Sam's Town#Track listing

The album takes its name from Sam's Town Hotel and Gambling Hall, a hotel and casino in Las Vegas, the band's hometown. Sam's Town was also a huge sign that was visible to band member Mark Stoermer through his room window when he was young.

According to photographer Anton Corbijn, the band initially wanted a "chic, gypsy look" for the album, and that "out of those discussions [for the sleeve] came these elements of faded glory."{{cite web |last=McLean |first=Craig |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/24/popandrock.killers |title=Songs of praise |work=The Guardian |date=September 24, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011022724/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/24/popandrock.killers |url-status=live }} The album's co-producer, Flood, is dressed as a Native American in the CD booklet. The artwork inside the album booklet is taken from a Downtown Las Vegas mural painted by Suzanne Hackett-Morgan, a local painter. The cover artwork of Sam's Town features model and singer Felice LaZae.{{cite magazine |last=Appleford |first=Steve |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-killers-celebrate-10-years-of-sams-town-w443053 |title=The Killers Celebrate 10 Years of 'Sam's Town' With Wild Casino Getaway |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=October 3, 2016 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=October 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007192636/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-killers-celebrate-10-years-of-sams-town-w443053 |url-status=live }} It also features a Desert bighorn sheep, the state mammal and popular symbol of Nevada, where the Killers are from.{{Cite magazine |last=Appleford |first=Steve |date=October 3, 2016 |title=The Killers Celebrate 10 Years of 'Sam's Town' With Wild Casino Getaway |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-killers-celebrate-10-years-of-sams-town-with-wild-casino-getaway-192409/ |access-date=August 26, 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}

The album is said to be influenced by the works of U2, Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen, the Beatles, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Electric Light Orchestra, and Dire Straits, among others.{{cite web |last=Allen |first=Jeremy |url=http://playlouder.com/review/+sams-town-0/ |title=Sam's Town: The Killers |website=Playlouder |date=October 5, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061025001840/http://www.playlouder.com/review/+sams-town-0/ |archive-date=October 25, 2006}}{{cite web |url=http://angryape.com/reviews/2006/09/the-killers-when-you-were-young |title=The Killers – When You Were Young [Universal] |publisher=AngryApe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930152516/http://angryape.com/reviews/2006/09/the-killers-when-you-were-young |archive-date=September 30, 2007}} In the October 2006 issue of Giant magazine, Flowers was quoted as saying that Sam's Town would be "one of the best albums in the past twenty years",{{cite web |url=http://www.giantmag.com/2006/09/music/dressed-to-kill/3/ |title=The Killers: Dressed to Kill |work=Giant |date=September 25, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061026002918/http://www.giantmag.com/2006/09/music/dressed-to-kill/3/ |archive-date=October 26, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016}} and in Entertainment Weekly he remarked that it would be "the album that keeps rock & roll afloat."

Flowers later said of production techniques used on the record, "We didn't use too many vocal effects. On the first album, we used auto-tune, and I didn't even realize what was going on with these machines and the computer. I was adamant about not using it this time. You really hear what my voice sounds like, for the first time."{{cite magazine |last=Scaggs |first=Austin |author-link=Austin Scaggs |url=http://www.thekillersfansite.com/qarsnov3006.html |title=Q&A |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=November 30, 2006 |issn=0035-791X |access-date=March 8, 2012 |via=The Killers-Fansite |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183816/http://www.thekillersfansite.com/qarsnov3006.html |url-status=live }} At one point, Flowers was told that Brian Eno had passed over the chance to produce the album, a rejection that affected Flowers greatly. However, when working with Eno for Wonderful Wonderful, Eno told him that he was never offered the project in the first place.{{cite web |last=Fleming |first=Amy |url=http://www.newsweek.com/brandon-flowers-killers-new-album-hero-man-659017 |title=The Killers' Brandon Flowers on New Music, Being a Man and Calling His Hero |work=Newsweek |date=September 3, 2017 |access-date=September 5, 2017 |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904200523/http://www.newsweek.com/brandon-flowers-killers-new-album-hero-man-659017 |url-status=live }}

Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone gave the Killers' concert at Madison Square Garden three-and-a-half stars, saying, "The Vegas quartet's maligned new album, Sam's Town, might pack more unfortunate big-rock bombast than its new wave debut, Hot Fuss, but it shares a generous hook quotient and a Vegas-y talent for crowd-pleasing. Before a frothy crowd, the Killers proved they've become a tight live band."{{cite magazine |last=Hoard |first=Christian |author-link=Christian Hoard |title=The Killers |magazine=Rolling Stone |issue=1013 |date=November 16, 2006 |page=133 |issn=0035-791X}}

{{Album ratings

| MC = 64/100{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/sams-town/the-killers |title=Reviews for Sam's Town by The Killers |website=Metacritic |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=February 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220094455/https://www.metacritic.com/music/sams-town/the-killers |url-status=live }}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sams-town-mw0000571654 |title=Sam's Town – The Killers |website=AllMusic |access-date=October 18, 2015 |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |archive-date=October 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151012081010/http://www.allmusic.com/album/sams-town-mw0000571654 |url-status=live }}

| rev2 = The A.V. Club

| rev2Score = B−{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/the-killers-sams-town-1798202022 |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |work=The A.V. Club |date=October 4, 2006 |access-date=January 12, 2020 |first=Marc |last=Hawthorne |archive-date=January 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112202539/https://music.avclub.com/the-killers-sams-town-1798202022 |url-status=live }}

| rev3 = Blender

| rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |last=Eells |first=Josh |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2059 |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |magazine=Blender |issue=52 |date=October 2006 |issn=1534-0554 |access-date=February 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220214001/http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2059 |archive-date=February 20, 2008 |url-status=dead}}

| rev4 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev4Score = C{{cite magazine |last=Rosen |first=Jody |author-link=Jody Rosen |url=https://ew.com/article/2006/10/02/sams-town/ |title=Sam's Town |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=October 2, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006202421/https://ew.com/article/2006/10/02/sams-town/ |archive-date=October 6, 2018 |url-status=dead}}

| rev5 = The Guardian

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/29/popandrock.shopping |title=The Killers, Sam's Town |work=The Guardian |date=September 29, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2015 |first=Chris |last=Salmon |archive-date=January 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116180806/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/29/popandrock.shopping |url-status=live }}

| rev6 = NME

| rev6Score = 8/10{{cite web |last=Murison |first=Krissi |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-killers/8036 |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |work=NME |date=September 29, 2006 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927022633/http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-killers/8036 |archive-date=September 27, 2012 |url-status=dead}}

| rev7 = Pitchfork

| rev7Score = 5.9/10{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9484-sams-town/ |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |website=Pitchfork |date=October 5, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2015 |first=Rob |last=Mitchum |archive-date=September 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930182945/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9484-sams-town/ |url-status=live }}

| rev8 = Q

| rev8Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |magazine=Q |issue=243 |date=October 2006 |page=112 |issn=0955-4955}}

| rev9 = Rolling Stone

| rev9Score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/11738772/review/11755516/sams_town |title=Sam's Town |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=September 21, 2006 |access-date=October 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017042417/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/11738772/review/11755516/sams_town |archive-date=October 17, 2006 |url-status=dead}}

| rev10 = Spin

| rev10Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite magazine |last=Lim |first=Dennis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iemUgvxmQcYC&pg=PA93 |title=It's Showtime! |magazine=Spin |volume=22 |issue=10 |date=October 2006 |page=93 |issn=0886-3032 |via=Google Books}}

}}

Initially, Sam's Town received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 64, based on 32 reviews.

