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Friday, Jan 10 2020, 6AM
“If I ventured in the slipstream... Between the viaducts of your dreams...;” It's been more than 50 years since this album of "unearthly beauty" was released: www.billboard.com
"Welcome to your life....there's no turning back..." Because "Shout" was the group's first single in the rest of the world, Tears For Fears thought it should also be their first release in the US, but the record label insisted "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" was better suited for their American debut. "Which is interesting in retrospect," Curt Smith said, "because it was one of those times when the record company was right and we were wrong, because for America, yes, it was a better first single."
C'mon! "Everybody's talking about Bagism, shag-ism, drag-ism, mad-ism
Rag-ism, tag-ism, this-ism, that-ism... '-ism' '-ism' '-ism'!: www.youtube.com
Beloved Scott Hutchison and Julien Baker are channeling Leonard Cohen's wonderful song, "Anthem," here. "There is a crack in everything (there is a crack in everything)
That's how the light gets in..."
Stevie Nicks wrote this song and planned to include it on her 1980 solo album "Bella Donna". She didn't have room for it on the album, so she held it over for Fleetwood Mac's "Mirage" album. By this time, her friend Robin Anderson was dying of leukemia and the song became a tribute to her.
Shortly after Robin Anderson died, Stevie Nicks married her husband, Kim Anderson, a decision that Nicks called "insane" .: bit.ly
Daniel Norgren was live on KEXP in late October of last year.: www.kexp.org
In 2003, Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, re-recorded this for a compilation album called "Hope," which was a benefit for children in Iraq. It was his first English language recording since 1978. The US and Britain had invaded Iraq, which was perceived by many to be an attack on Muslims. Stevens explained: "As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution to the dangerous path some world leaders today seem to be taking."
Her hand appears first in the official music video for "Running Up That Hill": www.youtube.com
Seattle label Turntable Kitchen has commissioned Quivers to do a full-length version of R.E.M.'s 1991 "Out of Time" album: quiversss.bandcamp.com
Don't you love this? David Byrne is singing with an amateur choir here. He says, "“There is a transcendent feeling in being subsumed and surrendering to a group. This applies to sports, military drills, dancing… and group singing. One becomes a part of something larger than oneself, and something in our makeup rewards us when that happens. We cling to our individuality, but we experience true ecstasy when we give it up. So, the reward experience is part of the show.”: www.youtube.com
"They're really saying...I love you...": www.louisarmstronghouse.org
Explaining this song in 1992, lead singer Michael Stipe said: "The words come from everywhere. I'm extremely aware of everything around me, whether I am in a sleeping state, awake, dream-state or just in day to day life. There's a part in 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It' that came from a dream where I was at Lester Bangs' birthday party and I was the only person there whose initials weren't L.B. So there was Lenny Bruce, Leonid Brezhnev, Leonard Bernstein... So that ended up in the song along with a lot of stuff I'd seen when I was flipping TV channels. It's a collection of streams of consciousness."
Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz is a fan of funk, and it was a P-Funk show in New York City that inspired this track. When he heard the crowd imploring the band to "Burn Down The House", he got the idea for the title. As he explained, he and bassist Tina Weymouth, who is also his wife, created the original track in a jam, then took it to the band where they refined the groove. To form the lyrics, they picked words that fit the rhythms, which is why the words don't make a lot of sense.
This is a rare U2 song with someone other than Bono on lead vocals. It was the first time The Edge sang lead. There is a break of approximately 11 seconds in the song at 2:10 featuring a sample of a 1982 TV documentary titled Soldier Girls. Bono said that he was watching this documentary while he was waiting in the green room in Windmill Lane Studios and he recorded it. The band felt it would fit well into the song as unsettling evidence of soldiers training for an atomic bomb explosion.
OK, soccer fans..... Here's an analysis of this fine Pink Floyd song: www.progarchives.com
"You turn me on..
You lift me up..." Robin Clark sang backing vocals (credited as "Additional Lead Singer") on the track. The American vocalist is the wife of one of David Bowie's favorite guitarists: Carlos Alomar.
See Elbow performing this song live: www.youtube.com This great Glen Campbell song has been covered by numerous artists: www.stereogum.com
"We had a little son and we thought we'd call him Sonny...." One of NPR's editors said that this is the song that gets her up in the morning: www.npr.org
"What a great world we all live in...
Even better, what a time to be here..." This was an early request this morning. : www.youtube.com
In 2014, a critic looked back at Doves' sophomore album, "The Last Broadcast": consequenceofsound.net
Oh, my goodness! That voice! "...When Franklin launches into the first line of the song, “I was born,” with a heart-swelling ornamentation around the word born, we know that a tour de force is on the way." Read a tribute to this Sam Cooke cover: slate.com
It's pretty hard to follow Aretha Franklin. Watch the great Curtis Mayfield perform this song live in 1974: www.youtube.com
British songwriters Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse wrote this as part of their 1965 Broadway musical The Roar Of The Greasepaint - The Smell Of The Crowd. Newley and Bricusse also wrote the 1961 play Stop The World - I Want To Get Off, and music for the 1971 production of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.
