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And we're counting down YOUR favorite albums from the past 50 Years!
#324!
Steve Kilbey wrote Under the Milky Way with his then girlfriend, Swedish musician Karin Jansson. The couple, who share twin daughters, were visiting Kilbey’s mother on the New South Wales central coast. After dinner, Kilbey snuck outside to dodge his washing-up duties and enjoy a smoke.
“Perhaps I looked up at the wonderful glittering heavens and was inspired – I don’t know,” he recounted years later. Kilbey drifted back indoors and began tinkering on the piano. Jansson sidled up and, before long, a melody had formed. “We agreed on the lyrics within three minutes,” he said.: bit.ly
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#323!
From the debut studio album by Tears for Fears, released in 1983. Roland Orzabal, then 19 years old, wrote the song on an acoustic guitar after hearing Duran Duran's "Girls On Film." - bit.ly
#322!
ODESZA formed in 2012 at Western Washington University. In 2018, the duo behind the intricate electronic group, Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight talked with KEXP about how this album, "A Moment Apart," brought them closer together: www.kexp.org
#321!
Here Come the Warm Jets is the debut solo album by Brian Eno, released in the US on Island Records in January 1974. It was recorded and produced by Eno following his departure from Roxy Music. The album features numerous guests, including several of Eno's former Roxy Music bandmates
#320!
The pressure was on for this follow up release to their massive debut album hit, Ten. The band didn't make any music videos for any of the singles released on this album but it still set a record for most copies of an album sold in a week and held this record for 5 years.
#319!
The band's name is totally random. Pecknold told The Seattle Times: "When we named the band, we had no idea we would have to ever answer for the name. I like the alliteration."
Fleet Foxes stopped by the Midday Show back in 2017! Check out their full performance and interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siDS07yC1Qg
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#318!
"Dirty Blvd." topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for four weeks in early 1989 and was one of the four songs Reed performed with David Bowie at Bowie's 50th birthday party in 1997.
#317!
From the Irish band's 1994 epic LP
Dolores O'Riordan told Hot Press that the song was inspired by the murder of James Bulger -- she originally titled the album "The Liverpool Child"
#316!
The song's title came about after The Pretenders first-ever UK gig, when they were in the communal dressing room with The Strangeways, who they were supporting. Chrissie Hynde wanted to know whose trousers were sprawled over the back of a chair. One of The Strangeways Ada Wilson said: "I'll have them if there's any brass in the pockets."
When Chrissie inquired what he meant by brass, it was explained to her that brass is a northern slang term for money. Chrissie fell in love with the expression and was inspired to write the song.
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#315!
Temple of the Dog is the only studio album by the Seattle supergroup Temple of the Dog, released in 1991. It is a tribute to Andrew Wood, the former lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone, who died on March 19, 1990, of a heroin overdose.
#314!
"Would?" is Jerry Cantrell's tribute to his friend Andrew Wood, lead vocalist of Mother Love Bone, who died in 1990. Cantrell sings the verses of the song, while Layne Staley sings the chorus.
The song first appeared on the soundtrack to the 1992 film Singles—where the members of Alice in Chains make a cameo appearance
#313!
Boards of Canada are a Scottish electronic music duo consisting of brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin, formed initially as a group in 1986 before becoming a duo in the 1990s
#311!
When the then-unknown Tracy Chapman was booked to appear down the bill at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert at Wembley Stadium on June 11, 1988, little did she know her appearance would be the catalyst for a career breakthrough. After performing several songs from her self titled debut during the afternoon, Chapman thought she'd done her bit and could relax and enjoy the rest of the concert. However, later in the evening Stevie Wonder was delayed when the computer discs for his performance went missing, and Chapman was ushered back onto stage again. In front of a huge prime time audience she performed "Fast Car" alone with her acoustic guitar. Afterwards the song raced up the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
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#310!
Watch this Vancouver, BC duo playing live in the KEXP studio: www.youtube.com
#309!
Damn the Torpedoes is the third studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on October 19, 1979
#308!
Gentlemen is the fourth studio album by The Afghan Whigs. Written by Dulli on tour for the band's 1992 album Congregation, Gentlemen is composed as a troubling song cycle that follows a toxic relationship as it ends. Noted for Dulli's grimly acerbic lyrics and influences from soul music, it is considered by many critics to be the Whigs' greatest record, an essential release from the 1990s, and among the best-written breakup albums.
#307!
Well, it takes a strong man, baby
But I'm showin' you the door
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#306!
Debut single from the San Francisco punk band that formed in 1978.
#305!
Bad Brains are an American rock band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1976. Originally a jazz fusion band under the name Mind Power, they are widely regarded as pioneers of hardcore punk.
#304!
In 1980, David Bowie was in the middle of a new kind of transformation. After launching himself to stardom in 1969 with his first hit single, ""Space Oddity,"" he spent a decade morphing from Major Tom to Ziggy Stardust to Aladdin Sane to Halloween Jack to The Thin White Duke — a series of characters that also emblemized radically different approaches to rock music, from sci-fi glam to stark experimentalism. By the end of the '70s, however, he dispensed with such alter egos. Instead, he absorbed them all into a single if mercurial persona, one known simply as David Bowie. And that persona hinged on ""Ashes To Ashes.""
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#303!
Head Hunters is the twelfth studio album by Herbie Hancock
#301!
This is Henry's favorite song - he's 9 and been an Amplifier for 9 years!
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#300!
When The Who perform this live, the processed organ is played from a recording, since it would be nearly impossible to replicate on an instrument. The guitar doesn't come in until 1:40, giving Pete Townshend some time to reflect on his work. "There is this moment of standing there just listening to this music and looking out to the audience and just thinking, 'I f--king did that. I wrote that," he said. "I just hope that on my deathbed I don't embarrass myself by asking someone, 'Can you pass me my guitar? And will you run the backing tape of 'Baba O'Riley'? I just want to do it one more time."
