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Sam's Town
Sam's Town
Studio album by the Killers
Released	September 27, 2006
Recorded	February–June 2006
Studio	Studio at the Palms, Las Vegas; Criterion (London);
Genre	Alternative rock; indie rock; post-punk revival; new wave; heartland rock;
Length	44:14
Label	Island
Producer	Flood; Alan Moulder; the Killers;
The Killers chronology
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;

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Sam's Town is the second studio album by American rock band the Killers. It was released on September 27, 2006, by Island Records. Regarding the album, frontman Brandon Flowers noted that he "wanted to create an album that captured, chronologically, everything important that got me to where I am today".^[2] Sam's Town has sold almost five million copies worldwide.

On October 7, 2016, Sam's Town was reissued as a remastered double vinyl by Bong Load Records, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the album. The reissue is limited to 5,016 copies and includes two bonus tracks—the previously unreleased demo "Peace of Mind" and a Pet Shop Boys remix of "Read My Mind".^[3]^[4]

Background

The album takes its name from Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, the band's hometown. Sam's Town was also a huge sign that was visible to band member Mark Stoermer through his room window when he was young.

Artwork

According to photographer Anton Corbijn, the band initially wanted a "chic, gypsy look" for the album, and that "out of those discussions [for the sleeve] came these elements of faded glory."^[5] 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. The cover artwork of Sam's Town features model and singer Felice LaZae.^[6] It also features a Desert bighorn sheep, the state mammal and popular symbol of Nevada, where the Killers are from.^[7]

Production

The album is said to be influenced by the works of U2, Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen, the Beatles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Electric Light Orchestra, and Dire Straits, among others.^[8]^[9] 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",^[10] and in Entertainment Weekly he remarked that it would be "the album that keeps rock & roll afloat."

Flowers later said of production techniques used on the record, "We didn't use too many vocal effects. On the first album, we used auto-tune, and I didn't even realize what was going on with these machines and the computer. I was adamant about not using it this time. You really hear what my voice sounds like, for the first time."^[11] At one point, Flowers was told that Brian Eno had passed over the chance to produce the album, a rejection that affected Flowers greatly. However, when working with Eno for Wonderful Wonderful, Eno told him that he was never offered the project in the first place.^[12]

Tour

Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone gave the Killers' concert at Madison Square Garden three-and-a-half stars, saying, "The Vegas quartet's maligned new album, Sam's Town, might pack more unfortunate big-rock bombast than its new wave debut, Hot Fuss, but it shares a generous hook quotient and a Vegas-y talent for crowd-pleasing. Before a frothy crowd, the Killers proved they've become a tight live band."^[13]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	64/100^[14]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[15]
The A.V. Club	B−^[16]
Blender	^[17]
Entertainment Weekly	C^[18]
The Guardian	^[19]
NME	8/10^[20]
Pitchfork	5.9/10^[21]
Q	^[22]
Rolling Stone	^[23]
Spin	^[24]

Initially, Sam's Town received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 64, based on 32 reviews.^[14]

Dan Martin of The Observer awarded the album five out of five stars and noted the album's sonic similarity to Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, writing: "Improbably, this proves to be their masterstroke. Selling Springsteen back to his homeland might look like a canny way of ensuring radio play, but there's no disputing the quality of their songs. Indeed, as Hot Fuss sporadically intimated, the Killers are among pop's foremost practitioners." Comparing Sam's Town to the band's debut album Hot Fuss, Martin stated: "Crucially, Sam's Town sounds like a complete collection, with a far better strike rate than its predecessor."^[25]

In a review for NME, Krissi Murison highlighted both the similarities to Hot Fuss and the evolution of the band's sound from the debut to Sam's Town, concluding: "All this, however, isn't to say that The Killers have gone all (God forbid) serious on us. The tunes may be huger, the influences cleverer, the lyrics more adventurous and the band more self-assured, but their primary concern is still being the biggest indie-pop stars on the planet. For all their smart new ways, The Killers are still as flashy, unintentionally funny, and flagrantly affected as ever – and this time we wouldn't even pretend to have it any other way."^[20]

Conversely, Sia Michel of The New York Times called the album "painful" and ends the review with the statement that "The Killers are a talented band that evolved too fast, for the wrong reasons."^[26] Similarly, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone noted a significant departure from Hot Fuss, writing that on Sam's Town, the band "ditch[es] their cheerfully fake Bowie moves and try to get heavy by copying Bruce Springsteen. Yes, that means glockenspiel solos. Yes, it means anthems about the road and looking for America and girls named Mary. No, it's not a good move."^[23]^[27]

