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Post by ~M on Oct 7, 2008 12:15:17 GMT -5
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Post by ~Vera on Oct 7, 2008 13:57:45 GMT -5
Not me QuietlyAre they songs of his album?? I don't wanna miss a thing Always be my baby
Are those gonna be included..as a bonus or something?
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Post by ~Vera on Oct 7, 2008 14:00:15 GMT -5
Quietly - Written by David Cook and Daniel Dodd Wilson, performed by David Cook. Quietly at ASCAP. Something on Daniel Dodd Wilson, he has worked with Jason Mraz and The Dixie Chicks.
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Post by ~M on Oct 14, 2008 20:48:26 GMT -5
hmm.. I can't believe its not on the album.. weird.. MY WONDERFUL FRIEND RECEIVED THIS EMAIL (and never posted it here..lol) so here I am. As promised, here is an exclusive first look at the new album cover and song titles! Only you and other members of the site get to see this first! Like it? Love it? Leave David comments on the site to let him know. Here’s the list of song titles: 01 Declaration 02 Heroes 03 Light On 04 Come Back to Me 05 Life on the Moon 06 Bar-ba-sol 07 Mr. Sensitive 08 Lie 09 I Did It for You 10 Avalanche 11 Permanent 12 A Daily Anthem BONUS TRACK The Time Of My Life David's self-titled CD comes out November 18! Let’s make this a huge success for David! -Ur Web Nerds PS: Stay tuned for some really exciting news about upcoming TV appearances.
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Post by ~Vera on Oct 14, 2008 21:44:27 GMT -5
hahaha lol i forgot! Now that i'm looking for this pic more and more times, i think he looks like a vampire! I like it.
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Post by ~M on Oct 21, 2008 14:48:27 GMT -5
Saturday, October 18, 2008 News! Evening everyone, It's a nice Friday night, about to go to bed, but I thought I'd share a few items with you all before I hit the sack. Better Than Ezra is about to complete a deal with a label to put out our next CD in Spring 09. We already have a handful of songs recorded and will do more in December and January. Also, I have a song I wrote with David Cook that will be on his debut album out November 18. The song is called "Avalanche". You may recall an old song titled "Avalanche" that I would play at shows, but this is a new song. I always loved the title and finally got the song right working with David. Lots of other cool songs coming out with different artists in the new year. Stay tuned!!!! KG from Kevin Griffin myspaceHere's Kevin singing Avalanche live. He said the song on David's album was a new song but then said he "got the song right working with David" so maybe he kept parts of this
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Post by ~Vera on Nov 1, 2008 13:12:58 GMT -5
List of songs from Wallmart. 1. Declaration 2. Heroes 3. Light On 4. Come Back To Me 5. Life On The Moon 6. Bar-Ba-Sol 7. Mr. Sensitive 8. Lie 9. I Did It For You 10. Avalanche 11. Permanent 12. Breathe TonightThis Wal-Mart exclusive includes a bonus track "Breathe Tonight". So there's no A Daily AntheM on this cd?? If i don't buy it on wallmart i won't have Breathe tonight then This is confusing.
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Post by ~M on Nov 1, 2008 17:09:53 GMT -5
ya, if you buy from walmart you will get breathe tonight but no A daily anthem, if you buy from Amazon, its vis versa. Many fans are just buying one and then file sharing for the one extra single, no point in buying the whole cd for one song, right?
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Post by ~Vera on Nov 1, 2008 17:54:10 GMT -5
ya, if you buy from walmart you will get breathe tonight but no A daily anthem, if you buy from Amazon, its vis versa. Many fans are just buying one and then file sharing for the one extra single, no point in buying the whole cd for one song, right? If i had enough money i would buy both To me the whole thing it's a strategy to get more albums sold... The thing is, since my aunt is buying it from a store i won't know which one i got, A Daily or Breathe.... surprise!
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Post by ~M on Nov 3, 2008 13:19:08 GMT -5
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Post by ~M on Nov 3, 2008 15:43:19 GMT -5
or do this Tracklist: 01 Declaration 02 Heroes 03 Light On 04 Come Back to Me 05 Life on the Moon 06 Bar-ba-sol 07 Mr. Sensitive 08 Lie 09 I Did It for You 10 Avalanche 11 Permanent 12 A Daily Anthem My favourite is number 11
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Post by ~M on Nov 3, 2008 15:48:54 GMT -5
hey ^my two favourites together..lol
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Post by ~Vera on Nov 3, 2008 18:31:35 GMT -5
Oh my god!!! Bar-ba-sol is exactly how i imagined!!! That song is SO gonna grow on me! Come back to me Permanent and A Daily Anthem, are so going to kill me.
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Post by ~Vera on Nov 3, 2008 19:22:41 GMT -5
Archie’s favorite song off of Cook’s album?
Speaking of time crunches, it was 11 p.m. when I reminded Archuleta that his pal David Cook was about to perform on Saturday Night Live. “It’s on soon, I know!” he yelped. “Think they’ll make fun of me? I’m, like, an easy target. I’d be funny to make fun of, I’m so weird.”
Oh Archie. You make it too easy.
