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01/03/2022 07:57 AM DJ: John Richards |
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Hey John Happy New Year! Would you play something by The Sugarcubes? This song by The Sundays is putting me in a 1980s/1990s college radio mood. |
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01/03/2022 07:54 AM DJ: John Richards |
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Happy New Year! -- Ben Gibbard explained that it's not about him or even a specific person, but the girl in the song is an amalgamation of various women he's encountered. In the band's 2011 Storytellers special, Gibbard said that he often gets visions of familiar character types and places them in different settings when he writes songs. He said: "This song is about a person who came to me one day and said she wanted to be written about. So it's not really my story as much as it is hers. The song started out as a folk song, but it had to be ramped up a bit.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSgHGFuPNus -- Ben Gibbard was live in the KEXP Studio back on September 12, 2018: https://youtu.be/gxU3Y1ot5yY |
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01/03/2022 07:51 AM DJ: John Richards |
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From their forthcoming ninth album. J. Spaceman plays 16 different instruments on Everything Was Beautiful which was put down at 11 different studios, as well as at his home. https://www.spiritualized.com/ --- Playing Neptune on April 7th, 2022: https://bit.ly/317teXi |
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01/03/2022 07:46 AM DJ: John Richards |
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Hi John, Today is my brother Rob's birthday - the first he's had since our oldest brother Chris passed away in May. Rob and Chris were incredibly close, and I know he's going to be struggling today. Could you please play Pink Floyd's "Wish you Were Here"? We live on opposite sides of the country, and I wish more than anything that we could be together today. Thank you, -Cathy |
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01/03/2022 07:39 AM DJ: John Richards |
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A request from Rob, who is holding down the KEXP satellite office in Tacoma. -- Swedish pop band consisting of Andrew Wyatt and collab producting team Bloodshy & Avant perform as Miike Snow -- a name influenced by Japanese horror master Takashi Miike. Check out this video of Miike Snow performing their song "Burial" live on KEXP back in 2009: http://bit.ly/2zWVRI6 |
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01/03/2022 07:36 AM DJ: John Richards |
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For Andrew in Sacramento...and you. == Prior to the forming his own project, Ian Broudie had been a member of the 1970s post-punk band Big in Japan and the new wave bands Original Mirrors and Care. By the late 1980s, Broudie was better known as a producer than as a musician, and had produced albums for new wave and alternative rock artists such as Echo & the Bunnymen, Wall of Voodoo and the Fall. In 1989, Broudie began recording alone under the name "Lightning Seeds". The name derives from a misheard lyric from Prince's 1985 hit single "Raspberry Beret", in which Prince sings the line "thunder drowns out what the lightning sees". This was the debut UK hit for The Lightning Seeds and the band's only Top 40 hit in the US. |
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01/03/2022 07:32 AM DJ: John Richards |
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Although it was the Sundays' biggest hit internationally, topping the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks chart for one week, the track was never released as a single in the group's native United Kingdom due to the collapse of the Rough Trade Records label. Nonetheless it achieved no. 36 placing in John Peel's Festive Fifty for 1990. |
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01/03/2022 07:29 AM DJ: John Richards |
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Makthaverskan is KEXP's official Swedish post-punk band. Like a highlander, there can only be one. Unless there's more, then there can be more. :) https://makthaverskan.bandcamp.com/album/f-r-allting |
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01/03/2022 07:25 AM DJ: John Richards |
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Blankenberge is KEXP's official Saint Petersburg, Russia based shoegaze band. It's true. Checked the manual and there it is on page 3,218, sub section 38, paragraph A. https://blankenberge.bandcamp.com/album/everything |
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01/03/2022 07:17 AM DJ: John Richards |
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Do you know where you're going Do you know where you've been Is it simple is it simple The chances seemed so slim |
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01/03/2022 07:12 AM DJ: John Richards |
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Remember that time The War on Drugs did this song live on KEXP? THAT WAS AWESOME. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KGhImRwCF8 |
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01/03/2022 07:08 AM DJ: John Richards |
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Aeon Station is a new project from Kevin Whelan of Wrens. Discussing the new single, Whelan said: This song was inspired by one of my all-time favorite songs, "The Winner Takes it All" by ABBA. It’s about betting on the real you. Like a game of high-stakes poker, you push all your chips to the center of the table and aren’t afraid to go “all in.” https://bit.ly/3DyMEm4 https://aeonstation.bandcamp.com/ |
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01/03/2022 07:02 AM DJ: John Richards |
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This single was released, not on New Years Day, but instead on Jan 10, 1983. The album, February 28th of 1983. -- The lyric had its origins in a love song from Bono to his wife, but was subsequently reshaped and inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement. The bassline stemmed from bassist Adam Clayton trying to figure out the chords to the Visage song "Fade to Grey" during a soundcheck. |
