The reason being, is the standards for their children to be able to watch or listen to Media. Mental cleanliness includes media. Whenever there is a popular band that is clean, especially one that promotes abstinence from drug use, of course more culturally conservative will Veer towards them.
@@mossablahmaza Mdma is absolutely illegal to use as a recreational drug. That's like saying cocain is legal because it's used in the medical field. My source? My arrest record should do. Like in what world do you think you can wordplay Molly into being legal.
I loved the deep Christian message of the lyrics "Somebody told me you had a boyfriend Who looked like a girlfriend That I had in February of last year"
The Santa Claus trilogy is a story about how st .Nick wanted redemption for his sins. It's the same with "Joel a lump of coal" is a metaphor of Jesus. There's literally a christmas song about St. Joseph.
They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet / You don't have to drink right now / But you can dip your feet / Every once in a little while I didn't think you could get more explicitly Christian lyrics and themes
exactly - 1. they write as enigmatic as any pop songs. 2. they turn out melodies that ROCK. they don't make their music or videos specifically about THEIR religion. instead they make lyrics that are HUMAN. although kind of skewed with their spiritual views EXCEPT it's so "deconstructed" that it's spiritual artistry more than it's christian.
A Christian Rock band and a Rock band whose members are Christian is two different things lol Edit: What has happened here.... lol Edit2: This is chaos.
If you think that members of a band who follow a faith, which has been the basis of their entire existence since birth, doesn’t by proxy allow that faith to seep into the art they create…I don’t know what to tell you. Sure they might not be a ‘Christian band’, but the subject matter of their lyrics will be drawn, in some part, from their lives and their religious experiences, meaning the message they push, is somewhat religious. So to just say the two aren’t mutually exclusive isn’t true at all.
In the same song When you were young, there's also a line I say the devil's water, It ain't so sweet. You don't have to drink right now, but you can dip your feet every once in a little while.
I went to high school with Brandon in Nephi, Utah. It's an overwhelmingly LDS town. He may not be openly writing about Christianity, but it obviously touches their lyrics.
I love when you read a comment that someone wrote about what they said in the video and you read it at the exact same time it’s being said!! Does that happen to anyone else?
@@FunderDuck ok, but the song is not about Jesus, or any biblical figures. Just because you have a few words or one song that can be interpreted as spiritual don’t make you a Christian rock band. 50 Cent has a song called God give me strength, does that make him a Christian rapper. Is the magic stick Moses’ cane.
The way they talked in this interview is pretty silly but the Killers (Brendan Flowers specifically) is actually Christian and many of their less popular songs are specifically about faith. Try “The Calling” or some others
I’ve been friends with Brandon Flowers since high school golf team. I called him “petunia” and he was chunky and about 5’6” and was the DRUMMER of his band. His success surprised and excited everyone. We still hit the links when we get a chance. Amazing family man and a good, GOOD human being.
That’s awesome!! “All These Things That I’ve Done” is one of my favorite songs ever! It’s gotten me through rough times. My husband is a golfer and guitarist. Better at guitar 😂
@@dar213311 he’s a MUCH better singer than golfer!! Ha ha ha. And seriously, he’s so kind to anyone who approaches him. He’s truly a wonderful human being. I’m a nobody who teased him in a kind way decades ago and he’s as kind and thoughtful as you could imagine.
@@THExNIGHTMANxCOMETH Haha!! Tell him thank you for me! What’s funny is I live on a golf course 😂 That’s awesome to hear he is a good person. That makes the music even better.
Miss Atomic Bomb is the sister song to Mr. Bright side when he ran into her years later after becoming famous off the song about her cheating, it’s a good song too
I always thought it was a song about the mental spiraling of an individual. As they become consumed more and more by a thought. The eagerness to get out from the under the infatuation grows. Ultimately creating this vacuous need for something to get you somewhere. Now hiding behind a vapid smile of discernment. The once punctilious person is at the point of letting go... ...but hey that is just what I got from it. I failed Creative Writing in school so, not the best judge.
I mean you can say that, but no. The Killers gnerally have at least one song on an album that only makes sense with them being Mormons. "The Calling" from Wonderful Wonderful, "My God" from Imploding the Mirage, most of Pressure Machine. The lead singers solo albums too.
Just look up any album! They have songs on Christian themes in each one. Not every song is just on the subject of Christianity but this really is true. Listen to “The Calling” for example. They are pretty open about it, especially in earlier interviews.
@@johnymey4034 I'm gonna trust this guy when one of the bands songs has literally 1.6 billion plays. Obviously they gotta be a good band to some people
If you see them live you can really tell he plays into the preacher persona and their music takes a more gospel vibe. Seen em twice and he really comes off as a gospel Elvis
This is one of their lyrics. "Cutting up my nights like a goddamned knife And it got me thinking no matter how far That I just wanted to get back to where you are"
Their whole album "pressure machine" is about a town in Utah where Brandon Flowers grew up. I actually moved there my senior year. The Tacotime has a plaque saying Brandon used to work there 😂
Honestly, of all the musicians that their motivation is Christian music (not that they are christians making music) DC Talk was the most original, innovative, and actually thoughtful. 99% of those bands are very bland, more of the same, maybe the song is catchy, but nothing actually special.
