Sam's Town

The second album, which Flowers talked up as one of the best in twenty years and critics fought over.
The Killers, 2006

Released
2006
Recorded
February to June 2006
Studio
Studio at the Palms, Las Vegas; Criterion, London
Label
Island
Producer
Flood, Alan Moulder and the Killers
Length
44:14

Made with Flood and Alan Moulder in Las Vegas and London. Before release Flowers told Giant it would rank among the best albums of the past twenty years. Rob Sheffield gave it two stars in Rolling Stone and called it a bad move, while Dan Martin gave it five in The Observer and called it their masterstroke. It debuted at two in America, with 315,000 copies in its first week, and at one in Britain. It holds When You Were Young, Read My Mind and For Reasons Unknown, all among the band's most played songs live.

Track listing

  1. Sam's Town4:05
  2. Enterlude0:49
  3. When You Were Young3:39
  4. Bling (Confession of a King)4:08
  5. For Reasons Unknown3:32
  6. Read My Mind4:06
  7. Uncle Jonny4:25
  8. Bones3:46
  9. My List4:08
  10. This River Is Wild4:38
  11. Why Do I Keep Counting?4:23
  12. Exitlude2:24

More from The Killers

Hot Fuss (2004), Day & Age (2008)

Sources

  1. Sam's Town, Wikipedia
  2. The Killers statistics, setlist.fm