April 6, 20241 yr 'Spaceman' was a great follow up to 'Human'. Remember being happy it just about scraped top 40 in the end after coming close once or twice before. 'Smile Like You Mean It' however is pretty meh for me.
April 6, 20241 yr Smile Like You Mean It is too high here. However I can't grumble too much as I overmarked it in my rate, it's not awful but an 8 was too generous.
April 6, 20241 yr Author 6. Read My Mind Release Date: February 13, 2007 ==================== Total Points: 137.0 Average Score: 8.6 Highest Rater(s): Steve201 (11.0) Lowest Rater(s): dandy*, jimwatts, Severin (7.0) zc8hbSM1zVo Released as the third single from their second studio album, Sam's Town, In 2009, the song was voted at number 57 in UK radio station XFM's "100 Greatest Songs of All Time". In the same year, it was voted at number 71 on Absolute Radio's "100 Best Songs of the Decade". The video for "Read My Mind" was shot in Tokyo and directed by Diane Martel, shortly before the band embarked on their round of touring to New Zealand and Australia. In an interview, Brandon Flowers called the tune "kind of our favorite song" and promised the clip would find the band "in Tokyo, on bikes." The song achieved a chart peak of #15 in the UK Singles Chart.
April 6, 20241 yr 'Read My Mind' another great track. That and 'Bones' both with 15 peaks and being the 2nd and 3rd singles is quite cool lol.
April 6, 20241 yr Read My Mind is so anthemic, love how the verses build up to the chorus, such a great track and deserving of my 11 score!
April 7, 20241 yr Sorry I haven’t been following this more closely: I come in this forum really rarely so I keep forgetting it’s happening oops! Some of these I wasn’t all that familiar with beforehand, and I did give them all 3 listens for this but I’m going to revisit some of them, particularly the ones where I was the lowest scorer to see if I was being unjust! Great to see Caution in the Top 10 and a strong result for Read My Mind which I adore. :wub:
April 7, 20241 yr I really think 'Spaceman' is SO much better than 'Human', shame it never gets recognised as being so :(
April 8, 20241 yr 'Spaceman' is OK but I've never been that taken by it. 'Smile Like You Mean It' is up with their best and it's about where I expected it to end up. 'Read My Mind' also deserves its place in the top 10. Looking forward to the top 5!
April 8, 20241 yr not really a fan of Spaceman, Human is a cazillion times better imho Read My Mind should be top 5, much better than the lead for album 2 (When We Were Young)
April 8, 20241 yr Author Just one result this evening, and it’s one you may be surprised at… All the songs in the Top 5 achieved an average score of 9.0 and above.
April 8, 20241 yr Wouldn't surprise me if it's the song with over 400 weeks on the chart getting marked down for, well, pretty much that. 9+ is a good average score for all of these though.
April 8, 20241 yr Author 5. Mr. Brightside Release Date: September 29, 2003 ==================== Total Points: 144.5 Average Score: 9.0 Highest Rater(s): Bjork (11.0) Lowest Rater(s): WhoOdyssey (5.5) gGdGFtwCNBE So this is where it all began for The Killers, their debut single, and all these years on Mr. Brightside continues to maintain a ridiculous chart run spanning 20 years! For a song with such longevity in the charts, it only managed a chart peak of #10. In the UK it has also sold over 3.52 million copies and is the longest-charting single on the UK Official Singles Chart Top 100, having spent over 390 weeks (nearly seven and a half years) on the chart as of 2024 and is the most streamed track released prior to 2010. It is also one of the top fifteen most downloaded rock tracks ever in the United Kingdom. On January 5, 2024, the song re-entered the UK Official Singles Chart Top 40 exactly ten years after its last week on this part of the chart. According to the data from the Official Charts website, there have now been three periods when the song has been in the Top 40 chart.
April 8, 20241 yr I don't actually mind 'Mr Brightside' at all, gave it a decent high score but I just find it very overrated compared to some of their other tracks so bumped it down for that reason not the 400 weeks thing so that's a fine result for it. Would actually have 'When You Were Young' out over it though tbh.
April 9, 20241 yr poor Mr Brightside, I actually thought it was gonna end up much lower people downgrade it for the wrong reasons :/
April 9, 20241 yr Author 4. All These Things That I've Done Release Date: August 30, 2004 ==================== Total Points: 148.0 Average Score: 9.3 Highest Rater(s): Dexton, Y'all Starlight (11.0) Lowest Rater(s): WhoOdyssey (6.0) sZTpLvsYYHw The song was released as the third single from the band's debut studio album, Hot Fuss. The song is about television host Matt Pinfield, and his work with the US Army, as part of a program that mentored wounded/PTSD-stricken soldiers returning from Iraq. It features the central lyric of "You gotta help me out", and an extended refrain of "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier". The song peaked at #18 on the UK Singles Chart. It was later covered by Young Soul Rebels in 2009 on the charity single I Got Soul.
April 9, 20241 yr 'Mr Brightside' is good but I do think they have a few better than it, so I think 5th is about right.
April 9, 20241 yr Well, that's both of their best hits gone :nocheer: Rooting for 'Somebody Told Me' from now on!
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