{"id":3577600,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3577600/?format=json","airdate":"2025-11-13T09:52:13-08:00","show":65097,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65097/?format=json","image_uri":"https://ia902306.us.archive.org/11/items/mbid-8ec76c59-aae8-4726-9d3a-1dabfa55c3b6/mbid-8ec76c59-aae8-4726-9d3a-1dabfa55c3b6-2556736293_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://ia802306.us.archive.org/11/items/mbid-8ec76c59-aae8-4726-9d3a-1dabfa55c3b6/mbid-8ec76c59-aae8-4726-9d3a-1dabfa55c3b6-2556736293_thumb250.jpg","song":"Love Is Stronger Than Death","track_id":"d0f352a6-bdb3-3f5c-8b65-52d5e05f6d21","recording_id":"59e504bc-0c08-434f-9006-d02ddc69b477","artist":"The The","artist_ids":["a7409219-a681-4072-adb2-5285106ce6f2"],"album":"Dusk","release_id":"8ec76c59-aae8-4726-9d3a-1dabfa55c3b6","release_group_id":"eb15aa23-9f7e-37f2-ab30-49fabdbbfc73","labels":["Epic"],"label_ids":["8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55"],"release_date":"1993-01-26","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"The The's Matt Johnson wrote this song following the death of his younger brother, Eugene. In his depression, he found that writing this song was therapeutic for him. \nThe title is a paraphrase of a Biblical quote: \"Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.\" (Song of Solomon 8:6) Since the song's release, it has offered great comfort to the bereaved. \"I get a lot of letters about a lot of their songs, letters that move me to tears, but 'Love Is Stronger Than Death' in particular,\" Johnson told Mojo magazine. \"It's played at a lot of funerals. As a songwriter, it's the greatest thing you can hope for – that your songs move people and give them comfort.\" https://tinyurl.com/42vj6scf","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}