{"id":3589270,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589270/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-10T08:27:04-08:00","show":65338,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65338/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Sax and Violins","track_id":"64be6c5b-9875-3437-81fc-2c2fff64b336","recording_id":"5ebff6e6-4f5c-453c-8edd-8a5d6576414e","artist":"Talking Heads","artist_ids":["a94a7155-c79d-4409-9fcf-220cb0e4dc3a"],"album":"Until the End of the World","release_id":"88f18b53-831f-4aa8-961e-13447c058949","release_group_id":"23477cf6-5121-39df-8463-96f053a07cca","labels":["Warner Bros. Records"],"label_ids":["c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71"],"release_date":"1991-12-10","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"34 years ago today (1991), the soundtrack to the Wim Wenders movie Until the End of the World was released. \"Sax and Violins\" was written for the movie.\n\nDavid Byrne said, \"“The movie is supposed to take place in the year 2000, so I spent a lot of time trying to imagine music of the near future: post-rock sludge with lyrics sponsored by Coke and Pepsi? Music created by machines with human shouts of agony and betrayal thrown in? Faux Appalachian ballads, the anti-tech wave? … Well, it was daunting … so I figured, hell with it, I'd imagine Talking Heads doing a reunion LP in the year 2000, and them sounding just like they used to.”: https://chartchat.substack.com/p/modern-rock-tracks-no-1s-talking","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}