Hot Fuss

Eh, it's The Killers. I feel like this rock for trashy people. It's from this era of bad music, and it really does not age well. While the songs on this are not terrible, I don't think they're good. Even "Mr. Brightside" with over 1 billion streams on Spotify is not good.

First half. Bangers. Second half. Not so good.

The Killers is another band I was intimidated by because I thought I should know them. There are a slurry of bands that came out in the early to mid 2000s that leave me feeling this way: The Killers, Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, et al. Thinking about this now I recognize it's because I had my first child during these years and new bands were not a top priority. While this album was just fine, I can't say it's something I'll reach for again. And I'm glad I focussed on my baby who was 1 week old when this album debuted.

Started this album with a complete open mind, I only really know a few of the singles. The first notes of Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine really surprised me. A great 80's baseline that could have come straight from bands like Duran Duran or Japan. Unfortunately these upbeat danceable tunes are hard to be found in the rest of the album. With the exception of the two major hits, which have justifiably become classics, most songs are songs by a mediocre uni-band. As someone on this site already proclaimed: "A few Killer, but mostly filler"

Prefs: Mr. Brightside, Somebody Told Me, Believe Me Natalie, Midnight Show, Everything Will Be Alright Moins pref: Change Your Mind

Never really enjoyed the killers, Mr. Brightside is their commercial succes and it feels like they never really changed the formula throughout the whole album. songs blended in together. def a 2/5

Been familiar with them for ages, but never really much of a fan. Recognized several of the songs but never really paid attention to who was playing them. Definitely not what I'd purposefully select to listen to ever, but I didn't hate it.

rock pop meio forçado tentando ser alternativo. mas o baixo é foda

A bit like chugging a large Pepsi. Many people are partial to the taste I suppose, but to me it's a bit too syrupy, and leaves me with a stomach ache.

Thought I was listening to Franz Ferdinand for a bit there.

smug, pompous, faux-anthemic, very calculated, and containing nothing nutritious one star

One of the most popular bands of the 2000s... Deservedly? The 2000s were admittedly not a great time for music in general. Many of the list's 2000s albums are lacking in quality. This album is no exception; I just found it to be utterly terrible. Even though the album spawned a lot of hits, I found those hits to be mediocre at best, annoying at worst I really don't care for the vocalist's voice, and the band's sound is not very interesting at all. I see this as boring 2000s arena pop tripe, which is weird as I like arena rock from 30 years earlier. Either way, I find the Killers' songs boring and sometimes annoying, and I don't get how they were anywhere near as popular as they were. I was going to give it a 2, but the closer being an ode to landfill indie made it a 1. I'm sorry, millennials. This album is ranked #2 of 24 albums for 2004. Other 2004 albums rated by me: Smile(9/24)-2 Heroes to Zeros(13/24)-1 Rejoicing in the Hands(19/24)-2

Alternative rock, dance-punk revival, new wave, art rock, synth-pop, dance-rock. The genre labels for The Killers’ debut album "Hot Fuss" explain my problem with the band’s sound and my lack of interest. Because, honestly, I don’t hear any new wave here (how could I? It’s a genre label from the eighties), above all, I certainly don’t hear any art rock, and terms (and concepts) like dance-rock (sic!) and dance-punk (SIC!!) are enough to put me off for good. What I hear is that typical highly agitated vocals that eventually became established in alternative rock, along with a wall of sound made up of guitars and a few keyboard sounds that clash with the singer’s bleating. Of course, Brendan Flowers can sing well, but I wish he wouldn’t yell every note at full throttle. This music lacks variety and dynamic changes; almost everything seems to be cranked up to the max. I’ve heard worse, but “Glamorous Indie Rock’n’Roll” (that’s a track on the album) is absolutely not my cup of tea.

