January 11, 2025 • 43 mins
On this first episode of 2025 Adam and I discuss the 2nd studio album named for a casino in Las Vegas. That band is The Killers and the album is Sam’s Town.
Song of The Week!
You Don't Know How It Feels - Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Pumpkin - Been Stellar - Scream From New York, NY
Stump The Barron!
Life After You - Daughtry- Leave This Town
The Killers - Sam's Town
Genre: Alternative Rock
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Studio(s): Studio at the Palms (Las Vegas), Criterion (London)
Producer(s): Flood, Alan Moulder, The Killers
Label: IslandLength: 44:14
Number of Tracks: 12
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Song of The Week!
You Don't Know How It Feels - Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Pumpkin - Been Stellar - Scream From New York, NY
Stump The Barron!
Life After You - Daughtry- Leave This Town
The Killers - Sam's Town
Genre: Alternative Rock
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Studio(s): Studio at the Palms (Las Vegas), Criterion (London)
Producer(s): Flood, Alan Moulder, The Killers
Label: IslandLength: 44:14
Number of Tracks: 12
Discovery
Bull Believer - Wednesday - Rat Saw God
For more information on the band The Killers you can check out their website at http://www.thekillersmusic.com. IF you enjoyed this podcast be sure to check us out at our website at www.adventuresinvinyl.com where you can find links to our episodes and through our support section you can find a place to order you very own adventures in vinyl T Shirt.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On this first episode of twenty twenty five, Adam and
I discussed the second studio album named for a casino
in Las Vegas. That band is The Killers, and that
album is Sam's Town. You know, when you hit the
(00:38):
pad button and you hit the wrong button because you
got new glasses and you're getting old and you get progressives,
and when your eyes are shifting and you look at
something and it's blurry and it's supposed to be clear,
you tend to press the wrong button. I didn't know that, Yeah, so,
but now I know for those of you getting progressives,
it's a struggle.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Reminds me to make my eye off two pins. I'm
getting old, aren't we all? Buddy?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's another new year, Adam, Happy new year.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Happy twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, we are in the two thousand and twenty fifth
year of the common Era year and no domine domini,
dominie if you're into those designations, it's the twenty fifth
year that they're millennium is Indeed, did you set up
resolutions or goals.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
For yourself now twenty five? I did not.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I did for work, which kind of like sours
me on doing myself being honest with you. Yeah, Now
I have I have some some weightlifting goals that I
want to meet, and I has some jiu jitsu goal.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That I want to Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But other than that, well, I kind of put program
I don't really like work goals.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You always have work goals, everyone does.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Everybody has work goals, right, But I kind of did
goals associated with like working out my nutrition and health
because like I started some new programming. I've been sore
for like six weeks. But here's the thing I think
I've gain. I'm gonna get on the embody later this week.
And uh, I know I've gained muscle because I've done
some dimensions. So it's like I'm trying to buck up
(02:02):
a little bit to burn more fat, try to get
that last last bit of that journey done.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm trying to get that completed.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's hard to do it in wintertime when your body
wants to go into hibernation mode, need all the things.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh and it's so freaking cold outside. Yeah, that's you know.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And then I think there's some things we've been talking
about about, you know, Vich's and Vinyl trying to get
that going. So I'm hoping this will be a good
twenty twenty five. Yeah, man, my wife just alerted me.
She goes, hey, snow's gonna start happening at twelve thirty.
She's really concerned about me getting from the twenty minutes
from work to our house.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean in Arkansas. It's Arkansas, come on, man, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I mean, like, well, it's supposed to be snow apocalypse
and then we'll get.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Like two inches.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That's how it works here. But I don't know, we'll see.
Is the weather man have been right before, but they've
been wrong a lot more than they've been right. So yeah,
all right, man. So Songs of the Week of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So I actually have a really good one this week.
I you know, it was New Year's Eve. I was
prepping for some stuff and I had some albums on.
We had some people over just from the gym were
associated with and we were doing an early New Year's
which is we call it off at nine pm forties
and fifties. When you're a gen excerpt, that's it. Yep,
you know it's uh. So this is uh you'll know
(03:12):
this one. So it's the lead single from Tom Petti's
nineteen ninety four album Wildflowers.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You Don't Know How It Feels.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The single reached number one on the US Billboard Album
Rock Tracks chart in nineteen ninety four. In nineteen ninety
four on MTVVH one, many radio stations actually aired a
censored version of this track, taking the word roll out
of the lyric let's roll another joint.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And if you listen to the radio and like a
joint wouldn't actually be clear.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It would be like another man.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, So like instead of the use of the verb
roll right and the noun joint, like, they just kind of,
let's you know, they did a bunch of stupid things.
They kind of screwed up the lyric. And I was like,
if I was going to do it, I would be like,
you know, let's cook another steak instead of let's roll
another or I would be like, hey, let's uh, you know,
let's play another game.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And now nobody cares. Now nobody you can say, roll
another joint.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
All everybody was like, let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It's crazy. How like in the late nineties that was
such a big deal.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I know, like, I roll another joint so terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh my gosh, he can't believe.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It's just ridiculous. We can't put that on the air.
That's gonna that's going to enable people. I'm a big
Tom Petty fan, man, like I love Tom. I mean
as evidenced by you know, we've we've covered into the
great wide Open. I mean, man, Tom Petty, it's like
the father of driving Americana Rocket.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, Wildflowers has been on the list.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know, we may need to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, we might need to do that one.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But I'm with you there, all right? What about you? Man?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So I was just kind of going through the Apple
like recommendations the other day, and I've been listening to
some just kind of low key indie rock a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It was actually long Wave.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I was listening too, m and then this we featured
long Wave. We featured long Wave. Yep, we sure did.
We did it Secrets our album. Yeah, we did Centers
in season one, Season.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
One, yep.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And this was one of the recommendations. I just randomly
clicked on it. I don't get a try U. And
this is so this is the lead single on the
album Pumpkin. This is a band called ben Stellar. The
album is called Scream from New York, New York and
it's just like kind of shoegaze indie rock.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I mean, if this is the first time I've heard it,
I didn't even listen to when the.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Guitar comes in, it's just nice, like washed out, it's chill, dude.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
The whole album's kind of like this vibe. I've been
looking for something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's the kind of thing you can put on in
the background and work and it's not going to get
in the way.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Of your train of thought.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, yeah, you know, we when we have those people over,
I was just playing albums in the background. I had
football on mute, and you know, one of the other
people that are always like, man, this is really good.
And he was a music guy, and so we just
started going through the albums and he was a shoegaze
fan and I was like, he goes, my son, really
he's into some of these bands. I was like, Oh,
here's hum you need to listen to this album if
(06:06):
you like shoegaze. And here's like these key tracks, and
I was like, kid isla, here's another album that's incredible
that you got to listen to.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And then that one band, uh, I forget the name.
It is like ice My Bloody Valentine. No, no, no,
it is the one that I brought up where they
did a cover.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I featured in a couple of episodes ago last year,
but I bought that final It was the ep I said,
check these guys out on Spotify and iteteenes. It's almost
like we just need to do a discovery show, like
we just do a Shoegaz show where we talk about
me Shoegaze Shoe and just like forget the album stuff
(06:46):
and just kind of do some specialized episodes and talk
about music. But this kind of reminds me of that.
And the conversation we're having is I see a lot
more of these bands coming in, like gays, how's this
following in punk? How's this following that we're seeing going
to live shows and things like that. Yeah, Like we
(07:08):
went to I went to two shows over the holiday
I did. We went We went to the Toties, which
you know, same thing see the Toadies once SA same
thing every time you see them.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Ye, same thing. Have a lot of changes to the
set lists. Always good.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, they did actually do a couple of things, but
they did this time. Yeah, Yeah, their set list hadn't
changed due thirty the twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
They're gonna close with iber. I've been seeing Toty bost
Kingdom is going to be in the office setlist.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, they're like, hey, we got a new album. Here's
the track of that new album. And then they started
playing the other stuff. But you could tell, like now,
in the past, when I saw the Toadies, they would
talk about like, hey, like you could tell they didn't
want to play some of their Rubber Deck stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Sure, but now they're like, yeah, we kind of have
to play it. You've gotta player. It's the album that
you hang your.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Hat on as a band.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well yeah, and you know, just to everyone out there
listening next week's episode, it's Rubber Deck. We're finally We're
finally going after But the opening band I sent you, uh,
it was a cowpunk band, the Vandaliers, And dude, I
(08:18):
was like, and Darren and his lady friend came with us, right,
and she we went to Marcus King the weekend before,
but she never experienced cowpunk and she was like, what
is this And I was like, I think this is
calpunk cow punk and it was like but it was
like very aggressive and that was like my first experience
(08:41):
in a cowpunk show. And I can say I'm not
a fan of colpunk officially, not a fan of colpunk,
but I understand what they're doing and it's really cool
to see young people.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Respond to that music. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
This is just man, this one just came across and
gave it a listen.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Started listening to the whole album. It's good stuff. Man.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Sorry to sidetrack, but I really Oh, you're good many
for a cow punk side quest.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I really really like the songs.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I kind of want to keep listening to you.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I put it on at the end, man, I know,
I know we're going to try it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
At the end, I was like, I really like this.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I picked that one in particular because it fits the
sound Sam's sound kind of vibe.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
It was really good, Yeah, really good. All right, So
I know what's next? Yeah, you know what's next?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Time.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I know it's another episode of Adventures in Vinyl and
that means another round of stump the baron. I'll stump
the baron. I pick a random song from a random genre.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I give Adam a few clues, and, with all his
semi above average musical knowledge, attempts to guess the artist
average songs.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I see how this devolves next time.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
We used to keep score, but obviously we have no idea.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
It's just a fun thing we do. We hope you
enjoy it too, and you're listening along, you'd be like, hot, damn,
I know that song, and Adam probably does.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Madam probably does, so Adam. This week, I'm taking you
back to the year twenty ten. Let me tell you,
is hard to find anything at twenty ten that is good.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I'm with you there.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So dude, well, I was like, I got to come
up with something new. I keep staying in the same decades.
