You Only Live Once (song)
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| Single by The Strokes | ||
| From the album First Impressions of Earth | ||
| Single Released | July 24, 2006 (Int'l) September 26, 2006 (US) |
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| Single Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 2005 | |
| Genre | Garage Rock | |
| Song Length | 3:09 | |
| Record label | RCA | |
| Producer | David Kahne Gordon Raphael |
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| The Strokes single chronology | ||
| "Heart in a Cage" 2006 |
"You Only Live Once" 2006 |
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You Only Live Once is the opening track and third (and last) single from First Impressions of Earth, the third album from American rock band The Strokes. They have performed this song on several programs, most recently The Tonight Show and Late Night with Conan O' Brien. Released on July 24, 2006, the single hit #35 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, but, has thus far failed to chart in the UK, a first for The Strokes.
A cover of Marvin Gaye's "Mercy, Mercy Me" was recorded as a b-side and features Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam sharing vocals with Julian Casablancas while Josh Homme, (of Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal), plays drums alongside Fabrizio Moretti.
The video for the single was directed by Samuel Bayer, who had previously helmed the "Heart In A Cage" video, and features the band performing the song in an enclosed room while tar pours from the walls and fills the room. The video was set to premiere in the UK on May 24th, 2006, but was delayed, due to last-minute edits, until June 21st, 2006. Yahoo! premiered the video in the US on June 27th.
An early demo version of the song, entitled "I'll Try Anything Once" is included as one of the b-sides on the "Heart In A Cage" single. It features only Julian Casablancas playing keyboard while softly singing the lyrics, which are much different from the album version of the song. Some of these lyrics were also present when The Strokes played the song for the BBC's Radio 1 Session, which aired on March 8th, 2006.
The name is a possible reference to the James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice".
| The Strokes |
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| Julian Casablancas | Nikolai Fraiture | Albert Hammond Jr | Fabrizio Moretti | Nick Valensi |
| Discography |
| Albums and extended plays: The Modern Age | Is This It | Room on Fire | First Impressions of Earth |
| Singles: "Hard to Explain" | "Last Nite" | "Someday" | "12:51" | "Reptilia" | "The End Has No End" | "Juicebox" | "Heart in a Cage" | "You Only Live Once" |