can't put a finger on why i don't like this, its sonically OK, i like the harmonizing parts and guitar sound. i missed this when i was a teen because it was lame radio rock and i hated all that new york/london stuff, i was obsessed with joy division and all the post punk revival stuff felt soulless and gross, a weird imitation of something lost. it was a bleak time culturally if anyone can't remember it was the bush era, not the y2k, reality tv was happening etc... a real era for slop and this takes me back (deragatory). sometimes the songs sound like theyre building to something good and then go to a crescendo thats just unsatisfying. like k liked the intro on the first track andy youre a star until the chorus, but didnt really like any song all the way thru ans skipped a few tracks, especially when they kept trying to move into a grand sound halfway thru. also the cover art feels sinophobic idk

Pour les killers, It's indie rock n' Roll for me, pour moi c'est de la merd* Album qui sonne relativement bien mais entre la voix du chanteur qui me donne envie de me brûler les yeux façon slumdog millionnaire. Et le fait de devoir s'infliger 12 fois la même chansons dont 2 qui sont somebody told me et Mr brightside, qui elles me donnent généralement envie de casser l'installation de karaoké installé par Michel 72 ans qui fait ça en partie par plaisir mais aussi et surtout pour rembourser les enceintes beaucoup trop cher pour lui qu'il s'est achetée parce que je cite: "faut profiter de la vie" alors qu'au fond de lui Michel voulais juste paraître cool devant ses petits enfants qui lui manque. Maintenant Michel est poursuivi et harcelé par ses propriétaires pour qu'il paie son loyer, il ne voit plus ses petits enfants et sa femmes Caroles à décidé de demander un divorce après 40 ans de mariage heureux . Alors Michel continu d'aller dans les bar pour se faire de l'argent avec son karaoké, il écoute des gens chanter mal et il se demande quand tout cela terminera. Vous voyez je préfère inventer une histoire que parler de cette album Je lui met 1 pour le chant 1 pour l'originalité de l'époque 3 parce qu'il y a d'autres musiciens que le chanteur -1 parce qu'ils ont accepté de sortir les chansons donc environ 1 au final

Imagine tu fais un album de glamorous indie rock au point de nommer une chanson comme ça, sauf que c'est juste du rock de mec blanc ultra insipide. Playlist pick : Mr. Brightside

So bland. There's absolutely nothing interesting about any of the songs. Ooo they have a synthesizer, I hated every synth sound chosen. Watered down "indie" rock for frat boys. Completely devoid of personality. Made me want to slap a "I rather be listening to Hot Hot Heat" sticker on my ass. Hope I never have to hear it again.

Whatever they call indie rock n roll is something I don't really like

Not for me

Aged like milk

It was downhill after the I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier exercise

I dont know what it is, but I just cant get excited about the Killers It sounds fine, but it washes over me and is forgotten moments later I might be the half-shouted vocal delivery that makes me want it to be over, or the sameiness of the guitar sounds Wherever, its very one-dimensional, that turns into a difficult listen for 50 straight minutes

All shit (except the bangers)

Malo. No sé quien decidió que esta banda era buena, yo no al menos.

Teenager hipster shit. Unbearable.

Number: 65 Date: 03/05/2026 Artist: The Killers Album: HOT FUSS Year: 2004 Genre: Synth-pop Rating: 1 Notes: Before: No clue, never heard of them. I'm not even going to guess but I'm assuming some form of rock, maybe something along the lines of The White Stripes. Wow, I guess they're pretty popular, The Brightside has over 3 billion streams on Spotify. During: The first 2 tracks are decent. They have kind of an urgent new-waveish sound to me. Not really whitestripesish at all. I can't say it's anything special that I'll add to any of my personal playlists. Now on track 6. It's all a bit too main stream for my tastes. I'm skipping though many of these. 4 Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine 4 Mr. Brightside 3 Smile Like You Mean It 2 Somebody Told Me 3 All These Things That I've Done 2 Andy, You're A Star 1 On Top 2 Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll 2 Believe Me Natalie 2 Midnight Show 1 Everything Will Be Alright ----------------------------------------- 2.36 AVERAGE After: Well, it started off OK but got progressively worse. I often listen to an album 2 or 3 times for this project but won't be doing that this time. 2 - my personal rating 1 - suitability for this list 1 - relevance ------------------------------ 1 - composite rating

Ryan hates the Killers

Overplayed, overhyped, over it! Couldn't wait for this to end, every track felt more torturous than the last

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I am partially familiar with The Killers due to Mr. BrightSide, but rock and punk music just isn’t my thing.

