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In an interview with Bill Withers, he told how this song came about: "I was watching a movie called Days Of Wine And Roses (1962) with Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon. They were both alcoholics who were alternately weak and strong. It's like going back for seconds on rat poison. Sometimes you miss things that weren't particularly good for you. It's just something that crossed my mind from watching that movie, and probably something else that happened in my life that I'm not aware of."
Orbison claimed to have written this as the result of an encounter he had with an old flame with whom he was still in love. He refused to say how much she meant to him, and when he ran into her again it was too late. At the time, rock artists didn't typically write songs about crying over a girl. Orbison wanted to show that crying was not weakness, but sensitivity.
PJ will be playing the WaMu theater in Seattle on May 5th. Looks like tickets are still available...
In a 1994 BBC Radio Interview Cohen remarked: "The problem with that song is that I've forgotten the actual triangle." You have to do a lot of living to forget who you were writing Famous Blue Raincoat about.
“Are you digging our laid-back vibe?” Band of Horses band leader Ben Bridwell asked the audience during a 2014 concert at Seattle’s Moore Theatre. Check out their 2014 in-studio here: blog.kexp.org
The "269" in the title refers to the number of mixes they tried before getting it right in the studio - that number does not appear in the lyrics.
Many of Robert Smith's compositions are inspired by literature. "Pictures Of You" was based on an essay by Myra Poleo called The Dark Power of Ritual Pictures. Smith says that after reading it, he destroyed his old personal photos and many of his home videos in an effort to wipe away his past. He came to regret the decision a few days later.
Sometime Around Midnight was song of the day back in 2008. Still good! blog.kexp.org
Eagle Seagulls... living out the Love & Hate show "The band broke up shortly following their spring 2010 European tour, when band members Carrie Butler and Austin Skiles divorced in September 2010. Former frontman Eli Mardock, now married to Carrie Butler,..."
"On first hearing Interpol, they seemed to be just another group mimicking the sound of alt-rock legends Bauhaus...But because the band was new and sounded like Bauhaus, I still played them on the radio" Read DJ Michelle Myers' Saturday Afternoon Artist entry on Interpol blog.kexp.org
CSS stands for Cansei de Ser Sexy, literally "I got tired of being sexy". A sentiment we share here in the booth.
This song is about masturbation: "They say that if I do it I'm going to go blind...," "I can't stop messin' with the danger zone." Introducing this song at a Paris concert in 1987, Lauper said, "A bop a day keeps the doctor away. I recommend it." She wanted kids to think this was about dancing.
NYPC is taking an extended break with no plans to record right now but they have contributed a previoulsy unreleased track for a project that is "trying to do something positive in dark times." You can hear it here: soundcloud.com
Lead singer Phil Oakey used to collect fashion magazines and this song was inspired by an article in one. He claimed this is not a love song but about power politics between two people.
A throwback to Valentine's Day 2012 with John's Best Love Songs for Your Junior High School Valentine’s Dance Circa 1982. On Flock of Seagulls "What fries my brain is that he was a hair stylist so this hairstyle was a professional decision." Check out the whole list with videos! blog.kexp.org
In January, The Chemical Brothers re-released their first seven albums on vinyl, the first 1000 on limited-edition, hand-numbered, colored, double LPs. Here is a list of independent records stores that got them www.carolinestorefinder.com
"Ciao My Shining Star is both a tribute and a kind of collective patronage for Mulcahy's career, intended to give him the funds carry on as both single father and musician.
It's a touching story, lent extra power by just how many big names-- including Thom Yorke, Frank Black, Dinosaur Jr., Michael Stipe, the National-- turned out. Apparently, the response was so strong that this 21-track album accounts for just over half of the music received." pitchfork.com
In 2012 Nada Surf performed an exclusive set live on KEXP from The Triple Door as part of our VIP Club Concert series. With Doug Gillard (Guided by Voices) joining them for more guitary goodness, they performed a long set of songs from the new album and few older classics for the fans. Check out all of the videos from this session right here, including "Always Love" blog.kexp.org
The Mountain Goats have some North American tour dates set for 2017 but no Seattle so far. Closest right now in Minnesota in July.
