{"id":58,"date":"2006-10-23T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimmypribble.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/quick-take-sams-town\/"},"modified":"2022-05-21T22:51:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T03:51:45","slug":"quick-take-sams-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimmypribble.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/quick-take-sams-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Take: Sam’s Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It was down to 44 degrees this morning, but I was not to be deterred. I kept the top down. Clear and cold, the air whipped around me tugging at the new scarf around my neck. The scarf fluttered above the car looking like a gold striped ribbon on a gift wrapped in black paper. The Killers played to me, guitars building along with the revs…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"We're burning down the highway skyline
 on the back of a hurricane that started turning
 when you were young
 when you were young\"<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The roaring wind, the cold air stinging my face and numbing my fingers, driving fast on the best road in Austin, and listening to new music formed a perfect storm of joy for me this morning. I couldn’t stop smiling. I don’t know if it was therapy or a drug, but it was a welcome break from the melancholia that I have been feeling, as I do every year when Summer changes to Autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Killers’ first CD Hot Fuss<\/em> never left heavy rotation around me. Literally, it never left the CD changer in my car. As a complete work, it satisfied and thrilled like no other album I had heard in years. Every song was a hidden treasure of sonic tracings and echoes from the 80’s in a way that was like authentic genetic influence rather than a band playing dress-up. Rising above the rest was a song that has become one of my favorites – Brandon Flowers’ discussion with God on “All These Things I’ve Done”<\/em> – a song I have quoted on this blog before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On their new CD Sam’s Town<\/em>, The Killers continue to dazzle, if perhaps to a slightly lesser degree. The DNA strands from my youth are still there. I hear the Styx opening to Paradise Theater on Enterlude<\/em>. I hear Springsteen’s Born to Run<\/em> (or Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s superior(!) remake) in When You Were Young<\/em> and a Book of Love synth thread in perhaps the best song of the album Read My Mind<\/em>. OCD keeps me from absorbing the whole album at once, so I am rotating through my first favorites, the aforementioned three plus Sam’s Town<\/em> and Reasons Unknown<\/em>. In my opinion, these alone substantiate this sophomore effort as near-brilliant in its own right. If I warm to the second half of the CD, I will consider it great indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Slipping in my faith\nuntil I fall\nyou never returned that call\nwoman, open the door\ndon't let it sting\nI wanna breathe that fire again<\/em>\n\nShe said\nI don't mind\nif you don't mind\n'cause I don't shine\nif you don't shine\"<\/em>\n\n- The Killers \"Read My Mind\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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