What else can we tell you? His favorite song on the new Cook album is “Life on The Moon,” and he wasn’t aware that Daylight Savings Time went into effect that same night.
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Post by ~Vera on Nov 4, 2008 13:05:41 GMT -5
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Post by ~M on Nov 5, 2008 12:24:27 GMT -5
Details about the album.
DAVID COOK
Millions of people around the country fell in love with rock belter David Cook while watching him make other people’s songs his own week after week on the seventh season of American Idol. Cook won the competition handily thanks to viewers connecting with his rich, unfettered voice and passionately intense performances, not to mention his down-to-earth Midwestern charm. Now, with the release of his self-titled major-label debut, this gifted 25-year-old is eager to show those fans what he can do when he’s in the driver’s seat.
“I went on Idol with a five-card hand and showed three of my cards,” Cook says. “Now it’s time to put down the other two. There’s a lot I haven’t shown the world, just as far as who I am and what I’m about. I have several layers as an artist and those layers are out there on this record. I don’t see myself ever writing an autobiography; I’m just going to let the music speak for itself.”
And it does — loud and clear. David Cook is a statement-making album, filled with bold, keenly felt songs that showcase Cook’s powerful vocal chops and considerable songwriting talent, as well as the versatility that made him a star on Idol. The first single “Light On,” with its Southern rock vibe, is light years away from the gut-wrenching ballad “Permanent,” which couldn’t be more different than the swaggering shredder “Bar-Ba-Sol.”
“I wanted to make an eclectic album that went places,” Cook says. “This is my first major-label release and that gave me some room to be a bit of a chameleon and try different things. So there’s a diversity of influences on this record. When we were going through the process, I wasn’t sure how we were going to tie everything together.” That job fell to producer Rob Cavallo, a veteran studio wiz who has helmed hit albums for Green Day, My Chemical Romance, and Kid Rock, among many others. “Rob did a great job of tuning in to who I am as a person,” Cook says. “He really made the songs fit me, as opposed to tailoring them to fit someone else’s perception of me.”
Cook also gives props to his songwriting collaborators, an illustrious list that includes former Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell, Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik, Nixons singer/guitarist Zac Maloy, and Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida, one of Cook’s longtime idols. Cook co-wrote three songs with Maida, including “Heroes,” which he describes as an homage to his supportive family, and “Permanent,” a song addressed to his older brother Adam who is battling brain cancer.
“We recorded ‘Permanent’ in two takes and everyone in the room was crying,” Cook recalls. “I actually had to leave at one point because it was so emotional. As a musician, any time you can create something where the end result is exactly what’s in your head, well there’s a heaviness to that moment and it overwhelmed me. I’ve been writing songs for ten years and that was the first time I’d felt it. I think there’s an honesty throughout the record that culminates in that song.”
“Permanent” comes near the end of an album that is full of highlights, from the chiming opener “Declaration” (which Cook likens to “me standing on top of a building and declaring my intentions for this album”) to the arena-friendly sing-along closer “A Daily AntheM,” and everything in between, including the propulsive “Come Back To Me” and the poignant “Lie,” both of which illustrate the album’s recurring theme. “It’s the idea of love amidst separation,” Cook explains. “‘Come Back To Me’ is about loving someone you can’t be near, whereas ‘Lie’ is about being in a dysfunctional relationship that you don’t want to end because you still see the good in it.”
Then there’s “Life on the Moon” whose lyric “The life that I knew, it’s through…I’m alone in this crowded room…It’s like life on the moon” feels particularly fitting given how much Cook’s circumstances have changed since he auditioned for American Idol on a whim back in August 2007. “What I like about that song is that it represents the last year of my life without perverting the last year of my life,” he says. “It’s written so that it could be about the whole Idol journey, but it doesn’t have to be.”
Cook may have gotten his first taste of fame thanks to Simon, Paula, and Randy, but his musical ambitions began long before he appeared in front of their judging table. Born in Houston, Cook was raised in Blue Springs, Missouri. He began singing in second grade and performed in his school’s musical theater productions, but Cook found that rock and roll was more his style when he picked up a guitar at age 13. He formed his first band, Axium, at 15, though his attention was split between music and sports. “I thought I wanted to be a pro baseball player, but my fastball wasn’t fast enough and I couldn’t hit to save my life,” he says. “Performing was the only thing I ever felt I was great at.”
During his senior year of college at Central Missouri State, Cook recorded a solo CD called Analog Heart, which sold well regionally. In 2006, after obtaining a degree in graphic arts, Cook had to decide whether he wanted to be a musician or a graphic designer. “I gave myself every opportunity not to do music,” he says, “but it was always there. I couldn’t ignore it.” He moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was in the early stages of recording his second album when his younger brother Andrew asked Cook to accompany him to Omaha and lend moral support while he tried out for American Idol. Andrew didn’t make the cut, but he encouraged a very reluctant David to try out. “He threatened to beat my ass if I didn’t, so it’s entirely his fault that all this happened to me,” Cook says with a smile.
