follows in the trail...

wow, interesting amount of spam this site is suddenly receiving. not really too psyched about that, ya know? this morning's post is probably less likely to generate spam.

if you check out the rolling stone website, you can stream the new herbie hancock album, which has a joss stone cover of u2's when love comes to town. usually u2 covers suck. not sure what i think of her version yet. that song's not a big favorite of mine in the first place, really.

more interestingly: the upcoming hanson album has a live version of the blondie boys/now men covering u2's in a little while. last summer bono decided to announce that hanson's mmmmbop is one of the best songs ever. so the cosmic connection definitely exists. either that or taylor hanson just digs in a little while, which is cool, cause brandon flowers of the killers thinks it's u2's masterpiece himself. and as you may have heard bono mention 5 million times, it was a song joey ramone loved and apparently joey was listening to in a little while when he passed from this life.

also, my blog is named after a lyric in the song, in case that escaped you. lyrically, for me it is the best love song bono has ever written. it is soulful and personal, with some desperation added in for good measure. slow down my beating heart. a man dreams one day to fly. a man takes a rocket ship into the skies. he lives on a star that's dying in the night. and follows in the trail, the scatter of light...

an audience recorded version of hanson performing in a little while made the rounds online a few months back and it pretty much kicked ass. bono sings it in a wasted gravelly voice but the hanson dudes sing it with real pure vocals, so it is an odd change to the feeling of the song. anyway, as you can tell, i can't wait to hear hanson's version all polished up. cause i am a giant dork.

peace.