I was like, all right, twenty ten, but you don't
want to know how long it took me to find,
like about an hour to find something that I thought
you could recognize.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So I found you something that hopefully you can recognize
other than all the.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Pop music that was out there. Okay, So I think
you'll get it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So this American Idol finalist released the single off the
band's second album.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And that just foll down this.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
American Idol finalist.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yes, oh jeez, I think we watched some American Idol
back in the day. But the only reason we watched
American Idol was because Chris Allen was on it, and
he's from Constant.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well yeah, we and I kind of knew Chris Allen through,
ye know, through stuff like a lot of people around here.
Yeah yeah, but this view number sixty six on the
Billboard Hot one hundred. It was this Adam Lambert. No,
but it was also written by our favorite Nickelback vocalist
Chad Croger.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh lord, and there's no chance I know this. I
straight up no, I honestly, I don't even reckon all right.
So this is Life After You by Daughtry. So Chris Daughtry. Yeah,
it's off this album Leave This Town. So I admittedly
was not a Daughtry fan.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I appreciate Daughtry from a vocal perspective. And when you watched,
and I hate to admit I don't watch, I watched, Well,
he you know he's not a vocalist. Well, I mean
he's a vocalist, right, but he's not a lyricist. A
lot of this stuff is. But it's a good song.
But you could tell Chad Kroger wrote it with him, right.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
But you know, when you're looking at things like twenty
ten was a.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Really crappy music here for rock, dude.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
There's there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
There's not a lot of good things happen like this
is what I found. A huge gap. But in about
two thousand and seven and twenty fourteen, twenty thirteen, if
you look at my music collection, you'll find almost nothing
in that that space.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
There's just not a lot. There's just there's not.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Anything, but disproportionate how little there is from that time.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, So that was like when I picked something different,
this is all I could find in terms of and
I went to like most popular tracks in twenty ten,
and this was the only freaking recognizable rock song other
than Maroon.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Five, which I would know nothing and Alex.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Leavine like all these other Yeah, I'd be totally all
this other garbage.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It was just garbage.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It was that or you will be loved, Do you try?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You just gotta throw me some more softballs, Todd, Actually,
don't throw me softballs.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I like being chatting, but hey, this was a challenge.
But it just to show everybody that, hey, don't worry
about twenty ten. It was a crappy year for.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Me, say, I don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, I don't like this straight out. Are you ready
to get into this? Well, let's move on.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't like it either, all right? Kicking off the
album is the album's namesake, Sam'stown, which clocks in. The
track clocks in at four minutes and five seconds. The
album Samstown, was released on September twenty seventh, two thousand
and six. It's the killers second studio album. The album
consists of twelve tracks, clocks in for a total of
(13:21):
forty four minutes and forty four seconds. Debuted at number
two Adam on the US Billboard two hundred, It's sold
three hundred and fifteen thousand copies in its first roe.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah so this thing.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It went platinum I think in the US, went six
times platinum in the UK. They sold five million copies worldwide,
and critics hated this album.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I know.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I don't get it. Neither do I. Critics are stupid, man,
critics are. Here's the thing, people, if you hear critics
like taking a crap all over an album, make your
own mind up. Go out listen to it. You got
streaming services now, it's not like you have to commit
to buying it. Go listen to it and make up
your own freaking mind if the critic says that it
sucks and you like it, we'll forget the critics. Honestly, yes,
(14:04):
we're kind of critics in a way, right, But at
the same time, like I don't like to take a
dump all over anybody. I might not like something, but
that's my opinion. I'm not going to try to make
my opinion become your opinion. I'm just stating my opinion.
I want you to go out and make up your
own damn mind.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, I think there are some duds.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
There's some duds on the album.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I would say, though, that they are not real dudy duds,
if that makes any sense at all.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
No, they're not duddy duds.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
They're not duddy duds. They're more they're less good than.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Other They're not as good as and I will.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Argue with this album, their duddy duds are really not
even duds.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
In my opinion.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, we will see as we continue to progress if
they're there are, and that will be.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
That's produced by Flood and Allen Mulder like this one,
You're not gonna have a lot of duddy duds on there.
Those guys are geniuses at what they do. I mean, so,
first of all. Sam's really good song. Love the bassline,
interesting bridge, I like the circus like outro. But I
want to talk about the producers here. Flood and Alan Mulder.
These guys are legends. I mean, if you want ever
(15:12):
to get like that washed out Reverbi sound like you
two did, Smash and Pumpkins, New Order, Nine Inch Nails,
Depeche Mode and many more. These are the guys you
go to. They're well known for working together. They've been
doing that for a long time. If the Flood's on it,
alan Mulder's on it. If Alan Moulder's on it, then
Flood's probably on it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yep. But man, I love.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
That they went to those guys for this album because
you get a very signature tone when you hire Flood
and Alan Mulder to produce your album. So, I mean,
this is a great album and I love this song.
I think it's a great way to open up the album.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I'm like when you talk about, hey, this is this
was a tribute to their town.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, they're Las Vegas natives.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
They've already covered the Killers, we did Hot Fuss, we
talked about all that, but this is a it's a
really solid tribute.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
This is this is their Hey, this is who we are.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And we're from Vegas.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And I mean I think it was Mark Starmer grew
up in the shadow of the Samstown sign. Yeah, I
mean it's visible from his window. Yeah, So I mean
this is very personal to them. I think I remember
reading an interview with Brandon Flowers where he said something
along the lines of this album is essentially like a chronology.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Of how we got to where we are now. Yep.
And so I got a lot of respect for that.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
They're putting their personal experience into this album and it's
a good album.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeahs. Again, that's a really good album.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
So what's interesting though to me about is they start
off with this rather than the interluding.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I know, and what's next is the interlude, which is
really forty nine seconds and it's literally just like hey.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It's like you're walking into the casino.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, It's like, hey, you know, you're the entrance, and
this is what I think of it, Like E've been
to Vegas, right, Yeah, outside the casino is all this
energy and then you kind of walk through and there's
this transition and.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
There's just like poker chips in despair. Yeah, and the
smoke well it used to be. Now there's no smoke,
but there's lots of oxygen in the air.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
It's been a while since I've been to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It is like twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen, so there were
still a lot of smoking, a lot of point.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, but yeah, yeah, and this just is what it is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, just a little little inter You're creating a theme,
and so I have a lot more patience for it
than if it was just a random innerlude out of nowhere.
So what's great is it kicks into the lead single
off the album When You Were Young. It's the third
track off the album. Sam's Town clocks in at three
minutes and thirty seconds. Okay, so go ahead, Yeah, this
is interrupting you.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
This song is one of Killer's most successful songs, peaked
at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred and
was their first number one on the US Modern Frocks.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Chunk Okay sor Are You Ready Because I Got to
Take a Deep Breath? Number two on the UK Singles,
Number fourteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred, number sixteen
on the Adult Alternative Song number fifteen on Adult Pop Airplay,
Number one Alternative airplay number five, Dance club Songs number
twenty two, Dance single sales number four, Dance mix airplay
number thirty, Mainstream Rock No Deep Breath number thirty one,
(18:13):
Pop airplay number eighteen, Pop one hundred five times platinum
is a single in the US.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Seven million copies sold worldwide.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And when it comes on in a bar, you sing
it just as much as bost.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Bright sound every bit as much. Man, this is one
of my all time favorite Killers tracks.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I do too. I mean, I mega hit.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I get like little chills when I listen to it
every time.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It's a dynamic song.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
There's so many like different little bits to this song,
and it's a constant build throughout. I mean it starts strong,
but it keeps building throughout. It's just it's a classic, man.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
What's not I like how he enunciates the lyrics and
it goes along with the beat.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yes, Brandon Flowers does that all. I'm like, It's just
a song catch like yeah, catch you exactly. It is
super catchy, just a great not a done. You don't
like this song and there is something genuinely wrong with
you as a human being? Yeah, I did agree, So
there I agree, But if you don't like the song,
you are just strong opinion hot take on this one.
(19:10):
You don't like me, I don't care. Let's go all right,
I know you, all right, don't mess with this song?
