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It’s pretty mediocre songs but with good moments throughout. I expected more with the reputation it has, but I wasn’t too impressed with it. Just alright.
Eh
Really strong start and of course Mr. Brightside is a classic but most of these songs are misses Fav tracks: Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, Mr. Brightside
Alright, that was pretty good.
no le había dado una oportunidad a the killers, me gustó y entendí porque su éxito.
mr brigthside es la mejor cancion de infidellidad que existe. Me gusto el album.
somebody told me saves this the rest is cheeks
A pretty wild debut record - 23 yr old Brandon Flowers writes 3 massive singles including one (two? three??) of the most identifiable rock songs from the 2000s. Plus 5 grammy noms - today people would be like "industry plant" Pretty heavily front loaded though. Things get pretty dull after All These Things That I Have Done (also my fav track, I remember watching the music video a lot). Maybe it's just a familiarity bias but the other 8 or 9 songs on the record are easily forgotten except for Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll which is actually very sick hahaha. The album (even the good songs) is kind of harsh and fatiguing to listen to all at once.
really haven’t listened to this since being a kid and playing it on my walkman as a kid. it’s actually really good hahah. I can’t bring myself to give it a 4 but this is a strong 3. so many hits on here. insane bass tone to start off the record lmao. big cure vibes on the first track. honestly the bass is so forward in the mix the whole record. looking at a picture of this guy yeah he’s like “my part is sick bring it fwd please” lol okay sorry to be a sith and deal in absolutes but Mr Brightside might be one of the best pop songs of the 21st century so far. top 30. smile like you mean it literally brought me back to limewire days so hard. holy i rinsed the f out of this track. the vocoder part is so sick like what an insane production decision. so much hard pan on this record. it’s cool i guess?? you can pick out all the instruments in the mix so well. not sure if that’s the product of great mixing or if i’d rather everything gel more. is this live off the floor? there’s a refreshing amount of flubs/tempo wavering. it might even be like on purpose in a big way. SEE: glamorous indie rock & roll intro. it’s almost so pronounced that it’s a push-pull idea that is above my pay grade. what a hilarious song btw. favs: mr brightside, believe me natalie, smile like you mean it, all these things
Absolutely a solid indie rock record, and Mr Brightside is enough to make this legendary in the indie rock canon. Some really well written songs. It doesn’t really pique my interest beyond that and nostalgia at this point, but that’s true of most indie rock. A fantastic product of its time, but not something I’ll listen to all the way through again.
i knew it already, not my fav but it’s okay
I can't say that it was bad, because I enjoyed some songs, not all of them but some. It's not groundbreaking but it's pretty catchy and fun overall. Also Mr Brightside is and will forever be a classic. Amazing song.
My rating 3.2 beyond the hits Mr Brightside and Somebody Told me not much stood out. Exceptions were All These Things and maybe Andy your a Star. Rest fine but pretty standard alt pop.
I've got Soul but im not a soldier" is the dumbest line in music history. "I've got mail but im not a mailman" "I've got ham but im not a hamster." that said, the singles are iconic.
solid
Quintessential teenage coming of age movie soundtrack
3.33. Not bad for a debut
beetje monotoon maar wel cool !
3.5
pretty good! falls off near the end though
The singles on this albums really are bangers. Rest of the album is decent. Glamorous indie rock & roll was a highlight.
Besides the hits that got played to death in the 2000/2010’s, there’s not much that really stands out, and towards the back half of the album it’s starting to overstay its welcome.
Podes morirte sin escuchar el albúm pero no Mr Birghtside, así que ok
Reminds me of my childhood as this album was absolutely huge in the UK. Easy listening, my favourite track was 'All These Things That I've Done'.
Pretty alright, gotta admit my fav was prob the most popular song on the album, Mr. Brightside. Idk if that's bias because I've heard it before but yeah.
melodramatic mormons must've felt awesome to listen to this on an iPod in 2005
Kinda off putting how half the songs are about getting cucked
Omnipresent
The Killers brand of “cool” just hasn’t aged well. This album was inescapable in the mid-2000s, but the wardrobe, guyliner, and Flowers’ flat delivery don’t hit as hard today. Still love the Anton Corbijn video for “All These Things That I’ve Done,” though. I thought the second half of this album was better than the first.
Overall Rating - 3.42/5 (6.83/10). Very mid-2000s. Good tunes, well done.
3.5
Hot Fuss 1. I like the concept of the song-it’s someone who is being interrogated about a murder but I don’t really like it as a song that much. 2. Lowkey a banger. I don’t think I has ever heard the full song but it was pretty good. 3. I feel like with these sorts of song where there is a very heavy emphasis on the vocals the lyrics have to actually be good and these are not. Bu hao 4. I really like the way he sings this. The vocal delivery is pleasing to me. Lowkey these songs are so emo high school though. 5. I like the rhymes and the rhythm slayed. 6. It wasn’t bad it was pretty okay so I liked it. 7. Bu hao I don’t like 8. It started off really strong but it kind of lost me. I liked it though because I think it’s good enough to grow on me 9. I like this song it’s pretty good 10. I think with a lot of these it’s the lyrics that are influencing. I don’t like how he talks about looking up a skirt. Yuck 11. Super duper slay I loved this song actually might be my fav 12. A bit repetitive but not bad but I don’t like it still
complessivamente ho avuto piacere ad ascoltarlo, forse alcune canzoni un po’ simili tra loro e noiose ma c’è qualche bel pezzone
I liked it. I'm not big into Rock in general but trying to expand my music taste, and this was mostly a pleasant listen. A bit overloaded in my opinion with some filler tracks. Of course, since this album was very big in the 00s, I knew some of the tracks already. Standout tracks for me were "All These Things That I've Done", "On Top", and "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll".
2 big bangers The rest was good, I didn’t hate it
Arranca bien, termina medio arroz con pollo
All the best songs by the Killers are here, from the over-played to the underrated.
I like some songs, but not the whole album.
I didn't hear The Killers immediately when this came out — I heard a cover of "Mr. Brightside" first — but once I did discover them, I've enjoyed them. "Mr. Brightside" and "Somebody Told Me" are definitely classics of the era. As catchy as they can be, the lyrics are sometimes cringe. "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier"?
I enjoyed this but not enough. Probably a 3.5.
Somebody told me, that they had an album, that's more than one single, and this is true. Lots of good, lot of plodding, a fine album.
