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Thursday, Dec 20 2018, 6AM
Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Thursday edition of The Morning Show. Starting things off with the title track off of Massive Attack's second LP, which features the vocals of Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn
Sia's 2004 single that has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, including Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, and CSI Miami. It has since sold over a million copies in the U.S. alone
Closing track off The Chemical Brothers debut album Exit Planet Dust, released in 1995
A stone-cold classic. Features a sample from Isaac Hayes song "Ike's Rap II" off of Black Moses
The 1995 debut album from Tricky, which also features a sample from Issac Hayes "Ike's Rap II" on this track. (Portishead would beat him to it with "Glory Box" from 1994's Dummy)
Found on the debut full-length album from the Belgian band, and continues the theme for mid 90's down-tempo electronic albums to feature an Issac Hayes sample (But with the song "2 Wicky")
Here's an interview with Sneaker Pimps on MTV's 120 Minutes with Matt Pinfield in 1997: bit.ly
London trio featuring the vocals of Skye Edwards and brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey on beats/guitar/keyboards
Martina Topley-Bird got her start in music from being the featured female vocalist on Tricky's Maxinquaye album. This track can be found on her debut solo release Quixotic, which was titled Anything here in the U.S.
"The last album [Blank Project] was a stream of consciousness, an outpouring of stuff I had been harboring internally. Almost like an exorcism. My mother had died, and I had been in a dark place. On this new record I needed to reflect, and open up my consciousness. Because the other record was a lot more looking in." - Neneh Cherry in an interview with i-D on her new album Broken Politics: bit.ly
Off the second album from this London-based electronic duo who got their name from a '70s discotheque
Parisian duo's debut full-length album that features U.S. singer Beth Hirsch on this track
This past October, Zero 7 (quiet for a few years now) shared a new song and this statement: “The hiatus is back off again as the Beastie Boys once put it. We’re pleased to share new track "Mono", a collaboration with our friend Hidden. More new music coming up.” bit.ly
Thievery Corporation made a stop to the KEXP studios in 2016, watch it here: bit.ly
Only one full-length album has ever shown up from this Irish band, which made its appearance on prominent indie label 4AD in 1994
Cover of the Califone song: “The distance between Sylvan Esso’s crisp electro-pop and Califone’s dark, shambling indie-folk is shorter and more direct than it might seem,” said writer Josh Modell in the bio for the single. “And the cover you’re about to hear...of Califone’s ‘Funeral Singers’ will quickly make clear that two disparate worlds have been deftly bridged, and that there is peace in the valley. This new version is faithful to the original in ways, gorgeously different in others.” bit.ly
Found on the second album from the English group that formed in 1987. We haven't seen another release from them since 1997, though they hinted all the back in 2014 that they were working on new material: bit.ly
Long-running Pennsylvania band led by husband and wife Don and Karen Peris. They've got new music in 2018! Find it here: theinnocencemission.com
The 1996 album created by members of The Talking Heads (minus David Byrne). Guest vocalists on this release include Debbie Harry, Andy Partridge, Richard Hell, Maria McKee, Shaun Ryder, Ed Kowalczyk, Michael Hutchence and Johnette Napolitano
In what may be proof that 2018 has made us all just want to wander into the trees, The Cure have announced their first new album in over a decade for 2019! bit.ly
The lead single off the Icelandic singer's third studio album Post, released in 1995
Off the second album from the French rapper. The first lines of this song translated to English are: The wind blows in Arizona | A state of America where Harry Zona lives | Cowboy crazy, bang bang of the gun | What do we make of the weapon, the horse and what to make of “Woo Yess”
Opening track off the 1968 album of the same name from the collaboration between Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. (How is this song 50 years old?)
Straight from the band on the origins of this song: NME magazine broke the news in October 2001 that Massive Attack had done a collaboration with hip-hop rapper and occasional turned actor, Mos Def for an as yet undisclosed film project. It was then announced in January 2002 that the film in question would be Blade 2. It was agreed to release the song both simultaneously as a free download single on massiveattack.com and as part of the Blade 2 soundtrack album, both of which came out during March 2002. | bit.ly
Off the influential debut album from Eric B. & Rakim, which turned 30 years old last year. Said Rakim in an interview last year: "As cocky as the rhymes sound, I had no idea it would have an impact like this, man. So it’s a blessing to not only be a part of this game and this legendary status, but being able to be here 30 years later and have a show and everybody come out and enjoy themselves. I would’ve never expected that" | bit.ly
How about an (unofficial) Muppets version of "Ms. Jackson?!" Because Thursday! Because Muppets! www.youtube.com
This iconic album turned 20 years old this year: bit.ly
Emancipator is the alias of Doug Appling, a Portland-based instrumentalist and producer. You can get this 2011 track as a free download here! emancipator.bandcamp.com
Found on the second full-length album from the London group, with vocal samples from the 1998 film The Thin Red Line on this track
A 2003 edited version of "Born Slippy" that appears on the 1996 Trainspotting soundtrack. According to vocalist Karl Hyde, the title of this song was the name of a greyhound they once bet on: bit.ly
According to Ad-Rock in the new Beastie Boys memoir about Hello Nasty: “It’s our best record/cover artwork…Hello Nasty was where we were headed. Interplanetary and outer space...It has the song ‘Intergalactic’, and that song is the f__kin’ jam, right?!”
Check out Sunflower Bean's performance at KEXP in June here! www.youtube.com
Cut Chemist is the work of DJ and producer Lucas MacFadden, who is also a member of Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli
The Karminsky Experience is a London-based duo created by James Munns and Martin Dingle. The Power of Suggestion is their full-length debut album, released in 2003
Uses clips from an interview with Rickie Lee Jones. The unauthorized use of her voice ended up costing the band $5000 after a legal claim
Taking liberty with Suzanne Vega's lyrics right now: I am sitting in the Morning Show | At the Gathering Space on the corner I I am waiting at the counter | For La Marzocco to pour the coffee
Off the debut album from the Irish singer, released in 1987. Check out Rolling Stone's 4 star review of it from 1988 here! bit.ly
Made up of vocalist Sarah Blackwood, keyboardist/programmer Steve Hiller, and guitarist Chris Wilkie, this English band lasted from 1992 to 2000. "Stars" is the opening song off their debut album Disgraceful, released in 1995
Cut Copy vocalist Dan Whitford to Spin: “I was working at my day job at the graphic design company I owned back in Melbourne in 2001, and I remember being on my MacBook. I was in the edit menu and I moved down in the document to the few words that didn’t make sense together, and at that particular day and time the words ‘cut’ and ‘copy’ really stood out to me. There are no other variables to the story. On a different day, I might have thought Edit Delete was a great name for the band."
Ahh yes folks, it's the ever elusive New Order play on The Morning Show. Enjoy this moment while you can! Don't make us turn this booth around!
According to Pet Shop Boy's Neil Tennant, this song is about two losers who actually are NOT going to be making lots of money
Off the English band's 1988 third album The Innocents
Depeche Mode comes in at #15 in this Forbes list of The World's Highest-Paid Musicians Of 2018. Which beats The Rolling Stones...and Lady Gaga...and Paul McCartney...weird! bit.ly
Okay kids, this has been your Thursday Morning Show. Cheryl's got you for the next four hours!