Are you having enemy in Adam Barnon?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So clocking in it four minutes and eight seconds or
track of the album Bling Confessions of a King Confessions.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Of a King.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yes, yeah, And I love how they they segue their
songs so well on this album. Yeah, you go from
one song into the next very nicely. This is another
example of that. I think of this track, at least musically, yeah,
as Despair in the Desert. It just has that vibe
to me of like, yeah, I kind of feel like
(19:52):
it's it's about Vegas.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well, and here's the thing, if you've ever been out
in the desert.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And in previous careers, I'd have to go out to
the previous roles right with other companies.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I had to be out in the clandestine things.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You know, when you're out in the desert and you're
driving a car out in the desert.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
This is kind of like.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You're just out in the middle.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And it reminds me a little bit of a milder
version of like a Queens of the Stone Age songs
for the era song.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, that's kind of what which is that same theme? Yeah,
you're just.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Driving in the freaking desert yep. And there's times like
you're like, hey, you want to go to Vegas. Yeah,
we're literally two hours in the desert from Vegas. You
want to go, Yeah, let's go to Let's go to Vegas.
And you're like, go to Vegas. I don't know why
we're going, but we're going. We're going because they're two
hours away and there's something else.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It won't be it won't be awful, it won't be fun,
it'll be an experience.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Well, and when you go midweek, buffets are cheaper, you
get a good dinner, play a little bit of in
the world to.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Eat in that town.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, everywhere in the world. It's a good song. It's
a solid track. It's one I don't skip. It's not
my favorite on the album.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
No, it's not a duddy dud, but it's not like
super catchy, but it's a good it's it's a good,
solid album track.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, the next one all right, Yeah, let you do
your thing well. Track five for Reasons Unknown, released as
a second single off the album Sounds Town, clocks in
at three minutes of thirty two seconds. I think it's
the least popular single that The Killers has, which which
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It's it's again. It's good. It's good song, really good man.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I mean, in all honesty, they also really released what
was it Bones as a single. Brandon Flowers later on said,
I actually wish we hadn't released Bones as a single,
but this is really great song. I think it was
like number fifty three on the UK Singles Track It
wasn't as popular of a.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Single, but it's a great song. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I love how it starts really low key, adds layers
bit by bit, builds throughout. I mean, to me, it's
a mystery as to why this song didn't do better
as a single when it was released. It's a great song.
I really like it and I've never skipped the song.
It's fantastic song.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, you know that's interesting that your remark is interesting, right,
because as I'm listening to the track and I was
kind of thinking around the same thing. I really like it,
but I'm trying to figure out why the wider audience
didn't gravitate to.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I mean it's got a driving beat to it. Yeah,
it's dynamic in nature. Again it starts like oh key
works its way.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, and the Killer and here's what to do? So
was it lack of A and R pushing marketing? You know,
maybe they thought the marketing the album was going to
take care of itself because it was The Killers and
hot Fuzz was so you know, popular.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So you said it was the second single on the album.
I should I have it as the fourth one on
it that they released. Maybe with single that could have
to do with it. Oh, maybe it could be that
by this time everybody's got the freaking album and.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Why do I need to go out and buy the single?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Bones was the second single? Bones was the second single.
I think this one was the fourth fourth single.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well, that may be for singles typically don't do that
well because by now everybody's heard the first, second or
third single.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
They've everybody everybodys heard it by now.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I bet this was the second single in the UK,
the UK, So that's.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That's pretty common, and the Killers are huge in the UK. Tea.
I think that's where my notes screed out.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Sorry folks.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Fourth single, off the album. Anyways, I think if.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's already seen it because they've already bought the album,
so it's not I think you take Bones out as
a single altogether, you replace it with the reasons unknown
this this song does better as a single in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I mean, granted, this is all like armshare quarterbacking, but
I actually think that it probably would have done a
lot better if it had been released in place of
Bones as a single. Yeah, I'll take it which bones, Hey,
We'll get there good time. But I like this one man,
it's a great song.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I do too. I think it's it's not a dud
dune and it's followed again by another banger.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, you've got to read my mind, which is we Agree?
Third single, third single, we Match Folks, third single off
the album. It peaked at number sixty two on the
Billboard Hot one hundred, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And Another Deep Breath Here number fifteen, UK Singles number one,
Adult Alternative number twenty nine, Adult Pop airplay number eight,
Alternative air play number one, Dance club Songs number one,
Dance makes Show Airplay number sixty two, Pop one hundred
platinum in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. And then
another one of my favorite all time Killer tracks.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I do.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I like this too, I mean hugely to talk about
that somber good background track.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
This is it, This is it right there?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Man, another track again where they build throughout dynamic in nature.
I love how the Killers progressively layer their songs. It's
a truly great song.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
This and.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
When You Were Young are just like high marks of
the album, which is saying a lot, because this is
a really outstanding album.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, I love this song. It's just so good. Yeah,
it's good. I just sit here and listen to it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I mean sometimes I just sit here. I'm like, oh, good,
Adam's talking.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I can listen. That's so bad. Man, it's such a
great I know, I know it's good. It's good. All right.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Now on to Uncle Johnny, which is the seventh track
on the album, The Clocks in a four minutes and
twenty five seconds.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I like this one.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I think it should have been a single. Okay, so
you're you're stronger on it than I am. I'm not
a big fan of the opening guitar riff.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Oh that's what I liked.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, man, it's just a little bit more dissonant than
I like. But I mean, when he gets the chorus,
it's really good. It has a place on the album
in my opinion. It's just maybe it's not one of
the ones that i'd identify as a stand out personally,
but again this is all opinion.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, well, what I like like the mix. Here's what
I like about it. You've got the way the mix is.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You got the guitar in your right yep.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Everything else is in the left, yes, right, and so
it's like you hear this driving sound in your left
here with the with the vocals going on and everything,
and then the right ear bam, you just have that
pulsing a guitar, all guitar right, and it just it's like, hey,
there's two.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Things going on, right, but they're all in use. But
it's distinct that there's two things going on. That's why
I like the song Gotcha.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I understand that.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And I was like, and I never when I listened
to it with headphones, and I think this is where normally,
like I'll just throw the album on just the record
player and I'll listen to it a few times, but
this one, I was like, I listen to it a
lot of different intervals with noise canceling headphones. And when
I was like, hey, that's unique, I had to go
back and re listen to it a couple of times
just to be like, hey, this is a really good mix.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It is something different here and that that's why I like.
That's why I like it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
And if you notice there's two guitars. Now, yep, you
still have the lead riff playing by itself in the
right ear, but the volumes less. They brought the game down,
and they brought the game up. But the mix is
in the left here for the second guitar track. Yes,
that's what I'll yep. It's creative mixing obviously. Yeah, I
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love I love the bassline on this song. Yeah, especially
during the verses. Again when I when I say it's
not my favorite, I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just
saying like there's other songs that I feel stronger of that.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
No, I I just this was unique.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, I would say, well, you know, and for me
sometimes like hey, I think this could have been a single.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It also just could have been really good deep track
off the album. Yes, yeah, for sure, but it's good.
So onto the second single.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, so we're talking about uh, at three minutes of
forty six seconds, we're talking about bones.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I love that introy you the weird hey that's with
me choral thing and then dropping with the keys.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I mean that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I mean I love this right here. Yeah, so not
what you expect when you hear that introduction. You've got
these keys and it's very like kind of dramatic and
orchestral in a way. And then all of a sudden
we're down into like a punkish well and then they
use horn. They have a horn section, yes, as part
of the song. And I'm like like right there, yes.
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And so if you're gonna think of one place when
you think of this song, what are you thinking of?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Las Vegas? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Man, I mean honestly, when I hear this song, this
is such a Vegas song. You get the horn section
in the keys, It's I could picture somebody on stage
in Vegas doing this song.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Is like a oh, like I'm some kind of thing. Well,
but here's the thing. I think now a lot of
bands could cover this song, Like Joe in the Fields.
It's a little rock band. They have a horn section. Nice,
And I've seen all these other fans start to have
like You've got a keyboard, dude, and then all of
a sudden he pulls out a trumpet, you know, to
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play a part of them. You just yeah, that's what Like,
what was interesting the vandaliers that opened up for the todies,
their keyboard guy did like, you know, he did everything
everything that he just true multi instrument, multi instrument. I
mean he has a lot of the keyboard stuff on them,
and all of a sudden he's pulling out a trumpet,
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you know, playing in it. And then you're I'm seeing
people bring out a you know, their band gieks that
are bringing out a trombone and hitting this part and
it works. And I think that's just really cool because
when I was in band, jazz band and everything, I
never would have thought that you could do a saxophone
or any kind of horn set.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I just assumed you weren't welcoming the rock band.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Correct, stick to your jazz, go be a band, geek
st tear jazz time. You you're a wind instrument playing
all right, So next one, yeah, bones, that's good. So
my list is the next one, right, yep. So my
list comes in at uh it's the night track. It's
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minutes and eight seconds my list, and I think this
is a is Do you think this is a duddy dud?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It's a slow build. It almost reminds me of like
a showdown in a Western movie.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Like this. Yeah, I could see, like you got, you know,
two guys standing across from each other, cowboy hat.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Here's the guy, here's Clean Eastwood walking out?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah you got, you got this tumble walking out of
the walking out of the saloon.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, he's taking his uh cigarette, you know, and taking
out of his mouth. Yeah, click clicking it, Yeah, walking out,
sizing the.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I don't think this is a duddy DUDU. It's just different.
It's different than anything else that we've heard so far.
