Hot Fuss

Some great tracks, some stinkers. Don't know why, but the "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" always miffed me. Feel like they tried going too big in parts. Walk before you try running. The last track epitomises this. Don't fully get the hype tbh. 2.5*

I don't mind The Killers, but to be honest wouldn't say I'm a fan. Album has one or two good radio hits. Second half of the album fell flat in comparison to the first.

First half of this is just laced with the good stuff; hits that are lame as hell but still hold up. Overplay aside, there are some certified gems here. Second half lets this all down a bit, with kind of boring or forgettable or just kind of shit tracks. The Killers are such an interesting band. I think they have gone through waves of being considered cool, to lame, to cool again. This album is pretty imperfect but I think will only grow in its popularity among music purists as time goes on. It's simple, and it wears its influences of Floyd, Springsteen, and Queen right there for you. I can't explain why my favourite part of the whole album is that stupid goddamn 'I got soul but I'm not a soldier' chant... It's so stupid! But it's also amazing! It makes no sense! But it's got me singing along! A strong three stars. Fave track: All These Things That I've Done

# 58 : Some good catchy tunes, but no real substance. Easy listening. Mr Brightside

The hits are decent for popular music but the rest is invariably dull or repetitive by comparison. Their image was somewhat interesting, a Las Vegas Mormon wearing eyeliner with a faux English flare to his singing.

No favorites

The two big hits aside, I liked the first track and Change Your Mind.

Pretty fun indie rock 00s

Very much a tale of two albums. The first half incredibly good. The second half incredibly forgettable

Several great radio hits on this one that bring me back to mid 2000s.

Energetic, interesting, but kind of annoying. Something for a workout or a night out, but not something I would throw on regularly.

Solid early 00's pop rock. It has in energy what it lacks in sophistication.

This album is front loaded with a bunch of amazing Killers song (and ones that I often listen to!) but for some reason it doesn't impress me as much together as an album. It starts off so strong but the second half is honestly a snoozefest.

HS Nostalgia, fun and upbeat

Behind the drunken singalong big hits, some interesting homages to synthy 80s New Romantic posturing, albeit with a bit too much guitar for my liking. Also Brandon Flowers was hot. Reminds me of jumping up and down at misshapes on a Thursday night in the early 2000s. For the same vibe but better, prefer Ezra Furman, the Strokes or Franz Ferdinand

Starts strong. Some of it is good. Some of it is average or below. 72/100

It's alright. They sound very European for an American band. They remind me of Pulp and Editors at times. The songs are good enough to justify their popularity. Nothing annoying about any of them. Easy to listen to. A lot of the songs go in one ear and out the other. Favorite song: Somebody Told Me.

It’s Indie-Pop‘n‘Roll for me. Harmless but very well produced 2.6

Just not my style / couldn’t wait for it to be over. 2.5/5

It's not a good album but I can't say anything that bad about it. A few good songs a few boring songs. Mr Brightside hasn't survived being massively overplayed.

Ok

Feels like the big singles from Hot Fuss are quite a lot different from the rest of the (underwhelming) album, but they do some heavy lifting on their own tbf.

It was alright. Cant say much more about it.

This was decent. I liked it more than I expected to. The singles are still terrible, but maybe that's just because of oversaturation. Who knows. 2.75/5

Solid album, front heavy

Debut album released in 2004. You can’t ignore the heavy hitting singles on this album that justifies its popularity. The album does drift off beyond those tracks.

I never really got into The Killers despite one of my friends really being into them at their peak. This record doesn't move me much. They're just more of that early aughts nicked from the past vibe. It's hard to see what the fuss is about.

actually ok

Good album. Probably the only album by The Killers that I really like. I would give it 4 stars, but it kinda fades and is probably just too long.

The Killers are rock music for people that don't necessarily love rock music. And that's fine, but I've never been the type to fall hard for this album. It's not horrible, but I'll take hearing a single every now and then over trying to trudge through an entire Killers album.

Full of bops but overplayed :/

This album is an amazing example of someone blasting out of the gates on their first record and never really capturing it again. First 5 songs are very strong, some of the album tracks are interesting, 'Everything Will Be Alright' is a stand out. Between a very high 2 and a low 3, scrapes a 3

Mr Brightside is a hit. Somebody told me is alright. Rest of the album was pretty forgettable. No wonder I only knew the singles.

Interessante. Bellissima 'Somebody told me'

73 of 1001 The Killers - Hot Fuss Rating : 3/5 Favorite Track : Somebody Told Me Went to read up a bit more on this and find that it has been removed form later editions of this album list. That is disappointing. I really enjoyed this. Went in expecting some heavy punk stuff that could be hit or miss but was surprised. This is one I'll go back to. Good tunes.

AJ: First 5 songs are great. Do not need the rest. At all. Jenny opener is top notch. Cat: I never really cared for the two songs I knew were the Killers (somebody told me and me bright side). I do really like all the things I’ve done and didn’t know it was them! They have a cool sound. Very 80s. They’re alright

Pretty standard

Not bad, bit overrated

Loved the dancier stuff like the singles, but their slow songs weren’t for me.

Yeah The Killers is never really my thing but growing up this brings a lot of memories.

It's very close to being a 4. The first 4 tracks of the album are all amazing, then the middle is fine but nothing amazing and then it picks back up at the end. With the exception of Everything Will Be Alright that one I don't really care about.

I never really bought into The Killers. They seemed way too polished and manufactured, and sounded just like every other garage/dance type bands coming out in the 2000s it was hard to tell them apart from everyone else. Listening to this now, it is slightly better than I remember, but most of my initial criticisms still hold. I get that this was like, the longest charting album ever in the UK or something, but popularity doesn't mean it's good art. I mean, I'd rather listen to this than plenty of other things, but that's a pretty low bar.

Mr. Brightside, Smile Like You Mean It, Somebody Told Me, On Top and Believe Me, Natalie. I’ve heard some of these before and some are good and a lot of them are bleh. Generic pop rock from the early 2000’s which technically isn’t a bad thing because it’s mostly catchy.

smile like you mean it is a 5, jenny was a friend of mine was good. it's front loaded. it falls off and becomes energetic wilco after the first few songs.

Contains nearly the most iconic song of the 2000s, this makes a pretty good album to support that.

Solid alt rock record. A little too bubbly for my taste but still good. It feels a little safe which is not something I am personally looking for in alt rock. I think my favorite tracks were "Mr. Brightside", "Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine", "Believe Me Natalie" and "Somebody Told Me". It is a pretty listenable album but I feel like a lot of the tracks are just a little neutral and don't stand out. I would give it a 7/10.

Mr who

Lots of angst on this one. The hits on here are “killer” bum bum tsss.

feels very weird listening to mr brightside while not in a provincial town pub in saturday night mode, you know where they turn some lights off , play the music louder and clear some tables for a 'dancefloor'. this album has done a full roller coaster of going form being eagerly anticipated cool album to the wedding DJ classic shunned by anyone with an ounce of musical taste. obviously i count myself in that category as my musical taste is superior to anyone else alive so these days i wouldn't choose to listen to this album but being made to i realise how steeped in nostalgia those first 5 tracks are for me as they take me back to my heyday when you couldn't move for indie clubs and in said indie clubs you would probably hear all of the first 5 tracks each night. although i will have listened to the album back in the day i have absolutely no recollection of the second half. it must have been one of those that got turned off as soon as it hit the shit half. who would have guessed hot fuss would be the album to make me waffle on like this? maybe its because its friday afternoon and i'm winding down for the weekend.