The song "All These Things I've Done" is about Brendon Flowers' struggle with imperfection and judgement within Mormonism. The line "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" is probably about him not serving a Mormon mission.
Mr Brightside is a song about how hookup culture is cancer. The reason it is so iconic and everyone gets in on it is because it resonates with everyone who has spent time in nightclubs. The story is literally about a guy who has left the club and gone home early because a girl flirted with him and made out with him, but then dropped him unceremoniously to get with a bigger, more macho guy. He is in bed trying to sleep, but can't because his mind is racing imagining the experience that she is having with this other guy. Then he laments that his obsessing over the potential experience that was offered to him but ripped away just as quickly is fucking him up, before realising that this is unhealthy and concluding that it's just the kind of experience everyone has to have in order to brute force their way to seeking better goals for themselves. So in the end, he looks on the brightside and sees that not going home with her was probably the better outcome.
The whole album is about a dude who finds his gf is cheating, takes her to the woods and kills her and then hides the body and tries to evade getting caught
The difference is that The Killers don't create music to push their religion they use their religious beliefs as inspiration for their music. It honestly makes all the difference. They're one of my favorite bands and I'm not religious at all.
Maybe when they get older they will, but you're right. They just use their beliefs to inspire themselves. Much like the Bible inspired jk Rawling. Same thing.
Brandon Flowers moved in with one of my childhood friends, they were cousins, right across from Sam’s Town. And I can confirm they went to the Mormon Temple on the regular.
In the late 80s I roadied for a Thrash Metal band. 5 years ago, the bass player said to me, "Did you know we were a Christian band, because I didn't". I looked at the lyrics for the first time since that era, and I'll be damned... it was a Christian band. LOL. It was all the lead guitar/vocalist. Yes, they hide it very very well.
Well skillet is actually well known as a Christian rock band. I never did care for that song from the beginning when that album came out I was a huge collide and comatose fan. And the two albums before that's, ardent worship and alien youth are basically worship albums one being techno spin. It's actually crazy to thing that skillet has been about since 96 and they didn't see main stream success till like 09 and there best stuff came out 3 to 5 years before that .
@@Yumums Most of that Generic repetitiveness came after Comatose. I noticed most of their songs have the same Sound to them Outside of a few songs. PLus their basically a Christian Butt rock Band. They started getting harder with Collide and Then just toned it down again year after year. I wouldn't say their horrible. They have a lot of good songs. You have to like that kind of music to get into them though.
Wonderful Wonderful straight up paraphrases the bible: “Motherless child, follow my voice And I shall give thee great cause to rejoice Motherless child, be of good cheer My arm is reached out, I am here I'll crush every doubt and every fear Clothesline the shame and you will answer to the rain Wonderful wonderful, wonderful wonderful Motherless child I am with thee, thou wast never alone Maybe I'm dirty, maybe I'm unworthy Motherless child, can you hear me? I will give you a home”
In that same song, it says, "the devils wate, it ain't so sweat, you don't have to drink right now, but you can dip your feet every once in a little while." why would a Christian rock band be dipping their feet in "the devil's water"?
@@robiblackmore1773 no Christian is perfect everyone sins. It's what learning about life is all about. You will be forgiven just don't go around doing crazy things like raping or killing and expect to be forgiven some things can't be forgiven that's where common sense comes in play.
If we’re talking bands that are actually Christian bands, I say DC talks probably the most influential and well-known and Hillsong had a huge impact on modern worship sound. Elevation Worship is genuinely one of my favorite bands of all time and they are absolutely my favorite worship band. They’re good dude.
U2 is and I don’t think it’s a loose definition. Their band almost split from the beginning due to 3 of 4 members Protestant based faith and the other member was catholic. Many of the songs are allegories to elements of the Christian faith
I love p.o.d grew up on them. But my personal favorite Christian rock band is skillet. Great guitarists great performers live and truly act like they love God when they speak out or talk. They’ve got me through some of the hardest times of my life
I think you're reading into that a bit much. Maybe a few bands were about that, but the vast majority were definitely not Christian bands. I.e. all the biggest bands, Alice in chains, soundgarden, nirvana, rage against the machine, Stone temple pilots, etc. Alice in chains was fairly pro drug, they would kind of go back and forth talking about how awesome drugs were and how depressed it made them. Rage against the machine was just a huge leftist band who was all about talking about racial and class struggles. A lot of 90s grunge and alternative was born from the economic strife and troubles of the late 80s and 90s.
@@haydenquakenbush8626 Alice in chains were not pro drug although some songs can seem like that with “god am” starting with layne taking a massive bong rip but layne was quoted as saying “I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.”
@@rooh5825 Only watched them all before they became famous. The ones that spoke out died like Kirt from Nirvana. Maybe You don't know what is Alternative Music is. Or maybe you don't read into the deep intellectual words that paint a bigger picture.
@@haydenquakenbush8626Definitely not Christian Bands like the ones on special radio stations but the majority of Alternative music speak of drugs depression and God. So Christian Because they acknowledge God. Alternative Rock had positive messages and groups like Rage Against the Machine promotes male masculinity so Democrats during Obama canceled the station. My boy was the last DJ for the network 103.1 so not My opinion but a fact.
