― Alex in Baghdad, Friday, 5 May 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 7 April 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tape Store, Monday, 9 April 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW, Monday, 9 April 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tape Store, Monday, 9 April 2007 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cunga, Monday, 9 April 2007 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link
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― That one guy that quit, Monday, 9 April 2007 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Geir Hongro, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
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― chrissie_, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
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― A B C, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 06:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cunga, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I GOT SOUL, BUT I'M NOT A SOLDIER!
(wrong song)
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish the killers didn't make a second album.
― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I think it will probably be remembered as one of the better mainstream songs of this era.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 03:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I like "When We Were Young." It almost made it onto my top 10 list last year.
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
when you* were young
"I got soul but I'm not a soldier" made me cringe so hard that I nearly crashed my car when I first heard it
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link
absolutely fuckin shit song. and i don't normally get that animated about sonfs i don't like
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 04:01 (sixteen years ago) link
STILL AWESOME
― Tape Store, Saturday, 19 January 2008 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
this vs. "All My Friends"
― Tape Store, Saturday, 19 January 2008 07:15 (sixteen years ago) link
as i was reading this thread i was thinking "what happened to tape store?" and apparently the answer is "only posts to mr brightside thread"
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 19 January 2008 08:00 (sixteen years ago) link
both songs you mention are awesome tho i don't get the connection besides both being good
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 19 January 2008 08:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"all my friends" is so boring. do not get the hype/hoopla at all.
"mr brighside" isn't as good as "read my mind," "when you were young," or "somebody told me"
― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 19 January 2008 08:04 (sixteen years ago) link
ppl kept writing about "read my mind" as sam's town's brightside and when i heard it i was pretty underwhelmed. it doesn't have nearly the chorus of their other songs you mentioned
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 19 January 2008 08:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Conversation I had..
Friend, singing: I got SOUL, but I'm not a SOLDIER
Me: You know what's funny? That's the only part of that song I remember AT ALL
Friend: haha, me too
Me: And it had a video where they dressed as cowboys and threw boomerangs at hotties
Friend: You have summarized that video well
― The Reverend, Saturday, 19 January 2008 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I rather like their cover of "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town"
― Bimble, Saturday, 19 January 2008 08:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, this record is 2 years old already :(
It's still awful.
― Pashmina, Saturday, 19 January 2008 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
three years moar liek pash, and yup still awful.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 19 January 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
It's the only song of theirs I unreservedly dig.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 19 January 2008 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I never understood the love for Mr. Brightside. It's okay, but sounds so clumsy and hamfisted to me. By contrast, there are a few total gems on that debut disc: Jenny Was A Friend, Smile Like You Mean It, and On Top being the best of them (with Somebody Told Me and Mr. B being okay, and the rest being awful).
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 19 January 2008 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"Smile Like You Mean It" I think is pretty good. For a while when it was current I actually thought it was a different band. Everything else I've heard by them has been rotten, as in actively bad, not mediocre.
― Pashmina, Saturday, 19 January 2008 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Bimble, Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:46 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
Fuck that. THE version of Ruby is "Oh, Ruby, nechtěj mi lásku brát" by Pavel Bobek.
http://www.pavelbobek.cz/albums/008_Antologie/Ruby.mp3
Fades out before the chorus :((
― MRZBW, Saturday, 19 January 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Seems a lot of people agree withe op, https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-killers-mr-brightside-claims-record-breaking-260th-week-exactly-five-years-on-the-official-singles-chart-top-100__32800/
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 2 April 2021 06:15 (three years ago) link
Wow, that is quite something. I actually heard "Somebody Told Me" about an hour ago on LA radio, hardly ever on the radio these days.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 3 April 2021 03:52 (three years ago) link
The Brits love it. Good drinking song, I guess.
― HuskerDoolittle, Saturday, 3 April 2021 05:55 (three years ago) link
It's so ubiquitous that I often forget it's not by a British band
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Saturday, 3 April 2021 09:34 (three years ago) link
― HuskerDoolittle
Yes, quite satisfying to holler along to while pissed, filling in any gaps in the lyrics with "da-da-dah!".
― chap, Saturday, 3 April 2021 11:53 (three years ago) link
*huge bongrip*
What if...
You replaced the cocaine 16th hi-hat note 00s drum style with...
an original semi-improvised drumming from Megadeth's (since 2016) drummer (who seems like a nice Belgian dude who'd never heard the song before):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUYVcaF_l0
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 20 July 2023 16:55 (nine months ago) link
Happy 20th anniversary. It will never leave. It is eternal. It is "Louie Louie." It is "Sweet Caroline."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 September 2023 17:31 (six months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/9c7sM5P/IMG-4336.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 29 September 2023 17:51 (six months ago) link
big michigan football fan here, and playing "mr. brightside" between the 3rd and 4th quarters has become a tradition. it might have replaced otis redding's "i can turn you loose" (famously used in the blues brothers), though they might still play that one in addition to mr. brightside, i haven't been to a game since the tradition started
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Friday, 29 September 2023 19:14 (six months ago) link
Went to a Twins game this summer and they played it, huge pop from the crowd
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 September 2023 19:18 (six months ago) link