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Friday, Aug 17 2018, 6AM
Good morning and happy Friday. This was written by songwriters Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher for The Muppet Movie, which came out in 1979. Paul Williams said about writing it: "Kermit, he's like 'every frog.' He's the Jimmy Stewart of frogs. So how do we show that he's a thinking frog, and that he has an introspective soul, and all that good stuff? We looked at his environment, and his environment is water and air - and light. And it just seemed like it would be a place where he would see a rainbow. But we also wanted to show that he would be on this spiritual path, examining life, and the meaning of life."
This terrific song was written by Karen O and Nick Zinner for the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.The name "All is Love" is a play on the name of the Swedish band Love is All, whose song "Make Out Fall Out" inspired Karen O. : www.youtube.com
"Jumping and laughing forever...
It would be great, right?" Enjoy the lyrics to "the frog song": www.azlyrics.com
This song features the voice of Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. Moby told The Guardian: "To me it sounded like a Flaming Lips song. So I thought, why not see if Wayne will sing on it?" About the "interesting" video, Moby said, "My idea for the video was to be absurd nonsense, so we thought, why not gather up a whole bunch of random absurd people and see what happens? We put on authentic mariachi costumes and spent the day downtown in LA.": www.youtube.com
Asked about the song in an interview, Isaac Brock said that he consciously intended to write something that felt more positive than some of his previous work:
"It was a completely conscious thing. I was just kind of fed up with how bad s**t had been going, and how dark everything was, with bad news coming from everywhere. Our president ... is just a f**king daily dose of bad news! Then you've got the well-intentioned scientists telling us that everything is f**ked. I just want to feel good for a day."
Pearl Jam covered this White Stripes song during their Seattle Home Show last week. Watch!: pitchfork.com
Here's a brief history of the band by Seth Avett: www.theavettbrothers.com
Watch a live in-studio performance by Built to Spill at KEXP three years ago: www.youtube.com
Don't be "laughing in the face of love." John Lennon's third single with the Plastic Ono Band was written and recorded on the same day (January 27, 1970), and released just 10 days later. Upon its release he told the press that he "wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we're putting it out for dinner".
Watch the official video for "Keep Your Eyes Ahead": www.youtube.com
This song's music video was directed by Sophia Peer, and was based on the clip for Russian punk rock band's Zvuki Mu's song "Grubiy Zakat.":www.youtube.com
In 2017, The Stranger asked some Radiohead freaks (including Sean Nelson) to pick the one song that defines the band. Here are the NINE songs they chose: www.thestranger.com
"Music has a way of unexpectedly influencing the way I view life. "Always Love" by Nada Surf is one of those few songs that has positively impacted me into rethinking my life and how I choose to live it. The lyrics are simple enough yet have a greater, positive, underlying meaning. This is the reason why "Always Love" is and will always be my favorite song." Read this blogger's entire post: mosesholy.blogspot.com
Tunde Adebimpe says of the video:“I just happen to like looking at people and wondering what’s up,” Adebimpe said about the clip’s inspiration. “We got some people together, some of whom we ran into on the street while we were shooting, and did that. We asked if they could quietly (or not) go to brighter or darker places inside themselves [and] let us be there with them for a little while. Everyone’s sifting through something, right?”: www.youtube.com
"This rhythm really fits like a snug glove...
Like a box of positives it's a plus, love...
As the Tribe flies high like a dove...": genius.com
Lou Reed feared the reaction of the characters in this song. "I thought they would all claw my eyes out when I got back to New York," the singer later admitted. "Instead, Candy Darling told me he'd memorized all the songs and wanted to make a 'Candy Darling Sings Lou Reed' album. It probably wouldn't sell more than a hundred copies!" Read the story behind this song: www.neatorama.com
Everything changed...for the band and for Australian music...after "Don't Change":www.theguardian.com
Read a Seattle Times review of Death Cab's ninth album: www.seattletimes.com
Saintseneca will perform this song live at The Sunset Tavern on Friday, October 19th, 2018.
Listen to this soaring song in Spanish, French, German, and Japanese (as well as English): www.npr.org
Go back in time to watch OMD playing "Joan of Arc" live in 1981: www.youtube.com
Is this the best song of the millenium? Read a thoughtful essay about "All My Friends": www.stereogum.com
"You get the feeling that the narrator will be trying to piece those pictures back together for the rest of his weary existence. The Cure and Robert Smith at their peak captured immense, intense anguish better than anybody, and “Pictures Of You” is the ultimate manifestation of that ability." Here's an American songwriter tribute to this masterpiece: americansongwriter.com
Today, August 17th, 2018, Prince's 23 catalog albums from 1995-2010 have just been released in full across digital musical platforms.: www.billboard.com
Yes, Fontaines DC played LIVE on KEXP in May. Watch that energetic performance here: www.youtube.com
Yes, you may have "Thoughts of Rena" for your own self. Download this KEXP Song of the Day here: blog.kexp.org
Multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented Karl Wallinger suffered a brain aneurysm in 2001. Read more: www.culturesonar.com
David Byrne said, "To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.” Here are so reasons why he is "ridiculously cool": www.nme.com
You can hear Chris Ballew in another incarnation in less than an hour: www.youtube.com
Watch the video for The (English) Beat's "Save It for Later": www.youtube.com
A House were an Irish rock band active from the 1980s into the 1990s.
Thank you, Eris, for this fine choice. Watch the video for "Psycho Killer": www.youtube.com
Bernard Sumner said in a 2015 interview that this is probably his favorite New Order song. He said: "It's got a spirituality to it. It's really uplifting without actually getting a specific message across. It was interesting to see that you could do that while, at the time, being fairly abstract. I struggled with the literalness of my lyrics in the early days. I didn't want to expose my inner feelings to the general public "
Ahhh...the Friday song (introduced by Henry Richards and his classmates). Today is the birthday of Kelvin Mercer (aka Pos), born on this date in 1969.
"A turtle with an old man's head"? The video is great!: www.youtube.com
No turtles in this video, but the costuming is exquisite.: www.youtube.com
Remember how we said earlier that today is Pos' (Kelvin Mercer) birthday.? Well, it still is. Here's a De La Soul biography: www.allmusic.com
Caspar Babypants will be playing The Neptune Theatre on Saturday, October 27th, 2018.
Chris Ballew (Caspar Babypants) was interviewed by ParentMap recently: www.parentmap.com
The new album, "Keep It Real," is out now.: babypantsmusic.com
All of the artworks for Caspar Babypants' albums is done by his wife, Kate Endle: www.kateendle.com
Here's a feature article about Chris Ballew: www.fatherly.com
The Coup swung by KEXP for an in-studio session back in 2012 - Check it out! www.youtube.com