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Thursday, May 18 2023, 7AM
"Elegia" was written in memory of Ian Curtis, lead singer of New Order's former incarnation, Joy Division. On this day in 1980, we lost this amazing artist at the age of 23.
While the album version is ~5 minutes, it is a cut of a full 17 minute track... hear all 17 minutes here: youtu.be
Mike Nesteroff writes
Thank you for playing the excerpt from the KOMO May 18, 1980 Mt. St. Helens broadcast. The anchor reading that was Bob Throndsen, who just passed away last February. I was one of the KOMO field reporters covering Mt. St. Helens that day. In fact, if you have the KOMO 5 pm clips, the video of the log jam on the (toot-uhl) Toutle River is from our crew and I as we flew upriver with the doors off the helicopter! A piece I did that ran later in the newscast was from the Toutle High School rescue center, and then on the 11 pm that night we had video of a fully intact house floating down the Toutle River and then disintegrating as it slammed into a bridge. We were the only crew to get that one (and our camera batteries ran out right after the house hit the bridge). It was quite a memorable day and week for me as a very new reporter.
On this day in 1980, Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and musician of Joy Division died by suicide at 23 years old.
Originally written as a Joy Division song, which New Order took on under their new name following the death of Ian Curtis. Curtis passed away on this day 40 years ago at the age of 23.
We lost Chris Cornell on this day 6 years ago. Hey Chris, you rule.
Sinéad O'Connor released this Nirvana cover months after Kurt Cobain's death. She told Cuepoint in 2014 that Cobain, "represented a massive amount of people who were really kind of invisible and unheard, who had a lot of pain, a lot of stuff that needed to be heard."
In 1992, Chris Cornell released his first solo EP "Poncier" and contributed the song "Seasons" to the "Singles" soundtrack.
For those who don't know, Mad Season was a supergroup formed in 1994 featuring guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, lead singer Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, drummer Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees, and bassist John Baker Saunders of The Walkabouts.
Checkout this amazing video of Mad Season live at the Moore in 1995.
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Temple of the Dog is the only album by the American rock band Temple of the Dog, released on April 16, 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.
Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, who had been Mother Love Bone vocalist Andrew Wood's roommate, approached former Mother Love Bone members Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament about working on material he had written when he was on tour with Soundgarden in Europe. The line-up eventually included Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron and newcomers Mike McCready (lead guitar) and Eddie Vedder (background vocals).
I want to show you something, like joy inside my heart
Seems I been living in the temple of the dog
Chad in San Diego
Well John, wasn't planning on crying this morning but if you are gonna play Seasons... Hello Klenex my old friend... Thanks John for making it acceptable to have feelings, cause you did that sir. Love you and KEXP,
"It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out.
"The Day I Tried to Live" means more like the day I actually tried to open up myself and experience everything that's going on around me as opposed to blowing it all off and hiding in a cave."
Brandi Carlile covering "Black Hole Sun" with members of Soundgarden.
Brandi first performed this with the group at the Chris Cornell tribute "I Am the Highway" in January 2019.
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Directed/Filmed/Edited by Arthur Cauty www.arthurcauty.com
Download 'Bristol - Live at The Folk House’ here: shawnsmith.bandcamp.com...
Radio....someone still loves you
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Radio Ga Ga, and the whole Live at Wembley Stadium album, on a cassette tape in my Sony Walkman, helped me make it through the many trials of highschool. Still chokes me up, especially after all the songs you've been playing this morning. Happy Thursday and thank you as always!
Jason in Wenatchee
This is an edit of the 12-minute version of "Bad", because during the performance, Bono jumped off the stage to embrace and dance with a fan, who later revealed that Bono actually saved her life at the time. She was being crushed by people pushing forwards; Bono saw this, and gestured frantically at the ushers to help her. They did not understand what he was saying, and so he jumped down to help her himself.
Hold your grandmother's Bible to your breast
Gonna put it to the test
You wanted it to be blessed
And in your heart
You know it to be true
You know what you got to do
They all depend on you
And you already know
Yeah, you already know how this will end
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If Tchaikovsky was alive today, well, he'd be 183.
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Thanks for the Swan Lake. My wife (a dance major in college back in the day) is dancing passionately in our living room.
DOUG.
Woooooooooooo
Live at the Gorge 05/06 is a seven-disc live box set Pearl Jam released back in 2007. The box set documents the band's 2005 and 2006 shows at The Gorge Amphitheatre. Between the three concerts there were sixty-nine individual songs performed!
"The song describes a time in everybody’s life that make you lose faith in yourself, in someone else, or in life itself and you just need to hear from someone that one day everything will be OK again. That no matter what, with time and patience we all will be OK.” www.kexp.org
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Lea Porcelain shared a Live on KEXP at Home performance with John in 2019, where they ended the set with "I Am OK." -bit.ly
Sharon Van Etten said in an interview in 2012, "I wrote the song about a friend talking me through a panic attack...social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it — performers as well — and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways. "We Are Fine" is a duet with Beirut's Zach Condon, who has social anxiety, too."
Bob in Chicago:
I woke up this morning with my dead son in my dreams. He will be 22 on Sunday. His name is Evan and he was smart, curious about everything, kind and a wonderful son. Everything I could want, but a longer life for him. I rarely dream of him, so it is both incredibly painful when it happens and incredibly gratifying to know we are still connected subconsciously.
I turned on KEXP to hear a mini "death and music" show today. It has also been incredibly painful and just what I need.
Famous for Steve Cadd's drum beat, he devised it by using two pairs of drumsticks - one in each hand - in order to give the impression of two drummers playing together.
Guru's 'Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1' was released on this day 30-years ago. It was one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping. "Loungin" is the second track on the album. It features Donald Byrd on trumpet and piano. bit.ly Check out the video for "Loungin', featuring Donald Byrd on trumpet: youtu.be
Sampling Herbie Hancock's 1964 song "Cantaloupe Island." Us3 is a British jazz-rap group founded in London in 1992. Their name was inspired by a Horace Parlan recording titled "Us Three," produced by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records.
Note: he was not actually a lion...but man, that would have been really cool.
Queen Latifah said in 2015: “I was never the kind of person that was gonna take something lying down. … I was raised to protect myself and stand up for myself and speak my mind and be true, even if I had to stand alone.” She won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance and later performed this song at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize concert. Here's Queen Latifah at that Nobel Peace Prize concert: youtu.be "U.N.I.T.Y." video: youtu.be
K'naan is a Somali-Canadian musician. He rose to prominence with the success of his single "Wavin' Flag." Besides hip hop, K'naan's sound is influenced by elements of Somali music and world music.
2013 release from Kenyan-born, Canadian-based bilingual rapper Shad.
A song-of-the-day that year -read the blog post!
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In loving memory of Chris Cornell.