Song of the Day: "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll" by the Killers

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For someone who's a self-appointed music blogger, I have a lot of holes in my music knowledge. Thus, I have only just today listened to "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll" by The Killers off their debut album Hot Fuss. But how can that be? I think I had the album and so did someone I dated.

Leave it to me, Little Miss Play It On Repeat and Little Miss Comfort Zone, to take well over a decade to even scratch the surface of a good band's catalog. What can I say? I like to savor music.

"Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll," a tune which is just as the name describes, is my song of the day. Despite a low-key start, Brandon Flowers' octave-straddling—and yes, maybe occasionally over-ambitious—voice and tremulous pathos create a rock opera-style torch song. A jaded indie-rock version of "I Did It My Way."

—Sarah Torribio