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Wednesday, Oct 17 2018, 6AM
Matthew Dear is a DJ, dance-music producer, and experimental film maker. He writes, produces, and mixes all of his work and he's had remixes commissioned by The XX, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, and Chemical Brothers. Pick up his latest, 'Bunny', right here ghostly.com
Watch LCD Soundsystem perform it live - recorded this past May at the Hollywood Bowl www.youtube.com
This track is off their ninth studio album and it earned a 2017 Grammy nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album. Their most recent release is the 'Teatime Dub Encounters' EP, on which they collaborated with Iggy Pop www.underworldlive.com
Your 6 am dance party continues with "Chico's Goove" which features a sample of Tom Scott and the L.A. Express's "Sneakin' in the Back". Massive Attack also sampled "Sneakin' in the Back" on "Blue Lines" as did Wu-Tang Clan on "Bells of War"
You can find this track on their new album, 'Muted Crowd', due out 10/19 and they're having a CD release show at Neumos on October 18th! www.spiritaward.band
According The Horrors' bassist, Rhys Webb, when they made this album in 2011, "it was just a great time in London. There was a really big scene of young people wearing good clothes and enjoying music. And I started to wear a lot of Paisley shirts to reflect the psychedelic influence in the music."
Read more at www.nme.com
In 2017, The Verve released a remastered version of 'Urban Hymns' to celebrate it's 20 year anniversary. It available in four different formats including the standard remastered CD, a deluxe two-disc CD version, a super deluxe 5 disc CD plus bonus DVD box set and a triple LP box set.
Pavo Pavo is a quintet from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2015 and consisting of Eliza Bagg, Oliver Hill, Ian Romer, Peter Coccoma, and Noah Hecht. www.pavopavomusic.com
The single, "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops", was originally released on their 1984 EP 'The Spangle Maker'. It was their highest-charting single, peaking at No. 29 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 1 on the UK Indie Chart. Of course it didn't chart in the USA - silly Americans!
Here's a fan video of Lush performing "De-Luxe" live in Cleveland, OH in 1994 www.youtube.com
Curve was a duo from London, formed in 1990 and split in 2005. The band consisted of Toni Halliday (vocals, occasionally guitar) and Dean Garcia (bass, guitar, drums, programming). Halliday also wrote the lyrics of their songs and they both contributed to songwriting. An important collaborator was producer Alan Moulder, who helped them to shape their blend of heavy beats and densely layered guitar tracks set against Halliday's vocals.
David Byrne did a great version of this track on his most recent tour - albeit it in a normal size suit! www.youtube.com
Can't get enough of U2's "Bad"? Well you're in luck, here's an 18 min+ live version! You're welcome! www.youtube.com
From 2015, here's Neil Finn backed up with strings performing "Don't Dream It's Over" www.youtube.com
Requested by Patrick who is seeing The Church tonight in Chicago and here's a live version to hold you over until tonight - enjoy the show! www.youtube.com
"Fall on Me" was originally released on their fourth album 'Life's Rich Pageant' (1986). The song was one of the band's early compositions about environmentalism, discussing acid rain.
Here you go Christine - hope your high school flashback is a good one!
Sorry New Order, it's No Regrets Wednesday! Go grab the day by the neck and make it yours!
Watch Simon Le Bon dance and jump around in the "official" video www.youtube.com
When this single was released, Bowie released a 21 minute film called 'Jazzin for Blue Jean' to promote the 3:08 minute single! Watch it here www.youtube.com
This was the first single by the Smiths to be accompanied by a promotional music video, something the band had previously resisted. www.youtube.com
More video madness - watch Sean Nelson belt it out! www.youtube.com
Chris Ballew said that the lyrics for "Lump" combined his own history of having a benign tumor in the head with a vision he had of a woman in a swamp, while employing the word "lump" because Ballew was fond of it.
thanks for playing my request John - it's a love song for my sweetie!
After Yazoo, Alan Clarke and vocalist Andy Bell formed Erasure in 1985
Did you know that Alan Clarke was influenced by OMD when he heard them as a teenager? It's true, I read it on the Wikipedia!
This song has been released twice as a single. The first version of the song was produced by Bobby Orlando and was released on Columbia Records' Bobcat Records in April 1984, becoming a club hit in the United States. After the duo signed with EMI, the song was re-recorded with producer Stephen Hague for their first studio album, 'Please'. In October 1985, the new version was released, reaching number one in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1986.
Band member Dave Faulkner wrote this song and says of it "I vowed to myself that I would write less comic narratives and try to express my sentiments in a more forthright way. I feel I succeeded with "Bittersweet" though at the time I didn't think that a) the band would want to play it and b) our audience would want to hear it. I was happily wrong on both counts."
The single was featured on the A Nightmare on 'Elm Street 4: The Dream Master' soundtrack
This is one of those songs that you always think was a hit, when it really wasn't - it only reached number 42 on Billboard's charts when released. Still, we were playing the hell out of this when it was released, prolly just like you.
Classic 80's video - big hair, looking cool, sword fights, jesters - the only thing missing is a guy dressed up like a Roman gladiator standing in front of the Hollywood sign. Oh, wait, they got that too. www.youtube.com
"Beautiful World" is considered by many fans and critics to be Devo's greatest music video, setting the tune to a series of connected images from film archives. The video features the character Booji Boy prominently, as he initially watches scenes of beautiful women, futuristic cars and other happy elements, which by the end of the song have been replaced by images of race riots, the Ku Klux Klan, World War I, famine in Africa, car crashes and nuclear explosions, which puts a much darker slant on the song's lyrics. www.youtube.com
I just realized that our current White House occupant sports A Flock of Seagulls haircut!
we're playing the extended mix so you can, uh, keep feeling fascination
You can find this track on 'New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84)' Jim Kerr recalled the production of the album as a wonderful time during the late spring and early summer of 1982 in which "everything we tried worked", adding: "There were no arguments. We were in love with what we were doing, playing it, listening to it. You don't get many periods in your life when it all goes your way." Easy for him to say, he later married Chrissie Hynde!
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From 2007, here's a live version complete with orchestra! www.youtube.com
yet another Owen request. Guess he knows the DJ or sumptin'
Public Image Ltd burst upon the scene 40 years ago - John Lydon looks back. And they'll be in Seattle on October 29th at The Showbox #savetheshowbox www.rollingstone.com
This was the first music video shown on MTV. It aired at 12:01am on August 1, 1981. Yep, they used to play music videos on MTV. I know, I'm shocked too. www.youtube.com
Keep those requests coming in - Troy is up next and is going to continue this morning's vibe!