Hot Fuss

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.

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.

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

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.

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".

Meh.

Meh

i meeaaaan la primer parte es MUY BUENA pero la segunda…… mamita….

I was surprised by how many songs on here I’d heard previously without being aware. It’s good for what it is, but ultimately it’s all pretty bland and middle-of-the-road.

Ok

These are classics of the 2000s, good delivery, great guitars riffs, but so cheesy overall. The sound is so compressed it fails to stick with me.

A group of lads in Wrangler straight-cut jeans, brown leather shoes and white checked shirts, tucked in, with too many of the top buttons opened, jumping around the dancefloor of a soulless nightclub, sloshing their pints of cider and Heineken around the place. That's the image you get when you hear Mr. Brightside or Somebody Told Me. Absolute rubbish. It's mundane, over-produced swill that is presenting itself as some sort of artistic masterpiece. "Somebody told me you had a boyfriend / Who looked like a girlfriend / That I had in February of last year / It's not confidential, I've got potential / A rushing, rushing around." Move over Bob Dylan, give Brandon Flowers that Nobel Prize for literature. The songs on paper shouldn't elicit such intense feelings of hatred in me. If anything, they should mean very little to me, because the whole album, and the whole discography of The Killers is mundane, beige and uninteresting. But, there's just something about the sound that they create that causes me to grind my teeth to the point of causing dental damage. And posing as some sort of "high art" is the part that really makes my blood boil. And I haven't even gotten to the "profound" outro of All These Things that I've Done: "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier". As Bill Bailey pointed out, on the surface it sounds alright. But then you analyse it and realise it's meaningless rubbish. It's as profound as saying "I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster".

Not good

Now I've listened to this

First half decent but probably not something I will come back to.

This truly is premium white people music. This is what people listen to when they think they have an ounce of taste while in reality it is simply the most over said tired expression of postpunk in the 2000 this emo kid thought he had something to say the suburban hell that he had grown up and has overtaken his brain cell to think that he has something to add to the world, but in reality all he has to add his commercial hits with some seven of a meaning, and without those three peak moments in this album, the rest of it was a complete slog that I couldn’t wait for it to be over it was honestly incredibly boring outside of very few particular moments. I sound like I hated this, but the hits are so massive that it’s hard to ignore. It almost makes me more frustrated because so much of this album is completely mediocre and sounds exactly the same. They end up resting themselves multiple times over this album. This could’ve been an email.

I have nothing against this album, but can’t say it did much for me.

It is the soundtrack to the PE department at a staff do. The production of the songs is a big issue for me - there is far too much going on and this means that when they want to change gear it doesn’t really go anywhere. The only song I actually like by the Killers (not on this album) is ‘When You Were Young’, which gets this right. I am not particularly bothered about lyrics but it does lose a star for the line ‘I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier’. I wouldn’t expect that tripe from a 10 year old trying to write something thoughtful.

I was always a little miffed that the killers blew up like they did. The songwriting isn’t particularly strong at any point in the album, and I include ‘mr brightside’ in it as, to me, the song is about absolutely nothing, yet has remained ubiquitous despite it. ‘I’ve got soul, but I’m not a soldier’ is the kind of lyric that might seem deep when you’re 15 but has zero depth to it as far as I can see. Flowers’ vocals also must have been tuned in post or comped to buggery as his singing (at least whenever I’ve heard them perform live) has been crap.

1001 albums to fall asleep to before you die aka pretty boring Listened 12/4/25

𝘏𝘰𝘵 𝘍𝘶𝘴𝘴 delivers the breakout single 𝘔𝘳. 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦, a track that deserves its status thanks to its driving momentum and instantly memorable hook. But beyond that highlight, the album leans heavily on familiar post-punk revival tropes — glossy synths, echoing guitars, and dramatic vocal delivery — without pushing the formula into particularly new territory. The songs are polished and catchy enough, yet they feel more like variations on sounds already established by earlier indie and new wave acts rather than something distinct or groundbreaking. The result is a record that has one undeniable anthem but struggles to stand out as a whole.

Had a few good tracks, though in general it is not something for me

Besides the hit songs, I really did not enjoy this album. “Mr. Brightside”, “Somebody Told Me”, and “All The Things That I’ve Done” are excellent songs. All the other songs made me feel like I was listening to an awful musical.

The first 4 songs are good, of which Mr. Brightside is amazing. Then it goes downhill.

