hmm...i think sam's town is a good cd...not as good as hot fuss though. i think they took too much of a departure from thier glam indie look and fell a little too hard for the old west. but thats just my opinion. that and all of the songs on sam's town sound good...but they all pretty much sound the same. I think that the diversity of the songs on hot fuss was one of its best qualitites.