First 5 songs are big, then it completely nose dives into oblivion. I think they had about 3 more songs in the rest of the 20 career. I genuinely can't believe they're still considered MASSIVE. Just an 00s indie band, no better than Maximo Park or The View.

This was a lot better than I was expecting. I liked the first song and “Believe Me Natalie”. Don’t really like the vocals though.

I don’t hate The Killers, I just hate “Mr. Brightside”

There’s definitely more to this album than Mr.Brightside and Somebody Told Me. It was better than I was expecting and pretty good, but I didn’t hear anything new or wildly creative.

Amazing how many of these songs i knew almost by heart

Between 3 and 4

Couple bangers lol

There's always room in one's musical diet for records like this ... edgy, stylish, glittery and not afraid a pop hook or silly lyric in the service of cool. "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll," indeed!

Loved this album

A lot of well-known, decent songs. Just so overplayed in the naughties!

Outside of the classics the rest of the album feels a bit lackluster tbh

Me. brightside is the only song I still genuinely enjoy, besides that it really bored me, maybe I’m not an dramatic teen anymore or maybe I just grew out of it…

The killes is probably the best American college rock band.

banal

I liked this album when it came out with its retro-80’s sound. It has gotten a lot of undeserved hatred recently.

Vuosi 2004 musiikkina. Toimii. Mutta aika stadion

To me this is more nostalgia than quality. A decent enough pop album, but nothing extraordinary.

Good, probably heard all the songs before but not the full album, good but felt overly familiar

Probably a solid 3.5 stars. I definitely liked this more back in the day, and I’ll be curious as to how well the albums of the noughts fare. Not well, I presume.

I like this. Lots of hits.

Comme tous les gens de mon âge, j’ai beaucoup entendu Somebody Told Me, mais le groupe ne m’a jamais captivée. Cette écoute a confirmé que je n’accroche tout simplement pas, je ne saurais expliquer pourquoi

This album triggered my tinnitus so badly after two songs that for the first time in 425 albums, I tapped out. I know I'm not missing much. The Killers emerged in the early 00's bland reawakening of pop rock along with Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand. Had it not been for the arena popular Mr Brightside, The Killers would be a budget bin selection like the other two. But, it is and Hot Fuss is still deemed a 'Must Listen' and whether it truly is or not for this list, when it comes to Tinnitus sufferers, it is not. So if you dear listener come across this review, please check your volume and protect your ears, unless you want to not listen to music that you do and do not enjoy. 3/5.

Some great songs but many forgettable ones. Every song sounds kind of the same. 3.5/5

No way this is a must listen album. The singles will be played for many years and that is all that is worth listening to.

3 or 4 great great songs but the rest is filler. Could have been an amazing album but it’s better than average.

I noticed that I liked the less popular songs on the album.

Sonido muy sólido en general, con algunos clásicos y otros buenos temas. Volvería a repasarlo

Going in with a neutral mind. I promise. First song sounds insane recording wise for some reason to me, but then it just goes into hit after hit and totally didn’t even realize all these were from one record. Pleasant surprise to listen all the way through :-)

Listed as p916 in my edition of the book but! p916 has K.I.A by Mila! 2004. 3 stars. Oddly soulless pop-rock. Plenty of cracking tunes, and I feel I should like it more than I do, but Brandon Flowers voice puts me off. "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier". Yeah, and I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster.

I straight up HATED this album when it came out, but after not hearing it for almost 20 years(??? I'm old), it's not too bad. I think I mostly hated the cringe-y lyrics? Those are still pretty cringe-y, but I've learned to embrace cringe over the years, so it's less of a deal breaker now. Anyway, it was overplayed as hell for what it is, but it's not bad. The first 4 songs are damn good, the rest is alright. Solid 3.5 (rounded down as per protocol).

Some solid singles

I don't really see what sets this album apart from the myriad of other '80s-influenced pop-punk albums that came along in the early 00s. Yes, there are hooks and singles that make you sit up and take notice temporarily but for the most part, it's just formulaic drivel for the masses. When a pop-punk-dance album just drones unnoticed in the background, it's time to move on.

Ik vroeg om iets stevigers na Dusty Springfield en dit is precies stevig genoeg. Lollige festivalpopmuziek, een aantal nummers komen bekend voor, wat jaren 80-tonen, het klinkt allemaal prima.

Wait a second, this is actually pretty good. I thought The Killers were a sort of Imagine Dragons-ish band, but this is just some solid 00s rock. It's nothing mindblowing and "Mr Brightside" is still the best song here, but I still enjoyed this.

3.7 - These guys churned out a handful of hits and it’s impressive to hear those back to back on here. Respectable hard rock - energetic and crowd-pleasing. Last two tracks are a little trippier than the rest and worth a listen.

Pretty nice album! Had some bangers on there for sure, like Mr. Brightside obviously (gotta love that single-note melody), but sadly there wasn't enough variation or innovation for me to give it anything above three stars, but I still enjoyed it.

Didn't really work for me - seemed like a pastiche of Interpol and other groups

Good but repetitive

Someone gave me this CD thinking I would like it. I listened to it a bit and, though some of the tunes appealed to me, the album was never a favorite and now it just seems tired.

First five tunes are HUGE! Make no mistake they are incendiary bangers! Not a stinker among them! Album dips for tracks 6, definitely 7 and 8 is forgettable to be honest. Doesn’t really pick back up till the finale of ‘Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll’. Flowers knows his way around a tune, the band are sharp and there is a genuine reason why The Killers built such a following! However, this album is half killer, half filler so only the three star average here.

A fair, punchy, interesting pop rock album from my early teenage years. Elements of glam, and a mysterious corny cool that comes from that slightly seemy, tacky, evangelical Las Vegas world from which the Killers emerge. The lyrics are sometimes laughably fucking stupid. So much so, that I remember binning the album off at 13. Nevertheless it's okay. Wouldn't put it in my 1001 list though

Though I don't listen to them, I was surprised at just how many songs on this album I was familiar with. Decent album. Not something I'd reach for on my own to listen to, but not something I'd turn my nose up at if it was playing. More of a 3.5 for this one.

A solid entry in the hard alternative rock genre. The vocals have limited range and grow less tolerable when they try to push those boundaries, the lyrics are superficially clever but lack depth, and the mixing has that Loudness Wars issue - it only sounds good at (tom my old man ears) excessive volume. Still I didn't hate it by any means.

I'm definitely familiar with the hits, but I don't think I ever sat down and just listened to this album I've always enjoyed them though. It does seem like they got popular and then became a meme to shit on a little bit from the "cool kids", I think a lot of people have come back around and realized that they aren't bad.

Good album, but a lot of it sounded the same.

A few good songs, but it’s a bit samey. Best songs are on the front half. It’s nothing special but is still decent as an album

Lots of songs you know. The vocal style that is so identifiable becomes grating over the course of an album. It feels almost tuneless. A kind of "yelling over the top of" with no noticeable variation.

Un bon Album rock, c'est très représentatif des années 2000 et il contient beaucoup de hit qui ont beacoup joué à la radio. 3.85.

This is a pretty fine post punk record. Very solid Side A but B slips up. I’ll give them kudos for having an original sound and good energy.

It was not annoying, but left me nothing

eh

Decent.

I've heard the two singles a thousand times and I didn't think the other tracks were anything special.

Oh how I love the ridiculously disproportionate weight of this debut. The worst part is that the critiques you read are largely true; Yet Hot Fuss comes back with high after ridiculous high. It stands alone, can't really compare to its influences, even. But hey, it's the record that launched the Killers, and remains an important entry in an always-cozy lineup.

