HOT FUSS
Hot Fuss is the debut studio album by American rock band The Killers. It was released on June 7, 2004 in the United Kingdom and on June 15, 2004 in the United States. Hot Fuss produced several commercially and critically successful singles: “Mr. Brightside”, “Somebody Told Me”, “All These Things That I’ve Done”, and “Smile Like You Mean It”. The album reached number seven on the Billboard 200 chart and number one on the UK Albums Chart. As of December 2012, Hot Fuss had sold more than seven million copies worldwide. The album and its first three singles went on to garner five Grammy Award nominations. Rolling Stone ranked Hot Fuss the 43rd of its “100 Best Albums of the Decade”, and it is one of the five most recent recordings listed among the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. (More from Wikipedia)
Boyskout recorded their first album, School of Etiquette in April 2003 and November 2003 with the assistance of Daniel Dietrick on bass guitar and keyboards, The producer is Jeff Saltzman; in the same year he produced the debut album Hot Fuss for the Killers, another successful entry in the Garage Rock Revival of the early 2000’s (the band’s name is taken from the nickname of rockabilly pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, “Killer”).
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