In later years, the album gained a cult following and has been critically lauded as a classic and one of the best rock albums of the 2000s.^[28]^[29]^[30]^[31] Despite its two-star rating by Rolling Stone, Sam's Town was voted by the magazine's readers in December 2009 as the most underrated album of the decade.^[29] Q magazine ranked it as the 11th best album of the 21st century.^[30] In a retrospective for Uproxx, Steven Hyden broaches the issue of pannings by notable media outlets such as Rolling Stone, arguing that these pannings have ultimately cemented the album's status as a classic: "Ten years removed from its original moment, Sam's Town has aged as all misunderstood sorta-classics do, where its deficiencies are now strengths. [...] A record that was risible to some because its attendant hype was so overbearing now has the appeal of a mistreated underdog. Against all odds, the narrative came around on Sam's Town."^[31] Writing for MTV News, James Montgomery would theorize that the initial backlash to the album caused the band to change direction with their follow up album, Day & Age, calling the latter "the most un-Sam's Town album imaginable."^[32]

Accolades

Awards and nominations for *Sam's Town*
Ceremony	Year	Award	Result
Brit Awards	2007	Best International Album	Won
MTV Australia Awards		Album of the Year	Nominated
Shockwaves NME Awards		Best Album	Nominated

*Sam's Town* on critics' lists and readers' polls
Publication	Country	Accolade	Year	Rank
Q^[30]	United Kingdom	Q Artists and Albums of the 21st Century	2010	11
Rolling Stone^[29]	United States	Most Underrated Album of the Decade: Readers' Poll	2010	1

"They really changed as writers from Hot Fuss to this. It was about America: the idea that there is an idealism to being young in America but it can all so easily fade away. It's about the guy in the small town – the backbone of America. Brandon Flowers caught a classic American vision, which is amazing because all his references were European or British. He's a great writer. He's got a very old head on young shoulders." – Jon Bon Jovi^[33]

Commercial performance

Sam's Town debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 315,000 copies in its first week.^[34] As of July 2008^[update], the album had sold 1.3 million copies in the United States.^[35] It became the band's second number-one album on the UK Albums Chart, selling 268,946 copies in its first week.^[36] It had sold 1.57 million copies in the United Kingdom by July 2017.^[37] The album has been certified Platinum or multi-Platinum in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Ireland. Sam's Town also produced multiple charting singles including the platinum chart-topping single "When You Were Young". As of August 2016^[update], Sam's Town had sold almost five million copies worldwide.^[38]

Popular culture

Six months after the death of American YouTuber Technoblade, his father revealed on the r/technoblade subreddit that, in his son's instructions for the video that would announce his death, he included a link to a joint YouTube video of the songs Enterlude and Exitlude. Technoblade's father was unsure of how his son wanted the song to be inserted into the video and did not include it due to problems it could cause with copyright.^[39]

Popular Twitch streamer xQc has regularly used Exitlude as outro music for his streams.^[40]

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Flood, Alan Moulder and the Killers.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sam's Town"	Brandon Flowers	4:05
2.	"Enterlude"	Flowers	0:49
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"	Flowers	3:32
6.	"Read My Mind"	Flowers Keuning Stoermer	4:06
7.	"Uncle Jonny"	Flowers Keuning Stoermer	4:25
8.	"Bones"	Flowers Stoermer Vannucci	3:46
9.	"My List"	Flowers	4:08
10.	"This River Is Wild"	Flowers Stoermer	4:38
11.	"Why Do I Keep Counting?"	Flowers	4:23
12.	"Exitlude"	Flowers	2:24

Bonus track on UK, Australian and European special editions
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Where the White Boys Dance" (B-side to "When You Were Young" single)	Flowers	3:26

Bonus tracks on Japanese edition
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Where the White Boys Dance" (B-side to "When You Were Young" single)	Flowers	3:26
14.	"All the Pretty Faces" (B-side to "When You Were Young" single)	Flowers Keuning Stoermer	4:45

Bonus track on French edition
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"When You Were Young" (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke) (Radio Edit, from the "When You Were Young" single)	Flowers Keuning Mark Stoermer Vannucci	3:58

US Best Buy bonus CD
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"All the Pretty Faces" (B-side to "When You Were Young" single)	Flowers Keuning Stoermer	4:45
2.	"Daddy's Eyes" (B-side to "Bones" single)	Flowers	4:13

Bonus tracks on 10th anniversary LP edition
No.	Title	Length
13.	"Peace of Mind" (previously unreleased)	4:43
14.	"Read My Mind" (Pet Shop Boys Stars Are Blazing Mix) (from the "Read My Mind" single)	7:20

Bonus DVD
No.	Title	Length
17.	"When You Were Young" (video) (Jump Version)
18.	"When You Were Young" (video) (No Jump Version)
19.	"Making of 'When You Were Young'"

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Sam's Town.^[41]

Studios

Studio at the Palms (Las Vegas, Nevada) – recording
Criterion Studios (London) – additional recording
Assault & Battery (London) – mixing
Masterdisk (New York City) – mastering

The Killers

Additional musicians

Corlene Byrd – backing vocals (track 11)
Louis XIV – backing vocals (tracks 1, 9)
Tommy Marth – saxophones
Neeraj Khajanchi – trombone
Adrina Hanson – strings
Maryam Haddad – strings
Tristan Moyer – strings