Not a fan of the killers. So didn't listen to this album

Eh. Just don't get the fuss over this album/band/genre.

Didn’t like at all

Boring

Not my tempo. Too sappy and melodramatic.

Nope. Maybe it's because I hear Mr Brightside at the end of a Wedding night when everyone dancing to it is drunk and singing along to it, or maybe it has to be one of the most chosen Karaoke songs, or maybe it just annoys me full stop. Maybe because of Mr Brightside I just don't like the Killers or MAYBE I just don't like The Killers.

The sound of that protentious douchbag in your school walking down the hallway with a gargantuan ego thinking he is the coolest one when in fact his life is peaking and college won't be good for him and he will end up as a salesman or a construction worker listening to Mr. Brightside on the weekends wishing he did his life differently

Helt frem til Scissors Sisters kom for en drøy uke siden, trodde jeg de og the Killers var britiske. At begge disse greiene er med i 1001 album må nesten skyldes amerikansk imperialisme; hvordan ellers kan man forklare at to gjennomsyrede mediocre band fra starten av 2000-tallet som egentlig bare lager britisk pastiche regnes blant 1001 album man må høre før man dør? Dette har man uansett hørt fra før av hvis man var levende på 2000-tallet, og det var mid da også. The Killers er en av grunnene til at jeg i mange år trodde alt rock var kjipt. (Alt rock er om mulig et enda dårligere sjangernavn enn indie fordi det treffer altfor bredt, men det er en annen sak.) Og The Killers hørtes jo ut som noe som var kult for en tenåring: killers, for fan. Men musikken er så jævlig lite killer. More like The Fillers, fordi 99% av låtene deres er forglemmelig skvip. Mr. Brightside regnes idag som en slags anthem for vår generasjon (betyr det at vi er gen cucked?), og det er greit. Det er en hit. Den fungerer. Gjør den meg emosjonell? Ikke litt engang, fordi the Killers er et fake band som kun eksisterer på overflaten av allerede eksisterende kulturelle uttrykk. Flere av låtene fra starten ligger kanskje nærmere amerikanske pop-emo acts som Jimmy Eat World enn det jeg først hadde antatt, men for hver ting de gjør som er OK, tar de et valg som beviser at bandet mangler distingvert smak (hooken i Smile Like You Mean It, synthen i Somebody Told Me). Halvveis igjennom er jeg helt knekt. The Killers har brukt opp de få triksene de hadde i ermet, og On Top høres ut som et prakteksemplar på hvorfor the Killers suger lut. Det er sjeleløs, pseudo-emosjonell gitarbasert pop for folk som ikke vet at det finnes alternativer. Change Your Mind ligger et eller annet sted mellom the Smiths og New Order. Og bro wtf er den synthen? The Fillers er et drittband. Change my mind.

Nå begynner jeg å bli lei dårlige album som nærmer seg timen. Det er ikke så mye å si om dette albumet. Bare kjedelig dårlig poprock

eh dio can no i killers non li riesco ad ascoltare, un ascolto del disco mi basta per esser certa della mia oramai decennale certezza: non li sopporto.

Debole e prevedibile

I don’t get the appeal of this at all. I’ve never understood why Mr. Brightside is so widely loved. Before this project, I would’ve said I didn’t have any strong feelings about the Killers, but after having to listen to an entire album I just really dislike them. It sounds like bland corporate rock. Knowing they’re both from Las Vegas really cements that these guys are the precursor to Imagine Dragons

Har svårt för det lite mer moderna soundet. Ganska trist och platt. Men det har ändå nåt. Väldigt jämntjockt hela tiden och den bara maler på. Det har jag svårt för. Lite för mycket Kent-vibbar för min smak! Tröttnar rejält mot slutet. Svag, svag tvåa!

Ok alternative band, leans towards the hard rock side of music.