Standouts Jenny Was a Friend of Mine Somebody Told Me All These Things That I Have Done Andy You're a Star Midnight Show
I started listening to this album by listening to the songs which i had already liked from this album which was a surprising amount. I thought it would just be two, "mr brightside" and "somebody told me", but it was actually a lot. the first one i listened to was "all the things ive done" and i was like I KNOW THIS BUT I DONT KNOW IT and then it came to the "ive got soul but im not a soldier" part and i was like OHHHHHH OKAY. i really like the synth-like thing in "smile like you mean it". okay i know that this album is supposed to be like basic pop rock stuff, but i can't help but be a fan. it is also called white people music sometimes but i am white, so, GUILTY! i do think that i like the version of "somebody told me" by maneskin better than this one. it's more gritty which i think fits the song better. the way "change your mind" starts when you're wearing headphones is JUST IN THE LEFT EAR. i don't really like it when the only sound im hearing is just one of my ears. it's just three seconds that it's like that though, im being dramatic.
I would say for a whole - it's kind of a mid-album... There are more background-sounding songs than standouts for me. The first half of the album is quite good, but then the rest sort of falls flat. I personally think this would have been better as a debut EP than an album. There are some strong starting songs. Nothing I would really be excited to listen to again... I just wasn't pulled in. It would help if all the songs didn't sound pretty much the same. They are all too similar in vibe, timbre and instrumentation. A change in that could have made songs stand out more and seem exciting. Songs that stood out slightly more: Mr. Brightside Somebody Told Me On Top
Felt like a listened to one of the bands that probably inspired TØP in terms of vocals and some sounds, liked Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine, Smile Like You Mean It, All These Things I've Done, Andy, You're A Star, On Top and Everything Will Be Alright
good, but unfortunately i can't see myself listening to this outside of this instance. i'm not in middle school anymore
3.3/5 early 2000 radio rock
A quite generic rock album with some great tunes. I'll be happy when I stumble on it at random but I don't think I'll ever actively search for it. Favorite Songs: Mr. Brightside ; Somebody told me
Loved the music. I couldn't decide whether I liked the vocals. Sometimes his singing annoyed me other times it worked. My 2nd least favorite is Somebody Told Me, mainly because of the vocals. Everything Will Be Alright is my least favorite. The other 10 songs I enjoyed.
Classic early 2000's indie, some real bangers but not my favorite kind of indie. Good production, good sound, fantastic festival music.
My memory of this album is better than the reality of it. It has the big hit songs that are fun, but the rest of the songs don't match up. It feels like they're throwing everything they have at every song, but the results aren't all that great. I was initially leaning with a 4, but it outstayed it's welcome and I'm landing on a 3.
The prototypical early-2000s alternative rock album
The most popular album by the Killers is also the slightest one. Brandon's songwriting really comes into its own later on "Sam's Town", and he has continued to grow to this day, as witnessed in the spectacular "Pressure Machine."
The singles in the first half are all great pop rock songs. Strange that they are all in the first half and the second half drops off for me.
The Killers first album could have been more killer less filler had they settled on a shorter tracklist and moved the running order around a bit. My memory of this album was very warm, given how flawless the many era defining singles are, but the second half is chock full of b-sides. They have a tendency to stretch out and make the most of every idea - which is great when things are working, but when they’re not it gets a bit wearing. Regardless, its a fact that the first four tracks are some of the very best songs to come out of the indie era.
Yep Hot Fuss remains a high 3 for me. The opening 5/6 tracks are electric but sadly only 2 of the final 5/6 tracks land for me (Natalie and Glamorous) - but in many ways this is still a special album for me and is very nostalgic
It was fine. The famous singles are the best.
some nice synths in the early half, but otherwise an ordinary indie rock album that isn't too memorable; of course there's mr brightside and all the things i've done, but everything else kind of blended together.
Very cool and 200s
I thought I would really struggle with this, but I guess they must’ve got progressively worse over the years. I still didn’t exactly “enjoy” it, but it’s very passable alternative pop. Some of it suffers from overexposure but with a more analytical ear listening today the big hits were less irritating than when hearing them with 30 drunk wedding guests singing along at the top of their voices. Side 2 (zero hits?) wasn’t the shitshow that might have been expected. In summary, with a hint of energy and a few rough edges still showing, they get a pass from me. I still don’t want it in my house, but if this is the only Killers album in the book, they will have escaped my wrath.
Nephi UT shit. Anyway it's fine. They have a sound and executed it. Some pretty good songs. Never got the hype on Mr. Brightside, but it's certainly not bad.
mr brightside temon. no me genero demasiado, pero rock punk me gusta
A wildly inconsistent album, but the highs are very good indeed despite being overplayed to death, and form summer playlist staples. You could probably lose most of the back end of Hot Fuss, and "Smile Like You Mean It" and "All These Things I've Done" are just a bit shite innit? But the album does radiate a sense of nostalgia for less complicated, more carefree times. Despite being an American band, The Killers have always had a bit of a British "lad culture" whiff about them to engender appeal over on these shores. It's not ostensibly British, but compatible enough through its "cheekiness" and slightly mopey lyrical expressions. It was all downhill from here though, judging from the limited Killers material that I've been exposed to otherwise.
3/5 Divertido e com múltiplas faixas interessantes. Se algumas tivessem sido cortadas, seria um trabalho muito mais coeso.
Pretty decent albiet derivative sounding. Some questionable lyrics?
Besser als in meiner Erinnerung
This is making me think of Muse. Something about the vocals. Favorite cut is Somebody Told Me. I wouldn't put them on my favorites list, but this was pretty good.
6/10
it's fine when you do math homework
Great album all songs are very catchy and just feels like something you can dance to while also having its sad points
One of the most front-loaded albums I’ve ever heard. The first half is filled with only hits (I thought I only knew Mr. Brightside but I was wrong), but the last half just doesn’t have that same energy. Still, the hits alone make it a pretty decent album. It’s not something I would return to often, but all songs from side one are good as standalone tracks. That closer, however… not good.
Am Afang no nice gsi. So ab de Helfti isch’s irgendwänn glichtönend und repetitif worde. Hät perse aber kei schlechti tracks gha
Bin kein grosse Fan. Tönt mir alles zu gliich.
Meh
Purely feel good 2000s vibe music. I actually didn’t dislike it as much as I thought it would. I guess the more popular songs turned out to be less my favorites as well. Some stuff here is very reminiscent of The Strokes but a bit less interesting. Still extremely listenable and fun songs while also some stuff that’s pretty bland and boring.
soundtrack to my middle school years. second half is a drag though. 3.5
Creo que está bueno, aunque en un momento sentí que todas las canciones son iguales, lo cual no está mal pero me gustaría un poco más de variedad. Tiene muy buenas canciones igual!! Siento que este álbum es nostálgico para los que fueron adolescentes en esa época.
