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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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)

"I Wanna Be Sedated" is ridiculously overplayed but it beats "Mr. Brightside" over the head with a baseball bat.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It's funny I enjoy a Ramones album but in the context of radio or pop culture I find their random hits more annoying than Gary Glitter's

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, they only play like three of them over and over every damn day.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Last five songs played by BBC Radio 6

Idlewild - I Understand It
The Who - Happy Jack
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
Sons And Daughters - Dance Me In

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

miccio otm re: Little Sister

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:17 (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 (anthonyisrigh...), May 1st, 2005.

KROQ mostly sux0rs monkey balls, but "Indie 103.1" here has pushed them to improve a bit. I got lucky on that pull though - coulda come up Papa Roach, Linkin Park, and that contemptible MCR/The Used cover of "Under Pressure." Which last track provides the double-whammy of performing two bands' worth of bukkake job all over one of the all-time great singles and making me loathe myself for scorning it since it's for such a good cause and all (yes, part of that good cause is reminding the world that MCR and The Used still exist, but still...)

There is a handy "last 5 tracks played" widget on the KROQ site though, so fun for the whole family.

But why are we having this conversation, anyway? "Mr. Brightside" isn't even the best song on Hot Fuss. (As all right-thinking people agree, that honor goes to the exuberantly shameless Cure knockoff "Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine.")

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

unacceptable

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

assume you're referring to the "Under Pressure" cover

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Linkin Park dis
2. MCR / Used dis

but what I was referring to

3. "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" > "Mr. Brightside" (or "Somebody Told Me" or "Smile Like You Mean It")

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 1 May 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Just so long as we're clear on our referents :)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 1 May 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a pretty good song. they are a shitty band, though.

― Aaron Zanders (AaronHz), Sunday, 1 May 2005 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

by shitty i mean the singer needs to learn singing.

― Aaron Zanders (AaronHz), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim F. got "Somebody Told Me" all summed up with:

"Unlike Starsailor, The Killers are perfect candidates for a Lu Cont makeover, perhaps because they sound like they should be making dance music instead of rock anyway, as the great-hooks-in-search-of-a-point conundrum of "Somebody Told Me" aptly demonstrates."

― deej., Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rock music" =/ "Dance music" ???

What was the "point" of the hook to "Double Shot of My Baby's Love?"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

He means "dahnce" obviously.

― deej., Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"great-hooks-in-search-of-a-point conundrum" = no conundrum at all

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Something being "in search of a point" sounds like a conundrum to me.

― deej., Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

What is the "point" to the hook in "I Want to Hold Your Hand?"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

that he wanted to hold your hand

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Miccio is OTM, and its a very convincing performance, too.

― deej., Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

There you go. The point to the hook in "Mr. Brightside" is that he is Mr. Brightside.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

He wasn't talking about mr. brightside, he was talking about "somebody told me."

― deej., Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure I get this rock-not-dance/dance-not-rock dichotomy. Seems Tim's problem with the band is they're just too bombastic

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

and I don't think "Somebody Told Me" is pointless so much as clumsy

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I don't think those two contradict each other or anything.

― deej., Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The point to the hook in "Somebody Told Me" is that somebody told him that you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend that he had in February of last year.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the point of "somebody told me" is to sound flirtacious and decadent while (ironically enough) making people jump up and down and dance. I've seen it do its job.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 1 May 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

See, the problem is I think it fails in its mission, Tim E.

― deej., Monday, 2 May 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What mission are you referring to, deej?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 2 May 2005 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It is very hard for British people of a certain age like me not to sing "I'm Norman Whiteside" to this choon.

"Somebody Told Me" is banal and pish compared to "Mr Whiteside".

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Monday, 2 May 2005 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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