The existence of Mr Brightside on this album meant it was unlikely to get more than one star from me. Objectively it's probably two stars, but this album and this band represent the absolute fucking cultural nadir of the Millennial generation and if I never have to hear a drunken crowd tunelessly shouting along to these songs again it will be too soon. With some exceptions, this is "music" for people who don't like music.

Rock adolescente genérico The strokes só que ruim

We have so many examples of people who have become financially very successful even in the face of their woo woo beliefs-- and who then used that commercial success to springboard into highly influential and insane public policy making positions that f**k America. So I can't knowingly support a person or a band with the potential to morph into some bullshit like that. So yeah, because of their stupid woo woo beliefs and religion, I'm a hard no on the technically excellent band, The Killers. Come correct or kick rocks.

One generation past punk, these guys had lots of great songs and groups to listen to and draw from. Too bad they listened to crap and ended up being scavengers feeding on the scraps of a rotting thirty year old corpse.

I've hated The Killers since I first heard them. Vapid.

Ugh... At first I just found this to be pretty forgettable pop-rock. Not truly offensive, but very by-the-numbers and safe. Got to about the third track before I started to find it super irritating. A barrage of stolen pop-hooks with no substance. Completely insipid. This sucks.

Boring

Before this, I thought I didn’t like Mr. Brightside. Turns out I don’t like The Killers.

Shit

This was an interesting album for me. It gave me

Steaming shit

Terrible album. Songs sound the same. No originality.

I GOT HAM BUT I'M NOT A HAMSTER!!!

Abrasive, repetitive, grating, monotonous singing followed by shouting. Make it go away.

hulluutta – hulluutta että – että – miten sanoa– hulluus tästä – kaikki tämä – hulluus kaikesta tästä – annetusta – hulluus tästä kaikesta – näkemisestä – hulluus kaiken tämän näkemisestä – tämä – mikä on sana – tämä tämä – tämä tässä – kaikki tämä tässä – hulluus kaikesta tästä – nähdä – hulluus kaiken tämän näkemisestä tässä – että – mikä on sana – nähdä – vilahdus – nähdä vilaukselta – tarve nähdä vilaukselta – hulluus siitä, että täytyy nähdä vilaukselta – mitä missä – missä – miten sanoa – siellä – tuolla – kaukana tuolla – etäällä – etäällä kaukana tuolla – kaukaisuudessa – kaukaisuudessa tuolla mikä – mikä – miten sanoa– nähdä kaikki tämä – kaikki tämä tämä – kaikki tämä tässä – hulluus nähdä mikä – vilahdus – nähdä vilaukselta – tarve nähdä vilaukselta – kaukaisuudessa etäällä tuolla mikä – hulluus siitä, että täytyy nähdä vilaus kaukaisuudessa etäällä tuolla mikä – mikä – mikä on sana – REBIRTH! Objektiaan pystytään- Katsottiin- AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS THIS IS 3.75 GLOBAL BUT ITS SYSIPASKA…. Mustaa kuin miiluhiili… Black as miilu charcoal… hulluus niin syvää ja vitsit niin tummia…. ei vilahda… ei tummuudesta mitään valkeaa,, mustasta huumorista mitään hohtevaa — helakkaa — hallavaa… näy neekerin hampaat.. ei vilahda.. Albumissa sama… mitään toivoa…..

Embarassing.

This is so bad. I had never listened to this band and didn't know anything about them, but obviously have been aware of a band called The Killers for a long time. I have heard one of the songs on this album before, it feels like it's probably just ubiquitous in culture at this point. But man this band sucks--it sounds like they just took some elements of The Strokes that were undeniably popular at the time and applied it to super shitty packaged for consumerism pop music. Get this off this list.

This is the 62nd album I’m rating. I’ve only listened to Mr. Brightside and I kinda hated it. Adding to my Playlist - All These Things That I’ve Done and Everything Will Be Alright. Not Adding to my Playlist - Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, Mr. Brightside, Smile Like You Mean It, Somebody Told Me, Andy, You’re a Star, On Top, Change Your Mind, Believe Me Natalie, and Midnight Show. All in all I liked 2/11 songs. This wasn’t that good and it was too basic. If you like it I wouldn’t judge for it though you because I like The Last Shadow Puppets who are arguably more basic.