Creo que está bueno, aunque en un momento sentí que todas las canciones son iguales, lo cual no está mal pero me gustaría un poco más de variedad. Tiene muy buenas canciones igual!! Siento que este álbum es nostálgico para los que fueron adolescentes en esa época.
You know, I dig most of these songs.
Some real catchy stuff here, and then the fillers.
Good album. Knew the hits but the album as a whole worked well. Best song was Mr. Brightside
classic album. enjoyed this. not a huge fan of his vocals. didn’t love this. nostalgia def played a big part in the quality of this album because take that away and it’s not too good
They frontloaded the hits (and what hits they are!) leaving the second half mediocre. Flowers has a fantastic voice for rock 'n' roll but for the love of God will someone cuff his hands behind his back so he can't play that cheesy ass synth.
First half is pretty good, second half is completely forgettable. Solid 3 star album
All these things that I've done is still a jam
Very early 2000s rock sound :) An easy listen, simple lyrics, feels a bit nostalgic.
An album with infinite amounts of potentially and a couple of bangers, but let down by fatigue. Despite how much I enjoy many of the songs in isolation, its cumulative sound gets repetitive, giving it less of an identity than other albums I have listened to. If only they harnessed what clearly worked so well, instead, one gets left with a taste of artificialism.
Mr Brightside is basically the millenial Don't Stop Believing and I absolutely fucking hate it. If it was a new song without the cultural baggage of all the worst people at a wedding shouting it at me, would I hate it as much? Probably not, idk, but of all the songs impossible to detach from their social context this is the one. As for the rest of it, there a few others that I've heard so many times they kinda just become background noise, but you know what apart from got soul but i'm not a soldier it mainly holds up - looking back they sorta have more in common with Interpol musically (like a not quite as good Interpol) than a lot of the indie landfill they ended up chucked in with.
From the UK so you can’t escape the big singles from this album even 20 years later. Definition of a top heavy album, first side is full of the hits (a pretty excellent 5 song run to kick off) and then we have a loooooot of filler in the second half
The hits are great, the rest is eh
Super excited for this album, a lot of these songs are absolute bangers ! Such a throwback. Fav song is ‘Somebody Told Me.’
Den her genre er meget lidt For Me, men det er et virkelig definitivt album for hele den her æra og der er sgu nogle bangers på. Stor 3
Holds up! Frontloaded men shit hvor er første halvdel også bare solid
Frontloaded and the second half is pretty forgettable.
Decent
Hitjes hitjes hitjes 2000 is calling
China savait que c'est un groupe de la ville de Bob Wood. Je savais pas. Pour moi c'est le rendu de Las Vegas en comparaison des Strokes de New York.
3.5
Before talking about the album, “Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll” is the most cringe inducing this I’ve ever heard omg. Is your angle being the ManOWar of indie rock? Oh yeah the album. This is one of the biggest most successful albums that came out of the whole early oughts post punk revival - Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, all that thing. The Killers really wear their influences on their sleeve - The Cure, Joy Division with more than a dash of Springsteen. Timeless singles and inconsistent album tracks. Overall a product of the time but an important specimen so three stars.
7.5 / 10
The hits are great. “Mr.Brightside” is an all time classic. Other than that this album doesn't really offer much. 5/10
Ghost
Good first half, mid second
Album 89. Hot Fuss (https://open.spotify.com/album/4piJq7R3gjUOxnYs6lDCTg?si=Fbd1YjF0T824eDiHoVhQpQ) — The Killers (2004) It's not great, but good music. Had two songs in my playlist before. Forgettable indie rock besides the hits. 3/5 —————————————— Liked: — Mr.Brightside — Somebody Told Me
Debut album and I lucky to see them on that first short tour of the UK to promote it. They were brilliant and this album has 6-7 brilliant songs. This is the only album for me. Each album got less alternative or more mainstream for me.
Vegas rock with familiar lyrics
taki średni ale w sumie kilka bangerow
Fine. The hits are good but the rest of the album is very samey. Great 2000s era rock band but not an interesting one.
3.5
Mr. Brightside’s 20-odd years of dominance on this side of the Atlantic makes some sense to me now. The whole album is like that. Almost the Cure. Somewhat Modern English. Maybe even the Chameleons. When other American bands of that period - Interpol, say - sounded like Americans who had just learned what post-punk, just like the grunge movement represented ‘The Day Punk Broke,’ The Killers hardly sound American at all. Rather their version of New Wave music has a pop friendly indeterminacy, a transatlantic received pronunciation. When no British act was doing that at the time, at least not without irony, of course that most banal of paradoxes, the mainstream indie night, would take to the singles to heart. And those students would take the song to wedding receptions. And on and on. It’s genuinely admirable. 2.5 The first I heard of The Killers was ‘Somebody Told Me’. This was a song that I took an immediate dislike to in 2004 and I loathe it to this day. As I was wont to do twenty years ago I felt compelled in the course of the next weeks to mention to a number of friends that The Killers were utter shite, taking the opportunity whenever new music was mentioned and sometimes as a charming non sequitur. A little later I heard ‘All These Things I’ve Done’ for the first time. I remember it clearly, I was in Mark’s flat (he lived above a flower shop at the time) and he called my attention to their new song, streaming it on his computer. The track knocked my socks off on first listen as few other songs have ever done. The first guitar line was very simple but strangely elegant. The first verse melody, cleverly derived from the riff but not a copy of it, was absolutely delicious as was the melody of the songs slow, dramatic introduction; yet another variation which was then revisited in the second verse. This was impressive, beguiling stuff. I was gutted. I did walk back my previous dismissal of The Killers with my friends over the course of the next weeks and months, all the same I felt tricked. How dare any band be so wonderful and so terrible at the same time? Over the course of their career, The Killers have more or less sustained this duality. Even their album ‘Wonderful, Wonderful’ is partly Terrible. There has been general improvement, to be fair. Although they haven’t done much better than Hot Fuss at its best, only rarely have they produced work as annoying as Hot Fuss at its worst. And how dreadful that worst. The cold, cutting, idiotic one-finger synth assaults of Smile Like You Mean It and On Top, although the most painful bits are surely the end of Jenny Was… and that post-chorus bit in Mr Brightside. The witless oscillations of the melody of Midnight Show, or the non-melody of the verse of Mr Brightside. The frequently excruciating lyrics (let’s single out Smile Like You Mean It and Believe Me Natalie here). And of course there is Somebody Told Me; which embodies all these faults in its own special low-place. Over ‘dancey’ drums. What could possibly redeem any album that is host to such horrors? Well there are two elements to its redemption for me. First there’s the better stuff on the album. All These Things… I’ve mentioned already, although I generously omitted mention of ‘I got soul but I’m not a soldier’; a rather goofy bridge section which at the time drew more popular