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rikibethOK. So, "Mr. Brightside" was attention-getting enough when I heard it on the radio the first time about a month ago (mind you, I rarely LISTEN to the radio) that I did what I hadn't done since I was 15: went out and bought an album on the strength of a single song. I was so pleased to actually hear something I enjoyed on a countdown!
"Hot Fuss" is a lovely album, tremendously 80s-retro in feel, to the point where I can pick out certain evocative riffs and sounds -- "Smile Like You Mean It" would segue perfectly into Echo and the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon," and "All These Things That I've Done" is the Icicle Works' "Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)" through a sort of British Invasion/Merseybeat filter, and "Change Your Mind" has a particular whistle-y, Cars-ish feel to the synthesizer part. I've been enjoying it a lot.
But one thing is driving me crazy, and my Google-fu is not strong enough to resolve it. "Mr. Brightside" contains the lyric "choking on your alibi." I could swear that phrase was in a song lyric I heard over and over again in high school, possibly old David Bowie rather than anything 80s top-40, or something equally unlikely.
WHERE IS IT FROM? HELP!
"Hot Fuss" is a lovely album, tremendously 80s-retro in feel, to the point where I can pick out certain evocative riffs and sounds -- "Smile Like You Mean It" would segue perfectly into Echo and the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon," and "All These Things That I've Done" is the Icicle Works' "Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)" through a sort of British Invasion/Merseybeat filter, and "Change Your Mind" has a particular whistle-y, Cars-ish feel to the synthesizer part. I've been enjoying it a lot.
But one thing is driving me crazy, and my Google-fu is not strong enough to resolve it. "Mr. Brightside" contains the lyric "choking on your alibi." I could swear that phrase was in a song lyric I heard over and over again in high school, possibly old David Bowie rather than anything 80s top-40, or something equally unlikely.
WHERE IS IT FROM? HELP!