@@FourTreDubbCity yeah but their latest few albums have been full great music heavy and fast but melodic and band members playing tight knit. I honestly will put up Stryper’s last two against Metallica’s and I bet everyone would choose to take home Strypers that’s for sure. I think they’ve been around longer than Metallica also
@@matthewnienkirchen8083 Why would you think that I would care about your thoughts on racism and stereotypes? You're probably a racist and a stereotype. Go type another manifesto ya lil shit.
For everyone saying that Mr. Brightside is a dude coming to grips with getting cheated on: No. Its about intrusive thoughts and the anxiety that comes inherently with trusting someone completely. If you listen, the scenarios he’s talking about are in his mind and not actually happening.
@@kalkat02That’s just the human experience however. That doesn’t mean you can’t try and actively do better, but we’re creatures with the knowledge of sin. Therefore, sin comes to us easily because we’ve tasted it before and know. Can’t be anti-Christian if they’re just referring to life as it should be as God intended.
Here I was thinking that it was a metaphor for a red flag about manipulation, who knew it was about Jesus. Who'd'a thunk it, best stay away from that guy then.
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“It is a fact that I’ve said” I gotta use that line
I didn’t even catch that on my first listen. Pure gold
Lmfaoooo so true! Totally using that
The full line is, "It is a fact that I've said, uh, many times."
My dad needs to learn this line. He's so well at spitting out "facts" that he has no bases to prove.
Genius
Faith+1 is my personal favorite
I want you to walk with me. I take good care of you baby, call you my baby baybaaay🎶
I need you in my life … Jesus
@@crustylust3490 that's sounds like a South Park song 😁
“I wanna get down on me knees and start pleasing Jesus, I’d like to feel his salvation all over my face.”
"You're once, twice, three times my savior"🎵
“I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier”
Best like ever!!!
legit read something similar in the bible. We are all gods soldiers though our souls be not his
Justin Timberlake?
I prefer "I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster", but I guess that's not as profound.
I love that song so much
The mormons I knew growing up all loved the killers. It makes so much sense now
The reason being, is the standards for their children to be able to watch or listen to Media. Mental cleanliness includes media. Whenever there is a popular band that is clean, especially one that promotes abstinence from drug use, of course more culturally conservative will Veer towards them.
@@TTS-TPmdma is their drug of choice its not even illegal
@@mossablahmaza Mdma is absolutely illegal to use as a recreational drug. That's like saying cocain is legal because it's used in the medical field.
My source? My arrest record should do. Like in what world do you think you can wordplay Molly into being legal.
As a previous one, it is true we cranked that shi
@@mossablahmazai knew some mormons that loved ketamine
Absolutely dying, the way he said "fuck they aren't" like It was a question.
The 'No the...' was implied.
@@drankydrank1 they aren't talking about the implications of the sentence, they're talking about the tone of voice
@@keithkent366 "implications of the sentence" Hey, alright guy...
Nothing sounded like a question.
@@drankydrank1 damn seems like you just had your first run-in with a subjective experience
@@keithkent366 Objectively.
I can neither confirm nor deny this without my lawyer present.
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Imagine Dragons may not label themselves that, but they have big youth group leader energy
But non-denominational and really wholesome.
they fell off after they kicked Sal out
Imagine dragons started out mormon but the fame has gotten to them and they're super pro lgbt and have kind of turned against the church.
Hate em
One of their newest songs is super sac religious
“The devils water it ain’t so sweet , you don’t have to drink right now “ that line always stuck with me since I was a kid haha
“But you can dip your feet every once in a little while” makes me question
@@arloeikerson3009Means you can sin but don’t make it a lifestyle
@@arloeikerson3009”every once in a little whilllleeeeee”
HE DOESNT LOOK A THING LIKE JESUS BUT HE, TALKS LIKE A GENTLEMAN, LIKE YOU IMAGINE WHEN YOU, WERE YOUNG
I loved the deep Christian message of the lyrics
"Somebody told me you had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year"
?
@@mattmatt222333 Exactly.
That’s the wrong song
@@vincenzobarry8050 it’s another Killers song, his point is that they aren’t a Christian rock band
Jesus had long hair like a lady 🤔 Could have been dreads though
My wife went to a Christian camp growing up and they would basically rave to the killers
Damn apostles got litty wtf
Everyone raves to the killers
@@mrspud2547 Not exactly my choice the music that would incentive me to dress up like a shark and take Molly.
@@faxenmacher4633 CUMMIN OUTT ME CAGE AND IVE BEEN DOIN JUST FINE!!
@@mrspud2547 GOTTA GOTTA BE DOWN BECAUSE I WANNIT ALL
Don't Shoot Me Santa Claus is such a timeless hymn.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Favorite song of theirs
Ohhh Santa it's been a long year
The Santa Claus trilogy is a story about how st
.Nick wanted redemption for his sins.
It's the same with "Joel a lump of coal" is a metaphor of Jesus.
There's literally a christmas song about St. Joseph.
One of my favorites by them is Sweet Talk, which is clearly a Christian prayer
And 90% of those Mr Brightside streams are in British clubs and parties at 3am
Somewhere in the UK at any time of day that song is playing
Dixie in Portland oregon plays it every week. I don't go to clubs I live in the neighborhood
If you’re in the club when mr bright side comes on, you’ve fucked up.
