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Thursday, Feb 14 2019, 6AM
You couldn't let it be | You could of let me bleed | Instead it seems you keep rubbing salt in the wound
Cover of the (Sandy) Alex G song that Phoebe Bridgers released in November of last year
This supertrio composed of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker stopped by to record a live session with us in late November! While you're waiting for that one to be posted, how about Bridgers doing "Motion Sickness" live for us last summer? www.youtube.com
The surprise new project from Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst. Due to demand, their March 17th show has been moved from Neumos to Showbox! Find ticket info here: bit.ly
You are the problem here | No one made you do anything
SOAK is Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, and “Valentine Shmalentine” is the third single off her new LP Grim Town. Monds-Watson says this song is “the result of both giving into Hallmark and being a dramatic bitch.” Pre-order the album (out April 26th!) here: soak.ffm.to
According to Renata Kanclerz (manager for The Revolution member Lisa Coleman): "'Little Red Corvette” is actually a 1964 Mercury Montclair Marauder. Prince helped her buy it at auction in 1980 in Minneapolis. Lisa still owns the car. (Although, we need to restore it.) It’s still essentially original… Prince even gave it a few dents." bit.ly
"It's not the way you have your hair" is a very intriguing lyric for a song coming from this band. www.youtube.com
Inspired by a photo Robert Smith came across of his wife, Mary, while sorting through the remains of a fire in his home. (They've been married since 1988!)
Also the inscription on Ian Curtis' gravestone, per his widow, Deborah. Oof.
All together now! - There's a heartbreak beat, playing all night long | Down on my street | And it feels like love, got the radio on | And it's all that we need
This gut-punch of a song goes out to all of you in the middle of a divorce right now: genius.com
The Wrens vocalist Charles Bissell to Stereogum about the making of this song: "What you’re actually hearing on “Happy” is not only the original drum take, but also the two main guitars. I went back and doubled a couple things, but that’s it. I actually took great pains to go back and double my fluky mistakes and inconsistencies from the original guitar recording. But “Happy” went through many iterations prior to starting The Meadowlands — we had recorded it, changed it and reworked it before we finally tracked it for the record, like a normal, respectable band would do."bit.ly
A song for when the closure hits: | Lately I don't think of you at all | Or wonder what you're up to | Or how you're getting on | I never think of calling you | Or how things could have been | Or wonder where you sleep at night | Or whose arms you sleep in | I'm living alone, living alone | I don't need you any more
John Darnielle about the concept for the Tallahassee album: “The Alpha couple are these people who get together in California, and they fall in love, but they’re really broken people, and they’re very bad for each other – they’re both big liquor enthusiasts. They move to Las Vegas and live in a motel for a year, out of a sort of romanticized vision of how they’re supposed to live, and things just keep getting worse, so they just flee across the country in the hopes of starting a new life, but they haven’t really thought it through at all. So they get to Tallahassee, and that’s where I always envisioned them falling apart, in some tiny little house”
Another one for the heartbroken (don't worry there will be more!): | On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time | I felt free and I felt lonely and I felt scared | And I began to talk to myself almost immediately | Not being used to being the only person there
Off the tenth full-length album from the Magnetic Fields, released in 2012. Here's the official video for "Quick": bit.ly
Relive Magnetic Field's Stephin Merritt singing on our toilet here! bit.ly
Note from Cohen about this song from the back cover of his Greatest Hits compilation: "This song arises from an over-used bed in the Penn Terminal Hotel in 1966. The room is too hot. I can't open the windows. I am in the midst of a bitter quarrel with a blonde woman. The song is half-written in pencil but it protects us as we manoeuvre, each of us, for unconditional victory. I am in the wrong room. I am with the wrong woman."