Dan Martin of The Observer awarded the album five out of five stars and noted the album's sonic similarity to Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen, writing: "Improbably, this proves to be their masterstroke. Selling Springsteen back to his homeland might look like a canny way of ensuring radio play, but there's no disputing the quality of their songs. Indeed, as Hot Fuss sporadically intimated, the Killers are among pop's foremost practitioners." Comparing Sam's Town to the band's debut album Hot Fuss, Martin stated: "Crucially, Sam's Town sounds like a complete collection, with a far better strike rate than its predecessor."{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/17/shopping.killers |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |work=The Observer |date=September 17, 2006 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |first=Dan |last=Martin |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220139/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/17/shopping.killers |url-status=live }}

In a review for NME, Krissi Murison highlighted both the similarities to Hot Fuss and the evolution of the band's sound from the debut to Sam's Town, concluding: "All this, however, isn't to say that The Killers have gone all (God forbid) serious on us. The tunes may be huger, the influences cleverer, the lyrics more adventurous and the band more self-assured, but their primary concern is still being the biggest indie-pop stars on the planet. For all their smart new ways, The Killers are still as flashy, unintentionally funny, and flagrantly affected as ever – and this time we wouldn't even pretend to have it any other way."

Conversely, Sia Michel of The New York Times called the album "painful" and ends the review with the statement that "The Killers are a talented band that evolved too fast, for the wrong reasons."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/arts/music/02choi.html |title=The Killers: Sam's Town |work=The New York Times |date=October 2, 2006 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |first=Sia |last=Michel |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220021/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/arts/music/02choi.html |url-status=live }} Similarly, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone noted a significant departure from Hot Fuss, writing that on Sam's Town, the band "ditch[es] their cheerfully fake Bowie moves and try to get heavy by copying Bruce Springsteen. Yes, that means glockenspiel solos. Yes, it means anthems about the road and looking for America and girls named Mary. No, it's not a good move."{{cite web |last=Lapatine |first=Scott |url=https://www.stereogum.com/3479/rolling_stone_pans_sams_town/news/ |title=Rolling Stone Pans Sam's Town |website=Stereogum |date=September 26, 2006 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220053/https://www.stereogum.com/3479/rolling_stone_pans_sams_town/news/ |url-status=live }}

In later years, the album gained a cult following and has been critically lauded as a classic and one of the best rock albums of the 2000s.{{cite news |last=Manning |first=Craig |url=https://chorus.fm/features/articles/the-killers-sams-town-and-the-hold-steadys-boys-and-girls-in-america-10-years-later/ |title=The Killers' 'Sam's Town' and The Hold Steady's 'Boys and Girls in America,' 10 Years Later |website=chorus.fm |date=2016 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220028/https://chorus.fm/features/articles/the-killers-sams-town-and-the-hold-steadys-boys-and-girls-in-america-10-years-later/ |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine|title=Readers' Rock List: Most Underrated Album of the Decade|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/readers-rock-list-most-underrated-album-of-the-decade-20091214|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=June 14, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120909211312/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/readers-rock-list-most-underrated-album-of-the-decade-20091214|archive-date=September 9, 2012|url-status=dead|date=December 14, 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#21cent |title=Q Artists And Albums Of The 21st Century |website=Rocklist.net |access-date=March 8, 2012 |archive-date=June 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609090109/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#21cent |url-status=usurped }}{{cite web |last=Hyden |first=Steven |url=https://uproxx.com/music/the-killers-misunderstood-classic-sams-town-tenth-anniversary/ |title=Saluting The Killers' Misunderstood Sorta-Classic 'Sam's Town' On Its 10th Anniversary |website=Uproxx |date=September 28, 2016 |access-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-date=July 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718220031/https://uproxx.com/music/the-killers-misunderstood-classic-sams-town-tenth-anniversary/ |url-status=live }} Despite its two-star rating by Rolling Stone, Sam's Town was voted by the magazine's readers in December 2009 as the most underrated album of the decade. Q magazine ranked it as the 11th best album of the 21st century. In a retrospective for Uproxx, Steven Hyden broaches the issue of pannings by notable media outlets such as Rolling Stone, arguing that these pannings have ultimately cemented the album's status as a classic: "Ten years removed from its original moment, Sam's Town has aged as all misunderstood sorta-classics do, where its deficiencies are now strengths. [...] A record that was risible to some because its attendant hype was so overbearing now has the appeal of a mistreated underdog. Against all odds, the narrative came around on Sam's Town." Writing for MTV News, James Montgomery would theorize that the initial backlash to the album caused the band to change direction with their follow up album, Day & Age, calling the latter "the most un-Sam's Town album imaginable."{{cite web |last=Montgomery |first=James |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1694785/the-killers-sams-town-album-anniversary/ |title=The Killers' Sam's Town, Six Years Later: An American Masquerade |publisher=MTV News |date=October 2, 2012 |access-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904111950/http://www.mtv.com/news/1694785/the-killers-sams-town-album-anniversary/ |url-status=dead }}