And me when I’m wasted but having nostalgia about me and my siblings playing RockBand on Wii in late 2000s
Whst sortv dogshit club would play the killers at 3am! 🤮
He doesn't look a thing like jesus, but he talks like a gentleman
When You Were Young. one of my Favorites
They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet / You don't have to drink right now / But you can dip your feet / Every once in a little while
I didn't think you could get more explicitly Christian lyrics and themes
This lyric was on the tip of my tongue. Thank you kind stranger
@@gelectrode89 I took it more as symbolism with a different meaning
@@liceafilms same
"is that a fact?"
"It is a fact that I have said many times"
Ari 😂
Most Jewish thing he's said 🤣💀💀
My man said creed I about choked to death 😂
I like creed bro... ignore Scott, ignore his attitude... songs are great.
Why you choke?
@@nickvallemusicHave you seen Scott with Theo Von? Great talk about his childhood and problems.
@@HenritheHorse yeah I did. I LOVE the guy now. I meant his past. I think its beautiful how he’s made amends.
@@nickvallemusicWhat does that have to do with the original comment? Creed is not a Christian band, which makes the answer funny.
They don't hide it at all. They just don't write obvious crap like "Jesus loves me, yeah yeah"
Their biggest selling point is that they are the least vapid religious band
exactly - 1. they write as enigmatic as any pop songs. 2. they turn out melodies that ROCK.
they don't make their music or videos specifically about THEIR religion. instead they make lyrics that are HUMAN. although kind of skewed with their spiritual views EXCEPT it's so "deconstructed" that it's spiritual artistry more than it's christian.
@@chainclaw07 rock? Hahahahahahahahahahaha
whahahaah
Because they unlike every other christian band are acctually GOOD
~ “It is a fact that I’ve said”
That’s wats up…
“That’s wats up…”
dats wutz up…
@@ayojamro ~ "datz wutz up..."
Them's the Carfax™
“datz wutz up” >-Google Translate-> “that’s crazy”
Hell of a quote. Off the cuff, too.
@@Grand.Kanyan *_datz wats up_*
that’s how mafia works
I love how ari can say something an simultaneously convince his self that's it's true all at the same time 😂
“Sociopathy”
they dont hide it, flowers has talked about it in multiple interviews
Gotta admit, growing up as a Mormon, my older brother's absolute favorite band was The Killers. They don't hide it, they just don't flaunt it.
Oh, so you're Christian
They hide it babe, for non mormon they do.
they aren't mormon
@@lyssxo1860 mormonism is a denomination of Christianity.
They hide it
"And I'm on my knees, looking for the answers" - Human - The Killers
Yeah, but that thing about human vs dancers was from a journalist that said that we had raised a generation of dancers, not men.
@MortisLator why would she need to when she's living in your head rent free?
@MortisLator how much is the rent my guy? I might be able to help her out 😅
@@phoebescott6787 no holding back 😭
But thats litterally a "human" thing not just a religious thing..
Ari is definitely a high elf from Skyrim. Emphasis on the high.
Lmfao!
Omfg, youre right
I made this joke but it was Marrowind
There is legitimately a joke that high elves are the Jews of The Elder Scrolls.
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks
A Christian Rock band and a Rock band whose members are Christian is two different things lol
Edit: What has happened here.... lol
Edit2: This is chaos.
A shut and a your mouth is different from a shut your mouth
Mormon isn't Christian
If you think that members of a band who follow a faith, which has been the basis of their entire existence since birth, doesn’t by proxy allow that faith to seep into the art they create…I don’t know what to tell you.
Sure they might not be a ‘Christian band’, but the subject matter of their lyrics will be drawn, in some part, from their lives and their religious experiences, meaning the message they push, is somewhat religious.
So to just say the two aren’t mutually exclusive isn’t true at all.
@JamesLoudMouth19981 Christian Rock is a sub-genre of rock and roll. Christians who rock does not = Christian Rock.
@@willkavanaugh Who fucking cares?? Slayer is a Catholic band by proxy too😂😂
Now I have to spend a week getting Mr. Brightside out of my head again. Fuckin' banger.
Is it still there mate?
@breakingthemasks Nah man, I'm free now. We split, no strings.
you want to get worse, listen to miss atomic bomb, the kind of second part to mr brightside.
😅😅😅😅
"He doesn't look a thing like Jesus but he talks like a gentlemen" was the first lyric that popped into my head
"I got soul but I'm not a soldier"
In the same song When you were young, there's also a line
I say the devil's water, It ain't so sweet. You don't have to drink right now, but you can dip your feet every once in a little while.
Like you remembered when you were young?
Yup mine too
Right on. I was like they do talk about Jesus 😆
As an atheist, the Killers are my favorite Christian band.
As a killer, atheists are my favorite target
Well la-dee-da
No one cares about you being an atheist. No need to announce it like it’s your job title
Still Santino was correct Creeds outsold The Killers by double and easily have more top tens
I went to high school with Brandon in Nephi, Utah. It's an overwhelmingly LDS town. He may not be openly writing about Christianity, but it obviously touches their lyrics.
So many Southern Utahisms in his writing
No they're ashamed of Christ
@@AyshKingThey're not
I mean we can say this. But in reality it's all occult things.. They do in fact, hide it well😉
Read "LSD" instead...immediately lost interest when I reread
And who can forget that eternal classic "Get on your knees and start pleasing Jesus"
I want your salvation all over my face!