Sounds like over produced radio friendly frat boy rock. It belongs to the parts of culture I despise the most, and that’s all I can hear in it. I do like their one song “Don’t Shoot Me Santa Claus” as a guilty pleasure, but that track isn’t here.

I thought maybe a relisten would “change [my] mind,” but “believe me Natalie,” it did not. I always hated the hits off this album and continue to find this a boring, trite product of its time. I couldn’t make it through. It’s marginally better than the other one-star albums I listened to (side eye to you, Kid Rock), but based on the “I can’t even listen to this whole thing,” it gets a 1.

it was... what it was. The production mainly, was often a weird mix of seemingly random effects(On Top, Killers have to be reminded this isn't the crazy frog album), that took away most of the flow out of the songs, like use of the vocoder at the most random instances. The record also seems very focussed around Mr Brightside, of which I don't understand the appeal at all, the lyrics are pretty goofy and the song isn't anything unique. To reiterate, I wasn't impressed at all, the songs were listenable but some choices were just laughably bad. Favorite track: Change your Mind(because I have to pick). Overall Score: 1.2/10

You gotta be fucking kidding me....this is my first one? Mr.Brightside? i cannot escape this goddamned song. This seems like an elaborate troll job....

Neutered rehash of new wave. Again I choose die.

I knew going in that I completely hate Mr. Brightside and Somebody Told Me. I can't believe you still hear Mr. Brightside out in public in 2025. This coming up on the list has reminded me that I also completely hate All These Things That I've Done. Three of my most hated radio singles is impressive in a first album. Britpop goes to Vegas to get glitzed up. A nightmare. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Boring

Boring and monochromatic.

Not my cup of tea

This band is extremely overrated.

Hot garbage

hot fuss, more like hot fucking trash

When I see this pop up, the phrase “Kill me” comes to mind. HOW IS THIS ONE THE MOST IMPORTANT 1001 ALBUMS EVER WRITTEN. Ugh. Anyway. I’m coming into this one with a touch of bias. First song starts off with the nothing guitars pioneered by this nothing band. This was worrying me. I thought “is this kind of good” for a total of 15 seconds. It’s over. The vocals are horrible, the needless drama is wretched. It sounds like a manipulative millennial predator spearheading a theatre production. It’s endless to boot. One of the top 5 most insufferable songs ever to reach the mainstream. It hits my ears like poison. I’m not even surrounded by drunk screaming white people. I’m just a white people listening to this by myself. So not only am I in pain, I’m embarrassed. Fuck the Killers. Let me check Wikipedia. Fuck Brandon flowers, fuck Dave Keuning, Fuck Jeff Saltzman, Fuck Island Records. Hell, Fuck Las Vegas for producing these people. This is a repetitive, overly simple piece of garbage that somehow sounds like a car commercial AND a joke song written by a character in a mockumentary. Genuinely awful and while I hope this is the last time I’ll ever hear it, I’m sure it’ll be shoved down my throat everywhere I go for at least the next quarter century. Boring. Lame. Sappy, yet no real emotion is even being insinuated. What is the emotion? Indifference? The colour grey? You guys suck. Congratulations on bilking the public with your lab created tripe. Another BANGER here guys. WOOOOOOO. The chord progressions, the synthesizers, the melodies, the drums. All awful. And the vocals. Jesus fucking Christ. Terrible. What is this song even trying to say? Yes, let’s get black parade piano notes in this. Let’s try to sound like the Beatles if they were parodied in a motion picture that didn’t acquire the rights to their songs. I’m sorry. I really have sympathy for people. I just know this song was played at weddings throughout the 2000s/2010s. “I’ve got soul, but I’m not a soldier.” That lyric irked me when I was 10. It doesn’t make sense on the face of it and insinuating “souls” were in any way involved with the creation or distribution of this record is fraudulent. Can’t even play guitar. And then it’s buried in the mire of lame synth. What is this song? Holy hell. Poor Andy. Being addressed by this dweeb. Come on. You’re joking at the point. This is AWFUL. I’m uncomfortable. I’ve developed hives. There are rumours that they’re a Christian band. Maybe I’m possessed because this is now causing me physical harm. That whiny guitar lick. Burn in hell. You’re the worst and you can’t change my mind. Believe me Natalie. I’m at a loss. I’m going to get my closest three friends in a Room with a Casio keyboard and a sheet of bob Marley Christmas music, add some horns. 30 million listeners a month. Mr. brightside feat Sublime. Trails off into more synth bullshit. Two more songs. I genuinely haven’t had allergies this bad in months. Did he just do vocal scatting for a minute??? They bury the vocals behind effects. I wish they’d bury the vocalist. I mean not really, but I do wish with all my heart that he would stop making music. And also invent a device that erased his entire catalog from current availability and also memory. Sick guitar solo Though may I sit microscopic, adrift in an ocean of stars, though I may crane my neck heavenward in search of answers, my cries for merciful truth unheeded. Darkness descends upon me in the form of tomes written by a heathen that besiege my wellbeing and cause my ponderance to descend into pleading. I beg for the end and all the gods can reply is “It’s indie rock and roll for me.” We are nearing the merciful end. After a four minute autotuned showtune about the genre they ruined, will I ever be the same? I feel like I have been prematurely aged. This is truly one of the worst things I’ve ever heard. A swath of nothing that still grates on me to the point of exhaustion and boiling fury. If you like this, shame on you. Examine your life. Music for people who hate it. I hate the killers with a passion they couldn’t manufacture in a lab. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: Being right about this band. Also an album where every track is awful, but also gets worse as the album continues is pretty special.

