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Friday, Jan 18 2019, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. Brian Eno produced this song and played the organ intro. The Edge did a D-chord delay arpeggio on his 4-track recorder at home to create the rest of the track.Bono revealed that he views the lyrics as unfinished: "Musically it's great and the band deserve credit for that, but lyrically it's just a sketch and I was going to go back and write it out."Bono said that Eno reassured him about the unfinished lyrics. "Brian said, 'Incomplete thoughts are generous because they allow the listener to finish them'," the frontman revealed. "As a songwriter I have to realise that the greatest invitation is an invocation."
"Neon Bible" was shaped by Win Butler’s childhood nightmares – and his realization that they were becoming a reality.
“I have had these terrible dreams since I was a little kid that people are coming to get me and I have to run away,” Butler said, just before the album’s release. “There is always some weird government organization or unseen force which I don’t understand and there is this overwhelming sense of fear. I started to notice that these feelings that were so familiar to me in my dreams were starting to resonate with the climate I sense in the world. It is strange to recognize emotions that I feel when I am asleep at work in the real world.”
John Richards welcomed The National to the KEXP studio for a live performance in November, 2017: www.youtube.com
LUH says, 'I&I' speaks of impulse & limitation, the thoughts that pass thru the morning air, the embers of a dreams left unspoken then forgotten. The visual [portrays] the taunts of duality, invocation of the rising sun to find the courage to act.":indieobsessive.blogspot.com
Unlike "Spiritual Songs...", written and recorded in Amsterdam, "Love Hates..." was written predominantly in Ellery Roberts' hometown of Manchester, and then recorded in America with John Congleton (St. Vincent, Swans). Read a glowing review of Lost Under Heaven's sophomore album:www.theskinny.co.uk
"Never has a song’s title been so accurate, and convincing.": consequenceofsound.net
As she was working on "We Are Fine," Sharon Van Etten realized she wanted the song to be closer to the way she experiences a panic attack, by adding a voice. "We Are Fine" is a duet with Beirut's Zach Condon, who has social anxiety, too. Read more about this wonderful song: www.npr.org
Sharon Van Etten's fifth album, "Remind Me Tomorrow," is released today. She was the subject of a terrific New York Times feature earlier this month: www.nytimes.com
Earlier this week, Shearwater tweeted (modestly): "(ahem). Our live performances of Bowie's entire Berlin Trilogy, properly mixed and mastered, are now available on our Bandcamp page in 24-bit glory—as individual albums or a complete set. (Plus artwork, program notes, credits, etc...the usual deluxe..." :twitter.com
Even by Beck's standards, this song has some pretty odd lyrics ("She's got the lily-white cavity crazes, she's got a carburetor tied to the moon"). Beck explained to Rolling Stone magazine (February 21, 2008): "Most of the vocals on the record were scratch vocals. We just grew attached to them." Want to read the lyrics?: www.azlyrics.com
Thanks so much for this request (and happy birthday tomorrow), burlesque performer Titania Nox. Here's INXS live: www.youtube.com
This is for you, Emile, in your battle with brain cancer. You are not alone. Follow this link if you are interested in walking with Emile through his journey: www.caringbridge.org
"Our shadows will remain even after we're gone..." Enjoy the official video for Joseph Arthur's "Even Tho": www.youtube.com
Here's an interview last November with Catherine Wheel's Dave Hawes: bigtakeover.com
Galaxie 500 formed while the three members were attending Harvard in the late 1980s . They weren’t very good, and Damon Krukowski didn’t have a drum kit with him at school. So they borrowed a kit from another kid at Harvard. A kid named Conan O’Brien. Read about Galaxie 500's cover of New Order's "Ceremony": thisisthatsong.wordpress.com
There are great images in the video of this Joy Division cover: www.youtube.com
Speaking of Joy Division, this song is "an Orwellian nightmare: [Ian Curtis'] voice ringing out as if at a dystopian rally, trying to wake a population of people who’ve become mindless, all-obeying automatons. “Listen to the silence, let it ring on / Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun,” he howls. “And we would go on as though nothing was wrong / And hide from these days as we remained all alone.” :www.theguardian.com
Speaking of science,"Alec Eiffel" is a tribute to the famous French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The song's video features the band playing in a wind-tunnel, a reference to the "pioneer of aerodynamics," with physics formulas in the background.:www.youtube.com
Ahhh...the Friday song. Speaking of Friday, at noon today (Friday, January 18th), Pedro the Lion will play live in KEXP's Gathering Space.
