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Monday, Oct 31 2022, 7AM
Good mourning, Happy Halloween, and welcome to The Morning Show with John Richards!
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Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode once stated about the title of this album: “It’s actually about how most people in life don’t have anything to celebrate. They go to work every day and then go down the pub and drown their sorrows. That’s what it’s about: celebrating the end of another black day.”
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Gareth Jones said:
"When we sampled, we made sure we didn't use anyone else's music, and that was adhered to even in this track where we had the idea of sampling Sir Winston Churchill. We wanted to use his "A brief period of rejoicing" quote on the title track as we loved that idea of a brief moment of rejoicing. We didn't use his voice though - instead Daniel said the words, we processed his performance and we used that instead. That's how determined we were not to use anyone else's work!"
The theme song is referred to as "Stranger Things" on the show's soundtrack, but Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer told EW that the theme song was created from a sketch called "Prophecy." The song features analog bass synthesizers (making it so addictive) and it's built around a C major arpeggio. Read more: bit.ly
The original "Cry Little Sister" from 1987's 'Lost Boys,' a movie about teenage vampires with collectively amazing mullets. And that sax guy. Here's the movie trailer: youtu.be
Someone noted about this song, "It is quite possible that no one has ever sung quite so sweetly of someone worshipping Satan."(However, "she dreams of a sister like Molly Ringwald.") Here's the video: www.youtube.com
Animator Virpi Kettu, who worked on the haunting video for this track, opines the band may have wanted "Witch" to raise awareness about the refugee crisis in Europe and the "blaming of different people... the blaming of Muslims and the negativity" that could lead to sentiments such as "burn the witch." She alluded to the mysterious postcard some Radiohead fans received recently that read, "we know where you live," a suggestion, she thought, of the current insecurity and blame game spawned by anti-immigration politicians.
Watch the video here: www.youtube.com
Watch a live performance by KEXP favs DeVotchKa in our studio in 2018: www.youtube.com
That's Michael Stipe collaborating with Kristin Hersh on this first track from her debut solo studio album, Hips and Makers (1994).
Fun fact, "devil town" is also what they call Seattle on Halloween when everyone is sick! *the more you know*
This is a cover of the late great Daniel Johnston. www.thisisbrighteyes.com
He was smiling through his own personal hell
Dropped his last dime in a wishing well
But he was hoping too close and then he fell
Now he's Casper, the friendly ghost
Stereopathetic Soulmanure is the second studio album by Beck.
"My head was about to explode when I noticed the Marshall stacks
I noticed all the smoke machines, cameras and the lights
Some guy with a microphone, runnin' around dancin' in tights
And I noticed the crew and the band playin' down below
And I realized I was in a rock video..."
Here's an animated video for this ditty: www.youtube.com
This song was made famous by the 1972 film Deliverance, which also led to a successful lawsuit by the song's composer, as it was used in the film without Smith's permission. The film version was arranged and recorded by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell, but only credited to Weissberg on a single subsequently issued in December 1972. It went to #2 for four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973, all four weeks behind Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song," and topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks the same year.
Low Estate is the second full-length album by 16 Horsepower. Released in 1997, only a year after Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, it drew heavily upon compositions pre-dating the band's first album.
This one from the husband and wife duo is known best as being the opening theme song for the HBO show "True Detective"
Released in 1979, the first single from Bauhaus is a very dark 9-minute epic on the death of a vampire, is considered the start of goth. 🖤
This was written for the movie "The Crow." James O'Barr, who created The Crow and draws the comic, is a big fan of The Cure and listened to them a lot formulating the movie. He was thrilled when Robert Smith of The Cure agreed to write an original song for the film.
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The song was written recorded at a time when the band was undergoing one of its numerous lineup changes and features only vocalist Robert Smith and former drummer Boris Williams. Smith felt that this state of flux may have been the creative spark for writing and recording the track: "The whole thing was turned around in like two days... I just had the idea and we just recorded like me and him in the studio... very much like I did the 'Top' album, actually, he just sort of jammed the drums and I was just playing along."
The line up for the "Juju" album was Siouxsie (vocals), Steven Severin (bass), John McGeoch (guitar) and Budgie (drums). It was their 4th studio album and came out in June 1981 on Polydor. By this time the band were veering away from their punk rock roots and helping to kick start the 80's goth rock scene.: bit.ly
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This 1981 live version of "Halloween" featured the late John McGeoch, who was the Banshees guitarist at this time.: www.youtube.com
The phrase "red right hand" is from a line in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost that refers to divine vengeance.