Technical

Flood – production, recording, mixing
Alan Moulder – production, recording, mixing
The Killers – production
Mark Gray – additional engineering
Neeraj Khajanchi – additional engineering
Max Dingel – additional engineering
Andy Savours – mix engineering
Howie Weinberg – mastering

Artwork

Andy West – art direction, design
Anton Corbijn – photography
Kristen Yiengst – photo, art coordination
Doug Joswick – package production

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[42]	2
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[43]	5
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)^[44]	13
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)^[45]	19
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[46]	1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)^[47]	17
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[48]	14
European Albums (Billboard)^[49]	2
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)^[50]	20
French Albums (SNEP)^[51]	30
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[52]	6
Greek Albums (IFPI)^[53]	14
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[54]	1
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[55]	30
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[56]	24
Mexican Albums (Top 100 Mexico)^[57]	9
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[58]	1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)^[59]	10
Polish Albums (ZPAV)^[60]	34
Portuguese Albums (AFP)^[61]	27
Scottish Albums (OCC)^[62]	1
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[63]	37
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)^[64]	13
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[65]	9
UK Albums (OCC)^[66]	1
US Billboard 200^[67]	2
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)^[68]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (2006)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[69]	30
European Albums (Billboard)^[70]	53
Greek Foreign Albums (IFPI)^[71]	45
Irish Albums (IRMA)^[72]	7
Mexican Albums (Top 100 Mexico)^[57]	84
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[73]	18
UK Albums (OCC)^[74]	12
US Billboard 200^[75]	95
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)^[76]	17
Worldwide Albums (IFPI)^[77]	19

Chart (2007)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[78]	55
European Albums (Billboard)^[79]	52
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)^[80]	45
UK Albums (OCC)^[81]	24
US Billboard 200^[82]	80
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)^[83]	16

Chart (2008)	Position
UK Albums (OCC)^[84]	108

Chart (2009)	Position
UK Albums (OCC)^[85]	174

Decade-end charts

Chart (2000–2009)	Position
UK Albums (OCC)^[86]	70

Certifications and sales


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)^[87]	Gold	20,000^{^}
Australia (ARIA)^[88]	3× Platinum	210,000^‡
Belgium (BEA)^[89]	Gold	25,000^*
Canada (Music Canada)^[90]	3× Platinum	300,000^‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)^[91]	Gold	20,000^{^}
Germany (BVMI)^[92]	Gold	100,000^{^}
Ireland (IRMA)^[93]	4× Platinum	60,000^{^}
New Zealand (RMNZ)^[94]	2× Platinum	30,000^{^}
Russia (NFPF)^[95]	Gold	10,000^*
United Kingdom (BPI)^[96]	5× Platinum	1,570,000^[37]
United States (RIAA)^[97]	Platinum	1,300,000^[35]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)^[98]	Platinum	1,000,000^*
Worldwide	—	5,000,000^[38]
^* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone. ^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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

