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Friday, May 25 2018, 6AM
Good morning and a very happy Friday. It's a beautiful day in Seattle. Brian Eno produced this song and wrote the chorus, which he also sang on. David Byrne, of course, wrote the verses. Some critics have suggested that "Once In A Lifetime" is a kind of jab at the excesses of the 1980s. Byrne says they're wrong; that the lyric is pretty much about what it says it's about. In an interview with NPR, he said: "We're largely unconscious. You know, we operate half awake or on autopilot and end up, whatever, with a house and family and job and everything else, and we haven't really stopped to ask ourselves, 'How did I get here?'"
See the world spinning behind DeVotchKa in the video for this marvelous and moving song: www.youtube.com
Watch a rare acoustic version of "True Love Waits" from Rio de Janeiro: pitchfork.com
The song was inspired by Guy Garvey's girlfriend at the time, author Emma Jane Unsworth. "Yes, it was about falling in love with Emma Jane," he told The Sun. "Even though the lyrics are quite bleak. I'm saying 'I'm not having a good time most of the time but today is great.'"
Choir! Choir! Choir! is a Toronto-based group that offers open participation in public sing-alongs. Watch David Byrne's performance with this impromptu group: consequenceofsound.net
"The most jaw-dropping moment of the night came near the end of the main set when he broke out Radiohead's "Creep." He had never played the song in concert before (or any other Radiohead songs for that matter), but across eight glorious minutes, he completely made it his own.....": www.rollingstone.com
Watch the trailer for the new Queen biopic, "Bohemian Rhapsody": www.youtube.com
Bono's lyric was inspired by his mother, who died in 1974 when he was 14. Bono calls it "a song about unconditional love."
Go back in time to 1993 to watch Talking Heads performing this song live in the Jonathan Demme's film of the Stop Making Sense tour: www.youtube.com
"Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen...
I don't know when...
But just saying it could even make it happen...": genius.com The song is based on Peter Reich’s 1973 memoir, "A Book of Dreams," which explores his memories of his father Wilhelm Reich, one of Sigmund Freud’s earliest students.
It was Octtober 13th, 1982, when The Clash performed this song at Shea Stadium. Here's the setlist: www.setlist.fm
Can't you identify this song from just the first two notes? Here's Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks live in 2006: www.youtube.com Read the NME obituary of Tom Petty:www.nme.com
The song has been described as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix by Beastie Boys member MCA, and originally contained samples from several Hendrix songs including "Foxy Lady", "Happy Birthday", and "Still Raining, Still Dreaming". The song also samples the drum beat from "I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're the Royal Macadamia Nuts)" by The Turtles.: thedailyguru.blogspot.com
Ahhh.....the Friday song. KEXP's One Day Summer Fundraising Drive will be held on Friday, June 8th, 2018.: www.kexp.org
Here are the lyrics to "Welcome to the Terrordome": genius.com read about the "s**storm" that surrounded this song: www.robertchristgau.com
"Childish Gambino shows pop music can be powerfully political despite censorship": www.independent.co.uk
Bowie described the feelings behind the song:
"It's not as truly hostile about Americans as say "Born in the U.S.A.": it's merely sardonic. I was traveling in Java when [its] first McDonald's went up: it was like, "for f**k's sake." The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life."
The song's video featured the band as a cloth-cap wearing family squashed into a terraced house. Drummer Dan "Woody" Woodgate recalled to Q Magazine August 2008: "The knocking-on-the-door bit where somebody comes out, goes, 'Where are they?' and the others sneak in and close the door… That's The Flintstones. We stole lots of ideas from the Keystone Kops and Benny Hill.": www.youtube.com
Does that rhythm section sound familiar? Tom Tom Club is an American new wave band founded in 1981 by husband-and-wife team Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, both also known for being members of Talking Heads
The Cure released "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" on this date in 1987. Did you know that it's a holiday in Kissimmee, Florida?
Bernard Sumner revealed in a 2012 interview with GQ that he wrote the song differently than his normal process, in that he created it from scratch rather than listening to a piece of music first to suggest the words.
"I did that with "Love Vigilantes" where I decided to write a redneck song," he said. "It was quite tongue-in-cheek. It was about Vietnam. It was about a soldier that came back and his wife was sent a telegram to say that he was dead."
"You can take the ending one way or another." Sumner added. "He's either dead and he's come back as a ghost and he sees her or he's not dead and the telegram was a mistake. But his wife's got it and killed herself."
John William "Paul" Weller, Jr., born on May 25th,1958, is 60 years old today.: www.youtube.com
"Oh, oh, oh, oh...." Here's the story behind this tragic and transcendent song: www.uofmusic.com
Karl Wallinger, formerly of The Waterboys, suffered a devastating brain aneurysm in 2001. Here's a 2015 interview: www.independent.co.uk
Enjoy this essay about "Girlfriend Is Better.": www.1songday.com
"An insanely catchy mix of a driving semi-African beat, curlicue guitar, and just enough New Wave sheen to sound great on both college radio and MTV, “Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)” is one of the more memorable one-shots that came out of the mid-80s...." Read more: medialoper.com
Dream Academy members Nick Laird-Clowes and Gilbert Gabriel wrote this song, which is dedicated to the singer Nick Drake, who was 26 years old in 1974 when he died of an antidepressant overdose.
Frightened Rabbit has cancelled their June 1st show in Glasgow and encouraged fans to donate the ticket price to the Scottish Association for Mental Health.: www.thescottishsun.co.uk Here's a tribute to Scott Hutchison: pitchfork.com
Irish voters have flocked to the polls to participate in this historic referendum on abortion.: www.marketwatch.com
"'Like Cockatoos' shows the Cure taking the more straight-ahead blasting gloom of its earlier days and creating more carefully arranged but no less ominous results.": www.allmusic.com
Chances are very good that you'll hear The Stone Roses on Monday, June 4th, 2018, when we celebrate all the musicians who came out of Manchester, England? Was there something in the water?
Speaking, as we were, of Manchester: www.youtube.com
Craig Gill, drummer for Inspiral Carpets, killed himself in May last year, after a 25-year struggle with tinnitus:www.bbc.com
If you're in Wolverhampton, England, on Saturday, July 7th, you can hear Ned's Atomic Dustbin perform "Grey Cell Green" (You know they will!) at Bantock House.
"The song endures because it addresses our insecurities. As Bush said in 1985, it’s about “the strength that is created between two people when they’re very much in love, but that strength can also be threatening, violent, dangerous”. Read more about the song that revived Kate Bush's career: www.ft.com
Would you like to read about all the places that don't include Seattle where Nine Inch Nails is touring this year?: www.metalinjection.net
Become a little more conversant about the "insane life of Al Jourgensen': www.factmag.com
"For Rolling Stones purists, there's still enough swing and backing "Woo-wooos" for listeners to identify with, but Motorhead make the song their own while managing to appease everyone....": loudwire.com
Biography.com featured profiles of all three members of Run-D.M.C.: www.biography.com
Find out who De La Soul sampled for "Let, Let Me In": www.whosampled.com
They performed this song live on The Tonight Show in 1991: www.youtube.com
"If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug...
Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug..." Now you can sing along --accurately!: genius.com
This 2015 article tells what became of Candy, Little Joe, Sugar Plum Fairy, and Jackie: www.theguardian.com
This is a cover of a great Al Green song. Listen to the original.: www.youtube.com