Fort for mye

I once went to a country concert and I was pretty miserable the whole time. About halfway through, the band started playing Mr. Brightside and I was so annoyed that I left and ended up sneaking into a neighboring Danny Brown concert where I had the time of my life. I can at least appreciate The Killers for inspiring me to walk out of that first concert.

Yawn

Arctic Strokes Killer Monkeys.

Just about as basic as you can get. Very much lowest common denominator rock. 1.5/5.0: Bad

not for me

I remember thinking this record was dull when it came out and man, I wasn’t wrong. Outside of the singles is just warmed over pop music.

No question their best album and one of the best debut albums. I heard most of the album was recorded using sm57 mics. That being said, after the first 5 songs it starts to feel like filler. It’s their best album, but it’s not that great compared to other bands.

There are only a couple of noteworthy songs on here outside the Mr. Brightside and Somebody Told Me. Jenny and Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll are good, but the bassline seems like a rip off of The Smiths. 5/10

Loved this in high school.

Many many people have articulated my two rating thoughts and the reasons for it much better than I could. Couple bangers, but like someone said, saps the energy out of me.

Not sure what this is doing in a list of the greatest albums. It's pretty mediocre indie rock.

did not really enjoy the second half of the album, after all the nostalgia wore off.

First few songs were good. Then it was as if they fed The Strokes through a late-stage-capitalism-Karen filter (44/100)

Maso

Forgettable

La primera canción está muy bien. Las otras trece que vuelven a ser la misma ya cansa. No sé, creo que estoy mayor para estas cosas. Ni un descanso, ni un puente, ni un cambio de tonalidad sorprendente, ni un segundo de respiro a los oídos... Ni un solo de guitarra. Es una cosa muy pesada. Parece sonido de una fábrica.

Somebody Told Me

Mr. Brightside, the official white people anthem. The only reason I bump it to a 2.

Dok slušam ovaj album, beskućnik sa zvučnikom u Ubahnu, kojeg je vjerojatno ukrao, repa i to mi zvuči bolje od ovog. Mr. Brightside vraća u teenage dirtbag razdoblje, to moram priznati. 2/5, 3/10

Out of all the bands of this era there is something about The Killers that I just don’t like. I tried to listen again with an open mind but they don’t do anything for me. Maybe live would be better…

I don't really care for sob rock

More like hot piss. Music made for radio.

Its a noe from may dahling Nota: 2.5

I have heard this album or version of this several times and from plenty of bands. Polished, goodish, somehow enjoyable and won't make a long lasting memories. Still I somehow like it debating with my self is this 2 or three star album.

It's the "Somebody told me" band! I've always found them vaguely annoying, and now I think I know why: they're sort of brit sounding, in a bit of Suede vein, but they're actually more dance music than anything else. They're teasing proper lad culture vibes, but then slap us in the face with Sophie Ellis-Bextoresque dance grooves, but they're too Gallagher in their riffing to pull that off either. Wha'n massif fokin' fiddle innit!

Incredibly boring 🥱 In case you’re wondering how boring, I asked ChatGPT and here are the best answers: 1️⃣ This album is so boring it makes elevator music sound like a mosh pit. 2️⃣This album is so boring it should come in a box set with a complimentary pillow and blanket. 3️⃣This album is so boring I had to check my pulse after every other song just to make sure I wasn’t comatose yet. All true btw

The most disappointing thing about this album is that “The Fillers” joke has been made too many times already. Such a front loaded album that I think they must have known what they were doing. Also the mixing and production on this really annoys me. The vocals and drums sound awful to me.

I once accidentally saw the Killers live when they appeared unannounced for a ‘secret set’ on a smaller stage at Glastonbury They played the first 5 songs from this album. Everyone danced and sang along. Then they fucked off. I wish they did the same in the studio because the second half of this album is absolute shite.

I am a big fat hater of the Killers so went into this fully expecting to be irritated by it. Immediately annoyed by Mr Brightside but then Smile Like You Mean It came on so I couldn’t help myself and started singing along. When that ended I was quickly bombarded by the next two tracks which brought me back to being a preteen and I couldn’t figure out if I enjoyed that or not. However immediately after they were done, I was back to being a hater and thinking about how much Brendan Flowers vocals make me want to tear my hair out because all the songs sound the saaaaaaaaame. I did save Smile Like You Mean It, but man, the Killers is such a lame band.

