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Friday, Mar 27 2020, 6AM
Hey John, I just wanted to thank you and the entire KEXP team.
I listen to the morning show every day. I live in Portland, Maine but grew up in the Northwest. KEXP used to be my connection back home, now as I spend my days working from my kitchen table, it's one of my links to the world.
I'd love to hear some Wilco this morning.
Take care of yourself and thanks again!
-Steve
Been listening to you and the other great DJ's whenever I work from home. Great songs all around, especially over the last couple of weeks.
The Moondoggies were a band that kept me listening to KEXP after finding out about the station. I don't have a cool story to tell other than The Moondoggies are a great band. Finally got to see them in September when they came through Chicago on a tour opening for The Head and the Heart. Great guys too. Hope to make it out to the Seattle area to see them live sometime soon. Hopefully. Soon.
Thanks for everything.
Egan
My wife and I are busy swapping off homeschooling responsibilities and work (we're both in education; I'm Zooming my day away with my classes). I know it's been said a million times, but I can't thank you and the other dj's at KEXP for keeping me sane through all this madness outside our doors.
My wife and I have friends and family in health care and I can't imagine what they're going through right now in hospitals, particularly in Seattle and NYC. We just donated some masks to a local hospital in NYC. It is unbelievable that our government is neglecting the most critical folks in our workforce, in our lives, right now. Let's all hope they get some relief soon.
I'd love to hear New York Cares by Interpol when you have the time to fit it in. Thanks again for everything.
Best,
Patrick
New York, NY
Thanks so much for your continued work this week and during these strange times. Your positive energy and the amazing music that you share keeps a lot of people going! The morning show certainly helps me keep moving and forward, as I attempt to figure out teaching from home here in Austin!
Could you play something by The National? No particular song preference.
Thanks! Happy Friday!
C J
"Hey Goodbye" by Macha Loved Bedhead
Moms and dads
When times are hard
Do the best they can
Thank you to KEXP - I cant tell you how much we need it now more than ever.
Paul, Chicago
Martha in NM requested this song...
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Much love and support to all my family at KEXP and all its listeners across the globe. We are so connected, in love, through all the challenges, joys, kindnesses, strifes and beauty. Never alone. Never separate. 💙💚💛🧡💜
This one was requested by a John in Seattle who is now reading this on the radio and wants to say OWEN AND LISA RULE AND JOHN DROOL(S).
John and all of KEXP, thank you so much for being here for all of us. I'd love to hear Cut Copy's 'Need You Now' or Prince 'Let's Go Crazy', 'cause..... you know.
Many many many thanks to all of you! We're not alone.
-Valerie in D.C.
I was hoping you could play You Push I’ll go by Baby Dayliner.
And by the way, if you are ever at a loss as to what to play for one of your running podcasts, may I suggest the playlist from one of your Friday shows. It works for me!
Kevin from New York
our wedding was supposed to be tomorrow. when we made the call to postpone it only a couple weeks ago in order to keep our friends and family safe, it felt like we still had a choice. now, with everyone under "stay at home" directives and thousands ill and dying, it's clear we didn't.
canceling a wedding is a small thing compared to the suffering so many people are going through right now, but we're still pretty crushed to not be gathering with our loved ones tomorrow. on the bright side, the weather is going to be miserable tomorrow and the wedding was going to be outside, so maybe it's all for the best?
would love to hear thom yorke's cover of "all for the best" from the ciao my shining star compilation, if you can fit it in.
thanks for everything you're doing to keep the kexp community in good spirits.
- lissa in dc
I live in Germany. Over 10 years I listen to your station often in my studio. You are doing a great job, and many thanks for your work. I always wanted to write this to you.
Going out to dinner with friends, going to a concert, a exhibition or going dancing seems almost surreal in these times! At the Moment, once a day I listen to loud music and dance! I close my eyes, move and try to forget everything for a moment. Yesterday I danced to "Hold tight London" by Chemical Brothers: Six minutes of just moving to the music and not thinking of anything, in these times!
I wish you all the best, stay healthy and please keep up the good work.
Thank you and best wishes,
Florian
Morning to YOU and the best station on the planet!! Thank you for what you do!!!! I had a really good friend pass in an avalanche this day five years ago outside of Revelstoke BC. His name was Adam and he introduced me to LCD Soundsystem and I was wondering if you could play ," Someone Great!" Thank you again and again💥🙏🤘🤘🤘
-Hugh
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sammy Tweets...
"That transition into “Someone Great” literally caused me to tear up immediately. Music is the only thing healing right now."
Last night at 8, my 11-year old son, Bridger, took his grandma's acoustic guitar to the back porch and started playing Radio Head's 'Fake Plastic Trees'. It was beautiful and powerful. These kids have had their world turned upside down maybe even more than we adults. After he finished I could hear some neighbors crying. We're going to get through this and just a reminder for everyone, you are not alone.
Can you play Fake Plastic Trees
Thanks Nick
Hey can you play something off Pearl Jam's new album Gigaton? I suggest river cross...
Much thanks🖖,
Nan
Thank you for your amazing work! Love listening to your shows. I lived in Seattle for seven years and a couple of months ago moved to Vermont but still listen online while I work, now from home.
I would love to hear Deep In Love by Bonny Light Horseman
Thank you!
