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Friday, Oct 13 2017, 6AM
Good morning and a very happy Friday. When The Who perform this live, the processed organ is played from a recording, since it would be nearly impossible to replicate on an instrument. The guitar doesn't come in until 1:40, giving Pete Townshend some time to reflect on his work. "There is this moment of standing there just listening to this music and looking out to the audience and just thinking, 'I f--king did that. I wrote that," he told Rolling Stone. "I just hope that on my deathbed I don't embarrass myself by asking someone, 'Can you pass me my guitar? And will you run the backing tape of 'Baba O'Riley'? I just want to do it one more time.": www.dailymotion.com
“Children, wake up/ Hold your mistake up.”
This bloody song. This lump in your throat, pounding at your heart, hair-raising song. It feels marginally biblical, doesn’t it? Read more about Arcade Fire's "Funeral" and this wonderful song, "Wake Up": consequenceofsound.net
You need to understand the "Clash-like" Spanish in the background: www.latinorebels.com
The Guardian wonders if Big Audio Dynamite was "more pioneering" than The Clash. (Maybe we should have an International BAD Day.): www.theguardian.com
Written by Martin Gore with lead vocals by Dave Gahan, "Never Let Me Down Again" is one of the most ambiguous Depeche Mode songs. It is often believed to be about drugs, which offer both comfort and excitement to the singer. When Gahan sings, "We're flying high, we're watching the world pass us by," that indicates getting high on drugs, but the song could also have a much more literal meaning about taking an airplane ride with a friend.
It gets even more confusing near the end of the song, with the lines:
"Promises me I'm safe as houses
As long as I remember who's wearing the trousers..."
Someone or something is making sure he knows his place.
Radiohead is among the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 2018 class. (Other candidates include Rage Against the Machine, Nina Simone, and Kate Bush).): www.theguardian.com
" For how much longer can I howl into this wind?" Here are the brief and powerful lyrics: www.azlyrics.com
Robert Smith declared that this poppy ode to seeing your girl on Fridays was for people who "aren't actually fans of The Cure.":www.songfacts.com
The Breeders will be in town, playing The Showbox on Thursday, November 9th, 2017.
Read a biography of Catherine Wheel here: www.allmusic.com
Watch a live in-studio session with Bully at KEXP: blog.kexp.org
Remember, Nats' (and Mariners') fans, "there is a light that never goes out." (It does, however, grow quite dim.)
"You know her life was saved by rock and roll." In the liner notes to the Velvet Underground's box set "Peel Slowly And See," Lou Reed wrote, "'Rock and Roll' is about me. If I hadn't heard rock and roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet. Which would have been devastating - to think that everything, everywhere was like it was where I come from. That would have been profoundly discouraging. Movies didn't do it for me. TV didn't do it for me. It was the radio that did it."
Wolf Parade will play The Showbox with Charly Bliss on Saturday, January 13th, 2018.
Ted Leo will be LIVE on KEXP on Wednesday, November 08, 2017, at noon. The public is invited to attend.: blog.kexp.org Mr. Leo will be playing The Crocodile that evening.
Listen to Wilco's serene cover of Elvis Costello's energetic Nick Lowe cover: www.rollingstone.com
This was played in a 2007 TV commercial shown in the UK for Bird's Eye Fish Fingers, which featured vocalist Suggs McPherson. In the advert the Madness frontman is sitting with a family at tea time. The daughter is studying for her school exams and asks Suggs where Omega 3 can be found. He offers the answer of Birds Eye Fish Fingers.
"Blue Jeans" is one of only two songs on "Tonight" written entirely by Bowie.
Read a Pitchfork album review of The Horrors fifth album, "V": pitchfork.com
Head Head David Byrne shed some light on his lyrical inspiration when he told Time Out: "Most of the words in 'Once in a Lifetime' come from evangelists I recorded off the radio while taking notes and picking up phrases I thought were interesting directions. Maybe I'm fascinated with the middle class because it seems so different from my life, so distant from what I do. I can't imagine living like that."
