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Tuesday, Feb 6 2024, 7AM
For Michael and all who loved him. Thanks for changing the trajectories of so many lives.
Here's what John wrote about his pal Michael on Instagram:
It’s hard to write this but my dear friend, brother in music, the man who started Loveless Records with me one drunken night at the Crocodile has died. With a heavy heart, the legend, Michael Hukin died from a brain aneurysm.
He was one of a kind. Wicked humor, impeccable taste in music, always in black but a heart of gold. He will always be one of my favorite music writers and someone who didn’t back down. He was one of those friends that understood you without explaining yourself, he cared deeply for me and my sister and reached out right after she died to say he had lost a sister. Well, today I lost a brother.
I love you man. I’m so happy we saw each other when I was in the UK. I loved your emails each week while you listened to the show. My heart goes out to your loved ones, especially the one who found you again, and you, her….he is irreplaceable.
Listen to the last live song performed by Joy Division before the death of Ian Curtis here: www.youtube.com
This is the second-to-last song on Bauhaus' 1982 album, "The Sky’s Gone Out," which is the last album they released before their 1983 split.
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The music video for this song features scenes of the David Bowie-led movie "The Man Who Fell To Earth.": www.youtube.com
"Exit Music (For a Film)" was originally written for Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 Romeo + Juliet. It plays over the end credits, but didn’t make the official soundtrack.
Urban Hymns was conceived as a Richard Ashcroft solo album, as The Verve had broken up. As it moved forward, Ashcroft enlisted help from this former bandmates, and it ended up becoming a Verve album and re-forming the band. - bit.ly
Be Opened by the Wonderful is the 17th studio album by English rock band James, released through Nothing but Love Music on 9 June 2023. It contains orchestral reworkings of the band's songs from the Orca 22 orchestra led by Andra Vornici, also accompanied by the eight-person Manchester Inspirational Voices gospel choir. wearejames.com
Noel Gallagher said in an interview with John Harris: "At the time . . . it was written in the middle of grunge and all that, and I remember Nirvana had a tune called 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die', and I was like . . . 'Well, I'm not ...having that.' As much as I ... like him [Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain] and all that ...kids don't need to be hearing that nonsense."
One of the many artists championed by Michael Hukin, Pete and John.
"Jeff Buckley and Cocteau Twins singer, Liz Fraser’s relationship was a whirlwind. They got together sometime in the mid-1990s and were drawn together like magnets ... She met Buckley at the right time, and said that meeting him was like 'being given a set of paints, do you know what I mean? It was just like I had all this colour in my life again'"
Read about their whirlwind romance: bit.ly
This song's title was a kind of joke. It had taken the Sundays a couple of years to follow up their debut album and the first single from the second album - this song - was "Goodbye" prompting the NME to say "Goodbye already? You only just bloody came back!"
Western State Hurricanes was a short-lived Seattle-based indie rock band in the late 1990s. It is best known as a precursor to the more successful group The Long Winters—both bands were fronted by songwriter John Roderick, and many Western State Hurricanes songs were later revamped into Long Winters songs.
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Oh I miss Juno. Arlie was one of the most captivating singers I've ever seen. -A.G. in MPLS
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Read KEXP's Rewind on Juno's This is the Way it Goes and Goes and Goes on, written in 2019 to celebrate it's 20th anniversary: www.kexp.org
Hey John - Sean in Tustin here. Today would have been my mom's 77th birthday (she passed in 2019). She introduced me to Depeche Mode's music when I was very young, and I've been a huge fan ever since. I was thinking about requesting one of their songs in her memory today ... and then you played "Mercy in You." I kinda feel like her spirit was behind that somehow. I am not alone, and neither are you!
Ann Marie in Texas who is a counselor at Camp Goodtimes (for kids impacted by cancer):
A camper once told me: "...you just have to start wherever your feelings want. It's ok to be happy and then sad. Sometimes, I even get mad. Your friends and family will help you too. And help your feelings feel better."
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Originally formed in 1974 as Tiger Lily, Ultravox burst on to the New Wave scene in the UK in early 1977. Read more about their music and impact in the retrospective at Dangerous Minds: dangerousminds.net
The first of two songs by OMD that are about Joan of Arc, both appearing on their 1981 album, 'Architecture & Morality.' The second, "Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)" was also issued as a single (renamed "Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)" for its release).
- omd.uk.com
Thanks so much for the tribute show this morning, I know it means a lot to my sister, Kristy. I never got to meet Michael, but know that he helped her through some hard times.
Take care,
Kelly
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division was released in 1980 as a non-album single. Its lyrics were inspired by lead singer Ian Curtis's marital problems and struggles with epilepsy. The single was released the month after his suicide. On May 18th, 1980, Ian Curtis committed suicide at 23 years old.
- www.songfacts.com
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