even mr brightside was mid

I didn’t like this album 20 years ago, and I find it insufferable 20 years later.

God, how I hate this band. In the category of Mormon musicians operating in the general realm of "rock music", give me Low, a glaring omission in Dimery's book, and please erase this style-over-substance disgrace. "More concerned with artifice than artistry," that Pitchfork review puts it, and I heartily agree here. In other words, "smile like you mean it," just as singer Brandon Flowers puts it himself. Call that a lapse of the tongue that he chose that catchphrase for the chorus of one of the couple of listenable songs on the album (including opener "Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine", with its catchy bass hook, and maybe "Andy, You're A Star" if you can enjoy weird, moody stuff). Everything else comes off as pure pretense. It's, indeed, a fake smile. Is Flowers aware of the irony himself? Does it even matter? There were enough followers with questionable taste in music praising his band's shtick to make the latter a huge commercial success (sorry for the apparent contempt here, but as you're gonna see at the end of my review, Brendan Flowers is not faultless himself when it comes to expressing unfair contempt--so I guess it's only fair game). More power to those Killer fans, and to the band they thought was so great at the time. But less power to good music at large, might I venture to add. 🙃 Highlighting those two or three salvageable cuts up there is indeed as far as I'll go to give compliments to the songwriting and production on this thing. Between the annoying singles displayed on the first side, with so many forced inflexions on vocals and hackneyed arrangements (gosh, those laugh-out-loud, cringe synth flourishes on "Somebody Told Me"!), and the boring deeper cuts on the second side, either bland ("Change Your Mind") or overblown to ridiculous proportions ("Believe Me Natalie"), there's almost nothing to save in this record. The chord sequences are predictable and unimaginative. The vocal lines rarely favor interesting harmonies and Flowers's performance is often grating. The Killers steal aesthetics going from U2 to The Strokes, or from Interpol to Duran Duran (a-hem), and yet somehow, they manage to retain the worst, most clichéed and worn-out features from each of those iconic bands (they'll do the same with Bruce Springsteen a few years later). And the result is, mildly put, a cheesefest of truly epic proportions. In that regard, they even push the envelope for the conclusion of the album, just when you think things couldn't get worse at this point. *Hot Fuss*'s original tracklist indeed ends with the meandering, pointless synth-heavy "Everything Will Be Alright", and here the Last Vegas band actually yield to their most performative impulses rather than try to find a way out of their all-too-calculated imposture. On paper, a good rock album can end with a slow, moody, borderline-experimental cut to show the full scope of your skills. The thing is, Killers have absolutely no idea how to make that sort of composition work. And here it shows. And then there's the cream on the shitcake: "bonus track" "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll", which sounds like a Flight Of The Conchords parody. Except that it's not. Except that there's nothing funny about it. And except that its runtime reaches the four-minute mark, and that it's three minutes and fifty five seconds too long as it is. Here's what Flowers had to say about this song supposedly mocking "hipster culture" in August 2009: "There's so much snobbery. You go through high school and all the paranoia and crap that goes with that. It's bullshit. I just didn't want to be like that. We like big songs and we're going to embrace it." In other words, *true* indie-rock musicians and their fans are insecure snobs, and the song has to be interpreted as