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Despite the title, MOONLIGHT DRIVE is not as inclusive as it could have been. B-sides are barely mentioned. Studio-only/demos ignored. Other books of this type usually go through pains to include almost every scrap of music put to tape that a band has recorded. MOONLIGHT DRIVE fails in this capacity. To Crisafulli’s credit, however, he does include ABSOLUTELY LIVE as well as OTHER VOICES and FULL CIRCLE. AMERICAN PRAYER, Jim Morrison’s spoken word album (with music by The Doors) is also included.

The book is full of interesting facts and is well-written and recommended, but I would have preferred a more inclusive and in-depth look at the stories behind every single Doors song.

Swim to the moon and get Moonlight Drive: The Stories Behind Every Doors Song

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via Perez Hilton. Complete with titty popping muscle men.

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Our favorite songmeister Jason Mraz has uploaded a festive track on his MySpace page: his take on the classic Christmas song, “Winter Wonderland.” I’ve never been one to enjoy the holiday music of musicians, but at the same time, I’m also a sucker for anything Jason does (think his cover of that muppet movie song with rainbow lyrics). Sucker am I.

NME is reporting that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club plan to push out a follow up to their critically mixed Howl LP. No album title yet, but NME published the tracklisting:

‘Cold Wind’
‘Killing the Lights’
‘American X’
‘Window’
‘Berlin’
‘All You Do Is Talk’
‘Lien On Your Dreams’
‘The Snow’s About to Begin’
‘Am I Only One of You’
‘Weapon of Choice’
‘666 Conducer’
‘Not What You Wanted’

The album is scheduled to hit earphones in March.

Howl with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Amazon

A Brad Sucks fan created a video for “Fixing My Brain” from Brad’s I Don’t Know What I’m Doing LP. “FMB” is one of my favorite tracks off that album, right behind “Dirtbag.” Good stuff.

U2 is releasing a new single January 1, 2007:

 ’Window in the Skies’, the new U2 single is set for release on January 1st. The b-side will feature Tower of Song with Leonard Cohen.

 

In case you missed us mentioning this earlier, the track is an all-new U2 song which the band recorded with Rick Rubin at Abbey Road Studios in London in September.  

The band performed the track live for the first time in Japan last week and also played it on Japanese TV which you can view here.

 

Window In The Skies will be released as a 2 track CD, maxi CD, and as a DVD single. B sides include Tower of Song, a collaboration with Leonard Cohen, taken from the film ‘Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man’.

 

Formats as follows:

 

CD 1

1. Window In The Skies

2. Tower of Song - U2 and Leonard Cohen - from the motion picture soundtrack ‘Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man’

 

CD 2

1. Window In The Skies

2. Zoo Station - live from Buenos Aires, March 2006 3. Kite - live from Sydney, 11th November 2006

 

DVD

1. Window In The Skies

2. The Saints Are Coming video - U2 and Green Day 3. Tower of Song video – from the film ‘Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man’

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This reminds me that I need to work on Missed06. Here’s the list:

1. Arctic Monkeys - ‘Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not’
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - ‘Show Your Bones’
3. Muse - ‘Black Holes And Revelations’
4. Hot Chip - ‘The Warning’
5. CSS - ‘Cansei De Ser Sexi’
6. Gnarls Barkley - ‘St Elsewhere’
7. Long Blondes - ‘Someone To Drive You Home’
8. The Strokes - ‘First Impressions Of Earth’
9. Kasabian - ‘Empire’
10. My Chemical Romance - ‘The Black Parade’
11. Howling Bells - ‘Howling Bells’
12. The Killers - ‘Sam’s Town’
13. Panic! At The Disco - ‘A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out’
14. TV On The Radio - ‘Return To Cookie Moutain’
15. Thom Yorke - ‘The Eraser’
16. Amy Winehouse - ‘Back To Black’
17. The Futureheads - ‘News And Tributes’
18. The Rapture - ‘Pieces Of The People We Love’
19. The Longcut - ‘A Call And Response’
20. The Streets - ‘The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living’
21. The Raconteurs - ‘Broken Boy Soldiers’
22. The Flaming Lips - ‘At War With The Mystics’
23. The Knife - ‘Silent Shout’
24. The Secret Machines - ‘Ten Silver Drops’
25. Mogwai - ‘Mr Beast’
26. Jarvis - ‘Jarvis’
27. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - ‘Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’
28. Morrissey - ‘Ringleader Of The Tormentors’
29. The Spinto Band - ‘Nice And Nicely Done’
30. Cat Power - ‘The Greatest’
31. The Sunshine Underground - ‘Raise The Alarm’
32. Lily Allen - ‘Alright, Still’
33. The Bronx - ‘The Bronx’
34. Albert Hammond Jr - ‘Yours To Keep’
35. Forward Russia - ‘Give Me A Wall’
36. Datarock - ‘Datarock’
37. Be Your Own Pet - ‘Be Your Own Pet’
38. Metric - ‘Live It Out’
39. The Young Knives - ‘Voices Of Animals And Men’
40. Midlake - ‘The Trials Of Van Occupanther’
41. The Gossip - ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’
42. The Automatic - ‘Not Accepted Anywhere’
43. Beck - ‘The Information’
44. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - ‘Ballad Of The Broken Seas’
45. Bob Dylan - ‘Modern Times’
46. Semi Finalists - ‘Semi Finalists’
47. Wolfmother - ‘Wolfmother’
48. Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - ‘The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager’
49. Absentee - ‘Schmotime’
50. The Kooks - ‘Inside In/Inside Out’