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A STAPLE IN the repertoire of just about every DJ in the country is The Killers’ Mr Brightside.
The mid-noughties smash hit came back to our attention at the weekend as it was the song playing in the infamous video from Berlin D2 that drew such fierce criticism.
But how well do you know the lyrics to the song, itself?
Let’s find out.
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Got a 7 but I’m sober , I’d have got a 10 if I was drunk.
@King B: me too
@King B: I got 9 and I’m half cut, should have taken it in an hour
@King B: got an 8 and I’m half way through my third.
I remember a clip from years back of a lad singing this tune after his friends funeral , was one of those goosebumpy moments, but now it’s been spoiled by a waistcoat wearing , virus spreading barman thinking he’s in Ibiza.
@Ronan J Walsh: brandon flowers Mormon, yea proper rock god.
@Ronan J Walsh: I remember that as well. It was a guy in a Kerry pub. Great stuff.
10/10
It’s the 2nd national anthem to guys around my age!
7/10, devastated… but the best quiz on The Journal in all of eternity
Yup 10/10 first top marks in any quiz. I am the man
Shyte song.
@Jacks R. Back: Excellent input. Have you thought of starting a podcast?
@Ajax Penumbra: Thanks. No. Maybe I will!
Except “Letting me go” not “let me go”
Shame on you.
@JusticeForJoe: Wrong sham, It’s “Let me go”.
A solid 10/10.
@Robert O’H: samesies
10/10 – You are Mister Brightside
Yurt.
How about a questionnaire, how crxp are the killers.
@herp: The Killers ain’t so bad, Brandon Flowers on his own however…
@Oliver Walker: https://youtu.be/W-pr2PL-e9Y
Watch it killer’s no rock revolutionary band
No one gives a sh it about my score.
@HIMSELF: what did you get?
7/10 Probably better than some of the half hammered crowd in Berlin D2 trying to sing it while necking shots from the bar man.
3 / 10 but I am old
Not very well, though I’ve always suspected a section of it deserved a query from David Bowie’s lawyers.
More of this, see the journal can be fun
I got 9 & i’m sober! I blame the radio for playing it so often!
Use to play this in my band so 9/10 ain’t bad.
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