Sam's Town
Studio album by The Killers
Released	October 2, 2006
Recorded	2005–2006
Genre	Rock
Length	44:46
Label	Island, Lizard King
Producer	Flood, Alan Moulder
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Billboard (very positive) link Blender link Entertainment.ie link Entertainment Weekly (C) link EuphoniaOnline link Guardian Unlimited link musicOMH.com link NME (8/10) link The Observer link Pitchfork Media (5.9/10) link PopMatters (3/10) link Q (#243, Oct. 2006, p. 112) Rolling Stone link
The Killers chronology
Hot Fuss (2004) Sam's Town (2006)
Singles from Sam's Town
"When You Were Young" Released: September 18, 2006 "Bones" Released: November 27, 2006 "Read My Mind" Released: February 13, 2007 "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 on October 3, 2006 in the United States. In the US, the album opened at #2, selling 315,000 in its first week. ^[1] The album went straight to #1 in the UK selling over 260,000 in a week.^[2] As of March 2007, the album has sold about 2,750,000 copies worldwide, of which about 1,000,000 were in the U.S, with a further 1,000,000 sold within the UK.^[3] As of July 11, 2007, it has sold 1,205,621 copies in the US.^[4] The Sams Town Hotel and Gambling Hall is a hotel and casino located in Henderson on the Boulder Strip. ... My List is a song by American country music artist Toby Keith. ... Image File history File links Samstown. ... A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... 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The album is said to be influenced by the works of U2, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, among others.^[5][6] Sam's Town received mixed reviews, with some praising The Killers' new direction and others criticising it.^[7][8] This article is about the Irish rock band. ... Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an influential American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ... Thomas Earl Tom Petty (born October 20, 1950) is a singer and guitarist. ...

The album takes its name from Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, a hotel-casino in Las Vegas, the hometown of the band. Sams Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located in Sunrise Manor, Nevada on the Boulder Strip. ...

Track listing

All tracks written by Brandon Flowers, except where noted. Brandon Richard Flowers (born June 21, 1981) is the vocalist and keyboardist in the American synth rock band The Killers. ...

1. "Sam's Town" – 4:05
2. "Enterlude" – 0:50
3. "When You Were Young" (Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer, Ronnie Vannucci Jr.) – 3:39
4. "Bling (Confession of a King)" (Flowers, Stoermer) – 4:08
5. "For Reasons Unknown" – 3:32
6. "Read My Mind" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer) – 4:03
7. "Uncle Jonny" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer) – 4:25
8. "Bones" (Flowers, Stoermer, Vannucci) – 3:46
9. "My List" – 4:08
10. "This River Is Wild" (Flowers, Stoermer) – 4:38
11. "Why Do I Keep Counting?" – 4:23
12. "Exitlude" – 2:24

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Bonus tracks

• "Where the White Boys Dance" (Flowers, Keuning, Stoermer, Vannucci) (Australia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and American iTunes pre-order bonus track) – 3:28
• "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

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Certifications

Trivia

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

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Release details

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Notes

1. ^ Evanescence tops Killers in US. mp3.com (2006-10-11).
2. ^ Killers, Razorlight rule in UK. mp3.com (2006-10-10).
3. ^ United World Chart Year-End Numbers
4. ^ 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. Billboard Top 200
5. ^ http://playlouder.com/review/+sams-town-0/
6. ^ http://angryape.com/reviews/2006/09/the-killers-when-you-were-young
7. ^ Rob Sheffield (21 September 2006). Rolling Stone : Sam's Town : Review. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2006-10-08.
8. ^ Josh Eells (October 2006). The Killers on Blender.com. Retrieved on 2006-10-08.
9. ^ CRIA Gold & Platinum certifications for November 2006. Retrieved July 25, 2007.

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External links

• Sam's Town at Island Records
• Fanlisting