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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=26040&ordering=-airdate
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It was a commercial success and marked a return to the public eye for Bush after the relatively low sales of her previous album, 1982's The Dreaming. 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Show that you believe in KEXP by donating today! \nhttps://www.kexp.org/donate/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3627473, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627473/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:53:43-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710908.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-b27d86d6-b42f-4945-b3ac-1175daf830c4/mbid-b27d86d6-b42f-4945-b3ac-1175daf830c4-41256447524_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710908.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-b27d86d6-b42f-4945-b3ac-1175daf830c4/mbid-b27d86d6-b42f-4945-b3ac-1175daf830c4-41256447524_thumb250.jpg", "song": "It’s Amazing To Be Young", "track_id": "c2ca6f74-b54c-48ed-b41a-f7a183574992", "recording_id": "a46e30b3-e502-405c-ad99-0e3612949487", "artist": "Fontaines D.C.", "artist_ids": [ "fd87acc7-e0a0-4a45-bc2a-d2ab5c10be68" ], "album": "It's Amazing To Be Young", "release_id": "b27d86d6-b42f-4945-b3ac-1175daf830c4", "release_group_id": "53ce0146-ac8b-47a5-99e3-1be3e740231e", "labels": [ "XL Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "14221f01-8939-4ea0-b8f1-b5a21beae80a" ], "release_date": "2025-02-21", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Of this lovely bonus track from the Deluxe Edition of Romance, Conor Deegan III shares, \"'It’s Amazing To Be Young' is a song that was written in the presence of a newborn child — Carlos’ child. It sounded more like a lullaby or a music box then, but with the same lyric — 'it’s amazing to be young.'\n\n\"The feeling of hope a child can give is profound and moving, especially for young men like us. That sense of wanting to create a world for them to grow up in happily. It’s a feeling that fights against the cynicism that can often overtake us in the modern world. So we wanted to declare which side we were on — it really is amazing to be young. We are still free, and want to make that feeling spread. We want to protect it for the others around us, and maybe in doing that, can also help protect it for ourselves.\" https://tinyurl.com/42xa48rh", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627472, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627472/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:49:32-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710708.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-703da45f-540d-49d8-acd2-1a8d0d8c3517/mbid-703da45f-540d-49d8-acd2-1a8d0d8c3517-23181537990_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710708.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-703da45f-540d-49d8-acd2-1a8d0d8c3517/mbid-703da45f-540d-49d8-acd2-1a8d0d8c3517-23181537990_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Melody of Love", "track_id": "a7064c69-a338-412f-87eb-961f10be438d", "recording_id": "f14ae052-0ac1-4cc3-a266-fe64a9903fde", "artist": "Hot Chip", "artist_ids": [ "d8915e13-d67a-4aa0-9c0b-1f126af951af" ], "album": "A Bath Full of Ecstasy", "release_id": "703da45f-540d-49d8-acd2-1a8d0d8c3517", "release_group_id": "82144736-4ae1-47aa-9248-faa1416ce906", "labels": [ "Domino" ], "label_ids": [ "f27235b7-7666-4d70-a2c7-9f7b1981eaa0" ], "release_date": "2019-06-21", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "There's a few more minutes to get the black trucker hat in addition to the regular Thank You gifts if you donate now! https://www.kexp.org/donate/\nDonations from listeners like you power KEXP Live performances - like this one from Hot Chip in 2019!\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGgEcUxWF_k", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627471, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627471/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:45:39-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Happy Again", "track_id": "6408db3d-ef03-416d-9a5f-fb81ccabb9d9", "recording_id": "f8dc09e7-37ef-44f9-81c0-bbc0857754a4", "artist": "Phantogram", "artist_ids": [ "dfe78af2-779e-4137-826a-3073a16e3278" ], "album": "Memory of a Day", "release_id": "79b32862-f5c5-48f4-a680-e1f6cd99ca81", "release_group_id": "505e3b3a-9304-40c1-9292-cf8cc4c3ed9f", "labels": [ "Neon Gold" ], "label_ids": [ "813cd12c-d731-4e33-9169-3841336b24c0" ], "release_date": "2024-10-18", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Check out KEXP's Phantogram live session recorded in August 2024 hosted by DJ John Richards!\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfwTRzC--VU\n\nhttps://www.phantogram.