Poll of the Day > Mr. Brightside is the Stairway to Heaven of our generation

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Good lord I'm bored today. Sorry for taking it out on you guys
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I hear that song is absurdly popular in the UK
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It's pretty popular here, too. I probably hear it at least 2-3 times a month just by being at the store or whatever. And it's played at every homecoming/prom/high school football game I've ever been to.
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Somebody once told me that you have girlfriend, she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb and it's not confidential, I've got potential in the shape of an "L" on her forehead
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE
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Smashmouth by All Star is the Bohemian Rhapsody of our generation
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Who is the Eddie Money of our generation? That's what I really want to know.
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Ewwwww

Mead posted...

I hear that song is absurdly popular in the UK

It hasn't left the Top 100 charts there since it came out!

With its propulsive, tension-drenched emoting about jealousy and paranoia, The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" became a hit rock anthem back in 2004. Thirteen years later, it goes without saying that we're in a different world. Yet "Mr. Brightside" has never entirely left us — a fact that hasn't escaped watchers of the U.K. singles charts. Somehow, the song has hit the U.K. Top 100 at some point during 11 of the past 13 years. As recently as January, it climbed all the way to No. 49.

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/04/530079710/mr-brightside-will-never-die-and-heres-why
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ArctheLad13 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE

Thanks for doing what Melo should have done in the first place.

MrMelodramatic posted...

Smashmouth by All Star is the Bohemian Rhapsody of our generation

No, just no.

RCtheWSBC posted...

Mead posted...

I hear that song is absurdly popular in the UK

It hasn't left the Top 100 charts there since it came out!

With its propulsive, tension-drenched emoting about jealousy and paranoia, The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" became a hit rock anthem back in 2004. Thirteen years later, it goes without saying that we're in a different world. Yet "Mr. Brightside" has never entirely left us %u2014 a fact that hasn't escaped watchers of the U.K. singles charts. Somehow, the song has hit the U.K. Top 100 at some point during 11 of the past 13 years. As recently as January, it climbed all the way to No. 49.

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/04/530079710/mr-brightside-will-never-die-and-heres-why

Maybe the Killers are the Beatles of their generation =p (You know, just because the topic is tossing hyperbolic statements so divorced from reality as to have no resemblance)
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It's a little overplayed but Hot Fuss is a 9/10 album and Mr. Brightside is a 9.5/10 single. It's just so catchy and dancy and it just SCREAMS mid-2000s. It reminds me of my 3rd grade dance and car rides to the mall, but it's still hype enough to get a party going in 2017.

Mr. Brightside is the Sugar, We're Going Down of our generation.
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lol you need to stop before i go down this 2004/2005 rabbithole
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The Spice Girls are The Beatles of our generation, Zeus. That one's easy.

And All Star is so totally the Queen of our generation. If not BR, then We Will Rock You, for sure.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQcNo9yWbM
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hahahahaha
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I've never noticed how awkward his mouth moves...
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MrMelodramatic posted...

I've never noticed how awkward his mouth moves...

Yeah he's trying so hard to lip sync
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i like the killers a lot but no u are so wrong
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It's an overrated song that has become so stagnate and boring it's lost all meaning? That's pretty harsh.
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

i like the killers a lot but no u are so wrong

Yeah.... Mr. Brightside is actually a good song.

AMSP is the Nevermind of our generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek2PDE1cAyY
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Fucking Jesse McCartney
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So around the time Jesse McCartney was really popular, he had an appearance on the Suite Life of Zach and Cody, where he was staying at the hotel.

So mosbt is like "hey don't bother this McCartney guy" and the mom is like "Paul McCartney is coming???" And zach and Cody don't know who that is. Mosby says, "no, not Paul. Jesse." and the mom is like "who?"


Anyway, at the time I didn't get the joke so the next day I went to school and looked up Paul McCartney.


And that's the story of how I discovered The Beatles.
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This topic is great
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I'm not nostalgic about it because I only started listening to him a few years ago, but mid 2000s was when LR and Graduation came out. That was probably lit af

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFEGb42Wlds
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Late Registration may be my favorite of his work.
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And here I am listening to From Under the Cork Tree

damn youuuuuu
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The Graduation trilogy is great in general.

I used to listen to Sophomore Slump almost every day of my sophomore year of high school lololol

i was edgy as heck back then

i hate thinking about it <.<
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MrMelodramatic posted...