Cue album. A 13-year-old awakens. It’s 2004 and she’s sensitive, angry, and dabbling in a bit of emo and indie. Ohhh how that teen dances to the first few songs of this album, in a state of adolescent ecstasy. But around track 5, the trance shatters. A 31-year-old awakens. It’s 2022 and she hates “indie rock and roll.” …yeah overall feels kinda basic, but there are a few karaoke slappers that I still like. 3 stars.

Es un disco con canciones efectivas. Por una cuestión generacional, supongo, me cansa un poco la escucha entera. Pero está muy bien

An apt comparison would be to liken The Killers to Pearl Jam and The Strokes to Nirvana. Honestly, they both sound the same to me (The Killers and Strokes, which means I don't buy the Pearl Jam vs. Nirvana connection). Maybe we're not far enough away, but this holds up well, and Mr. Brightside is destined to become a rock classic if it isn't one already. The hits are fucking bangers. But I'll take Pearl Jam any day over this. And Nirvana. In ten years, classic rock radio stations will play Mr. Brightside and Smile Like You Mean It, followed by Jeremy and Come As You Are. And we'll all shrug.

never listened the whole way through but its a classic!!! smile like u mean it is 10/10 everything after on top is like 5 or 6/10 tho

This is OK. I thought it was overrated when released and have not changed my mind in the interim. Radio friendly style over substance.

Never been a Killers fan. I don't really like the vocal effects that are used on this album. A few good songs, but overall, just ok.

Didn’t hate this as much as I thought I would. Never listened to any of it other than the single tracks before. Strong opening and closing tracks, felt a bit same-ey towards the latter half. Not a huge fan of the lyricism, often feels lazy and needlessly abstract. The songwriting is a shame as the whole band seems very talented musically.

From the first note to the last, Hot Fuss commands one's attention, maintaining its grip for eternity with a song that, to this day, is The Killers' signature song. That doesn't mean that every other song is lacking, with Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, Somebody Told Me and All These Things That I've Done being highlights in particular. Hot Fuss was an album that came at a formative yet increasingly dimly lit time and gave us one more band to take notice of. Favorites: Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, Mr. Brightside, Somebody Told Me, All These Things That I've Done, Believe Me Natalie, Midnight Show, Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll.

Some nice catchy pop/rock tunes here. I think some are familiar to me but I don't trust my memory. I wasn't pulled in so much that I feel interested in listening to this album again but it's decent work.

Set stun to mild.

Yet another ex-1001 album! http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex I'd listen to this album when it came out, but now you realise it's like boiling a frog, you enjoy it, think it's fine, by the end it's too late, you've become a cultural zombie, what am I doing with my life?! With the bigger hits, though lyrically devoid, I'd still enjoy a good karaoke night with them. 2.5

Eigenlijk heb ik dit album te vaak gedraaid waardoor ik het nu minder waardeer dan het eigenlijk verdient. Enfin; prettige stem en het nummer 'All these things that I've done' met het koor erbij vind ik geweldig. Hierna kwam er nog een leuk album en toen gingen ze dolen.

What’s up with that last song?

Polished indie sleaze. The hits are total bangers, but the rest is mediocre.

God this album is nostalgic!!! Mr. Brightside and Somebody Told Me are finger licking good when not forced down your throat!! The overall sound of the album is reminiscent of the pop songs that get put on DDR, they love the mic effect on the lead singer's voice lol Solidly decent. I guess we could call it Indie Rock and Roll, though I feel that label is a bit generic

My god, the sonic chokehold this album had on my high school in 2004, let me tell you! Mr. Brightside in particular, there was something so gloriously melodramatic about that song that perfectly ensnared the overactive imagination of every angsty teen with an unrequited crush. I never got into it, but the singles are catchy and I somehow know all the words. The only thing I couldn't buy into was Brandon Flowers's strange affected way of singing, like he's trying to pass himself off as British? What is that? Why does he sing that way?

A bit of a meh here, some decent songs, some ok ones, some stinkers.

Good stadium rock

Sounds like the 80s are back on this one. I usually think of Duran Duran, but one of the songs started out a bit like The Smiths. Killers songs brighter and poppier than the influences. Front-loaded with hits, very weak end. The beginning of ‘Jenny was a Friend of Mine’ reminds me of ‘Friends of Mine’ by Duran Duran. I enjoy both songs. “Somebody told me you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year” is a lyric I always have to think about a little bit before I figure out what he’s saying. Kind of a musical word problem. I have no idea what “…I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier” is supposed to mean but it’s fun to sing.

I'm not sure what to make of this album. Throughout, it was like a splinter in my mind trying to figure out who The Killers reminded me of. I don't want to call it derivative — I mean, maybe it is — but it was more of an immediate connection to something I couldn't define. And it sounds good. Clearly this is a band that goes for big production. Big sounds. The one tune, "Somebody Told Me," reminded me of Blur's "Girls & Boys," and truth be told, I liked The Killers tune a bit more because it didn't hammer on that same lyric/chorus past the point of clever. But on the whole, the songwriting and production started melting into one another, and it began to be difficult to tell one track from the next. Certainly repeated listens and more familiarity would likely remedy that, but I wasn't enamored enough to want to dig deeper, at least not immediately. I'd be more inclined to delve into Blur's catalog, thanks for asking. So yeah. 3 it is.

Couple great songs. 3/5

It's weird how this is one of the top selling christian albums of all times.

Pretty good stuff. A little repetitive, but some nice hits. Not bad at all.

Great songs overall, some exchangeable - typical killers album

Probably the first time in my life I've actually put Mr Brightside on. I've never really liked the Killers and always found them the ultimate mum band. This hasn't really changed my opinion. I guess it's not bad as such, I just don't care.

-S Tier- ***n/a*** -A Tier- Jenny Was a Friend of Mine -B Tier- Mr. Brightside Somebody Told Me Andy, You’re a Star On Top Midnight Show -C Tier- Smile Like You Mean It All These Things That I’ve Done Change Your Mind Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll -D Tier- Believe Me, Nataliie Everything Will Be Alright AVG SCORE: 2.9 / 5 - - - Bias Disclosure: I’ve never particularly cared for The Killers. Flowers’ voice has always been too emo for my taste, and their insistence on processing his vocals so often with that stupid reverb/echo/whatever just rubs me wrong. I’ve also never understood the love affair with “Mr. Brightside.” All this considered, this isn’t a bad album. There may not be any mind-blowing songs, but there are also aren’t dumpster fires. Just a nice, inoffensive, middle-of-the-road album.

It was alright, better than what I was expecting.

The album is alright. It is carried by Mr. Brightside and Somebody Told Me. Without those songs this album would be lower. The rest of the album is just ok. I had never listened to the entire album before and I don't see myself listening to it again.

alright album, 6/10

Some good tunes on this

Also boring. Everything is boring

Hit of nostalgia

Was wrestling to change a toilet seat whilst listening so potentially have associated some pretty shitty vibes, but I still really enjoyed it!

Better than expected but not amazing

very good

I’m not sure if I’m rating the album or my reaction to the album. I have a checkered past with the Killers, but this time it was fun to just sing along with all the songs.

Catchy Alt/Indie rock album with a big, resonant sound. Brandon Flowers' glam-tinged, dramatic vocal really sells it. Loses steam on the back half. Fave Songs: Mr. Brightside, Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, All These Things That I've Done, Somebody Told Me, Change Your Mind

Couple of good hits and at least 2 new awesome songs I didn't know. Easy to listen and mostly keeps a similar noisy atmosphere all trough.