Maggie
Friday song! Beat starts and kids and I start our kitchen dance party and for a brief moment we forget everything happening in the world and live outside this new normal. Thank you for giving us all an opportunity to let go and dance. --Andrea, Lucy, Henry and Clover in Ballard
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I LOVE HENRY INTRODUCING THE FRIDAY SONG!!!!! Working the state of MN & Henry just made my morning! Dancing my cube ass off! Happy Friday John in the morning! Keep it up!
-Pamela in Minneapolis
my kids are requesting Rudy Willingham’s pool party song. Maybe during the dance party?
Love ya,
-Noah and fam
Morning John, Owen and Lisa. I woke up this morning with anxiety attack, afraid that I would lose my job and the home I just bought. I know others have already gone through the same and am grateful everyday for what I have. I decided that playing Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard by Paul Simon would make me feel better. And it did! I sang and whistled the whole thing.
So inspired by John last year and his love of Some Sunsick Day I decided to play it 2 more times. And now I feel three times better! Will you please play Me and Julio as many times as you'd like to remind us that we are all gonna be ok, no matter what this crazy world throws at us? Love y'all, as always, Jenny
John-
Sometimes emotions build up like a river behind a logjam. Under the skin but the tears won't come out. Yesterday you played an acoustic cover of American Tune as sung by Dave Matthews. And it broke that dam for me and I was able to let them out. It was very much needed.
If you can, could you please play that again.
Thank you,
Sean in Seattle
Anthony T. checking in from West Palm Beach this morning. I am fortunate enough to remain working while most of our city has shut down business. KEXP is the light guiding us through the tunnel here on the job. I am wondering if you can play “Genius of Love” by the Tom Tom Club.
Thanks always.
Pronounced "Tuh-coh-cuh-tee" ... if you are Troy. :)
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I understand construction in WA has been suspended for a little bit, except for critical infrastructure projects. Hopeful the West Seattle Bridge counts, but right behind it in priority should be "Bridge to Hawaii" by TacoCat. Hope you or someone else can spin that platter today.
Looking forward to all this being behind us so I can make my annual trip to Seattle this fall, and make my annual contribution to KEXP in person.
Good luck, and you're not alone either.
Jim and his two cats in northern VA.
I am sheltering at home in Minneapolis. My siblings are in Milwaukee, WI and Bend, OR. Tonight we are trying out a long distance karaoke party to try to have some fun while standing on the edge of the void. I plan to start things off with Metric's Help I'm Alive. Take care this weekend! Thanks for keeping me feeling connected this week. I was telling my friend Zack in NYC (who introduced me to your show back in 2004 when we lived in DC) that John in the Morning is how I crisis.
Always love!
Rebecca
Any chance of playing this song.. in these strange goth like times ?
Thanks
Bill
The amount of thanks I have for you and the KEXP team definitely won't fit in this email, it may break the internet, and I don't want to be responsible for that!!
Thought of a request that may be appropriate in this day and age - Waiting Room by Fugazi.
Our family appreciates you, and all the hope and positivity that KEXP brings to us every day! I hope you can keep fighting the good fight!
Jeff from Oakland
Hey John,
Hello here from Brooklyn -- haven't left the apartment in over a week now with my husband and 2 year-old. Trying to stay sane while hearing these numbers of cases climb by thousands overnight in NY. I really miss getting annoyed at other New Yorkers in public and on the subway, never would have thought I'd say that. I cry every damn time I think of my fellow New Yorkers cramped into their tiny apartments not at all designed for quarantine.
To remind ourselves that this IS temporary, can you play the live version of The Waiting with Tom Petty and Eddie Vedder?
Love to everyone at KEXP for being a beacon of light during this very strange time.
Xo
I woke up to 15 messages on a group text I have with my family. I knew what it meant: my dad passed away during the night. He joins my mom, his eternal dance partner, 2 years and 352 days later. He has lived in a nursing home in Everett for the past 10 years. I live in PA but was able to get home to see him in February and in his way, he acknowledged I was there.
On my wedding day our song was Edelweiss because I could manage dancing a waltz but that isn't my song request. We also danced to "At the River" by Groove Armada. He liked the original, "Old Cape Cod" by Patti Page so it was a good mix for old and new for us. Would you be able to play "At the River"?
Of course we can't have a funeral soon but hoping we will be able to head up to their favorite ski trails this summer near Snoqualmie and have a celebration of life then.
Thank you as always for the music.
Lisa
Listening to you to get through the work morning. Wondering if you can play Strange Overtones, David Byrne/Brian Eno?
Love the theme of solidarity with people that you can't quite get to/interact with.
Thanks,
Matthew
Party at Ground Zero- Fishbone
Please & thanks!
Because Whimsy
-Greg on Queen Anne
When Songfacts spoke with Thomas Dolby in 2011, he told us that he wrote this '80s classic so he could direct a video using a silent movie motif in the style of the old Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton films. Said Dolby: "This was just when music videos were starting to come to the fore, and I was very keen to try out my talent as a music video director. I was pretty much writing it to accompany a video."
This Year by The Mountain Goats
We’re going to make it through
Greetings from Mexico
Oscar
School of Seven Bells were live on KEXP back in 2011 (!) You can watch the full performance here: www.youtube.com