{"id":3635710,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3635710/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-30T20:39:20-07:00","show":66324,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66324/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/3c3ba018-365d-489b-9ac4-493cdbd673bc/10732397252-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/3c3ba018-365d-489b-9ac4-493cdbd673bc/10732397252-250.jpg","song":"Venezia","track_id":null,"recording_id":"e74d4171-88cc-4173-b543-ac3b69794cc8","artist":"Hombres G","artist_ids":["8b1628a7-130a-4faf-96d8-2418bd9043c2"],"album":"Hombres G","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"41f5b28e-bfe0-3590-9ed1-fc68cb65e63a","labels":["Grabaciones Accidentales"],"label_ids":["8552891b-5b38-43bc-a32a-fe8533afb65e"],"release_date":"1985-03-11","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"“Venezia” finds Hombres G leaning fully into the playful romanticism that helped define Spanish pop-rock in the mid-1980s. Released on their debut album Hombres G (1985), the track captures the band at their most buoyant—balancing youthful longing with an unmistakable sense of humor.\n\nDriven by bright, chiming guitars and a steady, unhurried rhythm, “Venezia” feels like a postcard from afar—dreamy, slightly ironic, and emotionally direct. The arrangement is deceptively simple, giving space for the melody to linger while the lyrics sketch out a romanticized escape to the iconic Italian city. There’s a lightness to the performance that keeps the sentiment from becoming overly sentimental; instead, it lands somewhere between earnest and tongue-in-cheek.\n\nVocally, the delivery carries that signature Hombres G charm—casual, conversational, and just a bit mischievous. It’s this tone that makes the song endure, transforming what could be a straightforward love song into something more distinctive and memorable.\n\nDecades later, “Venezia” remains a standout not because of complexity, but because of its clarity of mood. It’s a song that understands exactly what it wants to be: catchy, sincere, and quietly iconic.\n\nListen:\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hombres+G+Venezia","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}