Unlike with The Who and Nirvana, I am very sure the popular songs off this one are the actual good ones lol. Mr Brightside and Somebody Told Me are A-OK, the rest may be safely left in the past

There’s plenty of songs off this album you recognize, but past those ones, I found the album a little bland and repetitive. I understand The Killers have a style, like all bands, but this album just doesn’t do it for me. Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine is my all time fav off the album, though.

It was a good album to walk the dog to yesterday morning!

olha cara é legalzinho mas ou pouco genérico e meio fds. As músicas são legais de ouvir no momento mas n sei se é algo q eu salvaria pra ver dnv.

It's an album. I don't get this one. It feels to radio-y for my enjoyment. I only enjoyed the two last tracks, but that might be because I wanted the album to end.

Aikoinaan en lämmenny näiden musasta alkuunkaan, mutta nykyään jo ihan jeekkistä. Haluisin antaa paremman kuin kolmonen, mutta ei kyllä ole ihan nelosen kamaa.

Menevä levy vaikkakin loppua kohden ehkä vähän hiipui

A bit flash, but pretty tight and rocking.

Pop-rock de principios de siglo XXI más cercano al rock, con buenas melodías, pero al que le ha faltado algo de punch

was ok, too radio friendly for my liking

Obviously frontloaded with the hits, but the rest of it isn't bad, and the hits were hits for good reasons.

3.4

Fun dance rock. Lots of four on the flood and funky bass. Not huge in all the synths. Not mind blowing but was made with purpose

Fake British accent aside, a fun collection of catchy pop-rock singles. All These Things that I've Done is the standout.

I listened to this years ago and I don’t feel like listening to it again It’s just a mediocre indie album

A bit of a dull listen with some highlights that don’t bring to absolutely unlistenable. I find the main vocalist to have a voice I dislike and some of the production choices to be dull. Some songs have these sparks of things I like but the LP as a whole just isn’t for me. Fav tracks: All these things I’ve done, Andy, your a star, and everything will be alright

Just not my cup of tea ;)

This album went HARD in middle school. In my mid-thirties, not so much. The very definition of overly polished, inoffensive commerical pop-rock. 2/5 would still scream all the lyrics to Mr. Brightside in a small gym with all my friends.

Tedious early 2000’s dross. Yes everyone sings along to the singles, but it’s just so boring.

Given how engaging Mr. Brightside is, the album is surprisingly disappointing; track after track of inartistic pop. It's easy enough to listen to, I suppose. But there's no soulful expression in it; it plays like something they cobbled together upon reading a self-help book called How to Write and Record an Arena Rock Album in 10 Easy Steps. At least they nailed Step 4 - Find a Great Drummer.

Una cosa es tener un estilo y otra es que todo suene igual…y el efecto de la voz de este wey que? 🤷🏻‍♂️

O Argumento que critico usou para justificar a inclusão na lista foi pelo disco ter ficando em primeiro lugar no Reino Unido e ter ganhado disco de platina nos EUA. Gente, mesmo assim devo dizer que esse album não me pegou, primeiro pela capa, que achei bem feia de verdade e das 11 musicas, apenas 3 ou 4 me fizera parar pra prestar um pouco mais de atenção pelas belas vozes e outras duas mais rock, parecido com Oasis e U2. Deixarei elas na descrição e o link para quem quiser ouvir o album inteiro. nota 5,5/10 As melhores são: Somebody Told Me All These Things That I've Done Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll

Lots of filler Boring Mediocre

War okay, kann man hören, aber kein einziger Song hat mich wirklich gecatcht.

La selección de albumes de los 2000 es demasiado millenial, faltan muchisimos esenciales de verdad y esta lleno de cosas como estas que son puro pop empalagoso que suena todo igual. Pretende ser nostálgico pero se hace incómodo. Las primeras 3 canciones están muy bien, considerando también el CLASICO que es Mr. Brightside, pero después suena todo tan igual y ruidoso que se hace agotador. Se que los Killers tienen una gran fan base pero a ese gente les diré que les hace falta escuchar más cosas!!!! No es música que haya envejecido bien. La outro me gustó a pesar de las malas valoraciones que tiene 5.5/10

This is the musical equivalent of switching to an all-Soylent diet. Yuck.

Really threaded the needle of the post-Strokes indie sound and whatever wave of emo we were in, while nodding to dance punk and yet still sounding arena-ready. It felt a little too fabricated and the songs color-by-numbers in a calculated, cynical way, but hey it sure worked for them. Sidenote: my housemate at the time was new to concert promotion/booking but got on a street team list as part of that and one day we got BOXES of Hot Fuss promo materials that he may still have. Which is to say, Island put all of its weight behind this one.

Some songs are made for greatness. Hot Fuss is produced for bigness. That distinction became increasingly difficult to ignore as the album went on. This is a record that seems almost pathologically unwilling to leave any part of the soundscape unoccupied. Drums hit hard, guitars arrive in slabs, synths expand into whatever space remains, and Brandon Flowers sings as though the back wall of the room needs to hear every syllable. Even when the arrangements supposedly drop down, the perceived intensity barely follows them. By “Everything Will Be Alright”, Flowers has been treated to sound spectral and distant, yet the effect is still rather like being yelled at down a telephone. I lived through the loudness wars, and _Hot Fuss_ sounds very much like a record made inside them. That isn’t simply a mastering complaint. The whole album seems organised around the idea of impact. It repeatedly introduces something interesting — an arpeggiator, a chopped guitar texture, a squelchy synth, an unusual drum pattern — and then appears to panic that the idea might not be sufficiently important, so everything else piles in behind it. That is frustrating because there is plainly imagination here. “Believe Me Natalie” may be the most rhythmically interesting song on the record, with interlocking patterns and a brief passage that veers towards Berlin-cabaret theatricality. “Andy, You’re a Star” has intriguing homoerotic tension and some nicely grubby electronics. “On Top” is another glimpse of the record Hot Fuss might have been if somebody had encouraged the band to use more synths, more sequencers and fewer guitars. Whenever the album leans into its electronic side it acquires personality; whenever the guitars arrive to make everything properly enormous, it starts sounding much more like 2004. The singles explain the success much better. “Mr. Brightside” works because Flowers’ habitual breathlessness finally has a dramatic purpose. Jealousy is presented as obsessive mental cinema: scraps of imagined scenes repeating until the narrator can barely keep up with himself. “Somebody Told Me” is probably my favourite Killers song. Its socially anxious chorus is built from gossip and unstable categories — boyfriend, girlfriend, attraction, availability — looping around each other with something of the grammatical confusion of Blur’s “Girls & Boys”. Here the nervous propulsion is already inside the song before the production enlarges it. Elsewhere Flowers’ default setting of URGENCY becomes limiting. Nostalgia, desire, reassurance, murder, confusion: everything tends to arrive through the same public-address system. “Midnight Show” is essentially a modern murder ballad, but apparently jealousy, sex, guilt and ending somebody’s life still require chandeliers and additional dramatic lighting. The Killers are the band for when murder itself seems insufficiently theatrical. “All These Things That I’ve Done” exposes another problem. Beneath the monumental presentation is fairly conventional pop-rock architecture. There is nothing wrong with conventionality in itself, but by this point the record has established such expectations of restless modernity that the underlying familiarity becomes conspicuous. The production continues to tell you that the album is escalating long after the musical language has stopped doing so. And that is why Hot Fuss becomes exhausting rather than exhilarating. It has dynamics in the sense that instruments appear and disappear, textures change and arrangements build. What it rarely has is genuine relief. Everything remains foregrounded. The album understands how to rearrange pressure much better than it understands how to remove it. I can completely understand why Britain embraced these songs. They are exceptionally useful social objects: instantly recognisable, easy to shout across a crowded bar, big enough to survive a Friday night at Vodka Revs, perfectly suited to festivals and communal release. If you are nostalgic for 2005, and there are plenty of reasons to be, Hot Fuss will probably hit every required pressure point. But one lesson of working through an album canon is that there was good music around in 2005 because there is good music around almost everywhere, almost all the time. There was also excellent music in 2005 that received a fraction of this attention and has subsequently fallen almost completely outside the canonical story. That leaves me struggling with the “must hear before you die” proposition. Hot Fuss contains several very good singles and flashes of a stranger, more interesting electronic record. As an album, though, it keeps insisting upon its own significance until insistence itself becomes the dominant experience. Its answer to greatness is too often: Yeah, but louder.

