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#571 This was the first reggae song to get prominent airplay on major American radio stations. It was first played by Frankie Crocker at the New York radio station WBLS. Thanks to this airplay, the song became one of the Wailers' most successful hits.

#570 on our listeners' top albums from the past 50 years! Bass line from Bootsy Collins, lead vocals by Garry "Starchild" Shider -- telling the story of Cholly going from being too uptight to get down to being ready to hop on the Mothership! Learn more about the song at Funkatropolis: tinyurl.com

#569! Ladybug Mecca is 1/3 of the hip hop trio, Digable Planets. On this song, they sampled Fred Wesley and The J.B.'s 1974 "Blow Your Head" and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' 1978 "Stretching." In 2016, the trio performed live for KEXP from the Kex Hostel in Iceland: youtu.be

#568 on our listeners' top albums of the past 50 years Check out their live performance in the KEXP studio where they played other tracks from 'My Love Is Cool': youtu.be Help keep KEXP listener-powered with your donation today at kexp.org

#567! This cover of the song by The Rolling Stones and Gram Parsons came out in 1992 as the B-side to "Goodbye"

#566! The title of this album was taken from Jay Stevens' book "Storming Heaven", detailing the effects of LSD during the 1960's counterculture movement

#565 from our listener's Top Albums of the past 50 years! See The Waterboys playing live in the KEXP studio in 2013: blog.kexp.org We can only host amazing live performances by your favorite musicians with your help! kexp.org

#564! Hatful of Hollow includes songs recorded over several 1983 live sessions for BBC Radio 1 -- this one comes from a session with legendary DJ John Peel on May 18, 1983, broadcast on May 31

#563 On their current tour, the Shins performed every track on "Oh, Inverted World", then pulled out covers of some of their favorite songs by artists like Stone Temple Pilots, Tom Petty, and more

#562 from listeners' Top Albums of the past 50 years!

#561 Rockaway Beach in Queens, NY, became the favoured hangout for young Doug Colvin (later aka Dee Dee Ramone) after he escaped with his mother from an alcoholic father in Germany and moved to New York City when he was 15. He saw the beach and its enormous amusement park as his private escape. "Rockaway Beach"" was one of 14 songs the Ramones took into New York’s Mediasound studio in August 1977 for their third album, later titled Rocket To Russia. bit.ly

#560! The third album by The Pretenders was released in 1984, after a hiatus that two of the band members died of drug overdoses (James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon). The title of this album came from Chrissie Hynde's then-infant daughter, who was learning to crawl while the band worked on this album.

#559 on listeners' Top Albums of the past 50 years! The story of the origins of the lyrics for this song paint Sting in a slightly creepy light, you can totally find it on Wikipedia tho

#558 In an interview with Absolute Radio Paul Weller said of "That's Entertainment": "I wrote it in 10 mins flat, whilst under the influence, I'd had a few but some songs just write themselves. It was easy to write, I drew on everything around me."

#557 'Thirteen Tales Of Urban Bohemia, the album that the Dandys released [in July 2000] is a quietly brilliant piece of rumpled majesty and glammy insouciance.' Read more from Tom Breihan's glorious retrospective for Stereogum: tinyurl.com

#556! "The song itself nowhere directly describes the tumultuous events of the Cairo fire of 1952 known to Egyptians as Black Saturday, but the reference to it in the chorus adds a certain degree of 'hyperbolic somberness to the verses.'" -- tinyurl.com

#555 With a short sample from the Kraftwerk's "Ohm Sweet Ohm" , and drums sampled from "Theme From the Planets" by Dexter Wansel -- and vocal line by Blake Baxter. John "Segs" Jennings, of punk rock band The Ruts, played the bass in this track. bit.ly

#554 The sixth studio album from Queens of the Stone Age. '...Like Clockwork' was self-produced by the band and the first to feature bassist Michael Shuman and keyboardist and guitarist Dean Fertita. qotsa.com

#553 on listeners' Top Albums of the past 50 years! A.C. Newman stated, "I remember 'Letter From an Occupant' was a pretty belabored song. It ended up being almost minimal, but I remember there's so much shit we put on it. There's a psychedelic 12-string guitar solo, a backwards guitar, there's a kind of really cool synth that's in there but buried. At some point, you have to choose." -- tinyurl.com

#551 KEXP has hosted this English punk band multiple times -- and we can only do that with your support! -- kexp.org

#550 Not only is this one of 1977's best songs, but, according to science, "Mr. Blue Sky" is the happiest song on earth! #science We're not even kidding. Netherlands-based researcher Jacob Jolij developed what he calls the "Feel Good Formula," with which he feels it is possible to determine the happiest song on earth. groovyhistory.com

#549! Wilco played an intimate performance for a rapt group of KEXP donors in 2015 -- and we can do that with your help! -- kexp.org blog.kexp.org

#548 This was the title track of a 1997 EP by Stereolab and became the lead single for their album "Dots and Loops." -- Enjoy a long essay on "the experimental audacity" of "Dots and Loops": bit.ly

#547 Revisit when Lord Huron came to KEXP to perform this one for listeners in 2012 here, along with other beautiful tunes: bit.ly

#546 Check out our documentary from 2011 on Pearl Jam over on the KEXP blog! blog.kexp.org

#545 Jeff Tweedy performed live at Rainshadow Recording at Fort Worden during THING 2019. Watch his full session and chat with DJ Morgan: youtu.be

Mojo magazine, in its May 2013 edition, asked Kim Deal if she had a sense this song would be a hit. She replied: "Did we record a song that opened with me saying, 'Check 1-2,' and then loads of vocal feedback from my brother's harmonica mike, and think, 'This is destined for radio?' That was the sort of thing that didn't get you played on the radio then. We thought no one would play it."