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Tuesday, Aug 30 2022, 7AM
Good morning from The Morning Show! And a happy birthday to "Plans," released by Death Cab For Cutie on this day in 2005.
Our friend Ben Gibbard stopped by KEXP last month. Here is a recording of the in-studio performance:
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Pink Moon is the third and final studio album by the English musician Nick Drake, who got the name of this song from the Dictionary Of Folklore. It represents the blood-red color of the moon during eclipses.
Valerie June covering Nick Drake's Pink Moon. (All the best things rhyme).
This one is a cover. "Teardrop" is a song by Massive Attack. Vocals were originally performed by Elizabeth Fraser, former lead singer of Cocteau Twins, who also wrote the lyrics.
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Andrew Vowles, who was the main songwriter of Teardrop, sent an early demo of the song to Madonna, as he initially wanted her to record the vocals for the song, as the band had previously worked with her on their 1995 reworking of the song "I Want You". However, bandmates Robert Del Naja and Grantley Marshall wanted Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins to record the vocals, feeling her ethereal style suited the feel of the piece. Although Madonna was very keen to record the vocals, the two-to-one vote ruled in Fraser's favor.
Interpol will be playing The Paramount in Seattle along with Spoon on September 16th then head for two nights in Portland the 17th & 18th!
According to Interpol's Daniel Kessler, the album's opening track, "Untitled" was written specifically to open their live shows. He said, "'Untitled' was a piece of music that was cultivated to open shows, well before we had any designs to make a record. It was a way to introduce the band live. And then by virtue of having performed it so many times, it became clear that this was our theme music to announce the band, and it felt appropriate to include it as such on our first album." - bit.ly
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W.A.M. or "wait a minute" is from London-based group, Moreish Idol's debut EP 'Float.'
Jude Lilley of the band shared: "This song was a milestone for the band as it was the first track we wrote entirely as a five piece, in the practice room, from scratch. It exemplifies a turning point for us, allowing us to run with our ideas together as a unit.”
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Talking about the song, the group's guitarist Martin Macnamara said:
"Fever Dream" was written during the hottest days of summer and is about a kind of existential aimlessness that is at its best and worst during that time of the year. [..] Musically it walks a narrow line between that sense of hope and despair but emphasizes the former by nodding towards a baggy, swirling Northern sound."
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From Buffalo Tom's third album, released in 1992.
Here's Buffalo Tom performing live in the KEXP studio in 2018 - www.youtube.com
North Carolina indie rock band Archers of Loaf are releasing Reason in Decline, their first album in 24 years!
“‘Screaming Undercover’ is definitely the heart of the new record,” says the band's Eric Bachmann. "I felt good after it had been written because I finally knew the point of view from which I could write more Archers songs."
Watch the animated music video here: www.youtube.com
Elizabeth Stokes says this song is "about stress and anxiety manifesting as an intolerance to noise. Where each new sound makes you more and more stressed." bit.ly
Here are The Beths' Live on KEXP at Home Session with Troy here: www.youtube.com
PJ Harvey's album Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) contains themes of love that are tied into Harvey's affection for New York City.
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“2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)” — from Lizzo’s new album, Special — is a self-questioning self-help pop track with 1980s drum machines and synthesizers.
On the track, she’s met a man she wants to be with, but she’s unsure if she’s ready for the leap due to scars from previous relationships. Eventually, she takes the leap and navigates the ups and downs of a new relationship. www.latimes.com
"It's Louisa in Portland's first day of first grade and she's a little nervous. Could you please play I'm Coming Out by Diana Ross?"
-Marta in Portland
You got this, Louisa!
Released posthumously, "Mo Money Mo Problems" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 1997, replacing "I'll Be Missing You" at the top of the chart, Puff Daddy's own tribute to the rapper. bit.ly
Karen O described their latest single: "'Burning' is a song about that feeling, smoke signals for the soul. Begging to cool it down, just doing it the best we know how. Nick and I nodded to Frankie Valli’s 'Beggin',' with the line, 'Oooh, lay your red hand on me, baby.' We’ve cut a rug to many a soulful ’60s bangers in our day, it was in our DNA by the time we wrote 'Burning.'"
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Watch the great video for this song: www.youtube.com
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The band's fifth studio album, their first since 2013's "Mosquito," is scheduled for release on September 30th.
Watch Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds doing this one live at Brixton Academy in London in 2004 here: www.youtube.com
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When asked what they recalled from the writing process of Nearly Lost You, Van Conner of Screaming Trees shared: "I had a little house in Ellensburg, and I decided not to pay rent that month to buy a four-track. I think it was the summer before we recorded Sweet Oblivion. The first time I used the four-track, I started writing that song."
Read the full interview with the late Mark Lanegan and Van Conner about this song, "Nearly Lost You": www.spin.com
Lemmy Kilmister preferred Motorhead's cover to the Stones' original. “I thought we beat them,” he told USA Today. “I thought we beat it to death. I mean, I like the Stones’ version, but I like ours better.”
New music from Toronto based U.S. Girls
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8:30 AM
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Dear DJ,
I woke up this morning and I had the chorus of "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" in my head. Apparently, it was released as a single this month 35 years ago from the Actually album of Pet Shop Boys. Any chance you could squeeze in either that track or any other from them this morning?
Thanks!
Aaron in Sacramento
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"What Have I Done to Deserve This?" marked Pet Shop Boys' first major collaboration with another recording artist (Dusty Springfield).