Really tiring, but I can't deny how good Mr Brightside is

I was deep into jazz and my own CDs and MP3s during this era. I remember a single from this album on the radio and maybe on TV. I’m enjoying giving it a listen and reading the emotional cues of its time. “All These Things That I’ve Done” is a standout single I had forgotten about. I do feel the tone rarely varies. The album description mentions Duran Duran, but Duran Duran had variance in their music. This is more one-dimensional in the expression of the band’s capabilities.

Ouais, c’est une époque et à part les deux gros hit c’est un peu barbant

Musiikki juuri sellaista joka sopii jonkun EA sportsin nhl:n valikkomusaksi tai Smarketissa taustalle. Ei herätä mitään tunteita eli ei myöskään loukkaa ketään. Valitettavasti pisteitä tulee yhtä paljon kuin Napalm deathille, tosin eri syistä.

Periaatteessa ihan hyvän kuuloista, mutta ei kuitenkaan tempaise millään tavalla mukaansa, pois lukien Somebody Told Me.

Tuli vanhoja muistoja mieleen. Olihan tää kovaa joskus. Joskus tää toimi, mut nyt ei kyl enää toiminut.

Ymmärrän kyllä miksi tämä on laitettu listalle levyistä joita pitäs kuunnella ennen kuin siirtyy ajasta ikuisuuteen. Levy nimittäin toimii ihan hyvänä ajankuvana, vaikka ei nyt varsinaisesti mitään uutta ja ihmeellistä esittele. Albumilla on tämän lisäksi muutama iso hitti, jotka raikaavat edelleen ratiossa ja erilaisissa tapahtumissa. Tykkään itsekin muutamasta rieskan biisistä, mutta yleisesti ottaen levy kuulostaa kamalalta. Noin näihin aikoihin keksittiin pop-musiikissa, että kaikki soittimet pitää tuutata täysillä narulle, jotta tsipaleet saadaan ”soimaan kunnolla” kaikista mahdollisista peltipurkkikajareista ja markan nappikuulokkeista. Tuotantotapa korostuu Hot Fussin kohdalla ja saa yrjöt kurkkuun itsellä, joten en tätä kyllä kauhean mielelläni kuuntele. Laulukin on uitettu jonkun häröfiltterin läpi, joten sekään ei pääse oikeuksiinsa. Ehkä tämä pitäisi käydä kuuntelemassa jonkun autostereon läpi eikä kuulokkeilla, niin psyyke kestäisi paremmin.

Never have I played this album in full, never will again. Listened while at work and only made my day worse Few songs to make white middle aged people act up on a dancefloor, other than that generic, underwhelming indie sounds with the poor choice of synth...

Promenades out in the rain...you're from Vegas mate. First 5 tracks better than Oasis' entire discography, rest of the album is utter crap

I get why Mr. Brightside fills dancefloors and gets everyone singing along, but its at best alright. The rest of the album is mediocre. Songs are well crafted, but dreary, uninteresting, and generic. It’s like someone took Interpol, stripped away everything interesting and shoved a synthesizer in.

Some decent singles. Album derivative and drags

1. Jenny - 1 2. Brightside - 2 3. Smile - 1 4. Told - 2.5 5. Things - 1 6. Andy - 1 7. Top - 1.5 8. Mind - 1 9. Natalie - 1 10. Midnight - 1 11. Alright - 1 12. Indie - 0

Loud sadboi music maybe I need to give it another shot

Ніколи не заслуховувався Кілерсами. На цьому альбомі є один generational хіт, один супер хіт та декілька дійсно класних композицій на стику пост-панку та якоїсь поп-американи. Половина цього альбому просто ок, відчувається як філери

хто не любить трек містер брайдсайт, в того нема серця. забавно, що цей альбом більше асоціюється в мене з початком 10х ніж 00х. мені було навколо 10 років, коли ця музика звучала всюди як гімн того покоління молодих дорослих, і все ж навіть мене занурює в ностальгію за своїм підлітством від цієї гітари, цього ритма та цього голоса. але окрім цього відчуття капсули часу, напевно, тут нічого особливо нема. та і я вже виросла.