And you need different. You need different. You don't want
anything to sound the same, you know. I mean, don't
get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with everything kind of
sounding the same.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I mean Motorhead. This is a Motorhead album.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Everything he's kind of like, it's all it all sounds
real sick.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
This is supposed to be motivating.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Give a crap whether.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You like or not, this is what I do.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
But in case of the Killers, you kind of need different.
I think this is a nice change of pace. You
need something like this. No, it's not my favorite song
on the album, but you need kind of a ballad
ish kind of track like this in the mix to
kind of change the dynamic a little bit. Yeah, so
I think it has its place. Again, it's not a standout,
but it has its place.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
And for what it is, I think it's good, not great,
good yeah coop Yeah, yeah, I mean I didn't like it.
It's skippable for me, okay, but that's just I think
it's it is skippable, but I don't have to skip it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, yeah, I've found myself like, hey, I got a
move on. I just couldn't get into that one.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah. So a little different feel on this one.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, I mean you're coming in ten track of the album,
four minutes and thirty eight seconds. The river's wild, pretty upbeat,
and I like it. I think it's a good song.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I love the guitar work during the bridge on this
one in particular. I has got great lyrics. This is probably,
my opinion, the best deep cut style album track on
the record.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
N Yeah, I ain't rocks. Yeah, I really like this one.
I was like, hey, this is a great song.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I was like, good to listen to nice driving rhythms.
I would say n as catchy as some of the
previous tracks, but I would say it's another one of
those great deep tracks on them.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yes, it is a it is a classic deep cut.
It's that song that's really good. Maybe not single quality,
but definitely very listenable on a run the regular if
you want to.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's good. Man, that was really good.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I think it's one rocks, so you don't really man,
here we are in the last couple, last couple, so
track eleven we wan do I have keep Countyon is
the name of the track. It clocks in in four
minutes and twenty three seconds. It's another good one.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I think.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, it's a good track. Again, not my favorite, but
I've already prefaced that that specific remark.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I would say it's a little bit slow. Oh yeah, right,
And I'm kind of like, well, instead of the the
album could have just ended on this. This is yeah,
So actually this is the last real track on the album.
It's it kind of does in a way. Oh, it
doesn't truly end on this. This is the last real
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track in my opinion. It's not one that I'm necessarily
going to go seek out, but I don't have to
skip it. Much like many of the songs on this
album that aren't quote unquote aren't my favorite, I don't
have to skip it.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
It's one that I could easily let it go. It's
not like, oh jeez, I don't like this, I'm going
to skip it. This is not a bad song at all.
It's just different. But you could skip it if you
wanted to, you know, and end after this river is wild.
But when unlike not.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Entering, but it builds, It builds really good.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
That's what I like.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
It does build nicely. Yes, I would fully agree with that.
The marching of the chorus I think is kind of cool. Yeah, yeah,
it's good.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
All right. So onto the last one.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Onto the last one, which is uh, exit Loud, exit loot.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Unlike Interlude, which is not the entrance to the album,
Exit Loud is the exit to the album. Yeah, this
really you know, to like Interlude Part two in a
way probably it's kind of like that. Yeah, you're at
the end of the show, you're leading the I would say,
it's more, you know, as I start to think about it,
I think, if you're going to look at what we
(34:30):
use the.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Term a ao R ro o or object oriented rock A. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
This if this was like an AOAR type of album,
this looks to be a I think of it as
a show. Yes, you're at a Vegas show, right, and
scenes are coming down.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's the end.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
They close the playout. They're doing that last thing.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I mean, this is kind of an a R album
when you really look at it the way they structured it.
You got Sam's Town, which is you're walking up to
the casino. You see the casino. It's the exterior interlude
you've walked in when you were young. You're sitting in,
you're sitting down and they're coming.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
In with a bang.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
You're going through the whole list and you get to
why do I keep get it's the last track, and
then exit lude. You're walking out and they're saying thank
you for coming. Yeah, that's that's the function of this song.
When I think about this as this beat, that being
the function of this particular track, it makes sense to me. Yeah,
you know, it's it's an interlude in the same vein
(35:35):
as interlude was. Exitlude is It's good. It serves its
purpose and it nicely fits the theme of the album.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, so well, And the one thing I want to
close out. You know, you're talking about critics, and really
I just want to quote one musician. In an article
from Rolling Stone about this album, the Great Jon bon
Jovi says they really changed as writers from Hot Fuss
to this. It was about America, the idea that there
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is an idealism to being young in America, but it
can also so easily fade away. It's about the guy
in the small town, the backbone of America. Brandon Flowers
caught a classic American vision, which is amazing because all
his references were European or British. He's a great writer.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
He's got a very old head on young shoulders, which
it's funny. So John bon Jovi, in case folks don't know,
huge Killers fan. Yeah, Like he is the guy who,
as a musician, he is waiting anxiously for the next
Killer's album right come out. Yeah, Like he's kind of
a Killer's megafan, which I think is think about being
Brandon Flowers and knowing that, like John bon Jovi is
(36:40):
a massive fan of your band. Yeah, that's pretty cool,
right when you're the musician's musician. Yeah, that's that's a
whole other level. Yeah, And so when I kind of
look at that, you know, and I'm ranking the album,
you know. I went back and looked at Hot Fuzz
and I re listened to that podcast, which that's you know,
season two episodes sixteen last year, so all you guys
(37:02):
looking for it, guys and girls out there, you listen.
I rated that in eight, and I think this one
is an eight. It's a solid eight. I didn't want
to go higher. And the reason why I didn't go
higher is there were some songs where I'm just like, eh,
you know, but it's a good, solid date. I appreciate
the album. I'm so glad I own it on vinyl,
and I actually really liked listening to it.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I think I came in at an eight point five. Yeah,
so there was I looked at it like this. There's
three tracks on the album that I'm a point five on. Yeah, right,
kind of ambivalent towards in a way. To me, there's
no Duddy duds, so two point five. Yeah about this one.
I think it was a great follow up to Hot Fuss.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I don't see how the band could have done much
better for a sophomore album. Unlike the critics, like I
would completely write the critics. I completely disagree with the critic.
I think this is a great album. I think you've
got very good writing. The mix is just nominal. The
sound that they came out was really good. It shows
that you know, hey.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
They evolved from Hot Fuss, which is I think very important.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I mean, this is take this with a grain of
salt from a couple of middle aged podcasters. But I mean,
I think you'll agree we've both heard a lot of
crappy sophomore albums from bands.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
This is so far the other direction.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
It's fantastic, a fantastic follow up to Hot Fuss, and
I mean, in all honesty, it's interesting. Like I think
the backlash that the band got from critics on this album,
I think Brandon Flowers is the kind of guy who
he's in tune with what people are saying about his work.
If you go listen to Day and Age, it is
such a departure in this album that I think he
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kind of heard the criticism and thought, maybe I need
to go a different direction, and so that's when you
got Day and Age, which is so much.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
More like synth driven and his third I didn't like that.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
I like tracks on the third album I like Losing Touch,
I love human In There's some good tracks, but I
was just kind of shocked that they went so far.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
The other direction when they did dan Age but Man.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Samstown great album. So I know you wanted to talk
about a new band.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Yeah, actually, well this is kind of you know, Discovery.
We started the section called Discovery that we bring up
from time to time. So what's in the background is
a band called Wednesday. They're an alternative rock band from Asheville,
North Carolina that is currently signed to Dead Oceans Records.
The band consists of vocalist Carle Hertsman, guitarist m J. Linderman,
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lap steel player Zandy Chelmus, and drummer Alan Miller. And
then there's a bassis named Ethan with a complicated last name. Okay,
it's a mixture shoegaze and believe it or not, country rock.
Well you hear in the background is the song Bowl Believer,
which is the second track off their twenty twenty third
(39:56):
or twenty twenty three fifth studio album, Rat Saw God
Okay fifth album, fifth album. What I really like about
this band is they have a unique storytelling ability and
it's focused on their life in the American South, and
I've never heard that within this kind of shoegaze sound.
(40:18):
So the lyrics are really kind of if you listen
to other stuff, but this was kind of their newer
thing that's out. It's a little bit I'm gonna use
the word gnarly. It's a little gnarly, Okay, but you
hear it how it like gets gnarley and then it
calms down. It's kind of eerie, but it's interesting. Band
(40:39):
it not be not you know, it's it's not gonna
be the album for everyone. It's not gonna be the
track bet everyone likes. But I think the band left
it all in the studio in this one and they
just kind of threw everything they had out of it.
But as I was, yeah, as I was coming through
Apple Music, I was like, hey, this is interesting. So
(41:02):
it's banned Wednesday. This is Bull Believer. It's off their
album Rat Saw God.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
You could see it on North Carolina Ville, North Carolina. Okay.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
So it's a little bit different interesting, huh. You know,
just if you're looking for I'm kind of intrigued by
the sound. It's very different. It's different. Yeah, And and
here's the thing that this you know in the AI.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Algorithm that you're using, if you put this in, maybe
it'll drive different music.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Original overlords are going to find other music based upon
something like that.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Totally independent band, right, small label, indie label type of thing.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
They're doing it full time. It's interesting, but it's very
it really is. It's interesting, and I don't mean that
in a bad way at all. It's just different, very different.