a snarling takedown of that mindset. There's so much contempt for people that are probably just sincere about what they like on the part of Flowers here that I don't know where to start to roast him... And then, *one month later*, this is what the Killers frontman had to say about "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll": in an interview with Rolling Stone, in September 2009, Flowers cited it as his least favorite Killers song, stating that hearing it makes him want to "crawl under a rock". Had he suddenly found out that he was actually the insecure snob here, possibly stemming from the slow realization that going after big, 'arena rock' compositions wasn't that fulfilling on an artistic viewpoint after all (even if it filled his pockets)? Or has he just simply realized how cringeworthy the whole track is? Well, as Wikipedia points it out, two years later, in a comeback show at London's Scala, The Killers played "Glamorous Indie Rock &Roll" live in London for the first time in four years, and then they played it again on the following day, in another gig in the city. Conclusion: the man has no personal integrity. Pick a lane, for chrissake. So f*ck him. And f*ck his lame band. The Wikipedia page about *Hot Fuss* remarks that it was, at one point, listed among the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. *At one point*. Which means that someone in Dimery's team came to their senses and erased the record for subsequent editions. So I guess I shouldn't have wasted so much time writing this long review on that shitty band's account. Just hope I didn't waste yours here, and that my review was at least informative enough for you so as to make up your own mind about The Killers. No reason to make a (hot) fuss just because some people disagree with you on music, whether in high school or elsewhere. It's probably a lesson Flowers should have mulled over before making artistic choices he later bitterly regretted. As a lot of impassioned music fans know, all the money in the world can't buy true integrity and genuine artistic flair. 0.5/5 for the purposes of this list, rounded up to 1. 5.5/10 for more general purposes (5/5 for overall musical competency + 0.5/5 for the actual artistry) Number of albums left to review: 99 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 388 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 227 Albums from the list I certainly won't include in mine: 286 (including this one)

Didn't like it

3.43 rym non ascolterò questa merda perchè so già che è merda 1/5

I hate hate hate Mr. Brightside (I cannot stand Mr. XYZ adressations in general, but also hate this song in particular.) Sometimes when there is a song I hate I can still enjoy the rest of the album. But not this.

The only thing I knew about The Killers before listening was that time vocalist Brandon Flowers happened to be on Skavlan together with Richard Dawkins and was sort of ambushed into fiercely defending his lifelong mormon faith. Poor guy got pretty agitated. Plus I remember his stilted cover of "Got My Mind Set On You". I therefore tried hard to go into the album open minded. They've obviously got some solid hooks on some of the songs. I find the production too compressed and rather lifeless, and that filter on Flowers' vocals was ok in the beginning but started to really grate on me halfway through. The album is also extremely frontloaded, and gets progressively less interesting as it goes on. It's adequate 00s rock heavily dragged down by sterile production and lack of variety. There's just not much to it, as far as i can tell.

lyrics suuuuck

Was dreading this, but then it didn't sound as bad as I expected... Almost good, but then I thought actually, I'd rather clean the toilet than listen to this rubbish. If you could bottle the spirit that Brandon Flowers brings to his work, you could seal it tight and dispose of it responsibly.

