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"All These Things That I've Done" is a song by American rock band the Killers. The song was released as the third single from the band's debut studio album, Hot Fuss (2004), on August 30, 2004. It was written by frontman Brandon Flowers and features gospel choir The Sweet Inspirations. The song is about television host Matt Pinfield, and his work with the U.S. Army, as part of a program that mentored wounded/PTSD-stricken soldiers returning from Iraq.

"All These Things That I've Done"
Single by the Killers
from the album Hot Fuss
Released	August 30, 2004 (2004-08-30)
Studio	The Hearse, Berkeley, California
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	5:01 (album version) 3:53 (radio and single edit)
Label	Island Lizard King
Songwriter(s)	Brandon Flowers
Producer(s)	The Killers Jeff Saltzman
The Killers singles chronology
"Somebody Told Me" (2004) "All These Things That I've Done" (2004) "Smile Like You Mean It" (2005)
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"All These Things That I've Done" was released as the third single from Hot Fuss in 2004 in the United Kingdom and as the fourth single in the United States in 2005, peaking at number 74 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 18 on the UK Singles Chart. The song features the central lyric of "You gotta help me out,"[1] and an extended refrain of "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier."

Background

The song is about television host Matt Pinfield.[2] Before the Killers were famous, Pinfield, who was a vice president of A&R at Columbia Records at the time, tried to sign the band. He was also working with the U.S. Army as part of a program that mentored wounded and/or PTSD-stricken musician soldiers returning from Iraq. After visiting veteran soldiers in Colorado City, he went to Las Vegas, where he quickly bonded with the Killers.[2] Pinfield watched the band rehearse at drummer Ronnie Vannucci's garage and took them out to dinner. He asked if anybody wanted to give him a ride back to his hotel and Brandon Flowers offered to drive Pinfield. They wound up hitting the bar at the Gold Coast Hotel on a Tuesday night, just "talking about life", Pinfield said:

I started to tell him the story about mentoring soldiers, and I was getting ready to go through a divorce. I was going through a bit of a rough time. So, he went home that night, and their old manager, Braden Merrick, calls me on the phone, and goes, 'Hey Matt, Brandon wrote a song about you. He went home last night and wrote this song.' It was 'All These Things That I've Done,' and the line 'I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier' is about the mentoring thing.[2]

In 2016, Pinfield titled his memoir All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life.[2] On January 19, 2019, the band gave Pinfield a shoutout while introducing the song at the iHeartRadio ALTer Ego 2019 festival at The Forum in Inglewood, California, where Pinfield was in attendance in a wheelchair still recovering from being hit by a car a month before.[2]

Critical reception

The song was acclaimed by critics upon release. Bill Lamb of About.com gave the song 4 out of 5 stars, noting its strength as a pop-rock anthem.[3] Jemma Volp-Fletcher gave the single a perfect score of 10 out of 10, calling it "staggering", while also complimenting frontman Flowers' songwriting skills.[4] musicOMH's Sara McDonnell was also impressed, saying that it had "classic song' written all over it".[5]

In 2009, The Daily Telegraph listed it among the "100 Greatest Songs of All Time".[6]

In 2020, Paste ranked the song number two on their list of the 20 greatest Killers songs,[7] and in 2021, American Songwriter ranked the song number six on their list of the 10 greatest Killers songs.[8]

In December 2005, the song was nominated for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 48th Grammy Awards,[9] but lost to "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" by U2.[10]

Performances and covers

The band performed the song at Live 8, a charity campaign series of concerts held in July 2005.[11][12] In 2009, the Killers, Coldplay, Bono (U2), and Gary Barlow (Take That) performed the track together to support a special War Child concert following the BRIT Awards.[13]

Fellow Las Vegas band Panic! At the Disco members Brendon Urie and Ryan Ross slow danced to the song according to the December 2006 issue of Kerrang!.[14]

A popular song among alternative rock bands, "All These Things That I've Done" has been covered live by numerous artists including U2,[15] Coldplay, Imagine Dragons,[16] Walk the Moon,[17] Kris Allen,[18] and Robbie Williams.[19]

Music videos

The song has two music videos, the earlier of which was filmed in July 2004.^{[citation needed]} It features the Killers singing while walking down Brick Lane, in London accompanied by a crowd. The video also featured shots of the audience who attended the Killers concert at the London Astoria, on July 8, 2004.^{[citation needed]}

The later version, directed by Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn, was filmed in May 2005 in Las Vegas and features a surreal, dream-like sequence, where the Killers, dressed as cowboys, are attacked by scantily clad female warriors armed with boomerangs.[20] The story in the video is told out of order, but can be put in its order by the numbers displayed in the video. The band later made use of a similar cowboy motif during promotion of their second album, Sam's Town, and its accompanying tour and music videos during 2006 and 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Accolades

Publication	Country	Accolade	Year	Rank
XFM	United Kingdom	100 Greatest Songs of the Decade[21]	2009	22
Absolute Radio		100 Best Songs of the Decade[22]	2009	9
NME		100 Greatest Tracks of the Decade[23]	2009	95
		150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years[24]	2011	56
The Daily Telegraph		100 Greatest Songs of All Time[25][26]	2009	65
			2015	75
Pretty Much Amazing	United States	Favorite Songs of the Last Ten Years[27]	2010	14
Billboard	United States	The 100 Greatest Song Bridges of the 21st Century: Staff Picks[28]	2021	2

Awards

Year	Ceremony	Award	Result
2006	Grammy Awards	Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	Nominated
2020	Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television[29]	Pending

Track listings

All songs were written by Brandon Flowers except where noted.

Charts and certifications

Release history

Region	Date	Format(s)	Label(s)	Ref.
United Kingdom	August 30, 2004	CD	Lizard King	[47]
United States	June 27, 2005	Contemporary hit alternative radio	Island	[48]
	July 11, 2005	Hot adult contemporary radio		[49]
Australia	July 18, 2005	CD		[50]

In other media

The song is mimed to by Justin Timberlake in a drug induced dream sequence in the 2006 dystopian movie Southland Tales. Comedian and musician Bill Bailey frequently pokes fun at the song's refrain during his shows, providing his own version: "I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster". According to Bailey himself, the band was aware of the parody, finding it quite amusing.[51] The song has also been featured in commercials, including an ad for Nike.[52]

References

На других языках

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- [en] All These Things That I've Done

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[es] All These Things That I've Done

«All These Things That I've Done» (en español: «Todas estas cosas que he hecho») es una canción de la banda estadounidense de rock The Killers, escrita por Brandon Flowers, el vocalista de la banda, y producida por los miembros de la agrupación junto a Jeff Saltzman para su álbum de estudio debut llamado Hot Fuss de 2004. La canción fue lanzada como tercer sencillo comercial del álbum y logró un éxito moderado, aunque en Reino Unido alcanzó la posición 18.

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[ru] All These Things That I’ve Done

«All These Things That I’ve Done» — третий сингл американской рок-группы The Killers с дебютного альбома Hot Fuss. Композиция написана вокалистом группы Брендоном Флауэрсом и была издана Island Records и Lizard King

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