So I'm gonna check it out a little Biteah.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I was.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I was taken back by a little bit and I
was like, Oh, we'll talk about this on the show,
just because I want to introduce it to you se which.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Thought, oh cool, absolutely all right. So that's it.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah man, And just like that, man, we're at the
end of our first show of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
So next week is Rubberneck. Next week is Rubberneck. Yeah,
that'll be fun. Yeah all right, And just.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Like that, we're at the close of another episode of
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vinyl
Speaker 3 (43:18):
S.
On this first episode of twenty twenty five, Adam and
I discussed the second studio album named for a casino
in Las Vegas. That band is The Killers, and that
album is Sam's Town. You know, when you hit the
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pad button and you hit the wrong button because you
got new glasses and you're getting old and you get progressives,
and when your eyes are shifting and you look at
something and it's blurry and it's supposed to be clear,
you tend to press the wrong button. I didn't know that, Yeah, so,
but now I know for those of you getting progressives,
it's a struggle.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Reminds me to make my eye off two pins. I'm
getting old, aren't we all? Buddy?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's another new year, Adam, Happy new year.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Happy twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, we are in the two thousand and twenty fifth
year of the common Era year and no domine domini,
dominie if you're into those designations, it's the twenty fifth
year that they're millennium is Indeed, did you set up
resolutions or goals.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
For yourself now twenty five? I did not.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, I did for work, which kind of like sours
me on doing myself being honest with you. Yeah, Now
I have I have some some weightlifting goals that I
want to meet, and I has some jiu jitsu goal.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
That I want to Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But other than that, well, I kind of put program
I don't really like work goals.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
You always have work goals, everyone does.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Everybody has work goals, right, But I kind of did
goals associated with like working out my nutrition and health
because like I started some new programming. I've been sore
for like six weeks. But here's the thing I think
I've gain. I'm gonna get on the embody later this week.
And uh, I know I've gained muscle because I've done
some dimensions. So it's like I'm trying to buck up
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a little bit to burn more fat, try to get
that last last bit of that journey done.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm trying to get that completed.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's hard to do it in wintertime when your body
wants to go into hibernation mode, need all the things.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Oh and it's so freaking cold outside. Yeah, that's you know.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And then I think there's some things we've been talking
about about, you know, Vich's and Vinyl trying to get
that going. So I'm hoping this will be a good
twenty twenty five. Yeah, man, my wife just alerted me.
She goes, hey, snow's gonna start happening at twelve thirty.
She's really concerned about me getting from the twenty minutes
from work to our house.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean in Arkansas. It's Arkansas, come on, man, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I mean, like, well, it's supposed to be snow apocalypse
and then we'll get.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Like two inches.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Well we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That's how it works here. But I don't know, we'll see.
Is the weather man have been right before, but they've
been wrong a lot more than they've been right. So yeah,
all right, man. So Songs of the Week of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So I actually have a really good one this week.
I you know, it was New Year's Eve. I was
prepping for some stuff and I had some albums on.
We had some people over just from the gym were
associated with and we were doing an early New Year's
which is we call it off at nine pm forties
and fifties. When you're a gen excerpt, that's it. Yep,
you know it's uh. So this is uh you'll know
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this one. So it's the lead single from Tom Petti's
nineteen ninety four album Wildflowers.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
You Don't Know How It Feels.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The single reached number one on the US Billboard Album
Rock Tracks chart in nineteen ninety four. In nineteen ninety
four on MTVVH one, many radio stations actually aired a
censored version of this track, taking the word roll out
of the lyric let's roll another joint.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And if you listen to the radio and like a
joint wouldn't actually be clear.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It would be like another man.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, So like instead of the use of the verb
roll right and the noun joint, like, they just kind of,
let's you know, they did a bunch of stupid things.
They kind of screwed up the lyric. And I was like,
if I was going to do it, I would be like,
you know, let's cook another steak instead of let's roll
another or I would be like, hey, let's uh, you know,
let's play another game.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And now nobody cares. Now nobody you can say, roll
another joint.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
All everybody was like, let's go.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It's crazy. How like in the late nineties that was
such a big deal.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I know, like, I roll another joint so terrible.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Oh my gosh, he can't believe.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
It's just ridiculous. We can't put that on the air.
That's gonna that's going to enable people. I'm a big
Tom Petty fan, man, like I love Tom. I mean
as evidenced by you know, we've we've covered into the
great wide Open. I mean, man, Tom Petty, it's like
the father of driving Americana Rocket.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I know.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, Wildflowers has been on the list.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You know, we may need to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, we might need to do that one.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But I'm with you there, all right? What about you? Man?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So I was just kind of going through the Apple
like recommendations the other day, and I've been listening to
some just kind of low key indie rock a little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It was actually long Wave.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I was listening too, m and then this we featured
long Wave. We featured long Wave. Yep, we sure did.
We did it Secrets our album. Yeah, we did Centers
in season one, Season.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
One, yep.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
And this was one of the recommendations. I just randomly
clicked on it. I don't get a try U. And
this is so this is the lead single on the
album Pumpkin. This is a band called ben Stellar. The
album is called Scream from New York, New York and
it's just like kind of shoegaze indie rock.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I mean, if this is the first time I've heard it,
I didn't even listen to when the.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Guitar comes in, it's just nice, like washed out, it's chill, dude.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
The whole album's kind of like this vibe. I've been
looking for something like that.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's the kind of thing you can put on in
the background and work and it's not going to get
in the way.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Of your train of thought.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, yeah, you know, we when we have those people over,
I was just playing albums in the background. I had
football on mute, and you know, one of the other
people that are always like, man, this is really good.
And he was a music guy, and so we just
started going through the albums and he was a shoegaze
fan and I was like, he goes, my son, really
he's into some of these bands. I was like, Oh,
here's hum you need to listen to this album if
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you like shoegaze. And here's like these key tracks, and
I was like, kid isla, here's another album that's incredible
that you got to listen to.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And then that one band, uh, I forget the name.
It is like ice My Bloody Valentine. No, no, no,
it is the one that I brought up where they
did a cover.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I featured in a couple of episodes ago last year,
but I bought that final It was the ep I said,
check these guys out on Spotify and iteteenes. It's almost
like we just need to do a discovery show, like
we just do a Shoegaz show where we talk about
me Shoegaze Shoe and just like forget the album stuff
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and just kind of do some specialized episodes and talk
about music. But this kind of reminds me of that.
And the conversation we're having is I see a lot
more of these bands coming in, like gays, how's this
following in punk? How's this following that we're seeing going
to live shows and things like that. Yeah, Like we
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went to I went to two shows over the holiday
I did. We went We went to the Toties, which
you know, same thing see the Toadies once SA same
thing every time you see them.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Ye, same thing. Have a lot of changes to the
set lists. Always good.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, they did actually do a couple of things, but
they did this time. Yeah, Yeah, their set list hadn't
changed due thirty the twenty five years.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
They're gonna close with iber. I've been seeing Toty bost
Kingdom is going to be in the office setlist.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah, they're like, hey, we got a new album. Here's
the track of that new album. And then they started
playing the other stuff. But you could tell, like now,
in the past, when I saw the Toadies, they would
talk about like, hey, like you could tell they didn't
want to play some of their Rubber Deck stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Sure, but now they're like, yeah, we kind of have
to play it. You've gotta player. It's the album that
you hang your.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Hat on as a band.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well yeah, and you know, just to everyone out there
listening next week's episode, it's Rubber Deck. We're finally We're
finally going after But the opening band I sent you, uh,
it was a cowpunk band, the Vandaliers, And dude, I
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was like, and Darren and his lady friend came with us, right,
and she we went to Marcus King the weekend before,
but she never experienced cowpunk and she was like, what
is this And I was like, I think this is
calpunk cow punk and it was like but it was
like very aggressive and that was like my first experience
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in a cowpunk show. And I can say I'm not
a fan of colpunk officially, not a fan of colpunk,
but I understand what they're doing and it's really cool
to see young people.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Respond to that music. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
This is just man, this one just came across and
gave it a listen.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Started listening to the whole album. It's good stuff. Man.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Sorry to sidetrack, but I really Oh, you're good many
for a cow punk side quest.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I really really like the songs.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I kind of want to keep listening to you.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I put it on at the end, man, I know,
I know we're going to try it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
At the end, I was like, I really like this.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
I picked that one in particular because it fits the
sound Sam's sound kind of vibe.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
It was really good, Yeah, really good. All right, So
I know what's next? Yeah, you know what's next?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Time.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I know it's another episode of Adventures in Vinyl and
that means another round of stump the baron. I'll stump
the baron. I pick a random song from a random genre.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I give Adam a few clues, and, with all his
semi above average musical knowledge, attempts to guess the artist
average songs.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I see how this devolves next time.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
We used to keep score, but obviously we have no idea.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
It's just a fun thing we do. We hope you
enjoy it too, and you're listening along, you'd be like, hot, damn,
I know that song, and Adam probably does.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Madam probably does, so Adam. This week, I'm taking you
back to the year twenty ten. Let me tell you,
is hard to find anything at twenty ten that is good.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I'm with you there.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
So dude, well, I was like, I got to come
up with something new. I keep staying in the same decades.