Faith+1
oh my
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DZK I found Jesus is fantastic
Ari flexing Christian rock bands 😂
I love when you read a comment that someone wrote about what they said in the video and you read it at the exact same time it’s being said!! Does that happen to anyone else?
I’m pretty sure Mr brightside is about his girlfriend cheating on him, and him trying to stay positive
Same
Hmm well Christians get cheated on too
@@FunderDuck ok, but the song is not about Jesus, or any biblical figures. Just because you have a few words or one song that can be interpreted as spiritual don’t make you a Christian rock band.
50 Cent has a song called God give me strength, does that make him a Christian rapper. Is the magic stick Moses’ cane.
I always heard it was about a prostitute that he likes, but he's upset that she's hooking up with other guys because . . .
She's a prostitute
Pretty sure Brandon Flowers explained in an interview somewhere that thats exactly what the song is about.
“Ari looks like if they held the holocaust at a skate park. If Nordstroms had ovens.”
-Dave Attell
Jesus loves you!!!
Fucking hilarious
"Hotel bar soap makes me ashy. But, not as ashy as your (Ari's) grandparents." - Mark Normand
No ovens at Nordstrom's?
@@charlesmelchiorre4109 ?
I just like that their shit isn't in your face and its not judgmental towards non believers
Bro mind is blown and instantly went back to me rocking out to “when we were young”
"Yes they are. I've told someone that and they said 'omg you're right.'"
That’s a great line. I stopped in, I saw it, and I said “that’s a great line.”👌🏽
"Is it true?" "Well technically no, but I said it, so it is now"
It is so…
Sounds like a JRE interview 😂
The way they talked in this interview is pretty silly but the Killers (Brendan Flowers specifically) is actually Christian and many of their less popular songs are specifically about faith. Try “The Calling” or some others
I’ve been friends with Brandon Flowers since high school golf team. I called him “petunia” and he was chunky and about 5’6” and was the DRUMMER of his band. His success surprised and excited everyone. We still hit the links when we get a chance. Amazing family man and a good, GOOD human being.
That’s awesome!! “All These Things That I’ve Done” is one of my favorite songs ever! It’s gotten me through rough times. My husband is a golfer and guitarist. Better at guitar 😂
@@dar213311 he’s a MUCH better singer than golfer!! Ha ha ha.
And seriously, he’s so kind to anyone who approaches him. He’s truly a wonderful human being. I’m a nobody who teased him in a kind way decades ago and he’s as kind and thoughtful as you could imagine.
Please tell him his single album Flamingos is literally my #1 favorite
dayman!
@@THExNIGHTMANxCOMETH Haha!! Tell him thank you for me! What’s funny is I live on a golf course 😂 That’s awesome to hear he is a good person. That makes the music even better.
Mr. Brightside isn't about Jesus. It's about the idea of being jelous of your lover and seeing her with other men.
Mr Brightside is about a man coming to grips with his girlfriend cheating on him.
Like Mary cheated on Joseph with God. Joseph came to grips with it and raised Jesus.
No! It's clearly about god......
Miss Atomic Bomb is the sister song to Mr. Bright side when he ran into her years later after becoming famous off the song about her cheating, it’s a good song too
I always thought it was a song about the mental spiraling of an individual. As they become consumed more and more by a thought. The eagerness to get out from the under the infatuation grows. Ultimately creating this vacuous need for something to get you somewhere. Now hiding behind a vapid smile of discernment. The once punctilious person is at the point of letting go...
...but hey that is just what I got from it. I failed Creative Writing in school so, not the best judge.
@@JaredSessi bro no it isnt lol it started out with a kiss is a lyric in there
"Holy crap! They said saints! That's a Christian thing!"
😁😂
Try looking it up if you think it's wrong
Average athiest shitting their pants because a famous group is christian.
Yeah Listen to "creeping death" by Metallica they're the greatest Jewish rock band of all time!
I mean you can say that, but no. The Killers gnerally have at least one song on an album that only makes sense with them being Mormons. "The Calling" from Wonderful Wonderful, "My God" from Imploding the Mirage, most of Pressure Machine. The lead singers solo albums too.
This feels like the reverse Facebook mom conspiracy where they think everything has signs of the devil
The quiet "mhmm you'll see it more and more " with his crossed 😂
Just look up any album! They have songs on Christian themes in each one. Not every song is just on the subject of Christianity but this really is true. Listen to “The Calling” for example. They are pretty open about it, especially in earlier interviews.
Stryper is the baddest
I would classify them as metal.
Ah, their tour in Jerusalem was dope.
Oh man Ari was so pleased with himself lol
Most manure salesmen are.
These comments keep me from flatlining! 😆😂😆😂😆
@@natheloniousperry3445 everybody *shhhhhh*🤫
P.O.D the band behind many iconic movie sounds tracks of the 90's and 00's.
Pals of dudesy?
