“Read My Mind” by The Killers

"Read My Mind" comes from Sam's Town, the Killers' 2006 second album, and the band sent it out as the record's third single early in 2007. Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning and Mark Stoermer share the writing credit, and Flood and Alan Moulder produced, recorded and mixed it alongside the band.

It's the album's most open-hearted stretch of widescreen yearning: shimmering keyboards, a guitar line that chimes more than it cuts, and Flowers reaching for the rafters with a longing that never quite curdles into bombast. It doesn't strut; it aches, and the ache is what makes it stick.

It stalled at 62 on the Hot 100 but topped three other Billboard rankings and reached 15 in the UK. British radio kept it close afterward: in 2009 it was voted in at number 57 on XFM's list of the 100 greatest songs of all time, and at number 71 on Absolute Radio's countdown of the best songs of the decade.

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