While writing the lyrics, Cave filled an entire notebook with descriptions of the town the song is set in, including maps and sketches of prominent buildings, virtually none of which made it into the lyrics.
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More like Boo Reed amiright
He was in a lil band you might know called the Velvet Underground
"I saw Elvis make out with Jesus in a yellow limousine..."
Watch the wonderful Bobby Bare, Jr. perform "Rock and Roll Halloween" live in KEXP's old studio: www.youtube.com
Pet Sematary was originally written for the Stephen King 1989 film adaptation of the same name.
Here's a biography of this theatrical industrial/dance group out of Chicago: www.allmusic.com
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and yes, there will be a test.
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Oh, BTW, here's a video on how you can make a daisy chain, for yourself, or Satan!: www.youtube.com
Dystopian Future - check
Rain - check
Sword - check
Shades - duh
Leather - check
Shirt - f' that
I know, I know, that's the video for "This Corrosion" but whatever, this one is close! Watch it and swim in dark glory of doom.
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This eponymous album was Love and Rockets' fourth studio album. See Love and Rockets perform "Bound for Hell" live in 1989: www.youtube.com
Toadies frontman Vaden Todd Lewis told the story behind this song. "I was dating a girl and I had this dream that she had invited me to a party, so I'm going to go to this party. I'm walking down the street and as I get closer to the party there's a mailbox on fire, then there's a trash can on fire and then eventually there's just whole houses engulfed in flames. So, I'm getting closer to the party and I get to this house and I kind of walk around the back where the party is and it's all these people jumping around and dancing around. There's music, there's drums and there's a giant bonfire and one by one these people are throwing themselves into the fire.
The idea is that they were going to transcend their physical bodies by immolation, so they were going to burn themselves in order to become some higher power, something bigger outside the physical realm. And that's what 'I Burn' is about. That's taking the voice of somebody who was in that cult or whatever you want to call it."
The YYY's are arguably one of the most Halloween of modern bands. This is their newest Wolf track!
Don't miss this live performance of "Wolf" from Forest Hills Stadium in New York: www.youtube.com
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It's been almost a decade since Yeah Yeah Yeahs' last album, 2013's "Mosquito."
Karen O stated, "Don't have to tell you how much we've been going through in the last nine years since our last record, because you've been going through it too. So yes we've taken our time, happy to report when it's ready it really does just flow out." n.pr
This was the single that put TV on the Radio on the map en route to the huge success that was their second album, "Return to Cookie Mountain," in 2006.
Tunde Adebimpe tells the story of becoming a werewolf as an allegory for the uncontrollable desire that he has for the recipient of the song.: popstache.com
After the breakup of Pitchfork in 1990, singer/guitarist John Reis (aka "Speedo") formed both Drive Like Jehu and Rocket from the Crypt, the latter named after an underground '70s punk band called Rocket from the Tombs.
Rocket from the Crypt made an offer to fans: anyone who shows up at their gigs with an RFTC tattoo gets in free. A lot of people took the band up on this over the next dozen years.: www.sandiegoreader.com
1999 release from the singular, often mysterious American music legend ; this song's official video: www.youtube.com ; and live in 2008: www.youtube.com ; www.tomwaits.com
This track features a horror dialogue between a mother and daughter, with both roles played by actress Kate Moran. Apologies/you're welcome/Happy Halloween if you're just tuning in
"That video will always be the total personification of an absolute nightmare to me."--Zach Cowie, music director, Master Of None
Could this be the most terrifying music video ever?: www.redbull.com
But today especially... is Halloween
Per their bandcamp, Wussy are an American five-piece fronted by songwriters Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker & backed by Mark Messerly, Joe Klug & John Erhardt. Bridging the gap between The Band & Sonic Youth, Wussy continue in the tradition of bands with multiple writers & singers. Cleaver & Walker offer radically different perspectives that blend in seamless fashion – usually blanketed inside layers of noise.
wussy.bandcamp.com
And as far as we know, they are not in fact, ghosts.
Ted Leo IS a ghost, though. "I'm a ghost and I wanted you to know...That it's taking all my strength to make this toast..." Here are the lyrics: songmeanings.com
"How did I arrive in a place like this?
Red right hand does the alligator kiss..."
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See the very talented Alex Ounsworth in this live performance of "Satan" in Paris in 2014: www.youtube.com
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Watch Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's 2015 Live on KEXP performance here- www.youtube.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.”
Here are some dancing skeletons: www.youtube.com
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Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo is the well-known composer for many Tim Burton movies, including The Nightmare Before Christmas (on which he is also the singing voice of Jack Skellington).