1.Tranquilize

2.Shadowplay

3.All the pretty faces

4.Leave the Bourbon on the shelf

5.Sweet Talk

6.Under the gun

7.Where the white boys dance

8.Show you how

9.Move Away

10.Glamorous Indie rock and roll*

11.Who Let you go

12.The Ballad of Michael Valentine

13.Ruby,Don't take your love to town

14.Daddy's Eyes

15.Sam's Town (Abbey Road Version)

16.Romeo and Juliet

17.Mr Brightside (Jacques Lu Cont's thin white duke remix

*UK version will include Change your mind

NME October 4,2006

An excited Brandon Flowers talks NME through The Killers' new LP 'Sam's Town

Kasabian have done it. Razorlight have done it. Now it's The Killers turn to have a crack at the 'difficult second album' with the release of Sam's Town this week. So were the Las Vegas outfit nervous about being the last of the class of 2004 to put out a follow up LP? Not for a second. "We had a real confidence because of the success of Hot Fuss, so we thought we'd take advantage of it. We didn't want to make a shy album," declares Brandon Flowers of the LP they recorded in Las Vegas and London this year. "We wanted to keep going and keep building on this". Here, the singer explains to NME just how he managed it:

SAM'S TOWN
We wanted to come back unashamedly and this was the perfect way of sounding confident and strong. Everybody puts their tails between their legs when they make their second album, but we wanted to come out all guns blazing and that's what Sam's Town sounds like. It's named after a casino I used to live across the street from. The way The Beatles had landmarks like Abbey Road and Penny Lane; I wanted to do that for Las Vegas. We're proud of where we're from and it marks a period of our lives.

ENTERLUDE
I think we invented that, the Enterlude and the Exitlude! (laughs) We were recording in a hotel casino and I was messing around on a piano. Next to me was a room key-card that said 'we hope you enjoy your stay' on it, and it all just took off from there. The melody came from a dream. I have musical dreams, but I rarely remember them. This is the only time I've been able to remember one. It sounds ridiculous but it was Kurt Cobain on a ship, in the clouds! He was singing this melody and I remember thinking he sounded like Bob Dylan, so that made it even weirder!

WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG
We knew right away this would be a single. We had the record label breathing down our necks. They were worried that we wouldn't write another Somebody Told Me - and we didn't want to, so they were really worried. One day we were just messing around and this chord progression came about and I had the Jesus line, so it felt alright. I remember driving home after we made a rough recording and I slept a little easier ever since that night. The song's about the idea that saviours can come in different forms, that's a lot of it.

BLING
This was kicking around for a long time and then at the last minute we added some acoustic guitars and it really made it feel like the desert, which all ties right into the album. It's like Talking Heads and Johnny Cash. I guess it's like a medal for my father. It's glorifying the person who does a great job raising his kids, just going to work everyday. A lot of people in bands write about the working stiffs. I wanted to make something that was the opposite, because that's what my family is and I'm proud of it. My dad is 64 years old, he raised 6 kids and now he's got 20 grandkids and I guess that's what the ending of the song is about. When you see him playing with his grandkids he's a happy man.

REASONS UNKNOWN
It's a very old song. We wrote it on tour and recorded it on Louis XIV's bus. We had a finished version that night and the one on the album is very similar. We wrote a lot during soundchecks on the road, hashing out songs. I feel this is a good bridge to Hot Fuss.

READ MY MIND
It's the best song we've ever written! It has a hymn like spirituality and there's a story - it's what you strive for in a song. It used to be called Little Angela and it was totally different. It had a rock beat and my lyrics told a small love story. Flood and Alan came in and made a stab at my lyrics and had Ronnie play a disco beat. I started singing this different story and within a few hours it was a different song.

UNCLE JONNY
Uncle Jonny is my mother's brother. He's the black sheep of the family. Every couple of years something would happen. He's done everything from shoot himself to drug add

Sam's Town-9/10
Enterlude-6.5/10
When You Were Young-9/10
Bling(Confessions Of A King)-8/10
For Reasons Unknown-6/10
Read My Mind-7.5/10
Uncle Jonny-7/10
Bones-8.5/10
My List-7/10
The River Is Wild-7.5/10
Why Do I Keep Counting-7.5/10
Exitlude-7/10

Bonus Tracks:
Where The White Boys Dance-6/10
All The Pretty Faces-7.5/10