The song was originally written and demoed around Christmas 1984. It was originally intended for use on Please (1986), but the problem was to decide who’d sing the other half of the duet. Various contemporary singers were suggested to them, but none of them seemed suitable for the song. Eventually their manager’s assistant suggested Dusty Springfield, whose album Dusty in Memphis (1969) was often acknowledged by Neil Tennant as his favourite LP.
This wonderful English vocalist, born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, died in 1999 from breast cancer. She had a very long recording career, beginning in 1961 with her folk-pop trio The Springfields, and ending with her final album in 1995. Learn more about this artist: www.nytimes.com
Sampling Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man"
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Good morning kind people,
I have a request. Yesterday my 92 year old step father died. He was an integral part of my childhood and early adulthood until my mother died and he remarried and moved on, over 25 years ago. We reconnected a few years ago and have shared apologies and heartfelt memories. It's a weird kind of loss.
Chuck had a CD player in his study but not many cds. On a break from college, I found Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love and proceeded to play the sh*t out of it because it was far better than the CATS soundtrack. If you have the space, I'd love to hear Tunnel of Love. Thanks for all you do!
Judy in Seattle
Brian Eno produced this great album.
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When asked, why Manchester’s often overlooked lyrical heroes James has survived all of these years, lead singer and lyricist Tim Booth responds with two words—and his name is Brian Eno. Booth explained his reasoning when he said, “When you’ve got Brian Eno you’re not going to give up. Everywhere I went, Michael Stipe would say ‘How did you get to work with Brian Eno, I’ve been trying to work with him for years’. Flea would say ‘How did you get to work with Brian Eno for five albums?’ We had that. Brian, God bless him, says we were his favorite band. We had an amazing time with him. He’s definitely the fifth Beatle. And we miss him!”
Hi John!
Mike and I are driving our son to university for the first time. Driving to Ottawa, Ontario. Can you play The Frog Song for Tanner. It was a favorite of his when he was little and he’s been listening to your show with us for years! ❤️
Stephanie
Because deep down, we know that what matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then. --Mr. Rogers : bit.ly
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An untrained children's choir accompanies the Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman on this song from the soundtrack that she composed for the 2009 film.: www.youtube.com
From North Carolina-native Perry Wright, who named this project after a character from The Big Lebowski.
This song was originally going to be part of a four-track EP. However according to songwriter Charlie Fink, when they took it to their record label, they said: "You should probably do more with this."
The soundtrack of our corner in the multiverse.
The track finds the Los Angeles trio (guitarist and “singing person Greg Katz, bassist and “other singing person” Amanda Tannen, and drummer Mark “Echo” Edwards) up to their usual tricks, setting Katz’s wry speak-singing to chipper pop-rock, both of which belie the song’s despair. Katz reels off his usual one-liners and nonsequiturs like “Fritos isn’t free” and “Seal Team 6 is here saging everything,” insisting that “Everything is fine,” despite plentiful evidence to the contrary in the form of an ever-rising dumpster fire—a disaster that won’t stop snowballing.: bit.ly
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Def the 7th best day!
Such a good show this AM so far.
But you know I need to hear some Cheekface (please) before I truly start my day.
Thanks, as always,
Mike
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Cheekface have posted a Twitter thread breaking down this entire album! twitter.com
The title of the track came from an experience the Johns had when they found a substantial number of Ng's listed in a phone book. Linnell: "I think I was collecting possible song ideas and, for some reason, I ended up looking in the phone book, and there were about four pages of this name that contains no vowels, Ng. I was fascinated because it's a name I didn't know about before, and it was filling up a large chunk of the Manhattan white pages. I called up some of the numbers kind of experimentally to find out how it was pronounced, and I got the phone machine of a Dr. Ng and I was kind of relieved. The message said, 'Dr. Ng is not in,' and I had my material."
Live at KEXP Volume 10 drops 9/2! Head to kexp.bandcamp.com to pre-order a digital copy today. 100% of the proceeds will go directly to the artists.
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Throwback towhen the Violent Femmes played a free show in The Gathering Space and A LOT of you showed up to watch:
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It's "bring your kid to work day" for me too. Can you play Dolly's 9 to 5 for me and Noemie 6 and 3/4? - Nichole
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For our friends who work 9-5's.
Happy birthday to Teenage Sequence, also known as Dewan-Dean Soomary!
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"Thou Shalt Always Kill" started life as a Scroobius Pip spoken-word composition, one he would perform and use as a piece of improvisation depending on current events or things happening on that night.
"I'd use it at spoken word gigs because it was an easy one to adapt," said Pip in an extensive interview with the London Real podcast in 2014. "So if someone's overrun hugely, or been really condescending or anything like that, you can add "thou shalt not be a condescending prick"... you could just adapt bits, but put it into an already solidly structured piece. So I knew I already had the bits that would make the serious, social points, but I could add a lot of different areas if I needed to." www.songfacts.com
To LCD fans this multi-dimensional track is the clearest illustration of the group's identity. Murphy concurs: "To me, Losing My Edge was the perfect narrative song that could have ever come from me. Everything had a layer behind it. Was it making fun of other people? Sure. Was it making fun of myself for making fun of other people? Sure. But it was also about me kind of believing the things I was saying, and it was also about being a little embarrassed for being the kind of person who would believe those kinds of things."
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LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge" - Live at Madison Square Garden, 2014:
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Check out tour info for LCD Soundsystem to catch them live:
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Kae-EXP. Where the perfect coffee matters.
Here's Kae Tempest's ELECTRIC/PERFECT performance of "Perfect Coffee" live in the KEXP studio in 2017: www.youtube.com
Bob Dylan's second electric album, "Highway 61 Revisited," was released on this day in 1965!
That's a wrap for the morning - have a great day, y'all!