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Listen to three tracks from Muppets: The Green Album

To coincide with The Muppets Disney is set to release a new soundtrack of Muppet favorites entitled Muppets: The Green Album. Along with My Morning Jacket covering “Our World” (from Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas), Andrew Bird‘s version of “It’s Not Easy Being Green” and OK Go doing their version of The Muppet Show Theme Song (all of which you can listen to after the jump), the album also includes The Fray doing “Mahna Mahna,” Rachael Yamagata covering “I’m Going to Go Back There Someday” (Gonzo’s song from The Muppet Movie), Alkaline Trio doing “Movin’ Right Along,” Matt Nathanson with “I Hope That Something Better Comes Along,” and Weezer covering “Rainbow Conenction.” The album hits stores next Tuesday.

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Cadillac Records (Official Soundtrack)

  • Title: Cadillac Records (Official Soundtrack)

The new film Cadillac Records is based on real events of the music scene in the 1950’s and 60’s involving the influential Chicago label Chess Records.  Hitting stores just days before the film, the soundtrack is available in both as single-disc and a deluxe two-disc version.

Included on both are Beyonce singing “At Last,” “Once in a Lifetime,” and “I’d Rather Go Blind” (the first of which is by far the best of the three recordings).  Jeffrey Wright belts out “I’m a Man” and “I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man,” and Mos Def sings “Nadine” and let’s us know there’s “No Particular Place to Go.”  Rounding out the collection are “6 O’Clock Blues” sung by Solange, Columbus Short singing “My Babe,” and “The Sound” by Mary Mary.

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The Music of 007

Our Bond Week continues.  The opening sequences to a Bond film are legendary.  We take a look back at some of our favorites starting with Sheena Easton singing the title song of For Your Eyes Only.  After the jump you’ll find other openings featuring Tom Jones belting out Thunderball, Matt Munro’s From Russia With Love, Shirley Bassey letting us know that Diamonds are Forever, Lulu‘s The Man With the Golden Gun, A View to a Kill by Duran Duran, Carly Simon sharing the fact that “Nobody Does it Better,” and Paul McCartney urging us to Live and Let Die.

For Your Eyes Only


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