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▄█▀ ARTIST.....: The Killers ▀█▄
█▓ ALBUM......: Sam's Town ██
█▒ YEAR.......: 2006 ██
█░ LABEL......: Island Records ██
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█░ RLZ-DATE...: 08/14/2009 STREET-DATE...: 10/03/2006 ██
█▒ RIPPER.....: Team-DDZ SUPPLIER......: Team-DDZ ██
█▒ TYPE.......: Album GENRE.........: AlternRock ▓█
█▒ TRACKS.....: 13 SIZE..........: 95,1 MB ▓█
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█▓ SOURCE.....: CDDA ▒█
█▓ QUALITY....: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo ▒█
█▓ GRABBER....: EAC 0.95b3 ░█
██ ENCODER....: LAME 3.98 ░█
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██ 01 | Sam's Town [04:06] ██
██ 02 | Enterlude [00:50] ██
██ 03 | When You Were Young [03:40] ██
██ 04 | Bling (Confession Of A King) [04:09] ██
██ 05 | For Reasons Unknown [03:32] ██
██ 06 | Read My Mind [04:07] ██
██ 07 | Uncle Jonny [04:26] ██
██ 08 | Bones [03:47] ██
██ 09 | My List [04:08] ██
██ 10 | This River Is Wild [04:38] ██
██ 11 | Why Do I Keep Counting? [04:25] ██
██ 12 | Exitlude [02:32] ██
██ 13 | When You Were Young (Jacques Lu Cont's Thin ██
██ | White Duke Radio Edit) [03:58] ██
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██ 48:18 min ██
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██ AMG Review : ██
██ Not even the Killers, the champions of retro new wave, ██
██ think that synth rock is music to be taken seriously, and ██
██ Lord knows that this Vegas quartet wants to be taken ██
██ seriously -- it's a byproduct of being taken far too ██
██ seriously in the first place, a phenomenon that happened ██
██ to the Killers after their not-bad-at-all 2004 debut ██
██ album, Hot Fuss, was dubbed as the beginning of the next ██
██ big thing by legions of critics and bloggers, all ██
██ searching for something to talk about in the aftermath of ██
██ the White Stripes and the Strokes. The general gist of ██
██ the statement was generally true, at least to the extent ██
██ that they were a prominent part of the next wave, the ██
██ wave where new wave revivalism truly caught hold. They ██
██ were lighter than Interpol and far gaudier, plus they ██
██ were fronted by a guy called Brandon Flowers, a name so ██
██ ridiculous he had to be born with it (which he was). And ██
██ although it was hailed to the heavens on various areas of ██
██ the Net, Hot Fuss became a hit the old-fashioned way: ██
██ listeners gravitated toward it, drawn in by "Mr. ██
██ Brightside" and sticking around for the rest. Soon, they ██
██ made the cover of everything from Spin to Q, earning ██
██ accolades from rock stars and seeing their songs covered ██
██ on Rock Star, too. Heady times, especially for a group ██
██ with only one album to its name, and any band that ██
██ receives so much attention is bound to be thought of as ██
██ important, since there has to be a greater reason for all ██
██ that exposure than because Flowers is pretty, right? One ██
██ of the chief proponents of the belief that the Killers ██
██ are important is the band itself, which has succumbed to ██
██ that dreaded temptation for any promising band on its ██
██ sophomore album: they've gone and grown beards. ██
██ Naturally, this means they're serious adults now, so ██
██ patterning themselves after Duran Duran will no longer ██
██ do. No, they make serious music now, and who else makes ██
██ serious music? Why, U2, of course, and Bruce Springsteen, ██
██ whose presence looms large over the Killers' second ██
██ album, Sam's Town. ██
██ The ghosts of Bono and the Boss are everywhere on this ██
██ album. They're there in the artful, grainy Anton Corbijn ██
██ photographs on the sleeve, and they're there in the ██
██ myth-making of the song titles themselves - and in case ██
██ you didn't get it, Flowers made sure nobody missed the ██
██ point prior to the release of Sam's Town, hammering home ██
██ that he's just discovered the glories of Springsteen ██
██ every time he crossed paths with the press. Flowers' ██
██ puppy love for Bruce fuels Sam's Town, as he ██
██ extravagantly, endlessly, and blatantly apes the ██
██ Springsteen of the '70s, mimicking the ragged convoluted ██
██ poet of the street who mythologized mundane middle-class ██
██ life, turning it into opera. The Killers sure try their ██
██ hardest to do that here, marrying it to U2's own operatic ██
██ take on America, inadvertently picking up on how the ██
██ Dublin quartet never sounded more European than when they ██
██ were trying to tell one and all how much they loved ██
██ America. That covers the basic thematic outlook of the ██
██ record, but there's another key piece of the puzzle of ██
██ Sam's Town: it's named after a casino in the Killers' ██
██ home town of Las Vegas, and it's not one of the gleeful, ██
██ gaudy corporate monstrosities glutting the Strip, but ██
██ rather one located miles away in whatever passes for ██
██ regular, everyday Vegas -- in other words, it's the city ██
██ that lies beneath the sparkling facade, the real city. Of ██
██ course, there's no real city in Vegas -- it's all ██
██ surface, it's a place that thinks that a miniature Eiffel ██
██ Tower and a fake CBGB's are every bit as good as being ██
██ there -- and that's the case with the Killers too: when ██
██ it comes down to it, there's no "there" there -- it's all ██
██ a grand act. Every time they try to dig deeper on Sam's ██
██ Town -- when they bookend the album with "Enterlude" and ██
██ "Exitlude", when Flowers mixes his young-hearts-on-the- ██
██ run metaphors, when they graft Queen choirs and Bowie ██
██ baritones onto bridges of songs -- they just prove how ██
██ monumentally silly and shallow they are. Which isn't ██
██ necessarily the same thing as bad, however. True, this ██
██ album has little of the pop hooks of "Mr. Brightside", ██
██ but in its own misguided way, it's utterly unique. Yes, ██
██ it's cobbled together from elements shamelessly stolen ██
██ from Springsteen, U2, Echo & The Bunnymen, Bowie, Queen, ██
██ Duran Duran, and New Order, but nobody on earth would ██
██ have thought of throwing these heroes of 1985 together, ██
██ because they would have instinctively known that it ██
██ wouldn't work. But not the Killers! They didn't let ██
██ anything stop their monumental misconception; they were ██
██ able to indulge to their hearts' content -- even hiring ██
██ U2/Depeche Mode producers Alan Moulder and Flood to help ██
██ construct their monstrosity, which gives their half-baked ██
██ ideas a grandeur to which they aspire but don't deserve. ██
██ But even if the music doesn't really work, it's hard not ██
██ to listen to it in slack-jawed wonderment, since there's ██
██ never been a record quite like it -- it's nothing but ██
██ wrong-headed dreams, it's all pomp but no glamour, it's ██
██ cliches sung as if they were myths. Every time it tries ██
██ to get real, it only winds up sounding fake, which means ██
██ it's the quintessential Vegas rock album from the ██
██ quintessential Vegas rock band. ██
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