You can hear Toro Y Moi at The Neptune Theatre tomorrow night, Saturday, January 19th, and Sunday night, January 20th, 2019.
Is this (maybe) your favorite English Beat song? "Cry cry but I don't need my mother...
Just hold my hand while I come to a decision on it.." Here are the lyrics: songmeanings.com
Last December, The Specials released “Vote For Me,” the lead single for their recently announced comeback album, "Encore." It’s the first Specials song featuring Terry Hall on vocals since their landmark 1981 single “Ghost Town.”:www.spin.com
This song was written by Blur's's guitarist, Graham Coxon, who also sang lead vocals.The lyrics describe Coxon's struggle with alcoholism and the song's video, featuring a sentient milk carton searching for Coxon: www.youtube.com
The Cure performed this song live on the other coast -- in Charlotte, NC in 2016:www.youtube.com
The album "Songs from the Big Chair" takes its name from the 1976 American TV drama series "Sybil," in which the title character, suffering from psychiatric problems stemming from child abuse, seeks refuge in her therapist's "big chair." For those of you who missed it, Sybil was based on the controversial book about a woman who was supposed to have had 16 different personalities. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith stated that they based this title choice solely on the concept that the songs on the album were so varied, that they all had different personalities all their own.
James Blake will play The Moore Theatre on Sunday, March 10th, 2019.
Oh, that wonderful voice! Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father one day before his 45th birthday.: www.history.com
Who could he be talking about? "Arrest the president, you got the evidence...": genius.com
"Pretty Hate Machine" will be 30 years old in 2019: www.billboard.com
A British poll just named David Bowie the greatest entertainer of the twentieth century: www.nme.com
Watch Thom Yorke's solo acoustic take on Radiohead's "Bloom": www.nme.com
On the back of an enormous publicity campaign, Frankie Goes to Hollywood dominated British music in 1984. With a series of slogans, T-shirts, and homoerotic videos, the band caused enormous controversy in England and managed to create some sensations in the United States. However, the Frankie sensation was finished as soon as it was started; by the release of their second album, Liverpool, in 1986, the group's audience had virtually disappeared.: www.allmusic.com
"'Black Steel' is a sonically hypnotic, musically audacious reworking of Public Enemy's jail-escape classic, 'Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos', with Martina Topley-Bird's laid-back lead vocal floating over the top of pumping bass, crashing drums, bursts of steely punk guitar and assorted cacophonous sounds.":www.soundonsound.com
The Tribe was working on We Got It From Here when Phife Dawg died from diabetes complications in March 2016. The album's title was the one the late rapper wanted, and although the other members did not understand its meaning, they went with the name as he liked it.
This review says that "The Walls Came Down" is the "most beautiful song for the new revolution": selinker.livejournal.com
Here's the summary for the video: "A serial killer played by Jake Gyllenhaal travels through the hippest parties on a killing spree of Dalston hipsters. Gyllenhaal masters the role of unsuspecting dark-eyed psycho as he pumps iron and gums drugs preparing for his next beautifully fashionable victim. Transforming the music video into magnificently dramatic cinema, director Daniel Wolfe has captured contemporary London in a shockingly addictive modern Slasher." And...here's the video: www.youtube.com
Watch the "pole dancers" in the video for "Go!": www.youtube.com
AllMusic called the song "one of the defining moments of early-'80s new wave dance"that "remains a wonderful atypical dancefloor smash".
After Bauhaus split in 1983, three members (other than Peter Murphy) joined together to be Love and Rockets: www.loudersound.com
You can hear Peter Murphy at The Moore Theatre on Sunday, January 20th, 2019 (if you have tickets).
"In the Flat Field," released on November 3rd, 1980, was the debut album for Bauhaus. It was considered one of the first gothic rock records. :www.thevinyldistrict.com
IDLES will be live on KEXP as part of our International Clash Day event from London, February 4th-7th, 2019: www.kexp.org
Visit the Facebook page of this Dublin band: www.facebook.com
'Rechargeable' is the second new song to be aired from Snapped Ankles' forthcoming album Stunning Luxury (due out March 1st via The Leaf Label).: www.thefourohfive.com
"Racer-X" was the first of Big Black's records to cement their instrumental lineup of two guitars, one bass guitar and a Roland TR-606 drum machine. Read a discussion of Steven Albini's 10 best records (It includes this one.): pitchfork.com
"Whale. Whale. Whale. What have we here?" :www.youtube.com
Fidlar rocked the KEXP studio with a live performance in 2015: www.youtube.com
Try to sit still while you watch the official video for "Let's Go Crazy": www.youtube.com