:{{blockquote|"They really changed as writers from Hot Fuss to this. It was about America: the idea that there is an idealism to being young in America but it can all 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. He's got a very old head on young shoulders." – Jon Bon Jovi{{cite magazine|title=Albums of the century|magazine=Q|date=January 2010|issue=282|page=101}}}}

Sam's Town debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 315,000 copies in its first week.{{cite magazine |last=Hasty |first=Katie |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56996/evanescence-zooms-by-killers-to-take-no-1 |title=Evanescence Zooms By Killers To Take No. 1 |magazine=Billboard |date=October 11, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2016 |archive-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910075418/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56996/evanescence-zooms-by-killers-to-take-no-1 |url-status=live }} {{As of|2008|07}}, the album had sold 1.3 million copies in the United States. It became the band's second number-one album on the UK Albums Chart, selling 268,946 copies in its first week.{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Alan |url=https://www.musicweek.com/news/read/official-charts-analysis-gangnam-style-sales-increase-445/051900 |title=Official Charts Analysis: Gangnam Style sales increase 445% |work=Music Week |date=September 24, 2012 |access-date=February 12, 2016 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=February 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220093101/https://www.musicweek.com/news/read/official-charts-analysis-gangnam-style-sales-increase-445/051900 |url-status=live }} It had sold 1.57 million copies in the United Kingdom by July 2017. The album has been certified Platinum or multi-Platinum in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Ireland. Sam's Town also produced multiple charting singles including the platinum chart-topping single "When You Were Young". {{As of|2016|08}}, Sam's Town had sold almost five million copies worldwide.{{cite web |last=Hodak |first=Brittany |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2016/08/31/the-killers-celebrate-sams-town-anniversary-with-vegas-extravaganza-vinyl-reissue/ |title=The Killers Celebrate 'Sam's Town' Anniversary With Vegas Extravaganza, Vinyl Reissue |work=Forbes |date=August 31, 2016 |access-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012140311/https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2016/08/31/the-killers-celebrate-sams-town-anniversary-with-vegas-extravaganza-vinyl-reissue/ |url-status=live }}

Six months after the death of American YouTuber Technoblade, his father revealed on the r/technoblade subreddit that, in his son's instructions for the video that would announce his death, he included a link to a joint YouTube video of the songs Enterlude and Exitlude. Technoblade's father was unsure of how his son wanted the song to be inserted into the video and did not include it due to problems it could cause with copyright.{{cite web |last1=Mukherjee |first1=Shreyan |title=Technoblade's father shares last message from late YouTuber, streaming community left in tears |url=https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-technoblade-s-father-shares-last-message-late-youtuber-streaming-community-left-tears |website=Sportskeeda |date=January 26, 2023 |access-date=January 27, 2023}}

Popular Twitch streamer xQc has regularly used "Exitlude" as outro music for his streams.{{Cite web |last=Galloway |first=Ryan |date=November 8, 2020 |title=XQC says he plans to purchase rights to his outro music to avoid DMCA |url=https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/xqc-says-he-plans-to-purchase-rights-to-his-outro-music-to-avoid-dmca |access-date=February 20, 2023 |website=Dot Esports |language=en-US}}

All tracks are produced by Flood, Alan Moulder and the Killers.

