I love this album, so very much!! I do not understand how someone could complain about Brandon Flowers' voice! Obviously he is fantastic live and recorded! He has a beautiful voice. This album is amazing, it shows how they have a variety of style. The transformation from Hot Fuss to Sam's Town is astounding! Two such wonderful albums, but different sound, I love them both! Along with Sawdust to come next, which was all their different styles put on one album, for it was a b-side album... and then Day And Age, alternative pop with great beats and tunes, like the percussion done by Ronnie Vannucci Jr. in Joyride was absolutely lovely! Brandon sings about his Uncle Jonny's cocaine addiction on Sam's town, but he sings about it in a postive way, to try to help his Uncle. He shows the different things that cocaine can do to you and at the end he begs his Uncle to deal ("tell us whats going on feels like everythings wrong, if the future is real Jonny you've got to deal") so i think it is atleast appropriate for nine year olds and up. i first bought this album around age nine, and i wasnt scarred by it, i have grown up listening to the classics and when i found the Killers, it was an amazing discovery... modern music, with such classic feel! I fell in love! now to say, I love everything written by Brandon Flowers and The Killers and think they are amazing, Flamingo, Brandon's solo album is fantastic too! I cannot believe you would give such awful reviews of Sam's Town. It is amazing, with lots of heart and feeling put into it, along with lessons, like when you were young... and just perfect songs like Bling (confessions of a king)