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 | released   = {{Start date|2006|9|27}}
 | recorded   = February–June 2006
-| studio     = * [[Studio at the Palms]] (Las Vegas, Nevada)
+| studio     = * [[Studio at the Palms]], Las Vegas
 * Criterion (London)
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 * [[Alternative rock]]
-* [[indie rock]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/killers-single-latest|title=Killers Single-Latest|work=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]|access-date=April 5, 2011|archive-date=April 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429021450/http://www.clashmusic.com/news/killers-single-latest|url-status=live}}</ref>
+* [[indie rock]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/news/killers-single-latest|title=Killers Single-Latest|work=[[Clash (magazine)|Clash]]|date=April 29, 2009 |access-date=April 5, 2011|archive-date=April 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429021450/http://www.clashmusic.com/news/killers-single-latest|url-status=live}}</ref>
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-'''''Sam's Town''''' is the second studio album by American [[Rock music|rock]] band [[the Killers]]. It was released on September 27, 2006, by [[Island Records]]. Regarding the album, frontman [[Brandon Flowers]] noted that he "wanted to create an album that captured, chronologically, everything important that got me to where I am today".<ref>{{cite web |last=Kent |first=Nick |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/oct/20/popandrock.killers |title=The saints of Sin City |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=October 20, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011022219/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/oct/20/popandrock.killers |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Sam's Town'' has sold almost five million copies worldwide.
+'''''Sam's Town''''' is the second studio album by American rock band [[the Killers]]. It was released on September 27, 2006, by [[Island Records]]. Regarding the album, frontman [[Brandon Flowers]] noted that he "wanted to create an album that captured, chronologically, everything important that got me to where I am today".<ref>{{cite web |last=Kent |first=Nick |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/oct/20/popandrock.killers |title=The saints of Sin City |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=October 20, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011022219/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/oct/20/popandrock.killers |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Sam's Town'' has sold almost five million copies worldwide.
 On October 7, 2016, ''Sam's Town'' was reissued as a remastered double vinyl by [[Bong Load Records]], celebrating the 10th anniversary of the album. The reissue is limited to 5,016 copies and includes two bonus tracks—the previously unreleased demo "Peace of Mind" and a [[Pet Shop Boys]] remix of "Read My Mind".<ref>{{cite web |last=Strauss |first=Matthew |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/67233-the-killers-announce-sams-town-reissue-10th-anniversary-party/ |title=The Killers Announce ''Sam's Town'' Reissue, 10th Anniversary Party |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=August 1, 2016 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010074809/http://pitchfork.com/news/67233-the-killers-announce-sams-town-reissue-10th-anniversary-party/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Toney |first=Jordan |url=https://www.altpress.com/news/the_killers_release_sams_town_vinyl_reissue_along_with_unreleased_demo_list/ |title=The Killers release previously unheard 'Sam's Town'-era demo, "Peace of Mind" |work=[[Alternative Press (music magazine)|Alternative Press]] |date=October 7, 2016 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012220001/https://www.altpress.com/news/the_killers_release_sams_town_vinyl_reissue_along_with_unreleased_demo_list/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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 ==Artwork==
-According to photographer [[Anton Corbijn]], the band initially wanted a "chic, gypsy look" for the album, and that "out of those discussions [for the sleeve] came these elements of faded glory."<ref>{{cite web |last=McLean |first=Craig |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/24/popandrock.killers |title=Songs of praise |work=The Guardian |date=September 24, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011022724/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/24/popandrock.killers |url-status=live }}</ref> The album's co-producer, [[Flood (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. The cover artwork of ''Sam's Town'' features model and singer Felice LaZae.<ref>{{cite web |last=Appleford |first=Steve |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-killers-celebrate-10-years-of-sams-town-w443053 |title=The Killers Celebrate 10 Years of 'Sam's Town' With Wild Casino Getaway |work=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=October 3, 2016 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007192636/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-killers-celebrate-10-years-of-sams-town-w443053 |url-status=live }}</ref> It also features a [[Desert bighorn sheep]], the state mammal and popular symbol of [[Nevada]], from where the Killers are from.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Appleford |first=Steve |date=2016-10-03 |title=The Killers Celebrate 10 Years of 'Sam's Town' With Wild Casino Getaway |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-killers-celebrate-10-years-of-sams-town-with-wild-casino-getaway-192409/ |access-date=2022-08-26 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>
+According to photographer [[Anton Corbijn]], the band initially wanted a "chic, gypsy look" for the album, and that "out of those discussions [for the sleeve] came these elements of faded glory."<ref>{{cite web |last=McLean |first=Craig |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/24/popandrock.killers |title=Songs of praise |work=The Guardian |date=September 24, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011022724/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/24/popandrock.killers |url-status=live }}</ref> The album's co-producer, [[Flood (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. The cover artwork of ''Sam's Town'' features model and singer Felice LaZae.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Appleford |first=Steve |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-killers-celebrate-10-years-of-sams-town-w443053 |title=The Killers Celebrate 10 Years of 'Sam's Town' With Wild Casino Getaway |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=October 3, 2016 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007192636/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-killers-celebrate-10-years-of-sams-town-w443053 |url-status=live }}</ref> It also features a [[Desert bighorn sheep]], the state mammal and popular symbol of [[Nevada]], where the Killers are from.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Appleford |first=Steve |date=October 3, 2016 |title=The Killers Celebrate 10 Years of 'Sam's Town' With Wild Casino Getaway |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-killers-celebrate-10-years-of-sams-town-with-wild-casino-getaway-192409/ |access-date=August 26, 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>
