Glee - The Power of Madonna

As a vehicle for creating top selling albums and singles, the television music drama Glee has achieved unparalleled success - Glee – The Music – Vol 2 entered the charts at number two last week.

Hot on the heels of that success the TV show will be releasing their latest effort on April 26th, with what is bound to be another smash, featuring the music of the Queen of pop, Madonna.

The Power of Madonna marks the next official chapter in the Glee music songbook.  This much talked about and highly anticipated mini-album features the cast of Glee’s distinctive and unique take on such Madonna classics as “Like A Virgin,” “Express Yourself,” “Vogue,” “Like A Prayer” and more…

Celebrated for its witty writing and ability to breathe new life into pop music, Glee has proven to be an unstoppable cultural phenomenon. The most award winning new show, Glee was recently honored with accolades from the Golden Globes (Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical), Screen Actors Guild (Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series) and People’s Choice Award (Favorite New TV Comedy).

The music from Glee has become an international sensation with Glee: The Music, Volume 1 and Glee: The Music, Volume 2 topping charts in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada. Here in the UK, more than half a million singles have been downloaded in addition to both Glee: The Music, Volume 1 and Glee: The Music, Volume 2 reaching the top and second spot respectively in the album charts.

The Power of Madonna tracklisting:

1. Express Yourself

2. Borderline/Open Your Heart

3. Vogue

4. Like A Virgin

5. 4 Minutes

6. What It Feels Like For A Girl

7. Like A Prayer

the inbetweeners

It must be approaching Christmas as the soundtrack from the brilliant tv comedy series The Inbetweeners is due to be released next week on November 2nd.

The Inbetweeners is the soundtrack to the BAFTA nominated British sitcom about a group of sixth formers struggling through their teenage years. The series follows four friends Will (Simon Bird), Simon (Joe Thomas), Jay (James Buckley) and Neil (Blake Harrison) who are neither popular nor ‘geeky’- they are The Inbetweeners.

Featuring songs from long standing bands The Cure (Inbetween Days) and The Jam (That’s Entertainment), through to relative newcomers the Maccabees (Latchmere and About Your Dress) and the Rumble Strips (Girls and Boys in Love), The Inbetweeners is definitely as much about the music as it is about the laughs.

But as well as an outstanding musical soundtrack the album also includes some of the funny moments from the series that has set new boundaries for teenage/young adult orientated comedy on UK tv.

Full tracklisting:

Disc 1

1. Briefcase (Dialogue)
2. Morning Runner – Gone Up In Flames
3. The Libertines – Don’t Look Back Into The Sun
4. The Wombats – Moving To New York
5. Miss Timbs (Dialogue)
6. Justin Timberlake Feat. Timbaland – Sexyback
7. Jamie T – Sheila
8. Bumder (Dialogue)
9. Kate Nash – Foundations
10. The Duke Spirit – Love Is An Unfamiliar Name
11. Thom Stone – She Knows
12. Mumm-Ra – She’s Got You High
13. Caravan Club (Dialogue)
14. Jack Penate – Second, Minute Or Hour
15. The Cure – Inbetween Days
16. Belle & Sebastian – I’m A Cuckoo
17. Friend (Dialogue)
18. Tellison – Gallery
19. Field Music – She Can Do What She Wants
20. New Cassettes – You Won’t Stop
21. Business (Dialogue)
22. Freaks – The Creeps (Get On The Dancefloor)
23. Transformer – Cinema Car
24. Royworld – Elasticity
25. Theaudience – A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed
26. Underage Drinkers (Dialogue)

Disc 2

1. Morning Benders (Dialogue)
2. Biffy Clyro – A Whole Child Ago
3. Neil’s Lego Collection (Dialogue)
4. Gorillaz – Kids With Guns (Hot Chip Remix)
5. Dizzee Rascal Feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome – Dance Wiv Me
6. Fish Punch (Dialogue)
7. The Maccabees – Latchmere
8. White Lies – To Lose My Life
9. The Rumble Strips -Girls And Boys In Love
10. Feisty One You Are (Dialogue)
11. Hot Chip – Over And Over
12. Sam Isaac – Fire Fire
13. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. – War Of The Worlds
14. The Young Knives – Fit 4 U
15. Simon At The Disco (Dialogue)
16. The Maccabees – About Your Dress
17. Ed Harcourt – Born In The ’70s
18. Drive By (Dialogue)
19. Passion Pit – Cuddle Fuddle
20. Lloyd Cole – Wild Orphan
21. Jay Gets Dumped (Dialogue)
22. The Jam – That’s Entertainment

true blood soundtrack

‘True Blood – Music from the HBO Original Series‘ will be released on October 26th through Atlantic Records, featuring tracks from the first series of True Blood including the sultry theme tune Bad Things performed by Jace Everett.

The show which is in its second series in the US has only recently premiered in the UK, Channel 4 launched the first series on October 7th, and according the the Guardian is ‘destined to become ten times bigger than everything else on TV.’

Mixing romance, suspense, mystery, and humor, True Blood takes place in the not-too-distant future, when vampires have come out of the coffin, thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood that means they no longer need humans to get their fix.

Set in a backwoods Louisiana town, the show follows the romance between waitress Sookie Stackhouse ,played by Anna Paquin, who won an Oscar at the age of eleven for her role in The Piano and winner of a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Sookie, who can read minds, and 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton, played by British actor Stephen Moyer.

True Blood – Music from the HBO Original Series features songs performed by a wide-range of Louisiana natives, reflecting the series’ steamy backwoods setting of the American bible-belt where the liberal minded are thin on the ground.

The artists span Louisiana’s distinctive musical heritage, from three-time Grammy award winner Lucinda Williams, Slim Harpo, and Lee Dorsey to Allen Toussaint and the legendary Dr. John.  This eclectic soundtrack of country, rock and blues also includes Bleed 2 Feed, an exclusive new song written expressly for the series by Lafayette-based swamp rocker CC Adcock.

Full tracklisting for the album:

1.      Jace Everett – “Bad Things”

2.      CC Adcock – “Bleed 2 Feed”

3.      Lucinda Williams – “Lake Charles”

4.      Lee Dorsey – “Give It Up”

5.      Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers – “Swampblood”

6.      Cobra Verde – “Play With Fire”

7.      The Watson Twins – “Just Like Heaven”

8.      The Flying Burrito Brothers – “Christine’s Tune (A.K.A. Devil In Disguise)”

9.      Ryan Adams – “Two”

10.  Slim Harpo – “Strange Love”

11.  Allen Toussaint – “From A Whisper To A Wind”

12.  Dr. John – “I Don’t Wanna Know”

13.  John Doe Featuring Kathleen Edwards – “The Golden State”

14.  Little Big Town – “Bones”