Gnällig. Han klagar för mycket. Inte särskilt tilltalande musik

cheiro de balada indie dos anos 2010 e camisa xadrez com calça skinny preta. nunca me pegou muito, mas gostei de ouvir inteiro (as mais famosas são as melhores, tem umas chatas).

This record is kinda whatever, it's just not my sort of thing - too square, too wimpy, but otherwise not offensively bad. Unfortunately when it released I had a friend who was obsessed with it and would play it in the car whenever we drove anywhere together, which was quite often that summer. And so what was a mild dislike became full-blown, deep-seated and somewhat irrational anger at these damn catchy songs. 'Smile Like You Mean It' and 'All These Things That I've Done' in particular bring me out in hives. I feel a bit like I was in an abusive relationship with Brandon Flowers for a few months. Having said all this, I can't be too mad at these dudes, because they were gracious enough to let Sea Power support them after the reverse line-up happened before they hit the big time (a tour I saw at least twice but have absolutely no memory of watching Killers!). Also, I really like the song 'When you were Young' cos of Guitar Hero (pls don't make me hear the rest of whatever album that is on tho), and I quite happily danced along and shouted 'I've got soul but I'm not a soldier' a couple of weeks ago at a wedding, because I am capable of personal growth (and was hammered).

A low 2 for me. Irritating.

Some bangers tho tbf

Mr Brightside is an undeniable indie disco tune and they have a few other good hits on the first half. But their non-hits are dull and before the end I wanted it to end.

It’s mostly just dribble, I think the songs released are probably the weakest. Some good hooks, well played riffs, licks or whatever you call it, yep reminds me of younger years at parties. Lyrics are so dull though. A low 3 or high 2?

boring pop music diguised as boring rock music 4/10

le puse toda la onda del mundo, pero realmente no hay manera de hacer que me gusten estas bandas cuyos vocalistas parece que graban desde un tupper

Altstadt classic

Killers : Post Punk as Avril Lavigne : Pop Punk.

some great fun songs on here, don't get me wrong. but this isn't really an ALBUM that holds up sturdily enough to be one of the 1001 ALBUMS you need to listen to from back to front. If this were just singles, maybe. But I don't think this can or should make my top 1000 albums. In other words, there are some fillers on this album by the killers.

The album captures the essence of the 2000s incredibly well. It sounds exactly like how I would imagine my young adult years to sound, which makes nostalgia probably its biggest strength. The first half starts very promising, but after the first six tracks, the sound becomes increasingly repetitive and monotonous, to the point where it starts to feel like you’re listening to one very long track. Aside from “Jenny Was A Friend of Mine”, “Mr. Brightside”, and “Somebody Told Me,” most of the tracks weren’t particularly memorable to me. And those three tracks are the ones I would most likely add to my playlist. It is a great example of alternative/indie rock, but at the same time, it somehow feels like having unseasoned boiled chicken. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, but I kept wishing it had more flavor. Therefore, most of the tracks landed around a 5-6 for me. Also, I genuinely thought this band was British before listening to the album, so I was shocked to find out they’re actually from Las Vegas. The British post-punk and synth-pop influence is HEAVY on this one, it almost feels like it prevented them from developing their own distinct sound.

Not so hot.

Creo que nunca había escuchado un disco de The Killers. Son todas canciones muy The Killers. Estuvo bien.

I thought I would like it more because the first track is actually pretty amazing but I was kinda let down a little bit. I definitely am gonna look into their music tho.

Got two songs from the end but left it. Wasn’t vibing really apart from Mr Brightside and Somebody Told Me. Would maybe work for me as a soundtrack to a film but not exclusively as a listening experience.

Eu não gosto mesma desse álbum. Acho ele meio brega? Sei lá Mas tem uma ou outra faixa bacana, vou ser honesto

I'm biased against this record for some reason. There's just something about some 'indie' bands from the aughts that makes me want to slam an ice cream cone on the ground and stomp on it. Maybe it's the pretentious emo whining vocals, presuming gravitas, the trite synth hooks, their misaligned co-opting into new wave / post-punk, or just being precision engineered to be irritating. I get it, I'm cursing at clouds here, but I fucking cannot stand 'Mr. Brightside' and when it queued up I urgently needed to procure an ice cream cone.

geit eso

Meh. A ratos mola, algunas canciones tienen un punto Cure-happy-punk. Pero en general, turra importante. Un dos y gracias. Podría ser un tres con la mitad de duración.

An album of two halves. The second half was shite. The first half is saved by All These Things... but is dragged down by the incomprehensibly annoying Mr Brightside.

There's a lot of catchy songs on here but in the end I would not care if I never heard any of them again. Yawn.

Do I have to listen to this? Mr. Brightside aged well. It’s like the Bohemian Rhapsody for millennials but it can never come close to that song if it tried. Not a bad song- I don’t mind and sometimes I even kind of like it but that’s the only song I can say that about on here. Not having a good time

Ima be real i didn't feel like listening to this

There’s a banger or two on this album for sure, but doesn’t really stand out for me. The pop rock tunes sound great and would probably work in the background of a small get-together, but nothing much beyond that. I can appreciate it, but I’ll just say it’s alright.

The thing I enjoy the most about The Killers is the song Crystal by New Order. To be fair to them - this album produced a number of straight-up hits, a bunch of which still hold up reasonably well today. But all of this is way too polished, in your face all the fucking time, and I quickly feel like how I imagine it is to be walking around Las Vegas longing for some quiet, some non-flashing lights, and not being successful in that endeavour even at 3am.

One of my favorites as a teenager, but somehow just sounded really flat listening to it today

Big songs but mid outside those

some good, some bad

I listen to a large amount of new music. Unfortunately for The Killers, most of it comes from Bandcamp. Downing the latest psych band from Chile or techno from Latvia, must have caused me to miss The Killers. The same goes for other billion stream acts like The Weeknd and Ed Sheeran. I know the names, but apparently not their music. Three billion streams for “Mr. Brightside”, with one billion of those in like24 hours? New to me. The same goes for “Some Told Me”, the other billion streamer on this record. It says much about me, and perhaps the broader audience for music. The album started bland, and stayed that way. It is the most unmemorable album on the list at this point. Slippery When Wet was a worse record, but at least stood out for some of its awful tendencies, and actually had one or two songs better than anything here. The songs churned along in an undistinguishable fashion. No hook, chorus nor instrumental passage made me stop and listen. Only its inoffensiveness prevented an even lower rating. At least give me a guilty pleasure, along the lines of admitting that McDonald’s fries can be good sometimes.

