May 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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