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DOA (Foo Fighters song)

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Released
  
September 5, 2005

Recorded
  
January–March 2005

Label
  
Roswell, RCA

Format
  
7", CD

Length
  
4:13

Genre
  
Alternative rock, hard rock

"DOA" is the second song released as a single from Foo Fighters' fifth album, In Your Honor.

Contents

Song information

DOA refers to the medical term "dead on arrival". The song reached number one on Billboard's Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for six non-consecutive weeks. The cover artwork features an Ampeg Dan Armstrong guitar.

In other media

"DOA" has also been released as a Rock Band and Rock Band 2 DLC track on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on December 23, 2008.

Music videos

The video for the single shows the band in a 360° revolving room and on a train where objects act as if the train is rotating. The band said that the video made them feel ill and they felt like wetting themselves. It was directed by Michael Palmieri.

Another music video was also aired on MTV2 on the program Video Mods that featured Darth Maul, Boba Fett, Darth Vader, and General Grievous in the place of the real band members. The video also featured clips from the video game Star Wars: Battlefront II.

Other versions

  • An early version of the song, listed as a demo, was released on the CD1 version of the "Resolve" single and Five Songs and a Cover.
  • A version recorded on August 23, 2005 at Maida Vale Studios in London for the BBC Radio 1 was released on the Radio 1's Live Lounge compilation.
  • A live version filmed at Hyde Park on June 17 2006 was released on the Live at Hyde Park DVD.
  • References

    DOA (Foo Fighters song) Wikipedia