2/5

Mr.Brightside album. Not really my jam but had a couple cool songs.

background music

Jenny Was A Friend - Very solid. Nothing apart from the bass really stood out to me, but still a very solid opener. 7/10 Mr. Brightside - It's Mr. Brightside. 10/10 Smile Like You Mean It - Could easily see this one being played in the background at a Khols or something like that. Sounds very safe. Good, but safe. 7/10 Somebody Told Me - Groovy. Packs a bit more of a punch. Would dance to it if heard at a party. 8/10 All These Things That I've Done - I got soul, but am not, in fact, a soldier. Could easily see this playing over a shot of the main character driving down a freeway towards an unknown but comfortable future as the credits roll. 7/10 Andy, You're A Star - Killers + slow = eh. 5/10 On Top - Think I heard this one a few weeks ago in an outlet mall. 6/10 Change Your Mind - Drums were pretty cool. 7/10 Believe Me, Natalie - Kinda unique-sounding with the horns and reggae-ish drums. 7/10 Midnight Show - Electric guitar gets the spotlight. Could see a college band playing this at a party. Would dance to if heard. A shining light amidst a sea of meh. 8/10 Everything Will Be Alright - Slow, generic, bleh. 3/10 Glamorous Indie Rock and Roll - Again, Killers + slow = eh. 5/10 Overall, 6/10. Without Mr. Brightside, 5/10. Not bad, just much more average than I was hoping. Was expecting this to be "Mr. Brightside, The Album" but instead got "Mr. Brightside and some songs you would hear in the background of a Khols". I'm personally not a big fan of the slower, more vibey stuff, which is a decent chunk of this album. Competent, but would probably listen to other rock albums before this one.

one killer track. the rest is compressed noise

I see the time and place, but best ever, no. The generator is not being kind.

Highlight: Smile Like You Mean It, Mr Brightside. In a nutshell: the Achtung Baby of the new millennium. Over twenty years on, Hot Fuss is still poppy and bombastic. Also, a let down. There is so much filler surrounding two (maybe three) tracks! Mr Brightside still resonates, as does Somebody Told Me (despite both being overplayed at sport matches worldwide. I can do without the latter). The Killers also remind me of early Muse and The Strokes for some reason. Overall: 4/10

Nicht meine Musik. Es blieb wenig bis überhaupt nichts hängen.

If you don't think the Killers are christian rock, you're not paying attention. This music is so vapid and skin deep. Just goes to show you what stays culturally relevant because unimpressive white dudes need a song to sing at karaoke.

In 2004 I was the world's biggest Opeth fan, so this band has escaped me entirely. They will continue to escape me, because other than the interesting bass line in the first song, it's boring me to tears. The vocalist has no range whatsoever and it was as if I was listening to the same song over and over again.

Duran Duran kinda sound

Heard them live a few years ago on InMusic in Zagreb. Maybe if I was a teenager, I would've stayed for Mr.Brightside as they closed the set, but luckily I was making out with my gf on our way back to the apartment.

Was cool to hear the big songs, cause I didn’t know they were from this artist or album Edit Apr 5 2026: 3 --> 2. I'm just not that fond of this album

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I've spent far too much of my life trying to figure out why people like this so much. I even went to see them at Leeds festival were they were boring and utterly blown away when the pixies came on after them. Don't get me wrong Mr brightside is amazing, somebody told me is a pretty solid track. After that however... There are like 2 others which show promise but the choruses are so ploddy. I used to think I hated his voice, or his delivery, maybe it's a bit of that, but it's also the choice of lower register in the choruses and the slowness of them. It loses all the momentum built up in the verses. I should say that they have some great bass and synth lines The second half of the album is largely forgettable and I couldn't tell you much about it. The last song however I know because I just don't believe him, if he really liked indie rock and roll he'd have put more passion into it. I appear to have been proven right by their future albums moving away from that genre. I find myself singing bits of them later which tries to trick into thinking they were good. While I'm over analysing this can someone explain. I've got soul but I'm not a soldier. Catchy word play and all, but is he suggesting that all soldiers have soul? That only soldiers have soul? Maybe I don't have soul.

I didn't like this album because I've found it really boring and predictable. I listen to some post-punk revival albums from the early 00s but this was disappointing. It was not annoying or that bad, just simply boring and not interesting.

Na

I shouldn't hate this, but I unfortunately do .. it's probably not their fault entirely, but one of my first flames really tried to push them on me and it was a right turn off...

Christian music thinly disguised with a rock veneer…..nope I do like smile like you mean it so it won’t be a one star review Aside from the above it’s just a bland slab of boring mediocre rock

Boooooooring 4/10

I've been tired of Mr. Brightside for about 7 years now. The Rest is really uninteresting. Reminds me of Red Hot Chili Peppers. 3/10

Meh.

This smells like the 2000s and puberty... in a bad way

I liked it for a while - but it got a little long and lost me in the second half.

Death to Indie Rock. Listen to Queen Bitch instead.

i find the killers to be music for people who want to like good music but don't know how or where to start, so they like the killers. sure there are 2 good songs here so i will give it a reluctant 2 but really i could not wait for this to end.

