Sam's Town

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This article is about the album by The Killers. For the casinos, see Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall.
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Sam's Town
Sam's Town cover
Studio album by The Killers
Released October 2, 2006
Recorded 2005–2006
Genre Alternative rock
Post-punk revival
Length 44:14
Label Island, Vertigo
Producer Flood, Alan Moulder
Professional reviews
The Killers chronology
Hot Fuss
(2004)		 Sam's Town
(2006)		 Sawdust
(2007)
Singles from Sam's Town
  1. "When You Were Young"
    Released: September 18, 2006
  2. "Bones"
    Released: November 27, 2006
  3. "Read My Mind"
    Released: February 13, 2007
  4. "For Reasons Unknown"
    Released: June 25, 2007

Sam's Town is the second studio album by Las Vegas rock band The Killers, released on October 2, 2006 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States.

Contents

[edit] Production

The album is said to be influenced by the works of U2, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, among others.[1][2] Sam's Town received mixed reviews, with some praising The Killers' new direction and others criticising it.[3][4]

In the October 2006 issue of Giant magazine, Flowers was quoted as saying that Sam's Town would be "one of the best albums in the past twenty years" and in Entertainment Weekly he remarked that it would be "the album that keeps rock & roll afloat." In an interview with Chicago radio station Q101, Brandon Flowers called "Read My Mind" the best song that the band had ever written.

The album takes its name from Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, a hotel-casino in Las Vegas, the hometown of the band. The bikini-clad woman on the cover of Sam's Town is model and singer Felice LaZae. The album's co-producer Flood is dressed as a Native American in the CD booklet. The artwork inside the album booklet is taken from a downtown-Las Vegas mural painted by Suzanne Hackett-Morgan, a local painter.

[edit] Release details

Country Date Label Format Catalog
Japan September 27. 2006 Universal CD UICL-9037
Australia September 30, 2006 Universal Music Australia CD 1706722
United Kingdom October 2, 2006 Lizard King Records CD
United States October 3, 2006 Island Records picture disc LP B0007221-01
CD B0007221-02

[edit] Track listing

All tracks written by Brandon Flowers, except where noted.

  1. "Sam's Town" – 4:06
  2. "Enterlude" – 0:49
  3. "When You Were Young" (Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer, Ronnie Vannucci Jr.) – 3:40
  4. "Bling (Confession of a King)" (Flowers, Stoermer) – 4:08
  5. "For Reasons Unknown" – 3:32
  6. "Read My Mind" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer) – 4:06
  7. "Uncle Jonny" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer) – 4:25
  8. "Bones" (Flowers, Stoermer, Vannucci) – 3:47
  9. "My List" – 4:08
  10. "This River Is Wild" (Flowers, Stoermer) – 4:38
  11. "Why Do I Keep Counting?" – 4:24
  12. "Exitlude" – 2:29

[edit] Bonus tracks

  • "Where the White Boys Dance" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer, Vannucci) (Australia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and United States iTunes pre-order bonus track) – 3:26
  • "All the Pretty Faces" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer, Vannucci) (Japan, Best Buy exclusive bonus disc, and UK iTunes bonus track) – 4:45
  • "Daddy's Eyes" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer, Vannucci) (Best Buy exclusive bonus disc) – 4:13
  • "When You Were Young (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer, Vannucci) (American iTunes bonus track) – 6:23

[edit] Latin American Tour Edition Track listing

[edit] CD

  1. "Sam's Town" – 4:06
  2. "Enterlude" – 0:49
  3. "When You Were Young" (Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer, Ronnie Vannucci Jr.) – 3:40
  4. "Bling (Confession of a King)" (Flowers, Stoermer) – 4:08
  5. "For Reasons Unknown" – 3:32
  6. "Read My Mind" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer) – 4:06
  7. "Uncle Jonny" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer) – 4:25
  8. "Bones" (Flowers, Stoermer, Vannucci) – 3:47
  9. "My List" – 4:08
  10. "This River Is Wild" (Flowers, Stoermer) – 4:38
  11. "Why Do I Keep Counting?" – 4:24
  12. "Exitlude" – 2:29
  13. "Where the White Boys Dance" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer, Vannucci) - 3:26
  14. "All the Pretty Faces" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer, Vannucci) - 4:45

[edit] Bonus DVD

  1. "When You Were Young" Video (Jump Version)
  2. "When You Were Young" Video (No Jump Version)
  3. Making of "When You Were Young"

Band members:

[edit] Personnel

The following musicians contributed to the production of Sam's Town:[5]

  • Adrina Hanson — strings
  • Maryam Haddad — strings
  • Tristan Moyer — strings
  • Tommy Marth — saxophone
  • Neeraj Khajanchi — trombone
  • Corlene Byrd — background vocals
  • Louis_XIV — background vocals

[edit] Charts

In the US, the album opened at #2, selling 315,000 in its first week.[6] The album went straight to #1 in the UK selling over 260,000 in a week.[7] As of March 2007, the album has sold about 2,750,000 copies worldwide.[8] The album has been certified 2x Platinum in Canada.[9] As of July 11, 2007, it has sold 1,205,621 copies in the US. A late surge in sales in the United Kingdom and a continued flow of international sales means that Sam's Town is fast approaching Hot Fuss with almost 4 million sales worldwide to date.[10] The album has sold over 1 200 000 copies in the UK[11]

[edit] Trivia

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  • In the 2007 Chris Rock movie "I Think I Love My Wife", Richard Cooper supposedly picks up Sam's Town while in a music store. Also, when Cooper begins to speak with Nelson, a poster of an NME magazine cover can be seen in the background with all 4 members of the band on it.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Playlouder - Latest
  2. ^ The Killers - When You Were Young [Universal] — Reviews — AngryApe
  3. ^ Rob Sheffield (21 September 2006). Rolling Stone : Sam's Town : Review. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2006-10-08.
  4. ^ Josh Eells (October 2006). The Killers on Blender.com. Retrieved on 2006-10-08.
  5. ^ Sam's Town CDUniverse.com Retrieved 2007-11-26
  6. ^ Evanescence tops Killers in US. mp3.com (2006-10-11).
  7. ^ Killers, Razorlight rule in UK. mp3.com (2006-10-10).
  8. ^ United World Chart Year-End Numbers
  9. ^ CRIA Gold & Platinum certifications for November 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
  10. ^ Billboard Top 200
  11. ^ Award Type: 4 x Platinum

[edit] External links

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The Killers
Brandon Flowers • Dave Keuning • Mark Stoermer • Ronnie Vannucci Jr.
Albums
Hot Fuss • Sam's Town • Third studio album
Compilations
Singles
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