One week after being declared the winner with a record-breaking 56 percent of the nearly 100 million votes cast, Cook rewrote chart history when 11 of his songs debuted on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart — the highest number of new entries in a single week by an artist since the Beatles in 1964. Topping the list was "The Time of My Life," which debuted at No. 3, making it the highest new entry on the Hot 100 of 2008. In July, Cook hit the road with his fellow Idol contestants for the American Idols Live! Tour, which visited more than 40 cities across the U.S. — an experience he cites as extremely valuable. “Being able to make a 16,000-seat arena feel intimate is one of the trickiest things to pull off,” he says. “If you can get the people in the nosebleed seats to feel as though they’re getting the same show as the people sitting front and center, then you're doing something amazing. That’s always going to be my goal.”
It shouldn’t be too tough given that Cook will be performing the songs on his debut album. Gutsy and epic, but grounded in the personal, the songs are tailor-made for those magical moments when music, whether it be uplifting or heart-breaking, can transport you to another place, which is exactly what Cook intended. “I want my album to be an exhausting experience, in that you listen to it and have to take a breath to collect yourself, and immediately need to listen to it all over again,” he says. “I want people to hear it and feel like they just ran a 5K marathon.
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Post by ~Vera on Nov 5, 2008 18:28:34 GMT -5
I love this article!
"I want my album to be an exhausting experience, in that you listen to it and have to take a breath to collect yourself, and immediately need to listen to it all over again,” he says. “I want people to hear it and feel like they just ran a 5K marathon".
Awesome plan David. He's so gonna be the death of me.
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Post by ~Vera on Nov 5, 2008 19:22:29 GMT -5
Best Buy will be on-site to sell the new album at midnight! We will be listening to the new cd ALL NIGHT! Autographed door prizes! Dave-related games and trivia! This is going to be an epic night for everyone in the Chicagoland area. We have gotten a lot of support from Sony. They are giving us an advance copy of the cd and have arranged for Best Buy to sell the cd at midnight! PLUS they are giving us lots of promo posters to give away! Please tell everyone that you know that lives in or near Chicago! Trace Chicago 3714 North Clark Street Chicago, IL 60613 www.tracechicago.com/
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Post by ~M on Nov 5, 2008 19:40:01 GMT -5
thats cool, I know in NY that David will be signing autographes at the virgin megastore, and first person in line receives a ticket to see him perform that day.
You asked about the where I got the info for the lyrics, its from phyr11 of DC=42:[/]
I have family in the music business, and I now have a review copy of the record. I can't download it; I have to listen to it online. But it's good ... it's actually better than I thought given the 30-second snippets from the other day. Most of the songs have a mellow acoustic intro before the hard rocking -- I like that. (The snippets don't really let you know what they're like.)
And David's life? Oh yeah, it's all there. Here's some of the lines from Life on the Moon:
Here in this crowd I'm feeling more alone Turn me around and point me back to home I'm getting lost more every day and I can't tear myself away From the stars in my eyes with no light Here are my terms Have some faith in me And I'll let you be what you need to be Life on the moon Could it be any stranger? Life on the moon Wouldn't feel this far away The life that I knew is through And I'm going to need you more than ever I'm alone in this crowded room It's like life on the moon
I can see why this is Archie's favorite song - he can totally relate to it. And we as fans can as well. *sniff* *teary-eyed*
This was posted by MJ:
I just got an email from someone who has heard the whole album…
To paraphrase the comments:
It’s a combination of the emotional songwriting and singing from AH, but with much higher-quality production values and polish and with more hooks, making it more radio friendly than AH.
There are several songs where he rips his guts out emotionally (Permanent). Bar Ba Sol is the hardest rocking track on the CD. “Mr Sensitive” and “Life on the “Moon” are inspired by by his experience with fame.
“Avalanche” was co-written by ***** Griffin from Better Than Ezra.
It does not sound like “Fly-over rock”.
ETA. More from Zephyr11:
...Bar-Ba-Sol and Mr. Sensitive are fairly obviously all about Idol, and Permanent is about cancer. It's rather gut-wrenching. But who's the girl he wants to lie to him?
... To answer some questions that were posed since my first posting on this: Al I have is the individual recordings, on a site through Sony BMG Publicity. I have to log in with my benefactor's email and password (she was sent this in an email from a pr contact at Sony), and re-log in every so often. I suspect they make me do this to avoid piracy. I also get the time of the song and the words "available 4 November 08." That's it. No liner notes, nothing interesting. Sony's PR release came in the email.
I also have access to 14 other unreleased records in which I am totally uninterested, like The Pussycat Dolls and the soundtrack from Madagascar 3!
It seems as if the 30-second snippets come from the middle of the songs, before the first chorus. That's a shame, because the intros, on most of the songs, are really wonderful.
Permanent is really something. I thin a listener would respond to the emotion in it (our Davy is a master of feelings) without knowing the backstory.
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Post by ~Vera on Nov 5, 2008 22:32:24 GMT -5
After all the comments of how even MORE wonderful than i imagine this album is... i just need to hear it. I decided on Nov. 18th I'm gonna d/l all the songs... And won't feel bad cause it's illegal cause i'm gonna buy a copy, i just NEED to hear them at the same time as everyone....
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