 ==Production==
 The album is said to be influenced by the works of [[U2]], [[Duran Duran]], [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[the Beatles]], [[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]], [[Electric Light Orchestra]], and [[Dire Straits]], among others.<ref>{{cite web |last=Allen |first=Jeremy |url=http://playlouder.com/review/+sams-town-0/ |title=Sam's Town: The Killers |website=[[Playlouder]] |date=October 5, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061025001840/http://www.playlouder.com/review/+sams-town-0/ |archive-date=October 25, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://angryape.com/reviews/2006/09/the-killers-when-you-were-young |title=The Killers – When You Were Young [Universal] |publisher=AngryApe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930152516/http://angryape.com/reviews/2006/09/the-killers-when-you-were-young |archive-date=September 30, 2007}}</ref> In the October 2006 issue of ''[[Giant (magazine)|Giant]]'' magazine, Flowers was quoted as saying that ''Sam's Town'' would be "one of the best albums in the past twenty years",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.giantmag.com/2006/09/music/dressed-to-kill/3/ |title=The Killers: Dressed to Kill |work=[[Giant (magazine)|Giant]] |date=September 25, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026002918/http://www.giantmag.com/2006/09/music/dressed-to-kill/3/ |archive-date=October 26, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016}}</ref> and in ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' he remarked that it would be "the album that keeps rock & roll afloat."
-Flowers later said of production techniques used on the record, "We didn't use too many vocal effects. On the first album, we used [[auto-tune]], and I didn't even realize what was going on with these machines and the computer. I was adamant about not using it this time. You really hear what my voice sounds like, for the first time."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Scaggs |first=Austin |author-link=Austin Scaggs |url=http://www.thekillersfansite.com/qarsnov3006.html |title=Q&A |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=November 30, 2006 |issn=0035-791X |access-date=March 8, 2012 |via=The Killers-Fansite |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183816/http://www.thekillersfansite.com/qarsnov3006.html |url-status=live }}</ref> At one point, Flowers was told that [[Brian Eno]] had passed over the chance to produce the album, a rejection that affected Brandon greatly. However, when working with Eno for ''[[Wonderful Wonderful (The Killers album)|Wonderful Wonderful]]'', Eno told him that he was never offered the project in the first place.<ref>{{cite web |last=Fleming |first=Amy |url=http://www.newsweek.com/brandon-flowers-killers-new-album-hero-man-659017 |title=The Killers' Brandon Flowers on New Music, Being a Man and Calling His Hero |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=September 3, 2017 |access-date=September 5, 2017 |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904200523/http://www.newsweek.com/brandon-flowers-killers-new-album-hero-man-659017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Flowers later said of production techniques used on the record, "We didn't use too many vocal effects. On the first album, we used [[auto-tune]], and I didn't even realize what was going on with these machines and the computer. I was adamant about not using it this time. You really hear what my voice sounds like, for the first time."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Scaggs |first=Austin |author-link=Austin Scaggs |url=http://www.thekillersfansite.com/qarsnov3006.html |title=Q&A |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=November 30, 2006 |issn=0035-791X |access-date=March 8, 2012 |via=The Killers-Fansite |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183816/http://www.thekillersfansite.com/qarsnov3006.html |url-status=live }}</ref> At one point, Flowers was told that [[Brian Eno]] had passed over the chance to produce the album, a rejection that affected Flowers greatly. However, when working with Eno for ''[[Wonderful Wonderful (The Killers album)|Wonderful Wonderful]]'', Eno told him that he was never offered the project in the first place.<ref>{{cite web |last=Fleming |first=Amy |url=http://www.newsweek.com/brandon-flowers-killers-new-album-hero-man-659017 |title=The Killers' Brandon Flowers on New Music, Being a Man and Calling His Hero |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=September 3, 2017 |access-date=September 5, 2017 |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904200523/http://www.newsweek.com/brandon-flowers-killers-new-album-hero-man-659017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 ==Tour==
-{{Main|Sam's Town Tour}}
 [[Christian Hoard]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the Killers' concert at [[Madison Square Garden]] three-and-a-half stars, saying, "The Vegas quartet's maligned new album, ''Sam's Town'', might pack more unfortunate big-rock bombast than its new wave debut, ''Hot Fuss'', but it shares a generous hook quotient and a Vegas-y talent for crowd-pleasing. Before a frothy crowd, the Killers proved they've become a tight live band."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hoard |first=Christian |author-link=Christian Hoard |title=The Killers |magazine=Rolling Stone |issue=1013 |date=November 16, 2006 |page=133 |issn=0035-791X}}</ref>
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 | rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Eells |first=Josh |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2059 |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]] |issue=52 |date=October 2006 |issn=1534-0554 |access-date=February 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220214001/http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2059 |archive-date=February 20, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
 | rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
-| rev4Score = C<ref>{{cite web |last=Rosen |first=Jody |author-link=Jody Rosen |url=https://ew.com/article/2006/10/02/sams-town/ |title=Sam's Town |work=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=October 2, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006202421/https://ew.com/article/2006/10/02/sams-town/ |archive-date=October 6, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