No. 1

Ugh, pretty boy angsty adolescent whining, repetitive and unimaginative... Can't listen to this. 1 Star.

alle nummers zijn onderling inwisselbaar... ik hou ook niet van de bombastische stem... geen idee waar 'the fuss' over deze plaat vandaan kwam... 13 in een dozijn

Piss poor weak US wannabee indie shite. Why is this music still being made?

Songs I knew: Somebody Told Me (semi banger) Mr. Brightside (semi banger) All These Things That I've Done Liked: Midnight snow Didn't like: On Top (didn't like the synth - corny) Everything Will Be Alright (opening felt like a Queen song a bit) Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll (lol this is so embarassing) Literally 3/12 songs are listenable

I absolutely detest this band.

Naja.

nö

Not for me. Pretty anthemic. I thnk I've heard a lot of these songs in commercials.

Why? Undoubtedly the top boring album generated so far ..... bored ... boring, boring, bored. 1/2 stars ....

Eh ok, not really my style.

Noise.

Love the music, but can't stand the vocals. It's not even his voice. It's just the filter they put on it. Boring.

Take a 12-year old boy who just been told he can't watch Lilo and Stitch on TV until his grandparents have gone home. Record his angsty response and add a self-pitying backbeat. Sell your new Killers album to dullards.

Väldigt ointressant och alldeles för poprockigt för min smak.

Not my thing

I don't like The Killers

Generic "indie rock." There are 1001 albums they could have picked rather than this dreck.

I'm not listening to this

Sorry but did not enjoy this album

Killed it

one of the standard bearers of the dark age of mainstream music. squeaky clean and totally vacuous production, no subtlety whatsoever, any emotion feels purely artificial, and to top it off i simply just don't like Brandon flowers' voice and overblown, melodramatic delivery. i did like it in high school so revisiting it was kind of fun for that reason, but I definitely won't be listening of my own free will ever again

I really hate mr.brightside, this just isn't my jam

I FUCKING HATE THE KILLERS. Their music is whiny and annoying, and was way overplayed on the radio. No thanks.

Never listened to this before, despite the ubiquitous singles. Not very good

ummm

joo albumin alussa, vastaan tuli megahittejä populääri hullutus lauluja. kaikkia aivan sysipaskoja toki. odotellessa, albumin b-osiota... huomattavasti vähemmän kuunneltu..toivomus: albumi paranee... noh biisejä tuli ja meni, eikä yhtään parempaa ollut... halusin niin vitusti antaa kaks tähtö tuiki tuiki töhtöstä, mutta en voi puhtaalla omatunnolla tälle vitun otukselle antaa propseja. 2004 on vuosi, ei ollut kovin hyvä rock musiikille :) jenny was a friend of mine... eka b iisi ehkö paras. sombedoty told me niistä kommersiaalisesti suoriutuneista biiseistä paras

Wish I could give this tripe a 0.

Was nervous to listen to this. Did not go in with high expectations. Had to skip Mr shit song. Song no.3 pretty annoying. Song 1 best so far. Find this vocalist so punishing "smile like you mean it". I think I have Brightside PTSD. Holy shit, this album has somebody told me on it as well. Chart topper. Oh no, I hate this song as well. These lyrics are pure ass, shit myself. Organs on song 5 are interesting, oh no back to simple shit. I got soul but im not a soldier is a dumbass line. Song 5 sucks. Andy your a star isn't too terrible. On top sounds like every other song. Change your mind is very simple, not in a charming way. When is this album going to end. Thank god only 4 left. "You got a real short skirt I want to look up look up look up" - horrible. Everything will be alright is actually pretty good and moody so far, kinda like it. Atmospheric. Fav song yet. Last song is just ok. Rating: 3/10 (assuming most of these albums are influential/good).

Initial Thoughts: not happy with this one lol. I’ve only heard the ultra popular mr bright side and i despise it

Repetitive themes, overproduced vocals and simple rock beats but catchy tunes that give me a sense of nostalgia.