attention than it deserved. Several times around 2004/05 I encountered lairy students at kicking-out time using it as a substitute football chant. Brandon Flowers is a gifted writer of melodies, and though he is by no means a good lyricist he yields interesting enough moments, particularly where his faith as a Mormon intrudes on his writing - fragments in which he touches on God, morality, Heaven and so on. Hot Fuss is at its best when the songs are at their most structurally unusual and, unfettered from the chore of lowest common denominator repetition, Flowers lets his gift for melody and his terrific voice fly. ‘Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll’ is a glorious mess. The passage after the second key shift - Flowers belting at the top of his range amid a clutter of backing vocals and ecstatic drum rolls never fails to get my blood racing. ‘Andy, You’re a Star’, the oddest song on the album, may also be the best. Again, Flowers’ vocal provides the highlight, suddenly shifting up an octave in the second pre-chorus and turning an already dramatic number into near-Opera. The first verse of ‘Everything Will Be Alright’ is another of the album’s most beautiful moments - a rich, meandering melody - and although much of the rest of the song is defined by repetition the whole thing has a warm, intoxicated quality, possibly stemming from the fact that the band recorded it at home rather than in a studio. Which brings me to the other reason this album is, for me, ultimately redeemed. Personal sympathy. Brandon Flowers, as was widely noted at the time, sings most of this album in an English accent, despite being born and bred in Nevada, USA. He quickly offered up his enthusiasm for The Cure and The Smiths as some sort of explanation but there was no getting away from the fact that he was deeply embarrassed by his faux-English accent being observed. The Killers second album saw Flowers shift to an (arguably over-egged) American twang. Just as tellingly, he re-recorded Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll in this new accent - with virtually no other musical changes - presumably as a partial corrective to his debut. Now this peculiar embarrassment I can sympathise with. In the early noughties, at the same time young Brandon was jumping about the practice room channeling Morrissey (although not quite the same age - I am a few years younger) I indulged in a fair bit of home recording of my own songs. I am not English either, although I’m not quite 5000 miles away, but I also sang everything with an English accent. Years later I would listen back and blush as much at the accent I put on as the terrible music and lyrics. Even then (it’s been at least 15 years since I clapped ears on a Jamie Aceytlcholine track) I couldn’t quite account for why I sang like that. I could try to claim it was part of the dramatic assumption of a musical alter ego but this was just not so, despite the pseudonym. I think the truth is I simply didn’t notice; or at least implicitly assumed that no one else would notice. It certainly didn’t occur to me at the time that there was any musical value to my own accent. I suppose Thom Yorke and Damon Albarn (above all others) taught me how to sing and theirs was also the sort of music I wanted to make. I was very young and perfectly myopic in my musical creativity. So I feel for Brandon Flowers when I listen to Hot Fuss - an album which I understand he has for many years been unable to listen to. I don’t entirely pity him or anything; whatever his blushes over the accent thing he was blessed with a marvellously strong singing voice which is very much more than Jamie had. There was also all the money and success which must have gone some way to consoling him. A tragic epilogue. I am of an age now where I will pay money to stand in a big muddy field for hours for almost no one. So I didn’t bother going to see The Killers when they played at Boucher a few years ago. Throughout that show, however, I could hear all the basslines clearly as I sat in my flat, which was about three miles away and I recognised most of the songs. Credit to the bassist I suppose, of whose efforts I have yet made no mention. But amid the hits from Hot Fuss and Sam’s Town (a better album) there was, unmistakably, a cover of Teenage Kicks; a move more cringe even than the lyrics of ‘Human’. Wee Jamie was bad but he never sunk that low. 3/5
I expected to enjoy this album a bit more than I did. It has some highlights, but it's overall just ok.
Very listenable, some big hits here.
This album was pretty ubiquitous in the mid-Naughties, which I think has then led to a case of familiarity breeding contempt. I have a few of these songs on various playlists and at times they come on and it’s just ‘nah, heard that too many times’. Having said that, hearing them in isolation does give a slightly different appreciation. You can see how the first 4 songs were all huge hits - singable choruses, catchy (if at times inane) lyrics, slick production. The quality drops off fairly rapidly after that - All These Things That I've Done has the crazily catchy 'I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier' chant at the end (which I swore he ripped off from somewhere, but apparently not). 'Andy, You're A Star' is notable for being the most musically different with just a guitar and Flowers singing, but unfortunately again the lyrics are kinda rubbish and his delivery ruins it. 'On Top' is back to the pop-rock, but without the major hooks, and 'Change My Mind' is similar again. After another couple of filler tracks (prize for the worst lyric from 'Believe Me Natalie' - 'There is an old cliche under your Monet, baby' - like, what?!?!?!), we get to 'Glamourous Indie Rock 'n' Roll', which I can only assume is Flowers attempt at being a hardened cynic. Overall, it's impressive how the first 4 songs have endured over the last 20 years, but as an album, it's not great. 3 stars for the first half, can't say I'd waste my time listening to the rest again.
Hat seine Höhen und Tiefen. Teilweise interessante Ideen aber vieles wirkt sehr einfallslos. At its best, wenn sie tatsächlich etwas probieren, dass nicht nur 0815 pop rock ist. Höhepunkt(e): Everything Will Be Alright, Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll Tiefpunkt(e): Somebody Told Me Rating: 6/10
Guter erster Eindruck, instrumental sehr gut, gutes Schlagzeug, sehr guter Bass, nur der Sänger ist bisschen losgelöst von dem Rest der Band. Das zweite Lied on top sehr gutes instrumental Gesang Melodie ein bisschen komisch Everything will be alright: das Instrumental hat gute Ansätze aber die Stimme macht mit dem Filter keinen sensiblen Eindruck obwohl das Thema des Liedes sensibel sein soll. 4/10 All these things I've done ist bis jetzt das beste meiner Meinungnach, weil das Instrumental und der Gesang das erste Mal an einem Strang ziehen und nicht zwei verschiedene Melodien spielen. Mr Brightside ist super bekannt aber meiner Meinung nach ein wenig overhyped. Es ist auf jeden Fall eins der guten Lieder. Fazit: mir gefällt der Sänger nicht und der ständige Filter auf der stimme noch weniger. Die Musiker haben auf jeden Fall was drauf, aber der Sänger will so ein bisschen mehr als er kann. Der Synth ist mega random und es wird nur in die Tasten gehackt ohne jegliches Können. Ich sehe den Millenial Rebell vibe von der Musik und den trifft es auch gut aber es fehlt mir generell so ein wenig Identität bzw Alleinstellungsmerkmal. Die Turn Up Lieder sind solide, aber die "gefühlvollen" werden von dem Gesang nur kaputt gemacht. Die besten Lieder meiner Meinung absteigend sind: All these things that I've done Glamorous Indie Rock & roll Mr. Brightside HM: On Top
The music sounds very familiar and even timeless in the sense that I couldn't say, "This is typical years... music."