Palace Music is the moniker of Will Oldham, also known for recording as Bonnie "Prince" Billy
As you stand under the bar lights | And the band plays some song | About forgetting yourself for a while | And the piano's this melancholy sound check to her smile | And that white dress she's wearing | You haven't seen her for a while | www.youtube.com
Found on Turn Against This Land, the debut album from London band Dogs, released in 2005
Lincoln, Nebraska band that formed in 2004, and broke up in 2010 after only releasing two full-length albums
"Your face is a hammer in my head" - For the record, we know it's Valentine's Day. Which means you're listening to the "Songs of Love and Hate" edition of The Morning Show! Let's wallow!
A song for that inevitable post-breakup moment when you get your first crush as a newly single person. OH GOD THE AGONY.
In case you've missed it, we've cried, wallowed, found a crush, and are now in the "lust" phase of the show. Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
The reason this song DIDN'T get banned from the BBC: "We even had problems with ‘Master And Servant’ when the BBC called for a copy of the lyrics to check them out, but only one guy thought they were obscene, and he was away on holiday when the final decision was taken!"
Officially banned by the BBC in January 1984. Ban lifted in late 1984, due to the fact this song was charting everywhere else.
Yeah. We went there. Happy Valentine's Day everyone, it's "Songs of Love & Hate!"
Another industrial style cover, this time of Rod Stewart's 1978 classic!
Released by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on February 10, 2004, and was later voted as the #1 greatest alternative love song by NME in 2009: bit.ly
"They say I better stop or I'll go blind" - okay kids, there's your lyrical hint of what this song is about
Off the debut release from Le Tigre, the Kathleen Hanna-led project that was released in 1999
Found on the album from the French-German duo that was originally released in 2001, and re-released by local label Kill Rock Stars in 2002
Dolour is a Seattle band led by Shane Tutmarc. Others that contributed included Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, Eric Howk of Portugal. The Man, members of The Divorce, United State of Electronica, and Vendetta Red
This Glasgow band came to perform for us in 2015, watch it here! bit.ly
Give me a chance punk rock girl | Let's go slam dance | We'll dress like Minnie Pearl | Just you and me, punk rock girl
Off the debut album from this New Jersey band that formed in 1983. They also hold the honor of "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)" being the most requested song in history for L.A.'s KROQ-FM.
Found on B-Sides & Rarities, the 2005 compilation from Nick Cave that contains 56(!) tracks
Simple Minds Keith Forsey to Spin about this song: "I would get rough cuts of the movie and sit in the back room and kind of watch and just make notes, make notes, make notes. There was a specific scene where Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall, in the middle of movie, they’re confronting each other, and I think it’s Anthony Michael Hall who says to Judd Nelson something along the lines of, “Are you gonna remember me after this?” Cause they kind of come together in that section. And it took me back to my school days when I was kind of on the bad side of the rails, and I remember standing at a bus stop with one of the kids from the other side of the rails and we started to talk. I offered him a cigarette and we became kind of… that never would have happened if we’d been both on our regular teams. And I just thought about, “Well, are you gonna forget about me?” And I thought that it was this great theme for the song." | bit.ly
Andy McCluskey of OMD about writing this for the "Pretty In Pink" film: "We had 2 days to write a new track at Larabee Studios in L.A. We worked until 4 a.m. writing a rough version and sent a motorbike to Paramount. John heard it, liked it, and our manager phoned us at 8 a.m. and told us to go back in and mix it. That's how 'If You Leave' happened!"
Fred Mills revealed in 2007 to Harp that this song is actually about the departure of band member Rod Radalj, not a lover: "Here’s this guy who ditched us and he’s acting like the spurned lover!’ It was me saying, ‘You’ll regret it.’"...
"Well, yeah, I just turned all that stuff into a relationship song.”
Phoebe Bridgers will be in Seattle on Sunday March 17th at the Showbox, playing with Better Oblivion Community Center, Phoebe Bridgers, Conor Oberst, Christian Lee Hutson. For ticket info: bit.ly
She performed live in the KEXP studio in July 2018. You can watch this song and the full performance here: www.youtube.com
She performed live in the KEXP studio in July 2018. You can watch this song and the full performance here: www.youtube.com