@@DropIt56 Payable on Death
Pod had like 2 songs tops
POD is also my choice.. and Flyleaf
@amber Flyleaf is another good choice. For the first 6 months, listening to them, I did not know they were a Christian rock band
They don’t hide it they’re just a good band
Wrong
@@johnymey4034 I'm gonna trust this guy when one of the bands songs has literally 1.6 billion plays. Obviously they gotta be a good band to some people
Personal view
Both
Pod is my favorite
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If you see them live you can really tell he plays into the preacher persona and their music takes a more gospel vibe. Seen em twice and he really comes off as a gospel Elvis
Jesus at his resurrection: “I’m the man, who’s the man? I’m the man, I’m the man, I’m the man with the plan, I’m the man, you’re looking at the man.”
Fucking hilarious 😅
I’m the backwards man the backwards man, I can walk backwards fast as you can
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@@tomtripp5417would you like a sausage, tommy would you like some sausages , sausages.
we're over here acting like Stryper never exsisted...
yes but sadly that dates us ... I was going for POD. thought one of these guys would have been in '80s and known Stryper
@@mark_white. ooh P.O.D. I haven't heard them mentioned in a while
“He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus. But he talks like gentlemen.”
Obviously talking about Joseph smith
@@135Zeusobviously not 😂
I looked up what Jesus what of looked liked and sure enough he would looked exactly like the Mexican fella in the music video
Ahahahah immediately thought of this one too Brotha
Like you imagined when you
Were young
This is one of their lyrics.
"Cutting up my nights like a goddamned knife
And it got me thinking no matter how far
That I just wanted to get back to where you are"
Their whole album "pressure machine" is about a town in Utah where Brandon Flowers grew up. I actually moved there my senior year. The Tacotime has a plaque saying Brandon used to work there 😂
DC Talk was my favorite one growing up
What about Petra?
Honestly, of all the musicians that their motivation is Christian music (not that they are christians making music) DC Talk was the most original, innovative, and actually thoughtful. 99% of those bands are very bland, more of the same, maybe the song is catchy, but nothing actually special.
I went to college with those guys
DC talk was lit
DC Talk IS Contemporary Christian music! BOOM!
*slams Jesus Freak cassette onto the table*
The song "All These Things I've Done" is about Brendon Flowers' struggle with imperfection and judgement within Mormonism. The line "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" is probably about him not serving a Mormon mission.
Mormons are...a unique breed. I'm a Christian, but I know some morons that come out on the other side shouting abuse in the church
Mormon= not Christian
100%
Mormons believe in Christ and believe that salvation is through him.
Mormons = Christian
Mr Brightside is a song about how hookup culture is cancer. The reason it is so iconic and everyone gets in on it is because it resonates with everyone who has spent time in nightclubs. The story is literally about a guy who has left the club and gone home early because a girl flirted with him and made out with him, but then dropped him unceremoniously to get with a bigger, more macho guy. He is in bed trying to sleep, but can't because his mind is racing imagining the experience that she is having with this other guy. Then he laments that his obsessing over the potential experience that was offered to him but ripped away just as quickly is fucking him up, before realising that this is unhealthy and concluding that it's just the kind of experience everyone has to have in order to brute force their way to seeking better goals for themselves. So in the end, he looks on the brightside and sees that not going home with her was probably the better outcome.
The whole album is about a dude who finds his gf is cheating, takes her to the woods and kills her and then hides the body and tries to evade getting caught
@@rhuharris1007 fr?
@@HighlyRegardted fr. Go listen - it's a good album
Sounds like cope to me 😄
@@carolyntalbot947 what do you mean? Are you talking about the character or me? Because I’m just saying that’s what the song is about.
I just read the lyrics to all their hits and he’s right. Never noticed that before
You have too much time
@@UnknownSource08 lol I wish. It was more like skimmed through and lol 3 songs
Did the same during the last 20 minutes of work (everyone knows this is the longest span of time) and it's true lol
The difference is that The Killers don't create music to push their religion they use their religious beliefs as inspiration for their music.
It honestly makes all the difference. They're one of my favorite bands and I'm not religious at all.
Exactly. You shouldn't hide your beliefs.
It should not be domineering, but you should feel comfortable expressing it if it's important to you.
Maybe when they get older they will, but you're right. They just use their beliefs to inspire themselves. Much like the Bible inspired jk Rawling. Same thing.
Brandon Flowers moved in with one of my childhood friends, they were cousins, right across from Sam’s Town. And I can confirm they went to the Mormon Temple on the regular.
Switchfoot is pretty good
Switchfoot is all the members of Creed without Scott stapp
@@rileyhaley3848 that is not true lol
@sisk22 you're right I was 100% thinking of Alter bridge.
@@rileyhaley3848 I was so confused as I looked into it. I forgot about alter bridge!
i remember listening to their songs in my early teens...on a smart phone that only had a space for 2 songs 😄
In the late 80s I roadied for a Thrash Metal band. 5 years ago, the bass player said to me, "Did you know we were a Christian band, because I didn't".
I looked at the lyrics for the first time since that era, and I'll be damned... it was a Christian band. LOL. It was all the lead guitar/vocalist. Yes, they hide it very very well.
I literally busted out laughing at this
you didn't know, or the bass player didn't know?
Slayer?
@@charliec2966 sounds like neither of them knew lmao
So they were Christian but were banging random chicks? So Christian.