{{Track listing

| title1 = Sam's Town

| writer1 = Brandon Flowers

| length1 = 4:05

| title2 = Enterlude

| length2 = 0:49

| writer2 = Flowers

| title3 = When You Were Young

| writer3 = {{hlist|Flowers|Dave Keuning|Mark Stoermer|Ronnie Vannucci Jr.}}

| length3 = 3:39

| title4 = Bling (Confession of a King)

| writer4 = {{hlist|Flowers|Stoermer}}

| length4 = 4:08

| title5 = For Reasons Unknown

| writer5 = Flowers

| length5 = 3:32

| title6 = Read My Mind

| writer6 = {{hlist|Flowers|Keuning|Stoermer}}

| length6 = 4:06

| title7 = Uncle Jonny

| writer7 = {{hlist|Flowers|Keuning|Stoermer}}

| length7 = 4:25

| title8 = Bones

| writer8 = {{hlist|Flowers|Stoermer|Vannucci}}

| length8 = 3:46

| title9 = My List

| writer9 = Flowers

| length9 = 4:08

| title10 = This River Is Wild

| writer10 = {{hlist|Flowers|Stoermer}}

| length10 = 4:38

| title11 = Why Do I Keep Counting?

| writer11 = Flowers

| length11 = 4:23

| title12 = Exitlude

| writer12 = Flowers

| length12 = 2:24

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus track on UK, Australian and European special editions

| title13 = Where the White Boys Dance

| note13 = B-side to "When You Were Young" single

| writer13 = Flowers

| length13 = 3:26

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus tracks on Japanese edition

| title13 = Where the White Boys Dance

| note13 = B-side to "When You Were Young" single

| writer13 = Flowers

| length13 = 3:26

| title14 = All the Pretty Faces

| note14 = B-side to "When You Were Young" single

| writer14 = {{hlist|Flowers|Keuning|Stoermer}}

| length14 = 4:45

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus track on French edition

| title13 = When You Were Young

| note13 = Jacques Lu Cont's Thin White Duke) (Radio Edit, from the "When You Were Young" single

| writer13 = {{hlist|Flowers|Keuning|Mark Stoermer|Vannucci}}

| length13 = 3:58

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = US Best Buy bonus CD

| title1 = All the Pretty Faces

| note1 = B-side to "When You Were Young" single

| writer1 = {{hlist|Flowers|Keuning|Stoermer}}

| length1 = 4:45

| title2 = Daddy's Eyes

| note2 = B-side to "Bones" single

| writer2 = Flowers

| length2 = 4:13

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus tracks on 10th anniversary LP edition

| title13 = Peace of Mind

| note13 = previously unreleased

| length13 = 4:43

| title14 = Read My Mind

| note14 = Pet Shop Boys Stars Are Blazing Mix) (from the "Read My Mind" single

| length14 = 7:20

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Bonus DVD

| title17 = When You Were Young

| note17 = video) (Jump Version

| title18 = When You Were Young

| note18 = video) (No Jump Version

| title19 = Making of 'When You Were Young{{'-}}

}}

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Sam's Town.{{cite AV media notes |title=Sam's Town |type=liner notes |others=The Killers |publisher=Island Records |year=2006 |id=B0007221-02}}

• Studio at the Palms (Las Vegas, Nevada) – recording
• Criterion Studios (London) – additional recording
• Assault & Battery (London) – mixing
• Masterdisk (New York City) – mastering

• Dave Keuning
• Mark Stoermer
• Brandon Flowers
• Ronnie Vannucci Jr.

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• Corlene Byrd – backing vocals {{small|(track 11)}}
• Louis XIV – backing vocals {{small|(tracks 1, 9)}}
• Tommy Marth – saxophones
• Neeraj Khajanchi – trombone
• Adrina Hanson – strings
• Maryam Haddad – strings
• Tristan Moyer – strings

{{Div col end}}

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• Flood – production, recording, mixing
• Alan Moulder – production, recording, mixing
• The Killers – production
• Mark Gray – additional engineering
• Neeraj Khajanchi – additional engineering
• Max Dingel – additional engineering
• Andy Savours – mix engineering
• Howie Weinberg – mastering

{{Div col end}}

• Andy West – art direction, design
• Anton Corbijn – photography
• Kristen Yiengst – photo, art coordination
• Doug Joswick – package production

{{Col-begin}}

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{{Certification Table Top}}

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