Very neutre
Heard Some; 3.5; Really fun singles and first half of the album, but the rest of the album is kinda uninteresting. I didn't like this as much as I thought I would have. Favorite Track: Mr. Brightside
Carried by a few songs
FAVS: All These Things That I've Done, Everything Will Be Alright, Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll Not necessarily what I would reach for, but honestly a great listen.
Ok
It was pretty good, but outside of a few songs it almost felt too meta.
A quintessential album for all millennials. Fun, nostalgic for some, but certainly not ever lasting. (Like many albums on this list, or at least what I’m beginning to find….)
A fun listen. I was not familiar with them. I had listened to The Strokes and somehow missed The Killers. To me, they sound very similar. Would listen again, certainly.
I liked this one quite a bit in the beginning but towards the end it kinda fell off. Favorites include Mr. Brightside and Somebody Told Me and Jenny Was a Friend of Mine.
More angular than I remember, some Beatlesesque moments (everything will be alright?), feel like you can hear the desert in some songs to me. 1 or 2 very cut and paste indie pop songs
Sympa, typique rock band des années 2000 je trouve que l’album s'essouffle vachement
Definitely an album I avoided listening to because I think Mr.brightside is overplayed. Jenny was a friend of mine is a Killer way to start off an album. Andy you're a star kind of rubs me the wrong way.
Solid album I hadn’t heard in years (but only listened to in entirety probably once). Bunch of popular tunes though….
alcune canzoni mi hanno fatto SCHIFO, altre carine
Before listening to this, I wanted to preface this review with simply not discussing "Mr. Brightside" in any amount of depth. It's almost the 'ultimate' drunk-in-a-club-at-2am song, and has become almost nothing more than that for me. Honestly, "Somebody told me" is a very close second in this regard. It is a shame, because lyrically and musically they are both good songs, I've just listened to them both so much that it's very difficult to be even remotely objective about them. "Jenny was a friend of mine" with its hard hitting bass and Flowers' voice - which I've always thought had an air of 'matter of fact' to it - makes for an impressive opening track, telling the story of a man accused of murder; a fitting track for a band holding a name like this. Under the weight of Mr. Brightside before it, "Smile like you mean it", with it's unique whining guitar and punchy bass has always been a favourite of mine. The chorus too, delivered in a way that sounds like a plea, really sells the emotion in the track. The opening to "All these things that I've done" with its near-biblical pianos, megaphone vocals and slow building drums sound like the beginning of a Pink Floyd record. The biblical tone continues throughout the song, with choir backing vocals on the lyric "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier"; incredibly catchy and personal to Flowers' connection to LDS. Everything ties together exceptionally well here. With "Andy, You're a Star", I find myself saying - for the first time this journey - that I really wasn't a phone. The buzz of the guitar and Flowers' voice just create a mixed drone that I couldn't wait to hear the end of. "On Top" was enjoyable in places, such as the inflections in Flowers' voice when singing the chorus, though it felt a little chaotic with the synthesized bops, tambourines and orchestral strings in different places. Although it all sounds great, it lacks cohesion enough to be truly satisfying to listen to. As the album pulls closer to the end after "On Top", it feels as though it begins to run out of ideas, "Change your mind" being hugely unremarkable, "Believe me Natalie" starting with real uniquity then washing out with predictable sounding verses. "Midnight Show" was a surprise, and I did enjoy its more energetic beat and orchestral outro. "Everything will be alright" starts like a sexy spy thriller title sequence track, and whilst I wasn't entirely keen on Flowers' voice on this one, the instrumental was carrying the track until about the 2 minute mark, where near chip-tune beeps ruined the beauty of it all. I still enjoyed my time with this, but whether I listen to this again in it's entirety is up for debate.
First half of this album is back to back bangers. Not as interested in the second half but 3 stars awarded based on the initial run of songs.
Some bright spots but none of them are strung together into a full song. The back half of the album is particularly weak, except for ‘Midnight Show.’ (3/5)
Like the lyrics and tempo of songs. Favorite song Mr Brightside.
Ok
It was nice to hear some of the album songs that are not overplayed to death again. This is a fun album, but still feels of the moment rather than classic to me.
6/10 wasn’t a fan but definitely had its good songs in there! My favorite track is Everything will be alright’
Liked the songs…not sure about the singer
The songs are OK and I'm familiar with the first five. But they're ruined by the sound recording IMO. It lacks clarity anf space between the instruments and there's a harshness anf density to the sound that makes it hard to listen to.
Solid Rock album. It's got the two songs I know and like from The Killers (Mr. Brightside & Somebody Told Me) but otherwise nothing too special. I'd give it 3.5 Stars if I could but 3 seems reasonable
Mr brightside, always will bring me back to Maastricht and karaoke night :) but overall not my style.
nice
Nostalgic album for me. Loved it when it came out. Listened again. It's okay.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ meh
such a nostalgic feeling type of album
Até On Top, é fácil um dos melhores de todo o gênero e época. Infelizmente ainda tem mais 5 faixas depois disso.
Hard to deny the hooks on the first half of this record.
Honestly only liked the songs I already knew so this was kind of a disappointment
Better than Coldplay
Fine, some good classic tracks & ultimately better than I expected. Quite repetitive though -- they definitely had a signature sound on this one. Everything Will Be Alright is a cool one I hadn't heard but otherwise it's what you expect it to be. And that's okay.
The album was an amazing listening experience, liked a few songs. Would listen to again.
60/100
Buen álbum. No es mi estilo. Nunca me llegó la banda. Pero qué hits tiene este. 6/10
There's some catchy tunes on this album.