I was like, all right, twenty ten, but you don't
want to know how long it took me to find,
like about an hour to find something that I thought
you could recognize.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So I found you something that hopefully you can recognize
other than all the.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Pop music that was out there. Okay, So I think
you'll get it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So this American Idol finalist released the single off the
band's second album.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And that just foll down this.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
American Idol finalist.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yes, oh jeez, I think we watched some American Idol
back in the day. But the only reason we watched
American Idol was because Chris Allen was on it, and
he's from Constant.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Well yeah, we and I kind of knew Chris Allen through,
ye know, through stuff like a lot of people around here.
Yeah yeah, but this view number sixty six on the
Billboard Hot one hundred. It was this Adam Lambert. No,
but it was also written by our favorite Nickelback vocalist
Chad Croger.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh lord, and there's no chance I know this. I
straight up no, I honestly, I don't even reckon all right.
So this is Life After You by Daughtry. So Chris Daughtry. Yeah,
it's off this album Leave This Town. So I admittedly
was not a Daughtry fan.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I appreciate Daughtry from a vocal perspective. And when you watched,
and I hate to admit I don't watch, I watched, Well,
he you know he's not a vocalist. Well, I mean
he's a vocalist, right, but he's not a lyricist. A
lot of this stuff is. But it's a good song.
But you could tell Chad Kroger wrote it with him, right.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
But you know, when you're looking at things like twenty
ten was a.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Really crappy music here for rock, dude.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
There's there's nothing.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
There's not a lot of good things happen like this
is what I found. A huge gap. But in about
two thousand and seven and twenty fourteen, twenty thirteen, if
you look at my music collection, you'll find almost nothing
in that that space.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
There's just not a lot. There's just there's not.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Anything, but disproportionate how little there is from that time.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, So that was like when I picked something different,
this is all I could find in terms of and
I went to like most popular tracks in twenty ten,
and this was the only freaking recognizable rock song other
than Maroon.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Five, which I would know nothing and Alex.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Leavine like all these other Yeah, I'd be totally all
this other garbage.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It was just garbage.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It was that or you will be loved, Do you try?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You just gotta throw me some more softballs, Todd, Actually,
don't throw me softballs.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I like being chatting, but hey, this was a challenge.
But it just to show everybody that, hey, don't worry
about twenty ten. It was a crappy year for.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Me, say, I don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, I don't like this straight out. Are you ready
to get into this? Well, let's move on.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't like it either, all right? Kicking off the
album is the album's namesake, Sam'stown, which clocks in. The
track clocks in at four minutes and five seconds. The
album Samstown, was released on September twenty seventh, two thousand
and six. It's the killers second studio album. The album
consists of twelve tracks, clocks in for a total of
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forty four minutes and forty four seconds. Debuted at number
two Adam on the US Billboard two hundred, It's sold
three hundred and fifteen thousand copies in its first roe.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah so this thing.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It went platinum I think in the US, went six
times platinum in the UK. They sold five million copies worldwide,
and critics hated this album.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I know.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I don't get it. Neither do I. Critics are stupid, man,
critics are. Here's the thing, people, if you hear critics
like taking a crap all over an album, make your
own mind up. Go out listen to it. You got
streaming services now, it's not like you have to commit
to buying it. Go listen to it and make up
your own freaking mind if the critic says that it
sucks and you like it, we'll forget the critics. Honestly, yes,
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we're kind of critics in a way, right, But at
the same time, like I don't like to take a
dump all over anybody. I might not like something, but
that's my opinion. I'm not going to try to make
my opinion become your opinion. I'm just stating my opinion.
I want you to go out and make up your
own damn mind.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, I think there are some duds.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
There's some duds on the album.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I would say, though, that they are not real dudy duds,
if that makes any sense at all.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
No, they're not duddy duds.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
They're not duddy duds. They're more they're less good than.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Other They're not as good as and I will.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Argue with this album, their duddy duds are really not
even duds.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
In my opinion.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Well, we will see as we continue to progress if
they're there are, and that will be.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
That's produced by Flood and Allen Mulder like this one,
You're not gonna have a lot of duddy duds on there.
Those guys are geniuses at what they do. I mean, so,
first of all. Sam's really good song. Love the bassline,
interesting bridge, I like the circus like outro. But I
want to talk about the producers here. Flood and Alan Mulder.
These guys are legends. I mean, if you want ever
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to get like that washed out Reverbi sound like you
two did, Smash and Pumpkins, New Order, Nine Inch Nails,
Depeche Mode and many more. These are the guys you
go to. They're well known for working together. They've been
doing that for a long time. If the Flood's on it,
alan Mulder's on it. If Alan Moulder's on it, then
Flood's probably on it.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Yep. But man, I love.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
That they went to those guys for this album because
you get a very signature tone when you hire Flood
and Alan Mulder to produce your album. So, I mean,
this is a great album and I love this song.
I think it's a great way to open up the album.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I do too.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I'm like when you talk about, hey, this is this
was a tribute to their town.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, they're Las Vegas natives.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
They've already covered the Killers, we did Hot Fuss, we
talked about all that, but this is a it's a
really solid tribute.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
This is this is their Hey, this is who we are.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And we're from Vegas.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And I mean I think it was Mark Starmer grew
up in the shadow of the Samstown sign. Yeah, I
mean it's visible from his window. Yeah, So I mean
this is very personal to them. I think I remember
reading an interview with Brandon Flowers where he said something
along the lines of this album is essentially like a chronology.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Of how we got to where we are now. Yep.
And so I got a lot of respect for that.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
They're putting their personal experience into this album and it's
a good album.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeahs. Again, that's a really good album.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
So what's interesting though to me about is they start
off with this rather than the interluding.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I know, and what's next is the interlude, which is
really forty nine seconds and it's literally just like hey.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It's like you're walking into the casino.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, It's like, hey, you know, you're the entrance, and
this is what I think of it, Like E've been
to Vegas, right, Yeah, outside the casino is all this
energy and then you kind of walk through and there's
this transition and.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
There's just like poker chips in despair. Yeah, and the
smoke well it used to be. Now there's no smoke,
but there's lots of oxygen in the air.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
It's been a while since I've been to Vegas.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It is like twenty sixteen, twenty fifteen, so there were
still a lot of smoking, a lot of point.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, but yeah, yeah, and this just is what it is.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah, just a little little inter You're creating a theme,
and so I have a lot more patience for it
than if it was just a random innerlude out of nowhere.
So what's great is it kicks into the lead single
off the album When You Were Young. It's the third
track off the album. Sam's Town clocks in at three
minutes and thirty seconds. Okay, so go ahead, Yeah, this
is interrupting you.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Oh no.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
This song is one of Killer's most successful songs, peaked
at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred and
was their first number one on the US Modern Frocks.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Chunk Okay sor Are You Ready Because I Got to
Take a Deep Breath? Number two on the UK Singles,
Number fourteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred, number sixteen
on the Adult Alternative Song number fifteen on Adult Pop Airplay,
Number one Alternative airplay number five, Dance club Songs number
twenty two, Dance single sales number four, Dance mix airplay
number thirty, Mainstream Rock No Deep Breath number thirty one,
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Pop airplay number eighteen, Pop one hundred five times platinum
is a single in the US.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Seven million copies sold worldwide.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
And when it comes on in a bar, you sing
it just as much as bost.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Bright sound every bit as much. Man, this is one
of my all time favorite Killers tracks.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I do too. I mean, I mega hit.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I get like little chills when I listen to it
every time.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
It's so good.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
It's a dynamic song.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
There's so many like different little bits to this song,
and it's a constant build throughout. I mean it starts strong,
but it keeps building throughout. It's just it's a classic, man.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
What's not I like how he enunciates the lyrics and
it goes along with the beat.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yes, Brandon Flowers does that all. I'm like, It's just
a song catch like yeah, catch you exactly. It is
super catchy, just a great not a done. You don't
like this song and there is something genuinely wrong with
you as a human being? Yeah, I did agree, So
there I agree, But if you don't like the song,
you are just strong opinion hot take on this one.
(19:10):
You don't like me, I don't care. Let's go all right,
I know you, all right, don't mess with this song?
Are you having enemy in Adam Barnon?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So clocking in it four minutes and eight seconds or
track of the album Bling Confessions of a King Confessions.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Of a King.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yes, yeah, And I love how they they segue their
songs so well on this album. Yeah, you go from
one song into the next very nicely. This is another
example of that. I think of this track, at least musically, yeah,
as Despair in the Desert. It just has that vibe
to me of like, yeah, I kind of feel like
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it's it's about Vegas.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well, and here's the thing, if you've ever been out
in the desert.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
And in previous careers, I'd have to go out to
the previous roles right with other companies.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I had to be out in the clandestine things.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
You know, when you're out in the desert and you're
driving a car out in the desert.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
This is kind of like.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
You're just out in the middle.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
And it reminds me a little bit of a milder
version of like a Queens of the Stone Age songs
for the era song.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, that's kind of what which is that same theme? Yeah,
you're just.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Driving in the freaking desert yep. And there's times like
you're like, hey, you want to go to Vegas. Yeah,
we're literally two hours in the desert from Vegas. You
want to go, Yeah, let's go to Let's go to Vegas.