I used to listen to Sophomore Slump almost every day of my sophomore year of high school lololol

i was edgy as heck back then

i hate thinking about it <.<

We all do. I was deep into my blink 182 obsession back in. Seeing them live was the shit.
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Cacciato posted...

The Graduation trilogy is great in general.

I don't want to make this a kanye topic because I am highly opinionated about it (lol) but I disagree.

Yeezus > Pablo > MBDTF > CD* > LR = 808 > Graduation

*Usually this is an 7/10, but somehow, some way, it becomes a 17/10 on certain occasions. There's no way to explain it.
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Mr. Brightside is fun. I always 100% it on Rockband 2 when singing.

Also, didn't expect to remember every word of Jesse McCartney Beautiful Soul. I do like that song though.

MrMelodramatic posted...

So around the time Jesse McCartney was really popular, he had an appearance on the Suite Life of Zach and Cody, where he was staying at the hotel.

So mosbt is like "hey don't bother this McCartney guy" and the mom is like "Paul McCartney is coming???" And zach and Cody don't know who that is. Mosby says, "no, not Paul. Jesse." and the mom is like "who?"


Anyway, at the time I didn't get the joke so the next day I went to school and looked up Paul McCartney.


And that's the story of how I discovered The Beatles.

I remember that episode. I got a good laugh out of it.
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MrMelodramatic posted...

Cacciato posted...

The Graduation trilogy is great in general.

I don't want to make this a kanye topic because I am highly opinionated about it (lol) but I disagree.

Yeezus > Pablo > MBDTF > CD* > LR = 808 > Graduation

*Usually this is an 7/10, but somehow, some way, it becomes a 17/10 on certain occasions. There's no way to explain it.

That's surprising.

I haven't listened to all of Pablo yet because I hated Yeezus so much for some reason. For me the trilogy is up top followed closely (sometimes higher) by 808s. I liked MBDTF but not near as much as the first four, and it drops off after that. I'd probably put Watch the Throne (if that counts) above MBDTF.

On a side note, you should check out the original version of Home(coming) that had John Legend instead of Chris Martin

Cacciato posted...

On a side note, you should check out the original version of Home(coming) that had John Legend instead of Chris Martin

First time I've heard about this :o

The only song I still fuck with off Yeezus is Bound 2. I can't even remember Pablo. Did I even listen to it?
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Yeezus is one of the best albums ever made and all of you are crazy. I can see Pablo being polarizing because it's so spastic, and its release was unusual, but it's still really good. Switch Feedback and Ultralight Beams to their Feb 14 release versions, and swap 30 Hours for the soundcloud take, and it nearly rivals Yeezus.
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I'm not even trying to hate on those albums. I just don't keep them in my larger library and legitimately can't remember most songs of them outside of 1-2.
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Mead posted...

I hear that song is absurdly popular in the UK

I wouldn't go that far. It's popular though yes but that's not really saying much as the UK top 100 is shit save for the odd song now and then.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnsfRr7uSd4

listen to dis
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Sorry about that.
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RCtheWSBC posted...

Cacciato posted...

On a side note, you should check out the original version of Home(coming) that had John Legend instead of Chris Martin

First time I've heard about this :o

The only song I still fuck with off Yeezus is Bound 2. I can't even remember Pablo. Did I even listen to it?

It was off one of his Freshman Adjustment mix tapes back in like '02 I think.

And yeah like RC said, I'm not tryin to hate on those albums, they're just not the Kanye I like. But I'll have to give Yeezus another shot then.

Nah I get it. I definitely like later Kanye more than early. I still think LR is a good album, but it doesn't quite do for me what his latest three do.

Graduation is straight up bad though and I will not budge on that <_< Drunk and Hot Girls and Good Morning are the only 2 songs off the album that I can listen to.
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MrMelodramatic posted...

Graduation is straight up bad though and I will not budge on that <_< Drunk and Hot Girls and Good Morning are the only 2 songs off the album that I can listen to.

lol and those are my two favorites off that album, so that's fair.
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MrMelodramatic posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

i like the killers a lot but no u are so wrong

Yeah.... Mr. Brightside is actually a good song.

AMSP is the Nevermind of our generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek2PDE1cAyY

Kid A is the DSotM of our generation



and stairway is a better song than me brightside
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MrMelodramatic posted...

Smashmouth by All Star is the Bohemian Rhapsody of our generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgQEuPw942c

You're welcome.
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I really can't think of any good "Radiohead is the x of our generation" things. We'll have to agree to disagree about Brightside and Stairway, though.
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