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- Summary: Flood and Alan Moulder handled production for the popular Las Vegas band's second album.
- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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When You Were Young | |
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You sit there in your heartache Waiting on some beautiful boy To save you from your old ways You play forgiveness Watch it now- here he comes He... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 32
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Mixed: 14 out of 32
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Negative: 2 out of 32
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Crucially, Sam's Town sounds like a complete collection, with a far better strike rate than its predecessor.
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"Sam's Town" is a sophisticated sonic metropolis.
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Sam's Town works well as a cohesive album, despite its delusions of grandeur.
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The Killers album is, whisper it, pretty good in places.
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UncutThe problem... is that size seems to be used as an excuse for the lack of musical ideas. [Nov 2006, p.102]
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Ultimately, they don't come across as unbearably pretentious so much as just really, really misguided.
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Of course it is good to be ambitious. Of course the Killers needed to update their sound, given that the 80’s revival is fading away. But their new bombast is a classic case of a young band overreaching to assert its Significance.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 138 out of 181
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Mixed: 24 out of 181
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Negative: 19 out of 181
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DanielMOct 4, 2006A rock Opera masterpiece. 80's, Springsteen inspiration and The Killers at their best.
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JimDApr 14, 2007
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Sep 30, 2010
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DarenWixsonOct 3, 2006
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GarethROct 31, 2006
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JohnNOct 10, 2006
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jimhOct 5, 2006no me gusta
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