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"The Adventure"
Single by Angels and Airwaves
from the album 'We Don't Need to Whisper'
Released	May 18, 2006
Format	CD
Recorded	2005
Genre	Alternative rock, Ambient
Length	5:40
Label	Geffen
Producer(s)	Tom DeLonge
Chart positions
20 UK 5 U.S.
Angels and Airwaves singles chronology
	"The Adventure" (2006)	"It Hurts" (2006)

"The Adventure" is a song by Angels and Airwaves. It appears on the band's first album, We Don't Need to Whisper, and was the band's first single, also being the first full song to be heard by fans.

On February 3, 2006, a preliminary version of the song was leaked through the internet. It lasted five minutes and forty seconds and showed the band's previously stated style and departure from previous works. Listeners described the song's Edge-like guitars and '80s synths sound like a cross between The Alarm, U2, and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me-era Cure, with Tom DeLonge's trademark blink-182 vocal harmonies and guitar melodies on top. It gave the listener a very clear idea of what direction the band was taking. The song was widely distributed on many fansites and MySpace pages. The leaked version is slightly different from the released version; gasping that was evident after each line on the leaked version is removed.

On February 8, in a Rolling Stone interview, when asked about this song, DeLonge said: "The song was inspired by a friend whose marriage was kind of falling apart. It touched me so deeply that I was up one night crying for him -- I felt so hurt." [1]

The song entered the UK singles chart at it's peak position #20. This can be seen as quite an achievement, considering the song's leak months earlier and the absence of any other b-side on the single. This would normally be an incentive for people owning the song to purchase the CD single.

The song's music video was nominated for Best Effects by the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best New Artist and Best Editing.

Contents 1 Track Listings 2 Short film 3 Music video 4 Trivia 5 External links

The song was released on February 20, 2006, as an internet-only short film. Although Tom had stated something different, it had the same version of the song that had been leaked previously. It is shot on 8mm black and white, and it's very sci-fi. DeLonge stated that "it kind of looks like George Lucas' THX 1138, where it's all beautiful naked women and fast cars and concrete and glass architecture". The only noticeable difference between it and the leaked version was a sound-byte dubbed into the intro of the song proclaiming, "It's too bad she won't live! ...But then again, who does?", a line taken from the movie Blade Runner. The subsequent short-film, "It Hurts," was released on April 18th and continues the story where "The Adventure" left.

The music video for the song was directed by The Malloys and was shot in March 2006. It was released on April 5. The video leaked onto the internet soon after. It begins with the band boarding a spacecraft to pick up their instruments and begin playing, and then moves to Tom walking along the countryside. For the relief of many, Tom has not lost his guitar, as seen in the picture on the band's MySpace, but rather dances and plays it in a few scenes. The video continues, eventually ending with clips of World War II and Tom walking off into the distance in a meadow with the sky lit with planets. It doesn't have the long intro from the leaked version, nor the full outro.

• The song was used in a promotional trailer for the NBC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which debuted in September 2006.
• The song was the first song to be played just after midnight for Boston's New Years fireworks celebration in 2007.
• The video for "The Adventure," was number one on MuchTopTens: "Top Ten Out Of This World Videos" on December 14, 2006.
• On December 3 2006 part of the song was used for The Bowl championship(BCS) selection show on fox
• The song was used to promote Microsoft Windows Vista at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show.
• The song was featured in One Tree Hill, Season 3 Episode 20 "Every Day is a Sunday Evening.

• Fan-done piano rendition