+| rev4Score = C<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Rosen |first=Jody |author-link=Jody Rosen |url=https://ew.com/article/2006/10/02/sams-town/ |title=Sam's Town |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=October 2, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006202421/https://ew.com/article/2006/10/02/sams-town/ |archive-date=October 6, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
 | rev5 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
 | rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/29/popandrock.shopping |title=The Killers, Sam's Town |work=The Guardian |date=September 29, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2015 |first=Chris |last=Salmon |archive-date=January 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116180806/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/29/popandrock.shopping |url-status=live }}</ref>
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 | rev8Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=243 |date=October 2006 |page=112 |issn=0955-4955}}</ref>
 | rev9 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
-| rev9Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="rs">{{cite web |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/11738772/review/11755516/sams_town |title=Sam's Town |work=Rolling Stone |date=September 21, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017042417/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/11738772/review/11755516/sams_town |archive-date=October 17, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
+| rev9Score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="rs">{{cite magazine |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/11738772/review/11755516/sams_town |title=Sam's Town |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=September 21, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017042417/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/11738772/review/11755516/sams_town |archive-date=October 17, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
 | rev10 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
 | rev10Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lim |first=Dennis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iemUgvxmQcYC&pg=PA93 |title=It's Showtime! |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=22 |issue=10 |date=October 2006 |page=93 |issn=0886-3032 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
 }}
-''Sam's Town'' received generally positive reviews from music critics. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[Standard score|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an [[Weighted arithmetic mean|average]] score of 64, based on 32 reviews.<ref name="MC"/>
+Initially, ''Sam's Town'' received generally positive reviews from music critics. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[Standard score|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an [[Weighted arithmetic mean|average]] score of 64, based on 32 reviews.<ref name="MC"/>
 Dan Martin of ''[[The Observer]]'' awarded the album five out of five stars and noted the album's sonic similarity to ''[[Born to Run]]'' by [[Bruce Springsteen]], writing: "Improbably, this proves to be their masterstroke. Selling Springsteen back to his homeland might look like a canny way of ensuring radio play, but there's no disputing the quality of their songs. Indeed, as ''[[Hot Fuss]]'' sporadically intimated, the Killers are among pop's foremost practitioners." Comparing ''Sam's Town'' to the band's debut album ''Hot Fuss'', Martin stated: "Crucially, ''Sam's Town'' sounds like a complete collection, with a far better strike rate than its predecessor."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/17/shopping.killers |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |work=[[The Observer]] |date=September 17, 2006 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |first=Dan |last=Martin |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220139/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/17/shopping.killers |url-status=live }}</ref>
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 Conversely, Sia Michel of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the album "painful" and ends the review with the statement that "The Killers are a talented band that evolved too fast, for the wrong reasons."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/arts/music/02choi.html |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 2, 2006 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |first=Sia |last=Michel |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220021/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/arts/music/02choi.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Similarly, [[Rob Sheffield]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' noted a significant departure from ''Hot Fuss'', writing that on ''Sam's Town'', the band "ditch[es] their cheerfully fake [[David Bowie|Bowie]] moves and try to get heavy by copying Bruce Springsteen. Yes, that means glockenspiel solos. Yes, it means anthems about the road and looking for America and girls named Mary. No, it's not a good move."<ref name="rs"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Lapatine |first=Scott |url=https://www.stereogum.com/3479/rolling_stone_pans_sams_town/news/ |title=Rolling Stone Pans Sam's Town |website=[[Stereogum]] |date=September 26, 2006 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220053/https://www.stereogum.com/3479/rolling_stone_pans_sams_town/news/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
-In later years, the album gained a cult following and has been critically lauded as a classic and one of the best rock albums of the 2000s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Manning |first=Craig |url=https://chorus.fm/features/articles/the-killers-sams-town-and-the-hold-steadys-boys-and-girls-in-america-10-years-later/ |title=The Killers' 'Sam's Town' and The Hold Steady's 'Boys and Girls in America,' 10 Years Later |website=chorus.fm |date=2016 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220028/https://chorus.fm/features/articles/the-killers-sams-town-and-the-hold-steadys-boys-and-girls-in-america-10-years-later/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="rs-underrated">{{cite web|title=Readers' Rock List: Most Underrated Album of the Decade|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/readers-rock-list-most-underrated-album-of-the-decade-20091214|website=Rolling Stone|access-date=June 14, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909211312/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/readers-rock-list-most-underrated-album-of-the-decade-20091214|archive-date=September 9, 2012|url-status=dead|date=December 14, 2012}}</ref><ref name="q21st">{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#21cent |title=Q Artists And Albums Of The 21st Century |website=Rocklist.net |access-date=2012-03-08 |archive-date=June 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609090109/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#21cent |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="uproxx">{{cite web |last=Hyden |first=Steven |url=https://uproxx.com/music/the-killers-misunderstood-classic-sams-town-tenth-anniversary/ |title=Saluting The Killers' Misunderstood Sorta-Classic 'Sam's Town' On Its 10th Anniversary |website=[[Uproxx]] |date=September 28, 2016 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220031/https://uproxx.com/music/the-killers-misunderstood-classic-sams-town-tenth-anniversary/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Despite its two-star rating by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''Sam's Town'' was voted by the magazine's readers in December 2009 as the most underrated album of the decade.