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Tuesday, Nov 7 2023, 7AM
Good morning. Kicking it off with Nina Simone's cover of Leonard Cohen's 1969 song ‘Suzanne.'
Leonard Cohen passed away on this day in 2016 at age 82.
Skinny Pelembe and Beth Orton's cover of Leonard Cohen’s 1974 track “Who by Fire," originally released on the album New Skin for the Old Ceremony.
"Who by Fire" relates to Cohen's Jewish roots, echoing the words of the Unetanneh Tokef prayer and sung as a duet with Janis Ian.
From First Aid Kit's cover album "Who By Fire: A Live Tribute to Leonard Cohen." The 20-track recording was performed across two nights at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm in March of 2017 as a theatrical staging of Leonard Cohen’s songs, poems, and letters.
The duo said in a statement: “We recently listened back to this concert and realized that this was something out of the ordinary for us. It was a challenge to create a performance that wasn’t centered around First Aid Kit songs. It was something we’d never done before, but everything came together so well. Dwelling deeply into Cohen’s world was a pleasure, he was so prolific as both a poet and a songwriter, and everything he ever put out held a very strong standard. He cared immensely for his work."
Pixies covering Leonard Cohen in 1991 with their version of, "I Can't Forget".
This track originally appeared on Cohen's 1988 release, "I'm Your Man".
I'm Your Man is the eighth studio album by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, released in 1988. - www.leonardcohen.com
Honoring the late Leonard Cohen in this set, who passed on this day in 2016.
Happy birthday to the amazing Roberta Joan Anderson, who we know as Joni Mitchell - Canadian singer, songwriter, and painter, born on this day in 1943!
Hey John,
I love listening to the morning show, and most days I do so through your archive, but today I'm listening live while on the train to see Weyes Blood. I would love to hear something by her!
Thanks so much for doing what you do!
With love from The Hague,
Ayla
This is the only studio album that guitarist Robert Smith of the Cure composed and recorded with Siouxsie and the Banshees. "Dazzle" featured strings played by musicians of the London Symphonic Orchestra, a 27-piece orchestra called the "Chandos Players" and uses melodies composed on piano by Siousxie herself.
IDLES fifth album. "TANGK," will be out in February of next year. Preorder it here: idlesband.bandcamp.com
"Dancer" features James Murphy and Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem.
Here is IDLES Live on KEXP a couple years back:
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Duran Duran have released their sixteenth album Danse Macabre! The album features brand new music and covers of Billie Eilish, Talking Heads, The Rolling Stones, and Siouxsie and the Banshees (this one!). The album is Halloween themed. Inspiration for the concept album came from a Halloween show the band played in Las Vegas in 2022. As a result, singer Simon Le Bon stated that the record is "about a crazy Halloween party" and "supposed to be fun".
"Election Day" was the first single released in 1985 by the Duran Duran offshoot band "Arcadia" and features Grace Jones on vocals and speech segments. So Red the Rose is the only studio album by Arcadia.
Requested by Zola!
Prince got the idea for the song when he dozed off in band member Lisa Coleman's 1964 pink Mercury Montclair Marauder after an exhausting all-night recording session. The lyrics came to him in bits and pieces during this and other catnaps.
Prince co-wrote ‘Stand Back’ with Stevie Nicks after she departed from Fleetwood Mac and went solo.
Nicks credits ‘Little Red Corvette’ as the track’s inspiration. In the liner notes to her TimeSpace album, Nicks explained: "I got married the day I wrote this song. We were driving to Santa Barbara and a new song by Prince came on, so we pulled over somewhere and got the tape. It just gave me an incredible idea, so I spent many hours that night writing a song about some kind of a crazy argument, and it was to become one of the most important of my songs."
Headed into the studio to record, Stevie called Prince and told him the story of how she wrote the song to his melody. One night in 1983, Prince came to the studio and played synthesizers on it.
"Whenever I play 'Stand Back' from this day forward, Prince will be standing next to me," Nicks said. "That is always going to be a joy."
- bit.ly
Chris Cornell wrote "Say Hello 2 Heaven" as a tribute to his roommate, Mother Love Bone vocalist Andrew Wood, who at the time had recently died from an overdose.
