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Friday, Aug 31 2018, 6AM
NOW (at last!)....Good morning and happy Friday. Thanks for all the requests that have already come in... The theme of aging is detailed in this song. Guy Garvey explained: "It mourns the fact you can't see all your friends every night like you can when you're young." Garvey said: "There's a line in it - 'we only come this way but once' - which is actually a bastardisation of William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania). He was talking about realising you only have one life, realising your own mortality."
“A Day in the Life"...is my idea of a perfect song. It is the epitome of The Beatles’ master building, of fitting stone upon stone, each section troweled together with such ingenuity and care that upon completion the whole thing feels seamless, a structure not built at all, but a whole that simply was." Read this fabulous discussion of this fabulous song: www.theatlantic.com
"The track starts out with the soft sound of a wind chime. I think this works as a separation from whatever you were listening to or doing before, allowing you to change your state of mind. The second you start to be intrigued, the booming synths crash in. It’s just so beautiful in its simplicity. The synths go on, playing both the bass line and the melody with some faraway drums, and are soon joined by a guitar line that echoes the synth melody. Robert Smith only starts singing 2 minutes and 37 seconds into the song: almost half way through. And his voice is softer than usual. It’s clear he wants to music to dominate this track, and it works...." Here's an analysis of a song that "makes you cry/and saves your life": neverletmedown.wordpress.com
Thanks, Peter, for this fine request.
This beautiful song was so audibly influenced by Kraftwerk that it was given the working title KW1.: www.theguardian.com
“I think we were still surfing on the wave of creative energy from Achtung Baby and the Zoo TV tour when we were making Zooropa." the Edge said. "It was the same burst of inspiration. When we were working on Achtung Baby, we were looking to discover new sonic terrain – and on this record that was already established, so we were more confident of what we were doing.": diffuser.fm
The bass riff that plays throughout this song is based on a riff lead singer Thom Yorke came up with at age 16. The horn section was made up of eight Jazz musicians from the St. John's Orchestra. Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood conducted them, but since they didn't really know how to conduct, they jumped up and down when they wanted them to play faster and made calming gestures if they wanted the music slower.
Does this look like a hand-held video from 1992 to you?: www.youtube.com
Thank you, Andy. Yes, all of you teachers are heroes, doing incredibly important and loving work. Best wishes as the 2018-2019 school year begins. This song has been called the "ultimate epitaph": ig.ft.com
The saxophone in this song was played by David Sanborn, who was just starting to get noticed when Bowie brought him in to play on this. Bowie hired Luther Vandross, who had yet to establish himself as a solo artist, to sing backup and create the vocal arrangements on the Young Americans album.
David Bowie talked about this song's connection to the concept album "Ziggy Stardust": “Ziggy was in a rock 'n' roll band, and the kids no longer want rock 'n' roll,” There’s no electricity to play it. Ziggy’s adviser tells him to collect news and sing it, ’cause there is no news. So Ziggy does this, and there is terrible news. ‘All the Young Dudes’ is a song about this news. It is no hymn to the youth as people thought. It is completely the opposite.”
"This Coachella performance of "Creep" encapsulates so much of the artist's one-of-a-kind appeal: his expressive singing, his guitar heroics, his ability to walk across a giant stage as though it were his bedroom.": www.youtube.com
Thank you for the numerous Aretha Franklin requests. Her funeral is today in Detroit. In 1998, she took over for an ailing Luciano Pavarotti to sing this aria at The Grammys: www.openculture.com
The Passengers were a collaboration between U2 and Brian Eno. U2 considered it a side project, so they used a different name.
Italian Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti sang on this with Bono. Pavarotti enters this song at two minutes and 53 seconds singing an Italian language libretto written by Bono. The Irishman claimed that he was impersonating his opera buff father singing in the bath impersonating Pavarotti.
"Back in Metropolis, circuses and elephants...