<ref name="rs-underrated"/> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine ranked it as the 11th best album of the 21st century.<ref name="q21st"/> In a retrospective for [[Uproxx]], Steven Hyden broaches the issue of pannings by notable media outlets such as ''Rolling Stone'', arguing that these pannings have ultimately cemented the album's status as a classic: "Ten years removed from its original moment, ''Sam's Town'' has aged as all misunderstood sorta-classics do, where its deficiencies are now strengths. [...] A record that was risible to some because its attendant hype was so overbearing now has the appeal of a mistreated underdog. Against all odds, the narrative came around on ''Sam's Town''."<ref name="uproxx"/> Writing for [[MTV News]], James Montgomery would theorize that the initial backlash to the album caused the band to change direction with their follow up album, ''[[Day & Age]]'', calling the latter "the most un-''Sam's Town'' album imaginable."<ref>{{cite web |last=Montgomery |first=James |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1694785/the-killers-sams-town-album-anniversary/ |title=The Killers' ''Sam's Town'', Six Years Later: An American Masquerade |publisher=[[MTV News]] |date=October 2, 2012 |access-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904111950/http://www.mtv.com/news/1694785/the-killers-sams-town-album-anniversary/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+In later years, the album gained a cult following and has been critically lauded as a classic and one of the best rock albums of the 2000s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Manning |first=Craig |url=https://chorus.fm/features/articles/the-killers-sams-town-and-the-hold-steadys-boys-and-girls-in-america-10-years-later/ |title=The Killers' 'Sam's Town' and The Hold Steady's 'Boys and Girls in America,' 10 Years Later |website=chorus.fm |date=2016 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220028/https://chorus.fm/features/articles/the-killers-sams-town-and-the-hold-steadys-boys-and-girls-in-america-10-years-later/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="rs-underrated">{{cite magazine|title=Readers' Rock List: Most Underrated Album of the Decade|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/readers-rock-list-most-underrated-album-of-the-decade-20091214|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=June 14, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909211312/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/readers-rock-list-most-underrated-album-of-the-decade-20091214|archive-date=September 9, 2012|url-status=dead|date=December 14, 2012}}</ref><ref name="q21st">{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#21cent |title=Q Artists And Albums Of The 21st Century |website=Rocklist.net |access-date=March 8, 2012 |archive-date=June 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609090109/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#21cent |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="uproxx">{{cite web |last=Hyden |first=Steven |url=https://uproxx.com/music/the-killers-misunderstood-classic-sams-town-tenth-anniversary/ |title=Saluting The Killers' Misunderstood Sorta-Classic 'Sam's Town' On Its 10th Anniversary |website=[[Uproxx]] |date=September 28, 2016 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220031/https://uproxx.com/music/the-killers-misunderstood-classic-sams-town-tenth-anniversary/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Despite its two-star rating by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', ''Sam's Town'' was voted by the magazine's readers in December 2009 as the most underrated album of the decade.<ref name="rs-underrated"/> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine ranked it as the 11th best album of the 21st century.<ref name="q21st"/> In a retrospective for [[Uproxx]], Steven Hyden broaches the issue of pannings by notable media outlets such as ''Rolling Stone'', arguing that these pannings have ultimately cemented the album's status as a classic: "Ten years removed from its original moment, ''Sam's Town'' has aged as all misunderstood sorta-classics do, where its deficiencies are now strengths. [...] A record that was risible to some because its attendant hype was so overbearing now has the appeal of a mistreated underdog. Against all odds, the narrative came around on ''Sam's Town''."<ref name="uproxx"/> Writing for [[MTV News]], James Montgomery would theorize that the initial backlash to the album caused the band to change direction with their follow up album, ''[[Day & Age]]'', calling the latter "the most un-''Sam's Town'' album imaginable."<ref>{{cite web |last=Montgomery |first=James |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1694785/the-killers-sams-town-album-anniversary/ |title=The Killers' ''Sam's Town'', Six Years Later: An American Masquerade |publisher=[[MTV News]] |date=October 2, 2012 |access-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904111950/http://www.mtv.com/news/1694785/the-killers-sams-town-album-anniversary/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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-''Sam's Town'' debuted at number two on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], selling 315,000 copies in its first week.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hasty |first=Katie |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56996/evanescence-zooms-by-killers-to-take-no-1 |title=Evanescence Zooms By Killers To Take No. 1 |work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=October 11, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910075418/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56996/evanescence-zooms-by-killers-to-take-no-1 |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2008|07}}, the album had sold 1.3 million copies in the United States.<ref name="US sales"/> It became the band's second number-one album on the [[UK Albums Chart]], selling 268,946 copies in its first week.