And you're like, go to Vegas. I don't know why
we're going, but we're going. We're going because they're two
hours away and there's something else.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It won't be it won't be awful, it won't be fun,
it'll be an experience.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Well, and when you go midweek, buffets are cheaper, you
get a good dinner, play a little bit of in
the world to.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Eat in that town.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, everywhere in the world. It's a good song. It's
a solid track. It's one I don't skip. It's not
my favorite on the album.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
No, it's not a duddy dud, but it's not like
super catchy, but it's a good it's it's a good,
solid album track.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah, the next one all right, Yeah, let you do
your thing well. Track five for Reasons Unknown, released as
a second single off the album Sounds Town, clocks in
at three minutes of thirty two seconds. I think it's
the least popular single that The Killers has, which which
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It's it's again. It's good. It's good song, really good man.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I mean, in all honesty, they also really released what
was it Bones as a single. Brandon Flowers later on said,
I actually wish we hadn't released Bones as a single,
but this is really great song. I think it was
like number fifty three on the UK Singles Track It
wasn't as popular of a.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Single, but it's a great song. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I love how it starts really low key, adds layers
bit by bit, builds throughout. I mean, to me, it's
a mystery as to why this song didn't do better
as a single when it was released. It's a great song.
I really like it and I've never skipped the song.
It's fantastic song.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, you know that's interesting that your remark is interesting, right,
because as I'm listening to the track and I was
kind of thinking around the same thing. I really like it,
but I'm trying to figure out why the wider audience
didn't gravitate to.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I mean it's got a driving beat to it. Yeah,
it's dynamic in nature. Again it starts like oh key
works its way.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, and the Killer and here's what to do? So
was it lack of A and R pushing marketing? You know,
maybe they thought the marketing the album was going to
take care of itself because it was The Killers and
hot Fuzz was so you know, popular.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So you said it was the second single on the album.
I should I have it as the fourth one on
it that they released. Maybe with single that could have
to do with it. Oh, maybe it could be that
by this time everybody's got the freaking album and.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Why do I need to go out and buy the single?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Bones was the second single? Bones was the second single.
I think this one was the fourth fourth single.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well, that may be for singles typically don't do that
well because by now everybody's heard the first, second or
third single.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
They've everybody everybodys heard it by now.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I bet this was the second single in the UK,
the UK, So that's.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
That's pretty common, and the Killers are huge in the UK. Tea.
I think that's where my notes screed out.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Sorry folks.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Fourth single, off the album. Anyways, I think if.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It's already seen it because they've already bought the album,
so it's not I think you take Bones out as
a single altogether, you replace it with the reasons unknown
this this song does better as a single in my opinion.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I mean, granted, this is all like armshare quarterbacking, but
I actually think that it probably would have done a
lot better if it had been released in place of
Bones as a single. Yeah, I'll take it which bones, Hey,
We'll get there good time. But I like this one man,
it's a great song.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I do too. I think it's it's not a dud
dune and it's followed again by another banger.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, you've got to read my mind, which is we Agree?
Third single, third single, we Match Folks, third single off
the album. It peaked at number sixty two on the
Billboard Hot one hundred, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
And Another Deep Breath Here number fifteen, UK Singles number one,
Adult Alternative number twenty nine, Adult Pop airplay number eight,
Alternative air play number one, Dance club Songs number one,
Dance makes Show Airplay number sixty two, Pop one hundred
platinum in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. And then
another one of my favorite all time Killer tracks.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I do.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I like this too, I mean hugely to talk about
that somber good background track.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
This is it, This is it right there?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Man, another track again where they build throughout dynamic in nature.
I love how the Killers progressively layer their songs. It's
a truly great song.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
This and.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
When You Were Young are just like high marks of
the album, which is saying a lot, because this is
a really outstanding album.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, I love this song. It's just so good. Yeah,
it's good. I just sit here and listen to it.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I mean sometimes I just sit here. I'm like, oh, good,
Adam's talking.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I can listen. That's so bad. Man, it's such a
great I know, I know it's good. It's good. All right.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Now on to Uncle Johnny, which is the seventh track
on the album, The Clocks in a four minutes and
twenty five seconds.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I like this one.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I think it should have been a single. Okay, so
you're you're stronger on it than I am. I'm not
a big fan of the opening guitar riff.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Oh that's what I liked.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, man, it's just a little bit more dissonant than
I like. But I mean, when he gets the chorus,
it's really good. It has a place on the album
in my opinion. It's just maybe it's not one of
the ones that i'd identify as a stand out personally,
but again this is all opinion.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah, well, what I like like the mix. Here's what
I like about it. You've got the way the mix is.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You got the guitar in your right yep.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Everything else is in the left, yes, right, and so
it's like you hear this driving sound in your left
here with the with the vocals going on and everything,
and then the right ear bam, you just have that
pulsing a guitar, all guitar right, and it just it's like, hey,
there's two.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Things going on, right, but they're all in use. But
it's distinct that there's two things going on. That's why
I like the song Gotcha.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I understand that.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
And I was like, and I never when I listened
to it with headphones, and I think this is where normally,
like I'll just throw the album on just the record
player and I'll listen to it a few times, but
this one, I was like, I listen to it a
lot of different intervals with noise canceling headphones. And when
I was like, hey, that's unique, I had to go
back and re listen to it a couple of times
just to be like, hey, this is a really good mix.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It is something different here and that that's why I like.
That's why I like it.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
And if you notice there's two guitars. Now, yep, you
still have the lead riff playing by itself in the
right ear, but the volumes less. They brought the game down,
and they brought the game up. But the mix is
in the left here for the second guitar track. Yes,
that's what I'll yep. It's creative mixing obviously. Yeah, I
(27:09):
love I love the bassline on this song. Yeah, especially
during the verses. Again when I when I say it's
not my favorite, I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just
saying like there's other songs that I feel stronger of that.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
No, I I just this was unique.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, I would say, well, you know, and for me
sometimes like hey, I think this could have been a single.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
It also just could have been really good deep track
off the album. Yes, yeah, for sure, but it's good.
So onto the second single.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, so we're talking about uh, at three minutes of
forty six seconds, we're talking about bones.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I love that introy you the weird hey that's with
me choral thing and then dropping with the keys.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I mean that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I mean I love this right here. Yeah, so not
what you expect when you hear that introduction. You've got
these keys and it's very like kind of dramatic and
orchestral in a way. And then all of a sudden
we're down into like a punkish well and then they
use horn. They have a horn section, yes, as part
of the song. And I'm like like right there, yes.
(28:17):
And so if you're gonna think of one place when
you think of this song, what are you thinking of?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Las Vegas? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Man, I mean honestly, when I hear this song, this
is such a Vegas song. You get the horn section
in the keys, It's I could picture somebody on stage
in Vegas doing this song.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Is like a oh, like I'm some kind of thing. Well,
but here's the thing. I think now a lot of
bands could cover this song, Like Joe in the Fields.
It's a little rock band. They have a horn section. Nice,
And I've seen all these other fans start to have
like You've got a keyboard, dude, and then all of
a sudden he pulls out a trumpet, you know, to
(29:00):
play a part of them. You just yeah, that's what Like,
what was interesting the vandaliers that opened up for the todies,
their keyboard guy did like, you know, he did everything
everything that he just true multi instrument, multi instrument. I
mean he has a lot of the keyboard stuff on them,
and all of a sudden he's pulling out a trumpet,
(29:20):
you know, playing in it. And then you're I'm seeing
people bring out a you know, their band gieks that
are bringing out a trombone and hitting this part and
it works. And I think that's just really cool because
when I was in band, jazz band and everything, I
never would have thought that you could do a saxophone
or any kind of horn set.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
I just assumed you weren't welcoming the rock band.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Correct, stick to your jazz, go be a band, geek
st tear jazz time. You you're a wind instrument playing
all right, So next one, yeah, bones, that's good. So
my list is the next one, right, yep. So my
list comes in at uh it's the night track. It's
(30:00):
minutes and eight seconds my list, and I think this
is a is Do you think this is a duddy dud?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
It's a slow build. It almost reminds me of like
a showdown in a Western movie.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Like this. Yeah, I could see, like you got, you know,
two guys standing across from each other, cowboy hat.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Here's the guy, here's Clean Eastwood walking out?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah you got, you got this tumble walking out of
the walking out of the saloon.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, he's taking his uh cigarette, you know, and taking
out of his mouth. Yeah, click clicking it, Yeah, walking out,
sizing the.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I don't think this is a duddy DUDU. It's just different.
It's different than anything else that we've heard so far.
And you need different. You need different. You don't want
anything to sound the same, you know. I mean, don't
get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with everything kind of
sounding the same.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I mean Motorhead. This is a Motorhead album.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Everything he's kind of like, it's all it all sounds
real sick.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
This is supposed to be motivating.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Give a crap whether.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You like or not, this is what I do.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
But in case of the Killers, you kind of need different.
I think this is a nice change of pace. You
need something like this. No, it's not my favorite song
on the album, but you need kind of a ballad
ish kind of track like this in the mix to
kind of change the dynamic a little bit. Yeah, so
I think it has its place. Again, it's not a standout,
but it has its place.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
And for what it is, I think it's good, not great,
good yeah coop Yeah, yeah, I mean I didn't like it.