Skillet is famous for their song "Monster" which is also a Christian rock band and that specific song is about fighting your sins and repenting
Well skillet is actually well known as a Christian rock band. I never did care for that song from the beginning when that album came out I was a huge collide and comatose fan. And the two albums before that's, ardent worship and alien youth are basically worship albums one being techno spin. It's actually crazy to thing that skillet has been about since 96 and they didn't see main stream success till like 09 and there best stuff came out 3 to 5 years before that .
Horrible band, especially that song in particular. They have a very repetitive and generic nature.
@@Yumums Most of that Generic repetitiveness came after Comatose. I noticed most of their songs have the same Sound to them Outside of a few songs. PLus their basically a Christian Butt rock Band. They started getting harder with Collide and Then just toned it down again year after year. I wouldn't say their horrible. They have a lot of good songs. You have to like that kind of music to get into them though.
Wonderful Wonderful straight up paraphrases the bible: “Motherless child, follow my voice
And I shall give thee great cause to rejoice
Motherless child, be of good cheer
My arm is reached out, I am here
I'll crush every doubt and every fear
Clothesline the shame and you will answer to the rain
Wonderful wonderful, wonderful wonderful
Motherless child I am with thee, thou wast never alone
Maybe I'm dirty, maybe I'm unworthy
Motherless child, can you hear me? I will give you a home”
True story. The song Sweet Talk is a prayer. There are many more examples.
Now I have to go listen to the killers again. It’s been years 😂
"He doesn't look a thing like jesus, but he talks like a gentleman, like you imagined when you where young"
In that same song, it says, "the devils wate, it ain't so sweat, you don't have to drink right now, but you can dip your feet every once in a little while." why would a Christian rock band be dipping their feet in "the devil's water"?
@@robiblackmore1773 I'm not sure but I've always assumed "The Devils water" is just like a flowery way of saying Booze/alcohol.
@@robiblackmore1773 you realise many mormons grow up jaded and want to rebel right?
@@robiblackmore1773 no Christian is perfect everyone sins. It's what learning about life is all about. You will be forgiven just don't go around doing crazy things like raping or killing and expect to be forgiven some things can't be forgiven that's where common sense comes in play.
Damn
If we're going with loose definitions of Christian Rock, it's U2.
Brandon Flowers and The Killers are huge U2 fans (and friends)
If we’re talking bands that are actually Christian bands, I say DC talks probably the most influential and well-known and Hillsong had a huge impact on modern worship sound. Elevation Worship is genuinely one of my favorite bands of all time and they are absolutely my favorite worship band. They’re good dude.
U2 is and I don’t think it’s a loose definition. Their band almost split from the beginning due to 3 of 4 members Protestant based faith and the other member was catholic.
Many of the songs are allegories to elements of the Christian faith
P.O.D., RED, Skillet, Flyleaf, and As I Lay Dying are my favorite. The Killers are pretty good too.
Fuckin yikes! Lol
Skillet and flyleaf are the best. Didn't even know at first that they were at all.
My dad would play P.O.D. in the car when I was younger, still a jam
Now they are the greatest Christian rock band, imo
“Alive” has always been on my work out play list
I love p.o.d grew up on them. But my personal favorite Christian rock band is skillet. Great guitarists great performers live and truly act like they love God when they speak out or talk. They’ve got me through some of the hardest times of my life
@@ryancherrington1811 😂I remember when I first started experimenting with drugs I’d always listen to this song. Weird.
Why Ari look like a 16th century philosopher 😂
looks like a 21st century attorney
.....
@@stuffguy6664 I think you mean banker.
That cunning smile he gives is cool 😂
“Don’t kill me Santa Claus” is a holiday favorite
My favorite Christian song
"When there's nowhere else to run, is there room for one more son?" So many people think he's saying "one more song."
Holy shit, you are right
Ditto, I thought it was one more song.
Wasn't expecting Ari to listen to the killers 🤣
hes a drug addict from the 90s, of course he does.
Mormons aren't Christians
They are
@@BuscaLoEsencial they aren't Christians they are classified as a cult
@@robotspartan9351 A Christian cult
@@robotspartan9351 Mormons are 10000% Christians. They just believe slightly crazier shit then normal Christians. All religions are cults btw.
@@robotspartan9351they're a Christian cult. If they believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, then they're Christian
Tbh it doesn’t really matter or affect their music, but those mentions makes the songs even better as it adds something to make it all come together
In Florida they canceled 103.1 the BUZZ. 90s Alternative was all about fighting addictions and finding God when you hit rock bottom.
I think you're reading into that a bit much. Maybe a few bands were about that, but the vast majority were definitely not Christian bands. I.e. all the biggest bands, Alice in chains, soundgarden, nirvana, rage against the machine, Stone temple pilots, etc. Alice in chains was fairly pro drug, they would kind of go back and forth talking about how awesome drugs were and how depressed it made them. Rage against the machine was just a huge leftist band who was all about talking about racial and class struggles. A lot of 90s grunge and alternative was born from the economic strife and troubles of the late 80s and 90s.
@@haydenquakenbush8626 Alice in chains were not pro drug although some songs can seem like that with “god am” starting with layne taking a massive bong rip but layne was quoted as saying “I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.”
LOL you must not listen to much alternative music hahaha.
@@rooh5825 Only watched them all before they became famous. The ones that spoke out died like Kirt from Nirvana. Maybe You don't know what is Alternative Music is. Or maybe you don't read into the deep intellectual words that paint a bigger picture.
