Mr Brightside is the most seventeen years old song I can remember - just really specifically associate it with getting drunk and hoping I don’t get IDed, and the album’s still fine? Wouldn’t say I’ve listened to it in the last decade, but I still have a massive soft spot for it. So… 7?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard Change Your Mind, it wasn’t on the version I had. Anyway those first 8 tracks are all bangers, last 3 a bit nothing. Probably an 8.
Slammed that 1 with the full force of my utter apathy for The Killers and their painful by-numbers indie pop nonsense. Mr Brightside is a shame-filled bop, though. Maybe a 2?
It’s always a shock listening to it (which I do very rarely) how strong the songs are, almost all the way through the album (it drops off at the end though). And the singles are massive, and also played a big part in my life thanks to the timing of their prominence - All These Things That I’ve Done seemed to be a soundtrack to all our awful student nights, so we played it as the last song at our wedding party and it was very good.
Ah this is a 5/5 for me but purely for nostalgia than anything else. This came out at the perfect time for me and I rinsed it so much. I’m actually slightly embarrassed how much I still enjoy Mr Brigthside with how cringe it is these days due to overplaying.
Still get a huge smile on my face when I hear the intro to Jenny was a Friend or Smile like you mean it when I haven’t heard it for ages. Such a shame it got ruined for me but still such a good album.
No urge to ever listen to it again, but it got a lot of plays around the time it was released. The drop-off in songwriting after All These Things is really something, but front-loading it with the hits was probably a good move career-wise.
Proper album of two halves. First half is about as strong a set of songs as you got from that era of bands, everything after On Top is completely forgettable and shit.
Probably can’t go higher than 3 though because even amongst the strong songs I’d happily never hear Somebody Told Me or Smile Like You Mean It again, and I can’t begin to articulate how much I hate Mr Brightside now. Jenny… and On Top still slap which saves it from a 1.
