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“Bones” by The Killers
From the album Sam’s Town (2006)
“Bones” by The Killers appears on 16 radio countdowns from 15 stations between 2006 and 2009. It was first released in 2006 on the album Sam’s Town. Its best result is #16 on The End Top 107 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #51 alternative song of 2006, #7,155 alternative song of all time and #490 of the '00s.
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"Bones" sits on Sam's Town, the Killers' 2006 second album, and it began life under the working title "It's Only Natural". Brandon Flowers wrote it with bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr., and Flood and Alan Moulder produced it with the band, recorded it and mixed it, giving it the widescreen punch of the whole record, Flowers belting like a man with the desert at his back.
It followed "When You Were Young" as a single late that year and couldn't match it, but it has an odd claim to fame: its video was the first Tim Burton ever directed, and he'd work with the band again on "Here with Me" in 2012. The single's sleeve features a desert bighorn sheep, an animal Nevada claims as its own, and Nevada is where the Killers got their start.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 456 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) | 500 |
| 2009 | 423 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Desert Island Songs (2009) | 885 |
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