Bom início, perde interesse a meio. Não gostei dos sintetizadores
yeah, quite like it
Abgesehen von Mr Brightside hat mich das Album nicht so richtig abgeholt
Good record. I knew a few tracks here, but I was pleasantly surprised by the B-side here. Favourite Track(s): Mr. Brightside Least Favourite Track(s): Believe Me Natalie
Two mega hits aber der Rest ist zu dünn für 4 Also 3,5 Sterne diesesmal aber mit der Tendenz zu drei
I’ll never get beyond the lyric “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier”
A nice reminder that “Mr. Brightside” only recently became annoying. I like “Believe Me Natalie”.
Not as nostalgic as I had hoped. Although will always think “all these things that I’ve done” is their best song
mr brightside top song. All these things i've done 2nd fav. back when are we human was on the radio i did not know this was their sound
Mr. Brightside is about as big a single as you can get. It accomplished the rare feat of being wildly popular and profitable, while never getting too stale. Safe to say that for the millennial cohort, there may not be a song more universally enjoyed. As for the rest of the album, there’s some good tracks here. Side two is pretty pedestrian, but Jenny is a great opener, and All These Things serves as a great emotional peak.
Really fun listen. I wasn’t expecting to like the songwriting as much as I did. Feels pretty top heavy. It sounds a bit derivative to me, nothing groundbreaking. Still good!
Achei meio meh
Love the lead vocals from The Killers. ‘Mr. Brightside’ is one of my favorite songs of all time and to hear the album it came from was pretty neat. ‘Somebody Told Me’ of course another classic.
Some banger singles for sure including the most overplayed song of the century. Always really liked Smile Like You Mean It. 3.5 rounded down Heard before? Yes Owned: No: 35/136 (25%) Will I get? No.
I only really like Mr. brightside. I definitely see how this was an important album for the time though
Not a bad album, less Christian than the rest of their stuff. I was previously an enjoyer of Somebody Told me and All These Things That I've Done, but Jenny was a Friend Of Mine was a new one which I enjoyed. I think the progression of this album was really good and I enjoyed that flow. 2.5/5 stars.
It's a little white bread to me but good sing along songs.
People weren't kidding when they said this was a very front loaded album. All the hits are in the first few songs and after Somebody Told Me this really drops off. Still a pretty decent listen. Not spectacular and I don't really care for Mr. Brightside, but it's a fun enough album. Loud blaring stadium rock, probably really fun in a live setting.
If this were like, a 6 song EP, it'd be one of the strongest EP's of the last 30 years. Unfortunately, it's not, so it's just a pretty average, albeit notable, album.
Overall enjoyable, with some catchy tracks, but also a lot of filler and moments where you feel they are forcing themselves into a particular sound.
I despise Mr Brightside but the rest of the album was good
Rv
Bit of a tricky one to rate. There's some super catchy songs here fronted by some truly dumb lyrics. I don't really want to listen to this again (although the hit songs are everywhere in the wild anyway) but can't fault the effort.
Love an album that screams what decade it is from, that is in this case from the 2000s, which similar sounding music to this album called garage rock/post punk revival is from. When people decided to give a back-to-basics approach another chance. It's pretty alright, but It gives me an urge to just listen to Is This It? instead. A re-listen to this one probably maybe will help. Highlight Song/s: Mr. Brightside and All These Things That I've Done
The hype around that one song is unfounded. Not even top 3 on this album. That being said, this is just fine.
Never been the biggest fan of The Killers - I think Mr Brightside is best as a group Guitar Hero song and ain't what they chop it up to be otherwise. There's more versatility here than I anticipated and that was cool -esp for a debut. Favorite Song: Everything Will Be Alright
21 years ago i heard somebody told me and loved it. i bought the album and hated it. all the singles ive heard since then have been fine but not great. re-listening, its much better than i remember it being and has a decent bit of variety. its also very heavily frontloaded with a very mediocre string of songs to end the album
First half of the album is excellent but extremely front loaded.
No my cup of tea
Highly efficient corporate pap.
meh.
This album is OK. There are a few songs I really love…most of the rest of the album is forgettable.
Gotta start somewhere
Poppista mutta muistan kyllä hitit. Ihan jees! 3/5
Alkupuoli lapsuusajan hittejä, loppupuoli geneeristä nollari-indietä. kakkosen ja kolmosen välillä kiikutaan.
Full of their hits and I remember loving it at the time. Doesn’t quite hit the same heights listening back today but still an enjoyable album.
3.0 - Ok
Although it’s not a deep pool, it’s still fun to take a dip on a warm summer day. A light 3/5
Dated and not as great as I wanted it to be. Not really a huge fan in their hey, I wanted to think maybe it was better 20-years on.
Nostalgic and fun. Probably wouldn't listen to the album all the way through on the regular but it was a fun throw back.
Not really the era of rock I enjoy, but this album was solid enough. I recognized a couple songs. I felt like the first half of this album was more fun to listen to than the second half though.
I almost skipped this one because I listened to it so many times when it first came out, in my 3rd year of uni. I’m glad I listened to it though, it brought back a lot of memories. Somebody Told Me still reminds of going to drop Trace off at school. The only song I didn’t recognise was Change Your Mind which I find strange because I know I listened to the whole album many times, because that’s how I listened to music back then.
Klassista kamaa tämäkin. Nuorempana tuli kuunneltua jonkin verran ja edelleen mukavaa kuunneltavaa.
Me childhood lol
"It's indie rock'n'roll for me" about sums it up. So many bangers on this record, but also a fair amount of filler. We will never escape "Mr. Brightside."
Somebody told me that you have a boyfriend that looks like a girlfriend.... kyllä sinä tiedät tämän biisin. Hyvin tuotettu albumi
I think Brandon Flowers' voice was wasted on this album, he showed his range much better later and solo.
Solid album, I remember seeing the Killers on this album tour
First half is INCREDIBLE. You could be a successful touring band just based on these songs for the rest of your music career, and they have. Second half is much like the rest of The Killers discography...meh.
Close to 4 stars on account of some truly iconic tracks, but second half is a bit of a snoozefest and unremarkable. Found a similar pattern on Sam’s Town too - feels like they wrote three massive hits, and had to put an album around them. Some of the bass parts are wicked and had never noticed before. Surely one of the best things that the Mormons have ever made.
Some songs I really like, some I actively don't care for or have heard too many times to even hear as songs. I like the "I got soul but I'm not a soldier" one.
The highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
Ganska bra, några bra låtar!