Listen to this incredible voice live when Temple of the Dog performed it in 2011 (featuring Eddie Vedder doing backup vocals.):
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Zach Condon of Beirut shared this statement about the new song The Tern:
"The base of this song comes from an old Roland synthesizer and drum machine part which I had lying around from a previous Berlin session. The lyrics I improvised on the spot and finished the song off by adding layers of church organs and hand percussion. I stacked the parts high despite always being afraid of overdoing it. In the end I was confused how I had written such a seemingly positive and even hopeful song, but once I took a closer look at the lyrics, I saw the real nature of the hidden defeat and triumph of caution rather than of hope." www.stereogum.com
The new album Hadsel will be out on November 10th.
www.beirutband.com
Any Devo was requested.
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! is the debut studio album by the American new wave band Devo, produced by Brian Eno.
"52 Girls" is the second track on the band's debut album, released in 1979. The album cover was designed by the artist Tony Wright (credited as Sue Ab Surd).
Music from Wales, United Kingdom. According to the band's page, ''Rare Birds...' is a culmination of a year spent relentlessly touring.'
"Spare us an hour and four minutes. That's what we're asking of you here. It's a big ask, these days."
Find more here:
thebugclub.bandcamp.com
Here are Violent Femmes in the Gathering Space in 2017: www.youtube.com
The first single released from the band's fourth album Beelzebubba.
“Punk Rock Girl,” is a tale of two musical cities—the Dead Milkmen’s hometown of Philadelphia and Austin, Texas, where producer Brian Beattie is based. Learn about the story behind this song here: www.mixonline.com
www.deadmilkmen.com
A remastered edition of a compilation of Stereolab singles and rarities, first issued in 1995.
stereolab.bandcamp.com
Wishy is a five-piece from Indianapolis.
This song was written after a period when bandmember Nina Pitchkites was driving on a spare tire. '“Donut” laments the cynical capitalism of Midwest living and the reliance on a car to get around.' spillmagazine.com
wishy.bandcamp.com
New Chatham Rise song out of Minneapolis, here is "Here She Comes."
chathamrise.bandcamp.com
Rob Dickinson gave an interview in 2006 in which he describes "crank" as being British slang for an odd or eccentric person. When he sings "call me crank," he's referring to how he views himself and that he's comfortable in acknowledging that he's a bit unusual.
Lead guitarist Johnny Hickman once explained how "Low" came together: "The song started with me coming up with that guitar riff just noodling around at a soundcheck in Portland one day, but it's really David's [Lowery] song. He wrote the title and lyrics after the fact, which are fantastic. David and Davey Faragher (bassist) started looking for chords to play around my guitar riff. A few days later David had the song completed."
We dig it.
After releasing a demo EP in 1992 titled Runt, Dig signed with Radioactive Records and issued their first full-length in 1993 (the self-titled Dig), produced by Dave Jerden, whom was well known for producing '90s albums by bands such as Alice in Chains and Anthrax.
Prior to its being released as an official single, "Stars" received heavy airplay on the Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "KROQ jumped on the song so soon that RCA had to rush release the song nationwide, a full month before the scheduled release of [the] single." Hum's drummer Bryan St. Pere credited KROQ with making the song so popular, saying in an interview, "Yeah, I think [KROQ] helped us out the most, because from what I gather, that's the station in the country, and when they decide to add a song, all the other stations kind of follow suit."
Gotta love radio
Filter formed in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio, by singer Richard Patrick when Patrick departing from Nine Inch Nails as their touring guitarist.
Also, in case you didn't know, Richard Patrick's older brother is actor Robert Patrick who you may recall from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Incesticide: Nirvana's compilation album. It consists of their 1990 non-album single "Sliver", B-sides, demos, outtakes, cover versions, and radio broadcast recordings.
Early in 1992, Jonathan Poneman of Sub Pop contacted Gary Gersh, who had previously signed Nirvana to DGC Records, to inform him that Sub Pop still had a number of unreleased early Nirvana recordings in their possession. Nirvana had intended to release the material via Sub Pop and cynically called it Cash Cow. Sub Pop later sold the recordings to Geffen for "a six-figure amount" on the condition that the band would create and approve the release of an album by Christmas 1992.
"March Of The Pigs" is the fourth track on 1994's "The Downward Spiral." It has one of the most unusual meters of any song to enjoy popular radio play, alternating three measures of 7/8 time with one measure of 4/4 time in the verses (in effect, a 29/8 time signature). The chorus is in the common 4/4 time signature. As a result, with eighth notes getting the count, the song has a BPM rate of 269.: www.nin.wiki
