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Sam’s Town is so riddled with hackneyed clichés, pandering melodrama, and lazy songwriting, that we keep wondering just what gimmick Flowers will thrust upon us next in a desperate effort to hold our attention.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 269 out of 334
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Mixed: 35 out of 334
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Negative: 30 out of 334
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Sep 30, 2010
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PCNov 19, 2006
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Sep 21, 2021