Não é um álbum ruim. De certa forma é até agradável, mas seu principal problema é a falta de variedade e uma discrepância de qualidade entre a primeira e a segunda metade, o que pode ser observado entre a potência e vibração da faixa de abertura "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" e a repetição enfadonha da última (penúltima na versão do Spotify) "Everything Will Be Alright".
JEALOUSY
Pretty neat tbh ! The bangers are bangers the songs that aren’t popular aren’t popular for a reason. Still pretty solid. Very little of this feels exciting, probably because I was raised by the internet and saw all warrior cats animatics with these songs…
6.8/10
Already familiar with album. Starts off real strong with catchy songs, better than I remembered even. Halfway through I got bored and found things forgettable, thus reminding me why I was unimpressed with the album past the singles that came from it when it first came out.
It was a pleasant listen, a good album for a spectrum of ages I’d say. Wasn’t as genre defining as some of the albums I’ve listened to
Correcto, pero ya me pilla mayor y no lo he disfrutado en su época.
Creo que podría haber sido mejor, de igual forma es una calificación temprana, necesitaba de más escuchas
3.5
Generally I'm more of a Strokes or Interpol guy, but the three song run of "Mr. Brightside" "Smile Like You Mean It" and "Somebody Told Me" is pretty unimpeachable. That being said, the rest of the album is solidly okay for me.
new wave post punk killers shmillers... Feels like this is like 25th similar album during this 1001 -project. Not bad, but really not so good either.
Think rating of this depends on how fresh and new it felt on first listen.I remember feeling it wasn't exactly original, very much wearing it’s predecessors front and centre, but a lot of airplay later it sits alongside said predecessors on classic rock radio today. Thought it was listenable anthemic rock in the 2000s, guess it is still that, listenable though it definitely front loaded and drops off becoming laboured towards the end, 3 Star
I found 1 great song
So obviously I know this album, I know several songs on this album. But until yesterday I don’t know for a fact that I had ever sat through the whole thing. And I know now why I don’t remember most of it, the second half of the album is completely forgettable. You could argue that the A side is so strong that it makes the mediocre B side look worse. And I think that’s pretty agreeable. The second half isn’t bad it just isn’t memorable at all. But those first 4 songs are untouchably good. To be fair, the first half of this album is so good that it contains most of the biggest rock songs of the 2010s. Easily a great album that’s only slightly weighted down by the second half but not enough to turn it off.
Somehow I never realized that the Killers were post-punk revival? Anyway, common wisdom on this one is right, it drops off *hard* after "All These Things I've Done" (a song I can't think of without thinking of the time I found myself in Notasulga and couldn't stop being like "We've got soul, we're Notasulga")
Fun. Not a huge Killers fan. Nothing groundbreaking or really grasping to me on this album
Feels over produced but good tracks
Yep, it's the Killers best album A couple of songs I quite like on here, the rest aren't awful background music.
I got an album by the Smiths 2 days ago and I think I prefer that to this, but some classics on here.
This album is like nerdy music kids rocking up to the 6th form school ball as if they own the place. They never really socialised with anyone else other than each other, and you always thought that even though they are good guys, they weren’t exactly fun to hang out with on weekends. But here they are, rocking the cleanest suit and tie combos in the room, knowing they look good and commanding the respect of others because of it. One of them is wearing sunglasses inside which is insane levels of skux that you simply didn’t think they had. You’ve never seen them exude such confidence, and you can’t help but admire them. You catch up with one of them at the after-ball and remember they are still the same old nerdy nice guys though. The drinks on offer are beer and white wine, and this dude just ordered a dirty martini.
Meh. Some good moments, but mostly easily forgettable.
Not my thing but for the genre I thought it was good.
Two bangers, a bunch of pretty ok songs, and a few songs I didn’t like. Doubting between 3 or 4 stars, but don’t think I’ll play the whole album again. So 3.
clasic
This is one of those mid-oughts records that I missed mostly because I had given up on rock for a long time after the late 90s junk that dominated the radio. I've definitely heard a few of these songs, and the whole album comes together pretty well. definitely a sound of that era, which I mostly didn't love. I'm giving this a three, but it's a high three. 3/5
På sitt beste er denne plata en riktig så god postpunk/new wave-pastisj. På sitt verste er den full av fillers. Hitsa fra plata er helt konge, og egentlig alt man trenger. Men takk for nostalgitrippen
This came out during my high school years. Everyone around me was obsessed but I didn’t get it back then. After a few listens, I can see it. I enjoy the vocal styling, especially on “Everything Will be Alright”. This feels like an emo security blanket. Hopeful melancholy.
This album teleports you 20 years into the past. Very of the time. Last few songs are very skippable, but a fun listen because of nostalgia.
Big throwback to the Pandora days. Pretty varied album actually. The highs are really high. The filler on the back half of the album I definitely could have died without having listened to.
Honestly a bit disappointed in this one, thought I’d like it more. Love the hits but most of the other tracks are passable, that’s it.
not bad
Je dirais plus un 3.5 que 3
Plus catchy que j'ose l'avouer. Par moment un peu cringe, par moment plutôt cool. Pour du "slop rock", il y a pire. Les paroles sont très tristes/nostalgiques par contre (moins un fan), mais c'est une préférence personnelle. Un produit de son temps.
Un peu comme un album de Oasis, la majorité de l'album a rien d'extraordinaire mais il y a 2-3 tracks qui sont juste légendaires. Un peu moins qu'Oasis selon moi quand même, mais bon.
nice stuff - just not my cup of tea
I know most of the songs on this album but I've never fully listened to it before (3). The hits are massive, the rest is not bad!
Can't believe this is so old
Moro moro :D The killers on sellanen bändi jolta lisätään yks tai kaks biisiä soittolistaan täytteeksi. Kädenläpöistä rokkia milleniaaleille. Musiikki on kuitenki ihan hyvää.
Kyl tälle on oma aikansa ja paikkansa. Moni biiseistä kulunut radiosoitossa paljon, mutta kuvastaa hyvin 2000 luvun alun meininkejä.
Ihan hyvää perus poprockkia Killerssiltä. Ei huonoa, muttei erityisen hyvääkään. Pari tunnettua hittiä jo aiemmin kuullut, mutta muuten levy aiemmin tuntematon.
Tykkään todella paljon The Killersin biiseistä, mutta kokonainen albumi kerralla alkaa tuntumaan liian raskaalta. Jotenki laulu liian leukoja länkyttävää huutamista liian monessa kappaleessa. Helppo kolmonen silti, koska yksittäil sillon tällön ripoteltuna nautin.
