{"id":3586214,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3586214/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-03T08:10:23-08:00","show":65277,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65277/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"The Drugs Don’t Work","track_id":"622679d8-a9ff-3f29-8af1-72ad11f7d705","recording_id":"1056361c-7808-4afe-9f83-195f07b1809c","artist":"The Verve","artist_ids":["d4d17620-fd97-4574-92a8-a2cb7e72ce42"],"album":"Urban Hymns","release_id":"f1ddef9e-218f-4ce8-abdb-fc5450bd2a34","release_group_id":"3dd0c8e4-af53-3605-9c20-f27c7635fb60","labels":["Virgin","Hut Recordings"],"label_ids":["49b58bdb-3d74-40c6-956a-4c4b46115c9c","3dc55be1-e308-4b62-b0ac-7ddcf2845b91"],"release_date":"1997-09-30","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"The Verve's third studio album Urban Hymns, released in 1997, is our album of the week!\n\nWritten by frontman Richard Ashcroft in 1995 and released in September 1997, the track itself has been known to reduce The Verve fans to tears. Speaking about the song, Ashcroft shares, \"There's a new track I've just written [...] It goes 'the drugs don't work, they just make me worse, and I know I'll see your face again.' That's how I'm feeling at the moment. They make me worse, man. But I still take 'em. Out of boredom and frustration you turn to something else to escape.\" https://tinyurl.com/ye2b67kz","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}