Actively dislike the synths and vocal effects/affects on this ine

Ακούω το ψαγμενο λευκό συγκρότημα αγανακτισμένων φλωρων τους Δολοφόνους. Με το ΠΙΟ ψαγμενο κομμάτι κύριος Φωτεινοπλευρος. Strokes από τα Λίντλ. Δεν ήταν κακός δίσκος πάντως.

First part make me feel like I am standing alone in a late night at Buenos Aires and my girlfriend just left me, and it's fucking humid. Like it, but nothing special.

more of a 2.5. i'm feeling very 2004 today. the first half is undeniably fun & good, but there's a steep decline in the second half. the sound is very repetitive and you can truly feel it in the second half (even though there's change your mind in the second half and that's the best song in that half). to be honest i didn't really grow up listening to this (quite a bit young for that) so i don't hold a lot of nostalgia for this particular album, but i did listen to battle born incessantly in middle school so maybe i am biased.

So you are killers, hope this album better commit suicide. Shockingly out-of-date, amazingly tacky, unbelievably fussy, are you guys all deaf??

If I ever hear Mr Brightside again, I will put my head into a washing machine. Can’t deny this is an album packed with hits but I’ve heard them more than enough.

oof. I see here listed influences of post-punk and new wave. How could my favorite genres have led to this? I do not like it. synth sounds are pretty cool - but that bass on the first track made my ears bleed. I remember the first time I heard Mr. Brightside as one of the first times as a conscious human I was truly happy. I must have been in seventh grade. My parents sent me to a summer camp in another state for academically inclined youth. It was a life changing experience. It was where I found out what the "humanities" were - I instantly abandoned my childhood fascination with life science. The song had been out for ages at this point. One night there was a dance and I danced with the other kids, actually danced, unlike the dances at my middle school where I shrunk like a wallflower. They played this song last, and it was euphoric. The councilors had coreographed a special dance. During the song's final movment, we all ran into the center of the basketball court and reached for a glowstick a coucnellor held above our heads. I felt so understood, and so seen... I had found my people, and they are nerds. I made a steam account later that summer and my username is still 'brightcide.'

I never, ever want to hear 'Mr. Brightside' ever, EVER again.

No, ei voi sanoa, että musiikillisesti paskaa. Amerikan poptehtaasta tullut pop-levy, joka on minulle jokseenkin yhdentekevä. 2/5

A ok

Cocktail recipe: 1 part Strokes 1 part Interpol/Turn on the Bright Lights 1 part stadium-anthem U2 spritz with Robert Smith & The Cure for drama and carbonation garnish with synths and good looks This was actually better than I remember, but it still feels derivative and manufactured. Well done, but not for me. Good Lord, I hated the "Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll" the lyrics the sentiment the AUTOTUNE, so much that I'm tempted to call this a 2. 2.5/5, planned on begrudgingly rounded up, but when faced with the decision of clicking the stars, rounded down.

1. Jenny ⭐️ 2. Mr Brightside ⭐️ 3. Smile Like you Mean it: ⭐️ 4. Somebody Told me: ⭐️ 5. All These Things 6. Andy you’re a star ❌ 7. On Top 8. Change Your Mind 9. Believe Me Natalie 10. Midnight Snow 11. Everything Will be alright ❌ 12. Glamorous Indie ❌

The hits are hits, but even the big ones have flaws (maybe, baby, please?) but not enough in the rest of the tracklist to grab my attention. Flowers has quite the limited vocal range and while I enjoy some nice new wave / alt voices in his range he almost never gets close to the frantic performance of Mr Brightside. ”When you were young” from a later release is the type of energy I think he should be bringing. This is mostly just boring.

Hints of U2 cannot save it from the MTV house party vibe.

Nice, I enjoyed hearing the hits. Good to put them in context

Really hate The Killers

I remember once reading someone’s assessment that the worst rock and roll songs are the ones with “rock and roll” in the title, and I now believe that goes double for “indie rock and roll”.

This was a real struggle. In some ways I hear their influences in the music and feel like this album is partially a tragedy of the era it was recorded. What if they had put down the big guitar sound and leaned more into like older-Cure types sounds. Maybe the songs would have come out better. Another thing I just couldn't ignore this listen is how just outrageously incel the lyrics are for the majority of the album. Things outside of the actual listen that affect my rating: I love Richard Kelly's Southland Tales which gives this strange feeling of a dark and insane mirror version of the early aughts. It features a full blown choreographed scene featuring 'All These Things That I've Done' and it was so bizarre and fun that it makes me enjoy the song more. I think it's the most redeemable song on here. Lastly, the thing that makes it the hardest to take seriously is that I was just a bit too old for this album when it first was released. I was seeing a lot of 13/14 year old boys trying adroitly to assemble their identities with a dark wash denim / vest combo. I don't even know who the collateral was in this situation, the album or the kids. This is the perfect album for a a young teen boy to get dumped over AOL instant messenger to in 2004.

Not really my vibe. 6/10

Hade det inte varit för nostalgin hade det knappt blivit en tvåa för det är inte mycket jag gillar här. Vissa sekvenser är okej men sen börjar jag tänka på de lökiga trumnmorna, den ofta fåniga texten som levereras utan riktig känsla, basen som är överallt och ingenstans i myllret av synthar och gitarrer och distad sång. Trots att det ska vara kall och deppig musik gör avsaknaden av mänsklig värme i leveransen att det inte berör alls. När jag tänker efter tror jag aldrig att jag gillade Killers, det var mer något man skulle lyssna på och eftersom det snurrade på p2 så måste det ju vara bra. Slut på sågning. Ps. lite tråkigt ändå att jag inte lyckades tajma in deras spelning på hemmaplan i Las Vegas

A couple of hits. Nothing else stood out to me.

Heavy handed pop

Look, there are a few catchy pop-rock tracks on here. The problem is that I have been continuously blugeoned with them at every party, night out, or open mic night since I was 15 until they have lost all meaning. I'm getting flashbacks of everyone having to pretend, pissed, at 2am that they are ecstatic at hearing Mr Brightside for the 10,000th time. Sitting down and listening to this album critically also allows me to add shite production quality to the list of sins. It's the "Let's make a loud noise" school of music production, completely negating any chance of hearing any instruments in detail. Like a lot of popular music from this era, I feel like the extremely low bar at the time has artificially elevated some very mediocre bands. The killers are the absolute epitome of this. The only reason this isn't a 1 is because they unfortunately formed a significant part of the soundtrack to my teenage years.