Good start, with the hit singles, but it definitely starts to drag a bit in the second half.

you say its got hits, i say its got shits

Probably not gonna play it by myself but its fine

Catchy, forgettable radio hits and some filler. Calculated music for calculated people. It’s like the shirt that looked cool on the rack at the mall but fell apart after the first wash.

I used to own this album, shortly after it came out. I liked how the leadoff track thrusts a bass riff and synth to the fore and I enjoyed the song "Smile Like You Mean It," which has a cool '80s new wave vibe. The rest never really grew on me, and I traded in my CD. The end.

I'd heard the two singles which are okay. The rest of this did nothing for me. Also The Killers is one of the possible names considered in the Mountain Goats song "The Best ever death metal band out of Denton" and I can't hear this band without thinking that the Mountain Goats are a much better band.

I still have no idea what "I've got sould but I'm not a soldier" is supposed to mean. Catchy, though. Aside from that track, though, not really sure why this album is on the list. It's fine. It's alright.

Always thought the band were massively overrated, and after tracks wondered if I was just hater. However, for me the quality of the album quickly dips after "All These Things We've Done" and rarely recovers aside from a few bright spots within otherwise bland tracks. 2.5 from me Clive.

Ok

I’m gonna preface this review with the fact that I do not care for The Killers. I’d go as far as to say that Mr Brightside is probably my most hated song, I’m so sick of hearing it. With that out of the way, I didn’t mind this album. I didn’t hate it like I thought it would and tbh, Somebody Told Me is a banger. I saw a review on here saying that the second half of the album is filler and it certainly felt that way.

nice to listen to this album beyond just the meme. that said, nothing especially stood out to me - good or bad. 2.5- incredibly mid

Every song is rather generic, no outstanding lyrics or riffs. It all sounds the same and I don't remember one song after listening to the entire album.

I did not enjoy this. It was completely forgettable. Not for me.

Couple of decent songs but otherwise aggressively meh

Over rated

The Killers' sound just doesn't appeal to me. The guitar is predominantly used to create a wash of sound that isn't very interesting (this is especially exaggerated on "On Top"). It is the equivalent of a pianist playing with the sustain pedal constantly, making any sounds that might be novel or unique when differentiated instead blend with each other to the point that everything sounds the same. A side effect of this is that oftentimes the songs feel like they aren't going anywhere at all. This alone isn't enough to condemn the album completely, but it also isn't worth trying to pick out individual lines from the bass because it's only present to meld with the over-blended tones of the guitar. The snyth adds an interesting element on occasion, but the Killers constantly return to this washed-out blend of dull harmonies. So then we're left with the drums and vocals. The drums are fine and hardly worth mentioning, though they really are the only thing keeping the songs moving forward and preventing complete stagnation. And the vocals. The vocals... feature an overused vocal effect that is most evident on "Everything Will Be Alright." Sure, it makes the sound of Hot Fuss almost immediately recognizable, but in my opinion, it also contributes significantly to the issues I note above. Because all of Brandon Flower's vocals are produced with this effect, it causes any expressive vocal choices that might otherwise stand out to sound too much alike. I will say "Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine" ever so slightly stood out from the other tracks, with its synth riff supported by bass interjections that made it a bit more interesting to listen to. Then of course there's "Mr. Brightside," which still suffers from many of the issues above but at least has a constant rhythm pushing us forward in the moving synth, upbeat tempo, and lyrics. But really it's hard to remember anything else from Hot Fuss because it all blends together.

Liked it more than I initially thought, also wasn't aware this was the album with Old Man

Boring, honestly. It put me to sleep I fear.

Went in fully expecting to love this and was sorely disappointed. As I suspected, this is one of the most ridiculously frontloaded albums I've ever heard, and the first five tracks aren't even that great barring Somebody Told Me (which deserves all the praise), and Mr. Brightside (although that has grown off of me through overplay). The rest? Totally forgettable new wave influenced pop rock with all the edges sanded off. Not terrible, but I don't really see myself listening to this again in the near future. If the book wanted to highlight the explosion of popularity that Post Punk Revival bands experienced, I feel like Interpol's Turn on The Bright Lights (even if I prefer its immediate followup Antics) would've been a far stronger entry. It might not have had quite the commercial exposure that Hot Fuss has had, but TOTBL has made up for it with sheer critical and fan legacy,

ts so mid 💔 mr brightside is here