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Alan |url=https://www.musicweek.com/news/read/official-charts-analysis-gangnam-style-sales-increase-445/051900 |title=Official Charts Analysis: Gangnam Style sales increase 445% |work=[[Music Week]] |date=September 24, 2012 |access-date=February 12, 2016 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=February 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220093101/https://www.musicweek.com/news/read/official-charts-analysis-gangnam-style-sales-increase-445/051900 |url-status=live }}</ref> It had sold 1.57 million copies in the United Kingdom by July 2017.<ref name="UK sales"/> The album has been certified Platinum or multi-Platinum in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Ireland. ''Sam's Town'' also produced multiple charting singles including the platinum chart-topping single "[[When You Were Young]]". {{As of|2016|08}}, ''Sam's Town'' had sold almost five million copies worldwide.<ref name="WW sales">{{cite web |last=Hodak |first=Brittany |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2016/08/31/the-killers-celebrate-sams-town-anniversary-with-vegas-extravaganza-vinyl-reissue/ |title=The Killers Celebrate 'Sam's Town' Anniversary With Vegas Extravaganza, Vinyl Reissue |work=[[Forbes]] |date=August 31, 2016 |access-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012140311/https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2016/08/31/the-killers-celebrate-sams-town-anniversary-with-vegas-extravaganza-vinyl-reissue/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+''Sam's Town'' debuted at number two on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], selling 315,000 copies in its first week.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hasty |first=Katie |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56996/evanescence-zooms-by-killers-to-take-no-1 |title=Evanescence Zooms By Killers To Take No. 1 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=October 11, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910075418/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56996/evanescence-zooms-by-killers-to-take-no-1 |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2008|07}}, the album had sold 1.3&nbsp;million copies in the United States.<ref name="US sales"/> It became the band's second number-one album on the [[UK Albums Chart]], selling 268,946 copies in its first week.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Alan |url=https://www.musicweek.com/news/read/official-charts-analysis-gangnam-style-sales-increase-445/051900 |title=Official Charts Analysis: Gangnam Style sales increase 445% |work=[[Music Week]] |date=September 24, 2012 |access-date=February 12, 2016 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=February 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220093101/https://www.musicweek.com/news/read/official-charts-analysis-gangnam-style-sales-increase-445/051900 |url-status=live }}</ref> It had sold 1.57&nbsp;million copies in the United Kingdom by July 2017.<ref name="UK sales"/> The album has been certified Platinum or multi-Platinum in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Ireland. ''Sam's Town'' also produced multiple charting singles including the platinum chart-topping single "[[When You Were Young]]". {{As of|2016|08}}, ''Sam's Town'' had sold almost five million copies worldwide.<ref name="WW sales">{{cite web |last=Hodak |first=Brittany |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2016/08/31/the-killers-celebrate-sams-town-anniversary-with-vegas-extravaganza-vinyl-reissue/ |title=The Killers Celebrate 'Sam's Town' Anniversary With Vegas Extravaganza, Vinyl Reissue |work=[[Forbes]] |date=August 31, 2016 |access-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012140311/https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2016/08/31/the-killers-celebrate-sams-town-anniversary-with-vegas-extravaganza-vinyl-reissue/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+==Popular culture==
+Six months after the death of American [[YouTuber]] [[Technoblade]], his father revealed on the r/technoblade [[subreddit]] that, in his son's instructions for the video that would announce his death, he included a link to a joint YouTube video of the songs ''Enterlude'' and ''Exitlude''. Technoblade's father was unsure of how his son wanted the song to be inserted into the video and did not include it due to problems it could cause with [[copyright]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mukherjee |first1=Shreyan |title=Technoblade's father shares last message from late YouTuber, streaming community left in tears |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-technoblade-s-father-shares-last-message-late-youtuber-streaming-community-left-tears |website=Sportskeeda |date=January 26, 2023 |access-date=January 27, 2023}}</ref>
+Popular [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]] streamer [[xQc]] has regularly used ''Exitlude'' as outro music for his streams.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Galloway |first=Ryan |date=November 8, 2020 |title=XQC says he plans to purchase rights to his outro music to avoid DMCA |url=https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/xqc-says-he-plans-to-purchase-rights-to-his-outro-music-to-avoid-dmca |access-date=February 20, 2023 |website=Dot Esports |language=en-US}}</ref>
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 ==Release history==
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v t e The Killers
Brandon Flowers Dave Keuning Ronnie Vannucci Jr. Mark Stoermer Dell Neal Matt Norcross Brian Havens
Studio albums	Hot Fuss Sam's Town Day & Age Battle Born Wonderful Wonderful Imploding the Mirage Pressure Machine
Compilation albums	Sawdust Direct Hits Don't Waste Your Wishes Rebel Diamonds
Live albums	Live from the Royal Albert Hall
Extended plays	(Red) Christmas EP
Singles	"Mr. Brightside" "Somebody Told Me" "All These Things That I've Done" "Smile Like You Mean It" "When You Were Young" "Bones" "Read My Mind" "For Reasons Unknown" "Shadowplay" "Tranquilize" "Human" "Spaceman" "The World We Live In" "A Dustland Fairytale" "Runaways" "Miss Atomic Bomb" "Here with Me" "Shot at the Night" "Just Another Girl" "The Man" "Run for Cover" "Rut" "Caution" "My Own Soul's Warning" "Dustland"
Other songs	"Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll" "Wonderful Wonderful" "Some Kind of Love"
Christmas songs	"A Great Big Sled" "Don't Shoot Me Santa" "Joseph, Better You than Me" "¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe!" "Boots" "The Cowboys' Christmas Ball" "I Feel It in My Bones" "Christmas in L.A." "Joel the Lump of Coal" "Dirt Sledding" "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
Concert tours	Hot Fuss Tour Battle Born World Tour Wonderful Wonderful World Tour Imploding the Mirage Tour
Related articles	Discography Songs Awards and nominations Battle Born Studios "Crystal" The Heavy Entertainment Show Ray Suen Tommy Marth Ted Sablay Ryan Pardey Big Talk Flamingo Big Talk Another Life The Desired Effect Straight In No Kissin' Dark Arts Prismism
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