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Wednesday, Jul 31 2024, 7AM
Happy 67th bday to Daniel Ash of "Daniel Ash," Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail, etc.
On this day 37-years ago in 1987 The film The Lost Boys is released in theaters featuring "Cry Little Sister by Gerard McMann and "People Are Strange" by Echo & the Bunnymen (Doors cover) among others.
Jimmy Barnes is a Scottish-born Australian singer. His career, both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel, has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time.
Barnes has achieved 15 solo number-one albums in Australia, more than any other artist. Additionally, Barnes achieved five more as the lead singer of Cold Chisel, bringing his combined sum to 20 number-one albums in Australia, comfortably eclipsing the Beatles (with 14), Madonna and Taylor Swift (12), Eminem and U2 (11).
Happy 66th birthday to Mr. Bill Berry, drummer, R.E.M. In 1995, Berry suffered a cerebral aneurysm onstage and collapsed. After a successful recovery he left the music industry two years later to become a farmer, and has since maintained a low profile, making sporadic reunions with R.E.M. and appearing on other artists' recordings.
Michael Stipe said in the October 1992 issue of Q magazine: "It's a complete (goof). I guess it's the prototype of, and hopefully the end of, a pop song. It would be the last pop song ever."
Stipe has described it as one of his "fruit loop songs" along with "Shiny Happy People" and "Stand."
www.songfacts.com
Some bands I like to name check,
And one of them is REM
Classic songs with a long history
Southern boys just like you and me
Are - E - M
Flashback to 1983
Chronic Town was their first EP
Later on came Reckoning
Finster's art, and titles to match:
South Central Rain, Don't Go Back To Rockville
Harbourcoat, Pretty Persuasion
You were born to be a camera
Time After Time was my least favorite song
Time After Time was my least favorite song
The singer, he had long hair
And the drummer he knew restraint
Supergroup alert! Hard Quartet featuring Pavement's Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly (The Cairo Gang), Matt Sweeney (guitarist of Skunk, Chavez, and supergroup Zwan), and Jim White drummer, Dirty Three), have just released theiir first single, “Earth Hater.”
TOUR DATES:
10/10 – Los Angeles, US @ The Belasco w/ Papa M
10/17 – New York, US @ Webster Hall w/ Weak Signal
10/22 – London, UK @ Electric Ballroom w/ the Tubs (
Happy 46th birthday to the AMAZING José González!
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Composed by José González and Theodore Shapiro for the 2013 film "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," the song is about breaking free from one’s comfort zone and living life to the fullest.
- www.jose-gonzalez.com
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José González plays Revolution Hall in Portland, OR on Wednesday, April 24th - jose-gonzalez.com
Cover of Massive Attack song “Teardrop”
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Here's José González performing live in the KEXP studio back in 2016: www.youtube.com
- jose-gonzalez.com
Co-produced by Nellee Hooper, with a sample from James Brown's "The Payback" and lyrics and vocals by Tracey Thorn from Everything but the Girl -- she received the backing track on cassette without title, melody, or lyrics -- she spent days allowing the track to "seep into her brain" before writing the lyrics in a single sitting
Nellee Hooper bio and discography at AllMusic: tinyurl.com
"Paradise Circus" is a collaboration between British electronic music artists Massive Attack and Burial and contain vocals, and lyrical contributions, by Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star
Hope Sandoval is the lead singer of Mazzy Star. See below for more context.
8:06 AM
2nd spin
Holy cow, that was Hope Sandoval again! Who the what?!
Other things that are like honey...
Raw sugar.
Brown sugar.
Maple syrup.
Molasses.
Agave syrup.
Corn syrup.
Barley malt syrup.
Date paste.
Lost in Translation: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2003 film Lost in Translation, directed by Sofia Coppola. The soundtrack contains five songs by Kevin Shields, including one from his group My Bloody Valentine. Other artists featured on the soundtrack include Air, Death in Vegas, Squarepusher, Phoenix and the Jesus and Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey."
This song features Liam Gallagher of Oasis. Oasis was a band that featured two brothers who drank, and fought, and made great songs while drinking, and fighting, and fighting, and drinking, while drunk...and sober.
They swore a lot, too.
Despite the friction between the Gallagher brothers, co-producer Owen Morris reflected in 2010 that: "The sessions were the best, easiest, least fraught, most happily creative time I've ever had in a recording studio. I believe people can feel and hear when music is dishonest and motivated by the wrong reasons. Morning Glory, for all its imperfection and flaws, is dripping with love and happiness."
In September 1995, bass player Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan walked out on the group after he was subjected to a flurry of verbal abuse from Liam while doing interviews in Paris.
Good times.
"Setting Sun" features uncredited vocals from Noel Gallagher of Oasis, who also co-wrote the track with duo members Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. -- Gallagher used an old Oasis song, "Comin' on Strong", as the basis for the lyrics to "Setting Sun". Both songs are heavily influenced by the Beatles' Revolver track "Tomorrow Never Knows".
Peck/Beck. What the heck? New album comes out this Friday!
Orville Peck will be at Chateau Ste. Michelle on September 25th in Woodinville and the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on September 27th.
www.orvillepeck.com
This is Orville Peck's cover of Lady Gaga's wonderful title song from her second album.