When she shared her poem and covered "After the Gold Rush," Patti Smith also talked about being a jerk to Bob Dylan She recalled that Dylan appeared backstage during one of her shows circa 1974 and — busting out her best impression of the musician — she recalled, “He says, ‘Hey are there any poets in here?’ And I said, ‘I hate poetry!’ I acted like such a jerk. I don’t know what came over me. Like Sixteen Candles, when you like the boy but you don’t want the boy to know you like them.”: bit.ly
This request came from the Seattle Rugby Community in honor of the many Canadians who died in the Ukrainian plane crash this week: time.com
Watch the official video for this lovely song: www.youtube.com
Ahhh...the Friday song. Join KEXP for the 20th Annual Expansions MLK Unity Party and live broadcast at Clock-Out Lounge! That's Sunday. January 19th, 2020. : www.kexp.org
"What's Golden" features samples from Public Enemy's "Prophets of Rage" and Clive Hicks's "Look Hear."
"Hey, ladies!" John Richards talked with Seattle renaissance artist Rudy Willingham in this exclusive KEXP interview: www.kexp.org
"Sun is on thick and the cheese is rollin' quick..." I'm just sayin': genius.com
See the KEXP video premiere of "You Push, I'll Go": www.kexp.org
Thank you, Owen, for this excellent request. Evan Dando said that his drug buddy was his friend Nicole, and the lyric was inspired by a night they spent together in Sydney, Australia.
"That's a really good story of a night back in the day when we used to do speed," said Dando. "She was actually my friend Tom's girlfriend. I was trying to tell the story as forthright and as normal as possible, without many rhymes or anything."
The female backing vocals on this song are by Juliana Hatfield, who also played bass on the album.
There's lot to see, including Frank's brother Parker, in the video for this song: www.youtube.com
Frontman Pat DiNizio died in 2017: www.rollingstone.com Here are "the top 5 songs of The Smithereens": www.culturesonar.com
"Mountain Song" was the first song written by the band in 1985, before a band name had even been decided upon. See official video of a live performance in 1988: www.youtube.com
Thanks, Jackie, for this humble request. Here's a review of New Order's debut album: louderthanwar.com
Read a thorough biography of Talk Talk here: www.allmusic.com
The song was inspired by a giant text installment titled "Dog Days Are Over" by artist Ugo Rondinone, which lead singer Florence Welch used to see every day, riding her bike over Waterloo Bridge. It was produced and mixed by James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco and The Last Shadow Puppets.: www.youtube.com
John Richards just danced like Peter Garrett!: www.youtube.com
It was a perfect day when Mr. Reed performed this song live at Montreux in 2000: www.youtube.com
“Lou was to New York as Faulkner was to the South, or Brecht to Berlin. He was New York from top to bottom. He was born here and died here. He saw it change, but he never disappeared. Almost every record of his was made here. It was his city. Tourists would see him and Laurie [Anderson] on the street and know they’d been to New York.” -- Hal Willner, Producer: nysmusic.com
It's 2020! This is such an appropriate song for "this year.' "There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem...next year.": www.npr.org
If you like this beautiful song (and we'll bet that you do), you can have it for free. It was a KEXP Song of the Day and can be downloaded here: www.kexp.org
"Black Aura My Sun" will be released on January 17th. You can order Half Mint Green + Half Sea Foam Color Vinyl or Black Vinyl (or a CD or a digital album) at Deserta's Bandcamp page: deserta.bandcamp.com
The meaning of this song is rather fluid, even to Echo lead singer Ian McCulloch, who wrote the lyric. "It sounds vaguer than it actually is," he said. "I never really tell people what the meaning is to all the songs because that surely spoils their journey. When they listen to something like 'The Killing Moon,' there are so many different ideas of what that is about. To me it's like 'to be or not to be' moments."
"You can't do it without friends..." --John Richards www.rollingstone.com
"You can't do it without friends..." --John Richards Is this the song of the millennium?: www.stereogum.com
Josh Clayton-Felt, a co-founder and lead singer of the band School of Fish who went on to become a solo recording artist, died of cancer on January 19, 2000 at the age of 32.: www.nytimes.com
"I knew John had a rockin' show the first time I tuned in..." Watch a live performance of "Grey Cell Green": www.youtube.com
Of course that's The Who's "Baba O'Riley" that you heard. Want to know some of the other samples in this song?: www.whosampled.com
Townshend wanted to input the vital signs and personality of his guru Meher Baba into a synthesiser, which would then generate music based on that data. When this idea fell through, Townshend instead recorded a Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ using its marimba repeat feature as the backing track. This modal approach was inspired by the work of minimalist composer Terry Riley, hence the name "Baba O'Riley." When the band performed this live, Roger Daltrey played the studio violin part on harmonica.