Where the oranges grew..." When you're singing along, you'll want to know the lyrics: www.azlyrics.com
Thank you, Elizabeth, for the Kate Bush request. Kate Bush said the song is " about a relationship between a man and a woman. They love each other very much, and the power of the relationship is something that gets in the way. It creates insecurities. It's saying if the man could be the woman and the woman the man, if they could make a deal with God, to change places, that they'd understand what it's like to be the other person and perhaps it would clear up misunderstandings. You know, all the little problems; there would be no problem.": www.youtube.com
“They were real tears,” frontwoman Karen O. about her emotional video performance in 2007. “My boyfriend at the time” -- rumoured to be Angus Andrew of the band Liars -- “was supposed to come to the shoot - he was three hours late and I was about to leave for tour.”: www.youtube.com
Congratulations, Tom and Maggie, on your years of marital bliss. Producer Steve Albini used some unusual recording techniques on "Surfer Rosa" as he was desperate to avoid "the studio sound." For instance, he moved all the studio equipment to its bathroom in the hope of achieving a real rather than studio echo on bassist Kim Deal's backing vocals for this and her lead vocals on "Gigantic." Albini later admitted that the record could have been completed in a week were if not for the time wasted experimenting on projects like this.
When Talking Heads frontman David Byrne started dating costume designer Adelle Lutz in 1982, the new relationship inspired Byrne to do something he’d never even tried before: writing a love song. This writer used it as the soundtrack for a marriage proposal: music.avclub.com
Dana, this song is dedicated to patient and loving Nathan and your new son, Sam. Matt Johnson of The The said of this song,"Maybe it’ll make people get off their arses and go and live a bit.”
Ahhh.....the Friday song. Watch a live stream of Aretha Franklin's funeral: www.kexp.org
Van Morrison is 73 years old today. He was born on this date in 1945. In the third verse, the line "Making love in the green grass" was overdubbed with a line from the first verse, "Laughin‚ and a-runnin‚" to make it more radio-friendly. The 1990 Best Of Van Morrison CD released the censored version, apparently by someone unaware that there were two versions.
This song was released in April 1980 and, like Joy Division's other singles, it didn't chart. A month later, depressed over a broken marriage and poor health, Ian Curtis hanged himself. The single was re-released in June and became their first and only hit. Read more about this song: www.loudersound.com
"(We care a lot) about disasters, fires, floods and killer bees...": www.youtube.com
IDLES will be LIVE on KEXP during The Morning Show at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 4th, 2018. This performance is open to the public. The band will be at The Sunset Tavern on Saturday, October 6th, 2018.: www.youtube.com
See the video and read the discussion of "Colossus," by "Britain's angriest band": whenthehornblows.com
This is a cover of a T. Rex song. "Telegram Sam" was written by Marc Bolan about his manager Tony Secunda (Telegram Sam = Tony Secunda) who was his 'main man' since he was both Bolan's manager and narcotics supplier.
Speaking of T. Rex, here's a 1972 live version of "Jeepster": www.youtube.com
Journalist Matthew Greenwald likened the song’s style to the early 1970s sound of the Rolling Stones. He adds: “Lyrically, on the surface, it’s a hot lovers plea; however, it could easily be taken as a plea to society as a whole. Like a lot of Nilsson’s greatest songs, it works on many different levels.” Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes the track as “surging hard rock”, while James Parker of The Atlantic calls it “livid, dragon-bones funk”. Here's a great discussion of this song: angelsbark.wordpress.com
KEXP is live streaming the funeral of the Queen of Soul: www.kexp.org Here's her obituary from The New York Times:www.nytimes.com
Watch a live in-studio performance by Swervedriver at KEXP in 2015: www.kexp.org
The song's snippet of dialogue - "Dog will hunt!"- is from the movie "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2," as said by the character Chop Top Sawyer. : www.youtube.com
Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986. They eventually disbanded in 2000.: www.allmusic.com
This sultry track was conceived by Love And Rockets guitarist Daniel Ash, who also handled lead vocals. "I'd gone to a party on Saturday night, and I was married at the time, and I saw this woman over the other side of the room, and I was completely transfixed which is very odd because I was freshly married," he said in an interview. "It was very weird, but I was completely infatuated by her and so much so that I couldn't go near her to even speak to her, it was just this overwhelming thing. I can't explain it to this day. That's why the first line is, 'I don't know what color your eyes are.' Because I didn't get that close, I just saw this person in the distance."
"In Utero" was re-mastered and re-released in 2013, with B-sides, outtakes, and demos. Here's a review: pitchfork.com
Thanks, Robert, for this suggestion. This Chicago band, founded by Groovie Mann and Buzz McCoy, say that they'll be touring in spring, 2019.: mylifewiththethrillkillkult.com
There are guns, girls, and Goth in the video for this Rod Stewart parody cover: www.mtvbase.com