It's skippable for me, okay, but that's just I think
it's it is skippable, but I don't have to skip it.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, yeah, I've found myself like, hey, I got a
move on. I just couldn't get into that one.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah. So a little different feel on this one.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Yeah, I mean you're coming in ten track of the album,
four minutes and thirty eight seconds. The river's wild, pretty upbeat,
and I like it. I think it's a good song.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I love the guitar work during the bridge on this
one in particular. I has got great lyrics. This is probably,
my opinion, the best deep cut style album track on
the record.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
N Yeah, I ain't rocks. Yeah, I really like this one.
I was like, hey, this is a great song.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I was like, good to listen to nice driving rhythms.
I would say n as catchy as some of the
previous tracks, but I would say it's another one of
those great deep tracks on them.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yes, it is a it is a classic deep cut.
It's that song that's really good. Maybe not single quality,
but definitely very listenable on a run the regular if
you want to.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, yeah, it's good. Man, that was really good.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
I think it's one rocks, so you don't really man,
here we are in the last couple, last couple, so
track eleven we wan do I have keep Countyon is
the name of the track. It clocks in in four
minutes and twenty three seconds. It's another good one.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I think.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, it's a good track. Again, not my favorite, but
I've already prefaced that that specific remark.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I would say it's a little bit slow. Oh yeah, right,
And I'm kind of like, well, instead of the the
album could have just ended on this. This is yeah,
So actually this is the last real track on the album.
It's it kind of does in a way. Oh, it
doesn't truly end on this. This is the last real
(33:18):
track in my opinion. It's not one that I'm necessarily
going to go seek out, but I don't have to
skip it. Much like many of the songs on this
album that aren't quote unquote aren't my favorite, I don't
have to skip it.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
It's one that I could easily let it go. It's
not like, oh jeez, I don't like this, I'm going
to skip it. This is not a bad song at all.
It's just different. But you could skip it if you
wanted to, you know, and end after this river is wild.
But when unlike not.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Entering, but it builds, It builds really good.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
That's what I like.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
It does build nicely. Yes, I would fully agree with that.
The marching of the chorus I think is kind of cool. Yeah, yeah,
it's good.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
All right. So onto the last one.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Onto the last one, which is uh, exit Loud, exit loot.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Unlike Interlude, which is not the entrance to the album,
Exit Loud is the exit to the album. Yeah, this
really you know, to like Interlude Part two in a
way probably it's kind of like that. Yeah, you're at
the end of the show, you're leading the I would say,
it's more, you know, as I start to think about it,
I think, if you're going to look at what we
(34:30):
use the.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Term a ao R ro o or object oriented rock A. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
This if this was like an AOAR type of album,
this looks to be a I think of it as
a show. Yes, you're at a Vegas show, right, and
scenes are coming down.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
It's the end.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
They close the playout. They're doing that last thing.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I mean, this is kind of an a R album
when you really look at it the way they structured it.
You got Sam's Town, which is you're walking up to
the casino. You see the casino. It's the exterior interlude
you've walked in when you were young. You're sitting in,
you're sitting down and they're coming.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
In with a bang.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
You're going through the whole list and you get to
why do I keep get it's the last track, and
then exit lude. You're walking out and they're saying thank
you for coming. Yeah, that's that's the function of this song.
When I think about this as this beat, that being
the function of this particular track, it makes sense to me. Yeah,
you know, it's it's an interlude in the same vein
(35:35):
as interlude was. Exitlude is It's good. It serves its
purpose and it nicely fits the theme of the album.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yeah, so well, And the one thing I want to
close out. You know, you're talking about critics, and really
I just want to quote one musician. In an article
from Rolling Stone about this album, the Great Jon bon
Jovi says they really changed as writers from Hot Fuss
to this. It was about America, the idea that there
(36:02):
is an idealism to being young in America, but it
can also so easily fade away. It's about the guy
in the small town, the backbone of America. Brandon Flowers
caught a classic American vision, which is amazing because all
his references were European or British. He's a great writer.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
He's got a very old head on young shoulders, which
it's funny. So John bon Jovi, in case folks don't know,
huge Killers fan. Yeah, Like he is the guy who,
as a musician, he is waiting anxiously for the next
Killer's album right come out. Yeah, Like he's kind of
a Killer's megafan, which I think is think about being
Brandon Flowers and knowing that, like John bon Jovi is
(36:40):
a massive fan of your band. Yeah, that's pretty cool,
right when you're the musician's musician. Yeah, that's that's a
whole other level. Yeah, And so when I kind of
look at that, you know, and I'm ranking the album,
you know. I went back and looked at Hot Fuzz
and I re listened to that podcast, which that's you know,
season two episodes sixteen last year, so all you guys
(37:02):
looking for it, guys and girls out there, you listen.
I rated that in eight, and I think this one
is an eight. It's a solid eight. I didn't want
to go higher. And the reason why I didn't go
higher is there were some songs where I'm just like, eh,
you know, but it's a good, solid date. I appreciate
the album. I'm so glad I own it on vinyl,
and I actually really liked listening to it.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
I think I came in at an eight point five. Yeah,
so there was I looked at it like this. There's
three tracks on the album that I'm a point five on. Yeah, right,
kind of ambivalent towards in a way. To me, there's
no Duddy duds, so two point five. Yeah about this one.
I think it was a great follow up to Hot Fuss.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I don't see how the band could have done much
better for a sophomore album. Unlike the critics, like I
would completely write the critics. I completely disagree with the critic.
I think this is a great album. I think you've
got very good writing. The mix is just nominal. The
sound that they came out was really good. It shows
that you know, hey.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
They evolved from Hot Fuss, which is I think very important.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I mean, this is take this with a grain of
salt from a couple of middle aged podcasters. But I mean,
I think you'll agree we've both heard a lot of
crappy sophomore albums from bands.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
This is so far the other direction.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
It's fantastic, a fantastic follow up to Hot Fuss, and
I mean, in all honesty, it's interesting. Like I think
the backlash that the band got from critics on this album,
I think Brandon Flowers is the kind of guy who
he's in tune with what people are saying about his work.
If you go listen to Day and Age, it is
such a departure in this album that I think he
(38:42):
kind of heard the criticism and thought, maybe I need
to go a different direction, and so that's when you
got Day and Age, which is so much.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
More like synth driven and his third I didn't like that.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
I like tracks on the third album I like Losing Touch,
I love human In There's some good tracks, but I
was just kind of shocked that they went so far.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
The other direction when they did dan Age but Man.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Samstown great album. So I know you wanted to talk
about a new band.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Yeah, actually, well this is kind of you know, Discovery.
We started the section called Discovery that we bring up
from time to time. So what's in the background is
a band called Wednesday. They're an alternative rock band from Asheville,
North Carolina that is currently signed to Dead Oceans Records.
The band consists of vocalist Carle Hertsman, guitarist m J. Linderman,
(39:35):
lap steel player Zandy Chelmus, and drummer Alan Miller. And
then there's a bassis named Ethan with a complicated last name. Okay,
it's a mixture shoegaze and believe it or not, country rock.
Well you hear in the background is the song Bowl Believer,
which is the second track off their twenty twenty third
(39:56):
or twenty twenty three fifth studio album, Rat Saw God
Okay fifth album, fifth album. What I really like about
this band is they have a unique storytelling ability and
it's focused on their life in the American South, and
I've never heard that within this kind of shoegaze sound.
(40:18):
So the lyrics are really kind of if you listen
to other stuff, but this was kind of their newer
thing that's out. It's a little bit I'm gonna use
the word gnarly. It's a little gnarly, Okay, but you
hear it how it like gets gnarley and then it
calms down. It's kind of eerie, but it's interesting. Band
(40:39):
it not be not you know, it's it's not gonna
be the album for everyone. It's not gonna be the
track bet everyone likes. But I think the band left
it all in the studio in this one and they
just kind of threw everything they had out of it.
But as I was, yeah, as I was coming through
Apple Music, I was like, hey, this is interesting. So
(41:02):
it's banned Wednesday. This is Bull Believer. It's off their
album Rat Saw God.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
You could see it on North Carolina Ville, North Carolina. Okay.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
So it's a little bit different interesting, huh. You know,
just if you're looking for I'm kind of intrigued by
the sound. It's very different. It's different. Yeah, And and
here's the thing that this you know in the AI.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Algorithm that you're using, if you put this in, maybe
it'll drive different music.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Original overlords are going to find other music based upon
something like that.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Totally independent band, right, small label, indie label type of thing.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
They're doing it full time. It's interesting, but it's very
it really is. It's interesting, and I don't mean that
in a bad way at all. It's just different, very different.
So I'm gonna check it out a little Biteah.
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I was.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
I was taken back by a little bit and I
was like, Oh, we'll talk about this on the show,
just because I want to introduce it to you se which.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Thought, oh cool, absolutely all right. So that's it.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah man, And just like that, man, we're at the
end of our first show of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
So next week is Rubberneck. Next week is Rubberneck. Yeah,
that'll be fun. Yeah all right, And just.
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Like that, we're at the close of another episode of
Adventures in Vinyl. For more information on the band The Killers,
you can check out their website at www dot thekillersmusic
dot com. If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to
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(42:32):
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vinyl
Speaker 3 (43:18):
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