"'Born This Way,' my song and album, was inspired by Carl Bean, a gay black religious activist who preached, sung, and wrote about being 'Born This Way.' Notably, his early work was in 1975, 11 years before I was born," Lady Gaga explained in a speech from West Hollywood. "Thank you for decades of relentless love, bravery, and a reason to sing. So we can all feel joy, because we deserve joy. Because we deserve the right to inspire tolerance, acceptance, and freedom for all."
Here are Lady Gaga and Orville Peck together, singing a song that has saved lives: www.youtube.com
www.orvillepeck.com
Beck, Peck, Willie, silly.
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"Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other" (1981) is a song by Latin country musician Ned Sublette.
Country musician Willie Nelson's cover (iTunes single 14 February 2006) is the first LGBT-themed mainstream country song by a major artist and queercore band Pansy Division also did a version.
This is Karen O and Willie Nelson's marvelous cover of Bowie and Freddie's duet.
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Karen O says the cover was “meant to be more intimate but just as saturated with the power of love.” She continued: “I can’t listen to this song without tearing up every time Willie comes in, one of the purest voices which of course reflects a pure heart, and I get to sing alongside it. I never knew if it was actually going to happen but you must dare to dream. I hope the song brings as much light to the listener as it has to me in dark times.”
It worked, Karen.
"Under Pressure" was recorded at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland, in July 1981. Queen, working on their 1982 album Hot Space, had been working on a song called "Feel Like", but were not satisfied with the result. While they were there, David Bowie was also at Mountain recording his vocals for "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)", the title song for the 1982 horror film of the same name.
Watch this. It's worth it: www.youtube.com
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low
This is one MAJOR song about Major Tom.
The German version reached No. 1 in West Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The English version reached No. 1 in Canada, No. 4 in South Africa and peaked at No. 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart the week of 24 December 1983.
Penned by Elton John’s songwriting partner Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man” appeared on John’s fifth album Honky Château and has since become one of the most iconic songs in the Elton John discography. Produced by Gus Dudgeon, who also produced David Bowie’s 1969 intergalactic hit “Space Oddity”, the two songs have often been compared, with many considering “Rocket Man” to be inspired by the former.
This song contains 29 samples by our count.
en.wikipedia.org
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M/A/R/R/S was a one-off collaboration between members of A.R. Kane (Alex and Rudi Kane) and Colourbox (Martin and Steve Young), both veteran 4AD artists. They took their name from the four collaborator's initials plus that of label boss Ivo Watts-Russell, who suggested they get together.
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"Rhythmic, systematic, world control,
Magnetic, genetic, demands your soul..." You may want to memorize these lyrics: genius.com
Caribou is back with a new single based on M|A|R|R|S‘ “Pump Up the Volume.”
Dan Snaith says “‘Pump up the Volume’ was the first time in my life I heard electronic music – sitting in front of the family stereo system listening to the top 40 countdown on the radio when i was a kid,” says Dan. “it completely blew my mind – it sounded like something from another world. it’s stuck with me ever since – I always wanted to rework it in some way."
Area shows
Nov 08 – VANCOUVER, BC – PNE Forum
Nov 09 – PORTLAND, OR – Roseland Theater
Nov 10 – SEATTLE, WA – Showbox Sodo
Nov 12 – OAKLAND, CA – Fox Theater
This is Hot Chip covering The Boss (with a sprinkle of LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends"): www.youtube.com
www.whosampled.com
Springsteen came up with this song in the studio during recording sessions in early 1982. He was playing around with a slow Johnny Cash rhythm which he put to some lyrics he had already written. In 2000, Johnny Cash covered it on Badlands: A tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska.
It's my birthday and my husband's (40th) birthday too! I'd love if you could play some version of You'll Never Walk Alone in honor of Matt. That's what we have written on our tile on the outside of KEXP. Bonus points if you could give him a piece of life advice for facing down what feels like a big transitional year for him in the middle of raising kids and building a career and living a big full life. (It's also cool to know we share a bday with all these amazing musicians like José Gonzalez!)
Beth in Lake City
Roger Waters and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd wrote this song, with Gilmour singing lead. Roger Waters played the acoustic guitar parts. He used open G tuning, which gives the song its ringing quality.
Turned out pretty good!
Joslyn was born in Pomona, California, but moved to Washington with his family when he was three and grew up on Bainbridge Island. His father is a family therapist and his mother is a Hungarian model, actress and artist. She came to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Joslyn was raised as a Zen Buddhist from an early age, and both his parents run the Entsuan Zen center on Bainbridge.
Wait for it
His half-brother, Chris Kattan, is a comedian who was famous for his work on and off Saturday Night Live in the period 1996–2003
The Life of The Record Podcast did an INCREDIBLE deep dive into this album featuring Joey Santiago, David Lovering and the late Steve Albini. It's magic.
www.youtube.com
Happy 61st birthday to Fatboy Slim (born Quentin Cook), English DJ, musician, multi-instrumentalist and record producer/mixer. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist for the Hull-based indie rock band the Housemartins.