@@haydenquakenbush8626Definitely not Christian Bands like the ones on special radio stations but the majority of Alternative music speak of drugs depression and God. So Christian Because they acknowledge God.
Alternative Rock had positive messages and groups like Rage Against the Machine promotes male masculinity so Democrats during Obama canceled the station. My boy was the last DJ for the network 103.1 so not My opinion but a fact.
I love their first song on their 3rd record "we were the killers all along :'("
My fav christian rock band is thousand foot krutch
"They hide it well," brandon comes right out and admits he's Mormon, but their songs... I don't think so
People who casually listen to their music don't.
Relient K is the correct answer.
Sadie Hawkins dance in your khaki pants.
Love me some Relient K. Haven't listened to new stuff since like 2009 probably but yeah. Jammed their first three albums a lot! Lol
Bro you just gave me a flash back as a teenager dam how did I forget about that song I'm almost,30 noooooo
Thiessen is actually one of the greatest songwriters of our time imo. I think by the end of my life he'll still be among the top 20.
@@bbbbbbb51 I don't remember many great lyrics from Reliant K. Can you give an example? Most of the lyrics I can think of are far from profound.
Come on we all know that title goes to STRYPER great band great message
Yes that's my favorite
"I got soul but I'm not a soldier"
One of their best lines
Stryper are legends and been going forever and I honestly believe it would be hard to go past them
Yeah I'm pretty sure stryper is 1) actually christian and 2) way bigger than the killers
Definitely
Facts
STRYPER allday
These dudes to young
@@FourTreDubbCity yeah but their latest few albums have been full great music heavy and fast but melodic and band members playing tight knit. I honestly will put up Stryper’s last two against Metallica’s and I bet everyone would choose to take home Strypers that’s for sure. I think they’ve been around longer than Metallica also
As a Black man, I totally have a bass.
This comment broke me lmao
You would
@@matthewnienkirchen8083 It was a South Park reference dummy. STFU forever.
@@matthewnienkirchen8083 Why would you think that I would care about your thoughts on racism and stereotypes? You're probably a racist and a stereotype. Go type another manifesto ya lil shit.
I know The Killers personally. living here in Las Vegas.
For everyone saying that Mr. Brightside is a dude coming to grips with getting cheated on: No. Its about intrusive thoughts and the anxiety that comes inherently with trusting someone completely. If you listen, the scenarios he’s talking about are in his mind and not actually happening.
So he's a scitzophrenic christian?
Cringe
That! And there's literally a line "and it's all in my head". There's also a theme of jealousy in the song
Either way Mormonism and Christianity are very different so they aren't a Christian rock band😂
Perhaps you should take the writer of the songs word for it that it was about a cheating girlfriend. But hey that's crazy why take his word for it.
Now I finally understand the lyrics “you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend”
The boyfriend had long hair. It was obviously Jesus. Boom.
And what's the connection to "februari of last year?" Pray tell
Ha ha ha… that was funny…😂
They say the devil’s water, it ain’t so sweet. You don’t have to drink right now. But you can dip your feet in every once in a little while 🔥
That seems anti Christian lol
@@kalkat02That’s just the human experience however. That doesn’t mean you can’t try and actively do better, but we’re creatures with the knowledge of sin. Therefore, sin comes to us easily because we’ve tasted it before and know. Can’t be anti-Christian if they’re just referring to life as it should be as God intended.
@@kalkat02It’s a dumb religion
Brandon is, I don't think anyone else is. And he doesn't hide it.
The answer to this question is, was, and will always be Five Iron Frenzy.
They were good they were good they really really really good.
Idk bro, love em....but best?
Chainsaw!?!
Woooow. Forgot about them
🤦 I ment......Family Force 5
Hot Fuzz was one of my favorite albums as a kid
I saw The Killers last week. It was very Pastor Brandon Flowers up on stage.
"He doesn't look a thing like Jesus but he talked like a gentleman like you imagine when you were young"
Here I was thinking that it was a metaphor for a red flag about manipulation, who knew it was about Jesus. Who'd'a thunk it, best stay away from that guy then.
Ohhhh he said “Jesus”
Christian Rock for sure
@Austin Schmidt no way you're this shallow
“I got gas in the tank, I got money in the bank, I got news for you baby, you’re looking at the man”-Book of Mormon
Hehehe...
This made me hyena laugh
@@SarahSkinnyJeans
It made the other guy Michael Jackson laugh.
You can't top that.
@@phasepanther4423 I didn't even see that, that's so funny lmao
@@phasepanther4423 omg lol he didn't even but since you said that I can't read it in anything other than MJ s voice 😂
August burns red, hands down
Fuck Yes!
The Devil Wears Prada.
Hands back up fuckers! Black Sabbath.
100% the greatest Christian rock band of all time.
@@ripF5C hell yes then Devil Wears Prada
That’s why they have a song in guitar hero 3 when you were young 🔥🔥
“When everybody else refrained…My uncle Johnny did cocaine”..
My favorite killers song hands down
Mr. Brightside has been clearly stated that it is about the jealousy that Flower felt after his girlfriend was caught with another man
Yeah that's what they want you to believe
@@juelgrace well excuse me mr conspiracy theorist for believing what the lead singer of The Killers stated about a song he wrote