Mid af. Todas las canciones suenan muy parecido, rock sin mucha gracia, medio adolescente forzado. Solo destaca Mr. Brightside y PONELE que On top, tiene alguna gracia. El resto super repetitivo. Seguro hay 1001 álbumes mejores que este. Everything will be alright la canción mas trillada de la historia. Glamourous indie rock and roll está buena, la agregué a mi playlist. Por qué el cantante canta como si la estuviese pasando mal che? 4/10

La seule chanson que je connaissais de cette album c’était Mr.Brightside et malheureusement c’était la meilleur donc je n’ai pas été agréablement surpris. Même si j’ai parfois bien aimé leur performance musicale, les paroles des musiques ne m’ont pas transcendé. Je préfère largement David Bowie qui j’ai regardé était l’une de leurs inspirations majeures

soooooo generisch

I think I have no grown enough as a person to give this a proper go. I actually thought the kids would be rather pumped on this, but the just wandered off. So what do I think? When it comes down to it, we are here to rate albums. And a couple of massive singles an album does not make.

i wish i liked this one more. i feel there are two great songs here and some others that despite being competent indie rock songs, felt not that special compared to other groups. But comparison is the thief of joy, i guess

You guys probably won't rate this very highly, and a couple of these songs have been played to death obviously, but I feel some level of primal attachment to this band as being my generation's music. I think there was a bit of a renaissance in pop music in the 2000s and early 2010s, in that, chart topping music was better on average than the 2020s, and even maybe the 80s and 90s. They are no Passion Pit or Phoenix, but I think The Killers fit somewhere within that movement, and I appreciate them for that. There was nothing here that absolutely blew me away, and I think their stuff is honestly geared towards women. But this music isn't that bad to me. maybe just a little dated, overplayed, and cliche, but not bad. Strong two to a light three for context/ generational attachments

Loud, but not very interesting. Seems like maybe it *should* be good (has, in a superficial sense, all the necessary - or at least sufficient - elements?) - but isn't? Don't really like the singer's voice, either (loud, but not very musical), which is never good. The music almost seems like pop music created by AI - a little soulless (2 days in a row for that word, lol), or by the numbers, or something? I don't quite hate it, but it's forgettable and not very satisfying or catchy; guess I'll go with a low 2 (though 1 is tempting).

3 good songs and a lot of filler "Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine" has one of the most lackluster synth parts that I've ever heard, towards the end. And the average quality of the arrangements is not much higher I imagine Millenial parents rocking out to this in their soulless subdivisions, or hearing it in the drug store, which is fitting because of the band's U2 inspirations. Just like their predecessors, their sound fits right into the glazed-over mindset so conducive for consumption

Not my taste

Occasionally decent songwriting, but marred with poor production and fluff. A couple songs that are fun enough but don't stand under any real scrutiny.

Ok. Sort of not feeling this but of Punk rock?

Umiddelbart ikke noget banebrydende for mig. Mr. Brightside unægteligt en banger, som trækker op. Falder hurtigt hen som noget baggrundsfylde for mig på trods af enkelte numre, som stikker lidt ud og fanger ens opmærksomhed. Stort 2-tal

*41 Det er bare ret cringe.

Ah, the mid-2000s. A time when most of my music consumption was via Fuse and MTV2. And the Killers were ubiquitous on these channels, leading my sister and me to flip from one to the other (or, god forbid, VH1) because we did not need to see those videos again for the seventh time today, thank you. "Mr. Brightside" currently being hailed as a classic is fascinating to me, but with the benefit of time and the lack of having it forced on me hourly, I can better appreciate it. "Somebody Told Me," upon this listen, is the superior single though. I couldn't remember "All These Things That I've Done" until the really bad line "I got soul but I'm not a soldier" repeated too many times. With this being my first, and most probably last, listen to this album as a whole, the best tracks were "On Top" and "Believe Me Natalie." None of this is throw-my-headphones-across-the-room bad, I just don't need to listen to it again. My favorite Killers song remains their cover of "Shadowplay."

Not for me

Evocative of a nice generic American strip mall.

Ce band-là est l'exemple parfait de pourquoi c'est un peu overraté d'haïr U2. Infect. 1.5 étoiles

Gosh I like the singalong ones in this album but the collective is dull af

There are some strong songs on this album, but it doesn't rise above albums in its peer category (Interpol, Strokes, Wombats, early Foals). I also prefer my post-pop punk to be more rock and less pop. That lands this album at 2

another of those UBNHOBs: Unknown Bands that I Never Heard Of Before. No better off for listening, nor did I miss anything.

But same not really arresting, sufficient but not brilliant.

Nothing grabs me. It's just mediocre rock.

I quite like some of The Killers’ songs, but overall I don’t like this album. Two stars...

Yyy tiene temas buenos pero no me gusta este rock indie tirando a pesado

The kids these days LOVE Mr. Brightside

Likes more than I expected

The non-singles are really weak. I never thought I'd be begging for Mr. Brightside and Somebody Told Me. All These Things I've Done is still good though.

Now... I couldn't care less for this kind of music. A very popish, mainstream rock which, in fact, is indie (what a surprise!). Maybe one of the blandest genre ever. But, here we are. The album has, at least some nicer songs, and one I liked a bit. So, I'll give it an "it's not good neither bad, just something in between". And, in fact, this album is pretty mid. I wouldn't neither say it's bad bad, but it's just a collection of uninteresting and insipid tunes that are carried by some strange kind of stadium sound. So, have I liked it? No. Have I enjoyed listening to it? I wouldn't say so, but it hasn't been a disgusting or boring experience. Would I listen to it again? Of course not! But, even though, it's not that bad. It is merely an album that feels very background-ish. I can't find it thrilling in any sense.

Pas mon style de rock qui casse un peu la tête

Album 4 - the purpose of this is to be exposed to music you might not otherwise listen to right? I listened, liked one, but couldn’t say I want to re listen to the rest. The one leads to the 2 rating.

meh. i guess kinda iconic but like why does the drums got to be disco so often when like that's not right with the rest of the instrumentation

Wow, this album has a seriously crazy dip in quality during the second half. The first half has some bangers, such as Mr Brightside, Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine, and Somebody Told Me, but beyond track five, it takes a pretty significant dip, and I struggled to really enjoy any of the songs beyond them being catchy, generic rock songs one might hear in a B-movie or at a wedding. Some of the songs are seriously too long - even the good ones are sometimes overshadowed by this. Believe Me Natalie is lowkey painful. All These Things I've Done is pretty awesome until 'I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier' is chanted on repeat. Each song seems to have one serious downfall. Somebody Told Me is definitely the best song. The worst are Smile Like You Mean It, On Top, and Believe Me Natalie. But you know what, I thought Everything Will Be Alright was quite interesting.

Clásico de mi adolescencia, define todo el estilo de the killers, pero entendí porque no es de mis favoritos

proto- twenty one pilots im sorry im sorry A few nice songs though definetly gets better as it goes along

Synth-pop light rock isn't really my thing. I don't understand the popularity or the sales of this record. It's just... disposable. There's people who like that... just look at the state of the music industry since the 90's... but I'm not one of them.

not for me the lyrics were uncreative and forced, his voice is annoying, and overall just not my fav

Having thought I didn't know The Killers it turns out I have heard quite a lot of this album. Can't say it will be one I'll deliberately go back to. Power ballard rock isn't it?

#320/1001. A) music critics who put together this book got older and wanted to stay in their comfort zone, picking only albums and bands which play out safe and sound like all the music before. B) no good and innovative music has been made post year 2000. I vote for A, at least in this case.

boyfriend with mommy issues album of all time. I personally think there's maybe two or three listenable songs on this thing.

Never much liked these guys. Probably the vocals. Not enough originality. Too comercial. And a stupid fucking name… The Killers? Dumb.

Only 3 good songs for me, is my first time than I hear a complete album from this band.