Ahhh...the Friday song. RSVP to attend KEXP's Arcade Fire pre-funk party tomorrow on Sunday, October 15th, 2017.
"Buffalo Stance" set a template for generations of street smart women:www.theguardian.com
The song's main sample is a segment of "Multiplication Rock" from the American children's TV program Schoolhouse Rock!. : www.youtube.com
The syncopated dancing in this video is so fine.: www.youtube.com
"Police on My Back" was a rare example of the Clash tackling a reggae tune and, rather than trying to fuse its Caribbean rhythms with the band's muscular approach, instead stripping the tune to its bones and tackling it as straight rock & roll.: www.allmusic.com
Mr. Pop (James Newell Osterberg, Jr.) turned 70 on April 21st of this year. Read an interview from the spring: www.rollingstone.com
A KEXP live session with Wolf Alice will be broadcast at noon next Monday, October 16th, 2017.
To give you a hint as to how central this song is to The Runaways' legacy, the poster of the 2010 Runaways movie features a juicy dripping cherry whose stem is lit and sparking like a bomb. Bevis and Butthead took one look at it and spontaneously combusted.:www.songfacts.com
Front man Richard Butler had a specific audience in mind when he penned the lyrics to this song. He explained in an interview with Creem in 1982: "It's basically addressed to people who are f--ked up about their sexuality, and says 'Don't worry about it.' It was originally written for gay people."
On "Change Yr Mind," a frantic loner’s anthem punctuated by squelching guitar licks, Murphy candidly describes his inability to get out of bed, but also seems to comment on present insecurities about the band. “I’ve just got nothing left to say and I’m not dangerous now the way I used to be once," he sings in a gravelly lilt. "I’m just too old for it now, at least that seems to be true.”: www.usatoday.com
Pay attention to the video for New Order's"Temptation": www.youtube.com
The song laments the loss of much of Queensland's built heritage — including the Cloudland Dance Hall, where Midnight Oil had frequently performed— which was demolished under the then-ruling Joh Bjelke-Petersen state government. The Dreamworld theme park, which inspired the song's name, is briefly shown in the music video.:www.youtube.com
In February, 2018, (Tuesday, the 20th, to be exact), BRMC will play Seattle's Showbox.
Here are the lyrics for The Stones' original version: www.songfacts.com
Beck and Frank Zappa both praised "Supernaut" for its awesome guitar riff written by Tony Iommi.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this review says that "Colors" is "one of the year's best": abcnews.go.com
Read a brief biography of this well-known "Scottish!?!" band: www.allmusic.com
Read a rock history discussion of "Holiday in Cambodia":consequenceofsound.net
The chorus contains one of the most misheard vocals ever. The line is: "Keep up with the force, don't stop. Don't stop 'til you get enough." Jackson may have been inspired by the movie Star Wars, which popularized the concept of "The Force."
Australian musician Muscles "really is pretty awesome": pitchfork.com
"Girls on Film" is included in the list of "The 15 Most NSFW Music Videos of All Time": www.rollingstone.com
See the KEXP video premiere of "You Push, I'll Go": blog.kexp.org
Rostam Batmanglij is a songwriter, producer, and composer, who first rose to prominence in 2006 as one of the members of Vampire Weekend. In this Song Explorer episode, he breaks down "Bike Dream": songexploder.net
Watch Charlotte and her friend Dev Hynes as younger and older selves: pitchfork.com
Visit Goldfrapp's official website here: www.goldfrapp.com
"The road goes on forever and the party never ends..." Visit Robert Earl Keen's Facebook page: www.facebook.com
Do you really like this song? Then it's yours, for free. Get "Cafe Joli," a KEXP Song of the Day: blog.kexp.org
Happy birthday, Paul Simon, born on this date in 1941.: www.biography.com