Perry Farrell's Satellite Party – Ultra Payloaded / Featuring Esteemed Guests: Flea, John Frusciante, Peter Hook, Fergie & More / Includes: ''Wish Upon A Dog Star'' & ''Hard Life Easy'' / Columbia Audio CD 2007 / 82876 87523 2

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Perry Farrell's Satellite Party is a band created by former Jane's Addiction front man and Lollapalooza founder, Perry Farrell. Their debut album Ultra Payloaded features special guests Flea and John Frusciante from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fergie from Black Eyed Peas, Peter Hook of New Order, and more. There are 10 Satellite Party songs on the album and the 11th track, "Woman in the Window," features lyrics and vocals by The Door's front man Jim Morrison with additional music and production by Perry Farrell. This song evolved from a previously unreleased spoken word piece by Jim Morrison.

His band Jane's Addiction helped grease the alternative-rock skids as the '80s hit the '90s, and Perry Farrell--pushing 50--now aims for a new decade and another century. The ethereal artist's revelry of contributors to his latest project includes one-named artists Flea and Fergie, Peter Hook (ex-New Order), and a creepy posthumous appearance by Jim Morrison. That's right: leave it to Farrell, creator of rock festival Lollapalooza and some of his genre's most impulsive music, to dust off the Lizard King, whose healthy vocal slinks and slides beneath the baiting, rhythmic lyric "Just try and stop us/We're going to love" (complete with a Ray Manzarek-like organ riff at the bridge). The novelty of "Woman in the Window" will undoubtedly generate the most attention. But Farrell's Satellite Party leaves plenty more on the table, channeling the punk-and-metal command of Jane ("Kinky," "Insanity Rains") with some of the pop sparkle of his Porno for Pyros ("Hard Life Easy," "The Solutionists"), while tossing in a couple of choice covers to boot: Rare Earth's "Just Wanna Celebrate" and the Bee Gees' "Lonely Days," recast as "Mr. Sunshine." --Scott Holter