Too noisy, too repetitive, too monotonous. I got really exhausted listening to this. Pour ears of mine

Kind of ok

It's through no fault of their own that I'm giving The Killers this score. From a distance there are some fairly good pop rock songs in the mix. But there are some songs (Mr Brightside) that make me want to blow my brains out, as though it is some form of repetitive action torture, I have heard this song against my will every time I have set foot in a bar in the UK. Being given this album on a Monday morning whilst struggling through a hangover was the icing on the cake for this song and my sanity

Mainly trash. A lot of songs about nothing sung with insincere conviction. For instance, Flowers gives a lot of gravitas to 'I've got soul but I'm not a soldier', that's not a good line, why would anyone think they are mutually exclusive things. As Bill Bailey remarked, 'I've got ham but I'm not a hamster'. Mr Brightside is terrible. And we Brits for some reason have made it an unofficial national anthem, along with Sweet Caroline, two truly atrocious American anthems. Mr B also massively rips off Bowie's Queen Bitch. I don't mind Jenny and Somebody Told Me. It's not all awful, but the album as a whole is a bit lame and lacks effort.

Not really my style. I find that it sparks nostalgia for some people, but I'm too young for that. I also get kind of an "artificial" feeling with this album. It sound really tampered with and I like my alternative music more raw. Also, very few songs actually pop out, it all sounds the same and is plain boring. I've heard more boring stuff though and the energy is there, so it gets 2/5

++: Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, Mr. Brightside, Andy, You're a Star, Everything Will Be Alright +: All These Things That I've Done, On Top, Believe Me Natalie +-: Smile Like You Mean It, Change Your Mind, Midnight Show -: Somebody Told Me 5,5/10

They have all the right moves for a modern indie rock band, but I find them unbelievable. There’s no real soul and I’m not convinced they really had anything to say.

The odd numbered tracks often have interesting production bits and are okay; the even numbered tracks all sound like outtakes from a Strokes album. It’s pretty harmless, if a little self-indulgent.

Listened previously. Expectations: Mid - Verdict: Alright - Jenny is a great opener. Then Mr. Brightside might be alright but it's impossible to say because I have heard it so much. Annoying now. The rest is pretty good indie rock with some very good synth touches. My main complaint is that it can be a bit repetitive.

Meh.

First 5 songs are okay, at least fun and high energy. Has some cool bass lines, but the vocals sound really over produced to me. I think the songwriting is weak. Most of the songs are soulless. I would add a couple songs to a playlist but not an album I would add to my collection. Definitely not something I must hear before I die.

Honestly, I just don't care. I've heard the singles and it's not an album I really want to put anymore time into

I get why this album is on the list, but I would be happy to never hear Mr. Brightside again.

Good album.

Oh my god I hate his voice so fucking much. When he isn't singing it rocks though. 2 stars

This was a huge success back in 2004 - the whole first side of the record was all singles. I'm not a huge fan of his voice or the lyrics, too whiney, but the music is very catchy. The music is all very earnest, but a little too calculated, lots of retro sounding keyboards - this was their debut and they were aiming for a huge impression. I'd like to give this a 3 or a 4 even, but I can't get past the singer's delivery.

Has a few hits, but the album overall is a dud. A lot of Pop Rock albums from the 2000s suffer from this, actually.

Ставлю авансом 2. То, насколько я не люблю такую музыку, не описать словами. Она была повсюду во времена, когда мне хотелось слышать что-то более мелодичное, разнообразное, но по радио и телевизору транслировался нескончаемый поток музыки от подобных групп. Она вроде и ладная, и местами мелодичная, но я на физическом уровне не принимаю подобный звук. Какая-то музыка для титров американского сериала про старшеклассников, ей богу. Бесит, слов нет.

2 good songs and a bunch of junk

no es algo que me pondria a escuchar la voz se me hace exagerada

Inneholder en av historiens mest irriterende sanger. Det blir NEJ

When I heard the first song I thought I had found one of my favorite albums... But then I had the impression of listening to the same song over and over. I got completely bored by the end of it. Also, are we going to talk about how problematic the lyrics of some songs are?

I think it must be impossible not to be aware of tracks 2-5 on this album, as ubiquitous as they were at the time and largely still are. Unfortunately that did little for me; I threw The Killers into the same pool as the rest of the indie landfill of the time. I’ll admit that they’re better than that and can write a catchy tune but although they may have crawled out of that pit in the subsequent years, i still find them a little on the vapid side. The album is also spectacularly front -loaded with the back side being very forgettable. I get why people like them, it’s just not for me.

If Mr. Brightside isn't on this album, does it make the 1001 list at all?

I try to keep an open mind and face my persona biases. As soon as I opened the link today and was faced with The Killers, I had an immediate ick. I’ve never liked any of their singles. All of which were overplayed in the clubs I hit up during my 20s. These tracks ended up in Guitar Hero. I was forced to play through them to level up. Despite confronting those biases, I’ve come to the conclusion that I still don’t like The Killers and I didn’t need to listen to this record before I died. 2/5 Please never play Mr Brightside within my earshot

Kind of the corniest guy ever. Somebody told me and mr brightside are acc good tho

Kills me to say this but I really did not enjoy the album.

barely ok album, but the ironic thing is that the most popular "mr. brightside" is my most hated one. other songs like "smile like you mean it", "somebody told me", "andy, you're a star" are good, others are a bit boring. also the singer's voice gets annoying really quick. 2

11/02/2026 *1. jenny was a friend of mine - liking all the electronic noises at the start. bassline is really nice. like the chorus. 2. mr. brightside - obviously know this one. going into it, it's overplayed and just alright. similar to how i feel about seven nation army. bit too emo/indie/very 2000s and it's now a bit dated and overplayed.... the kindof song that would play in a car advert. 3. smile like you mean it - all of these songs sound alright, but are just indie pop-rock in the worst way possible... good background music and the instruments are well played, but it's just lacking something. not mad on the lyrics either. 4. somebody told me - also know this one. it's alright. *5. all these things that i've done - quieter... more eerie... he's started singing again.... it's not bad, just bland. reminds me of that keane song in the m&s christmas advert years ago. not massive on the chanting bit, but the rest of it sounds nice. 6. andy, you're a star - remember listening to this one at some point as a kid, but cannot remember what it sounds like at all. alright. not much to say about this album. like the synths. 7. on top - what is this intro. all of these songs are melding into each other. lyrics are getting more obviously annoying. 8. change your mind - every indie band in the last ten years sounds like this song. not a fan. it's alright i guess. definitely listenable, but so bland. 9. believe me natalie - like the drums at the start. all the songs sound the same and it's not really my thing lol. 10. midnight show - lyrics are a bit weird.... *11. everything will be alright - liking the descending intro.... more spacey... still wouldn't consciously listen to this, but enjoying it more than any of the other songs (except maybe the first). four minutes in and it's going on a bit now. 12. glamorous indie rock & roll - not looking forward to this one from the title. i do not need indie rock and roll. bassline is nice. liking the guitar in the chorus more than the rest of the album. very glad this is over. 2000s indie pop-rock is not for me and the killers is no exception! sounded alright, but sooooooooo mind-numbingly bland that i wouldn't choose to listen to any of these songs again. no nostalgia for this. begging for a properly good album tomorrow.........

mr brightside is so wedding/karaoke coded for me. still the best song on the album

it was a decent palate cleanser, but i genuinely had to force myself through this. im just not a fan when rock music has those "because tonight will be the night that i will fall for you" vocals. 4/10, decent but will not listen again.

Synth, post punk, and new wave. I don't think I need to say anything more to justify the rating.

Rock, 2004 -> 2

Not a big fan

Good so far. I’ve realized I’ve heard some of these songs before🙃 ⭐️⭐️ /5

⭐⭐ Hitsen Mr.Brightside och Somebody told me är spår som jag kan uppskatta men annars känns det mest mhee. Produktionen stör jag mig på. Känns platt, kantigt och odynamisk. Det plus sången som är ganska "pikig" gör att soundet "obekvämt".