Hittibiisit ovat menevää tavaraa, mutta osa biiseistä on vähän sellaista "meh" -kamaa.
Have found the Killers to be one of the most overrated bands of the past 20+ years. This one didn't hit for me when it came out (despite owning it) but I felt it was slightly better on this much later listen. Not sure if it is quite a "classic" but solid none-the-less. 3/5
mid diría yo con algunos toques buenos, na me gusta
Mr Brightside! This is kinda closer to my type of music, but still a lot of skips for me.
I think this would be sick live
Listening to the second half of this album is like walking through mud.
I suspect people who are not yet dead inside would rate this higher. (I think It is who and not whom, but I’m not sure. There would be no way for me to figure this out. I SAID THERE ISN'T ANY WAY!!!)
Eventually I got round to listening to this album. It is okay but in no way memorable.
Haha Mormon album
Best Song: All These Things That I've Done. I've always liked the "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier" repetition, cheesy as it may be. Worst Song: Everything Will Be Alright. I bet this seemed like a better idea on paper than it turned out to be in practice. The excessive repetition with different intonations comes off as more inane than inspirational. Overall: Certainly there are some songs on here that were so massively played as to be unavoidable, which makes it difficult to listen with anything approaching new ears. Nevertheless, the big songs have a pleasant sing-along quality, and the B-sides are good enough to not annoy. Pretty good pop-rock, overall.
I liked it a lot, quite a few hits I recognized, may come back and listen again
“Mr. Brightside” has been consistently on the charts for over 20 years. That is incredible! However, outside of the 3 big ones on this record, I thought it lacked. “All These Things that I’ve Done” is still one of my favorite 00s rock songs. The non-single tracks are just kinda there. Would listen again, but got the gist. This is another instance where I would recommend a different album (Sam’s Town).
I really didn’t like the Killers until “Sam’s Town” came out, but once I caught on and bought this album I knew I had been wrong to dismiss them. They are an incredible and original pop rock act, with (mostly) good songwriting to boot (not to mention Brandon Flowers grew up Mormon and never uses swear words in his writing). This album is hit after hit… but completely front loaded. Once you get past song 6 or 7 it slips into filler territory. But the first half is perfect. “Sam’s Town” on the other hand, only has one bad song. Anyway, in conclusion, “All The Things That I’ve Done” is the best song on here, hands down.
Expected to dislike this! it was alright!
I just never could get into this band. First half is pretty good.
Not sure if it's the voice distortion or the general mood, but I've never been able to tolerate the band. But I have to admit that they have some hits, and overall is an OK album. 6/10
never listened to a full killers album before and it's incredibly cheesy teenager stuff that didn't age well. three stars instead of two only because of somebody told me, it's a fun song
obviously bright side is overrated but overall i didn’t mind the album, cliched for the time period but also had a sense of nostalgia and familiarity that i liked
absolutely fucking loved this album when I was 13. It's still decent in some places even if Mr Brightside has been stolen by white people for a wedding anthem.
Good classic album, Mr Brightside is the quintessential white people party song. Sad they could never duplicate it
This is so 2018 Austin
Ніколи не був я фанатом кіллерс, ба більше - мене завжди бісила пісня somebody told you і кліп на неї, який кожен день по тисячу разів крутили по ентер мьюзік колись. Але треба визнати що mr brightside це один з головних хітів тієї декади, який все ще ефектно звучить коли його хором співає натовп на концертах.
I don't like Killers. Generic forgettable.
It was merely okay
Z plusem
divertido
Brings me back to the good ol' days... My third year of life
I know they are let's say heavily borrowing from 80s post-punk and new wave, and I know that the music-cognoscenti like to diss them for being all flash and no bang, but I have never listened to the Killers before, aside from hearing that single "Mr. Brightside" a bunch, and there are some fun post-punk-pop songs here, especially in the first half. Hooks, synths, big drums, moods. Not great, but pretty good on a bike ride to the dentist in the summer.
Lo mejor del disco es Mr Brightside, bueno para escucharlo eventualmente
3.5
The top half of this album is truly so good with so many iconic bangers but overall the whole thing is fine. Wild this was their debut though
Like a B+ on a neutral listen. Pretty vanilla and mainstream sound for supposed indie rock. No one likes it more than Brandon Flowers
Enjoyed the vibe, some parts not aged well but overall an interesting listen.
3.5
Blah. Nothing much to say about this one. Couple of good hits and a decent listen, but nothing special to me about this album. Definition of average.
Me gusta a pesar de no ser mi estilo habitual, es un álbum interesante.
eu amei, eu era viciada em maneskin e eu nunca tinha ouvido a versão original de somebody told me um arraso
I see the videos of people singing Mr. Brightside or The Killers in concert with the crowd singing the anthems and feel I totally missed the boat. These anthems feel like songs you had to listen to while with friends, getting drunk, when you were a teenager. For whatever reason this just wasn’t what we listened to in those days and I don’t think I can retrospectively get into it. When I listen now I only think “I don’t get it”. Respect it but a blind spot for me. Disco beat always works. Does he have a fake British accent?
awesome first 4 tracks. i can hear the new wave influence but also very 2000s rock. so nostalgic, perfect for listening at sunset while you drive to see someone you love.
eh.
Another one that belongs back in the 2000's
The album starts of with catchy beats. Mr Brightside has always been a great song in my opinion and one many people have on their playlists. The issue with this album is that it stays the same throughout with little to no change in style. The lyrics also get quite difficult to listen to. 3.5 stars
Energetic new rock in the style of the Strokes, etc. Catchy, clever, engaging.
First half is great then it drops off
An interesting mix of generic indie rock stuff and some interesting experimentation Mr Brightside somehow never gets old which should really happen
Classics I’ve been told, I liked the vibes but I wasn’t locked in.
pretty enjoyable listen. lots of filler its seems but some of the somgs i hadnt heard before were great.
Would be 4 if that last track didnt feel like owl city but boring and really cringe lyrics
The beginning of the album has the best hits with Mr. Brightside", "Somebody Told Me", "All These Things That I've Done" and "Smile Like You Mean It". After these hits the album fizzles out and becomes background music!
You can't argue with the sheer staying power of "Mr Brightside", but "Somebody Told Me" is a cracker too. It sits as a high 3 for me. I enjoyed the rest of the album but wouldn't go back.
Mm, I don't know, I feel like I should have enjoyed this album- it's that pop-indie vibe that should have been easy to listen to, but it was just fairly meh. I didn't grow up with this album to be fair, so maybe that's part of it.