"People ask me to play this song at their weddings. I'm flattered and honored, and I decline to play this song at anybody's wedding. I keep waiting for somebody to say, 'Well, we're having the final hearing. You remember I asked you to play this at our wedding? I was wondering if you'd come to this little office, it's off of Frontage Road, it's very nondescript—they share a space with a massage therapist and an insurance guy, and you could come and play this song at the hearing, and sing it like you mean it.' I keep waiting for that 'cause I think, don't tell anybody, but I think if somebody said 'John, come play No Children at my divorce hearing,' how could I say no?" -- John Darnielle 2012-05-06 - The Metro - Sydney, Australia
"Well, Seattle, it looks like we’ve corrupted Flight of the Conchords. Jemaine Clement, the gap-toothed glasses-wearing half of the New Zealand duo, confessed to the audience: he ate half a banana… and just left the other half sitting backstage! WHOA. “I’m the Iggy Pop of the band,” he admitted ruefully. Later, his guitar blipped a little bit of feedback. So rock n’ roll. “Well, Jimi Hendrix is from here,” he rationalized, adding that all of this rowdy behavior would be documented in the band’s biography, a tome sure to make Mötley Crüe’s The Dirt look like Goodnight Moon." Read the full KEXP review of last summer's concert at Marymoor Park blog.kexp.org
More from Tullycraft for songs of Love & Hate. "The Punks Are Writing Love Songs" as featured on the Song of the Day podcast. blog.kexp.org
The Vaselines have been by KEXP for in-studio performances a couple times. This set from 2010 includes "Sex with an X" blog.kexp.org
In Seattle April 18th at Neumos! Maybe we can get him to stop by for an in-studio? Until then you can watch a couple of his past visits blog.kexp.org blog.kexp.org
Since their last album in 2005, Dramarama has recorded another full album but it remains unreleased. No word if/when it will be.
Written by singer-guitarist Jim Ellison, "Valerie Loves Me" is about a neighbor girl that Ellison had a crush on when he was 11 years old.
I May Hate You Sometimes was featured as the closing song for the 2000 Daria movie.
Make Out Club is part of Perfect Teeth's pop perfection but the album interspersed with strange avant-garde percussive and sonic tracks, sometimes featuring nothing but white noise, beeps or sirens.
The video was directed by Mark Romanek, who had directed the clips for Madonna's "Rain" and Lenny Kravitz' "Are You Gonna Go My Way."
Romanek says that the video for "Closer" was shot on a hand-cranked camera from 1919, and was made "for art's sake." Like the song, the video is raw and disturbing, complete with bondage, nudity, and a monkey strapped to a crucifix. When MTV showed interest, they edited it for broadcast and the video went in rotation on the network. As for the monkey, Romanek insists that it was never harmed, and that an ASPCA representative was on the set to ensure its safety.
Of course, this is a Rod Stewart cover. Speaking in Esquire in 2012, Rod said: "I used to be embarrassed to sing 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy,' but people love it. So it's in the show." I don't think he could even begin to perform the Revolting Cocks' version
This Is Not (Is So) A Love Song, KEXP's Valentine’s Day video roundup from 2009. Includes Public Image Limited and Outkast. They don't land on the same list often! blog.kexp.org
It took My Bloody Valentine 18 years to follow-up Loveless, an album most people regard as the pinnacle of the shoegaze movement. When they finally did, their tour brought them through Seattle and KEXP got to interview Kevin Shields blog.kexp.org
The B-side of this single is a cover of "Work is a Four Letter Word" by Cilla Black. Johnny Marr quit shortly after the release saying "'Work Is A Four Letter Word' I hated. That was the last straw, really. I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs."
For a long time Michael Stipe did not want to record this. He thought it was too "brutal." "It's probably better that they think it's a love song at this point. That song just came up from somewhere and I recognized it as being really violent and awful. But it wasn't directed at any one person. I would never write a song like that. Even if there was one person in the world thinking, This song is about me, I could never sing it or put it out... I didn't want to record that, I thought it was too much. Too brutal. I think there's enough of that ugliness around."
The writer who first coined the term “shoegaze” was being derogatory. Now you can check out the 'Best 50 Shoegaze Albums' on Pitchfork pitchfork.com
As a teenager in Dublin Sinead had a job delivering "Kiss-O_Grams"
This album was on Pitchfork's Best New Albums list in 2004 pitchfork.com
Good Morning and Happy Valentine's Day. Are you aware that these Avett Brothers will be performing at the Gorge on July 22nd, 2017?