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627469, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627469/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:38:07-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "Hope blooms during Drive Time! Have you seen the new \"In Bloom\" thank you gifts? Check them out here! https://www.kexp.org/donate/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3627468, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627468/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:33:13-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800900.us.archive.org/20/items/mbid-573ecbc7-4ffb-4494-ae97-611fb50a43c8/mbid-573ecbc7-4ffb-4494-ae97-611fb50a43c8-40873933322_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600900.us.archive.org/20/items/mbid-573ecbc7-4ffb-4494-ae97-611fb50a43c8/mbid-573ecbc7-4ffb-4494-ae97-611fb50a43c8-40873933322_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Shovel", "track_id": "adf01022-229c-454d-bb61-da82ca135cdd", "recording_id": "adcc8372-65ae-4d02-aaaa-4d8855b27bc8", "artist": "Deep Sea Diver", "artist_ids": [ "18a627eb-c6e8-4175-b947-9322d8deb938" ], "album": "Billboard Heart", "release_id": "573ecbc7-4ffb-4494-ae97-611fb50a43c8", "release_group_id": "7a1a9a88-2202-4f8d-8b61-a7a1bf797c18", "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2025-02-28", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Deep Sea Diver performed \"Shovel\" Live in the KEXP Gathering Space in May 2025. Watch their whole performance here!\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WsfzwykBO4\n___\n\"'Shovel' is one of the most angular and dualistic songs I’ve written, and I wanted to do a one-shot video that captured the grit, rawness, and intensity of the song. Simply put, it is me digging and dancing with a shovel in the middle of the night, desperately looking for beauty in dark places.\" Check out the video here: https://tinyurl.com/mparst8h https://www.thisisdeepseadiver.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627496, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627496/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:30:43-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/47079566-5aeb-4497-9550-cc15abc2c870/26307091411-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/47079566-5aeb-4497-9550-cc15abc2c870/26307091411-250.jpg", "song": "So Alive", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "b2cdd20b-6626-4c14-ba62-a797d0955d72", "artist": "Love and Rockets", "artist_ids": [ "8cb3aa4a-3b4c-48b8-be0a-e57010fc1430" ], "album": "So Alive", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "7cc89289-ceec-3f3e-bfc9-8b6e7889a943", "labels": [ "Beggars Banquet" ], "label_ids": [ "5917da67-b605-4a08-a5a0-a6874501dda4" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"So Alive\" by Love and Rockets is a 1989 hit about intense, sudden infatuation, inspired by frontman Daniel Ash seeing a captivating woman at a party from afar, leading to lyrics describing an overwhelming feeling of being \"so alive.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627467, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627467/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:25:03-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia903206.us.archive.org/18/items/mbid-1f22d8df-056c-35c3-aa7e-2f94f217b4de/mbid-1f22d8df-056c-35c3-aa7e-2f94f217b4de-26372864024_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721606.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-1f22d8df-056c-35c3-aa7e-2f94f217b4de/mbid-1f22d8df-056c-35c3-aa7e-2f94f217b4de-26372864024_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Nothing But Green Lights", "track_id": "ad45650e-e548-311d-9113-09186243a955", "recording_id": "74f550ff-a5e5-42e3-9bc1-c0f99a89f339", "artist": "Tom Vek", "artist_ids": [ "83e72d2b-501e-4715-9bdf-8e6ffca42881" ], "album": "We Have Sound", "release_id": "1f22d8df-056c-35c3-aa7e-2f94f217b4de", "release_group_id": "2a010fe8-e24a-31ca-aff2-e5c3af35ed97", "labels": [ "Tummy Touch" ], "label_ids": [ "942bbf0f-b746-4d07-927b-8bdc34a81dea" ], "release_date": "2005-04-04", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Found on the British artist's debut album 'We Have Sound,' released in 2005.\nWe Have Sound is widely credited as one of the seminal albums that pioneered indie electronic music. Dave Bayley of Glass Animals calls the album “one of several responsible for us going on to make our music.” \nBayley contributed several Glass Animals Remixes to the 20th Anniversary Remix edition of We Have Sound, released in 2025.\nhttps://tomvek.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627466, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627466/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:16:50-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "Building community one listener at a time! KEXP runs because of donations from listeners like you! $10/mo or more during this hour will also get you a KEXP Trucker Hat! \n https://www.kexp.org/donate/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3627465, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627465/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:13:07-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721809.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-88ab7a5c-fd27-421e-85f0-f107ed86a43f/mbid-88ab7a5c-fd27-421e-85f0-f107ed86a43f-21986047480_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721809.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-88ab7a5c-fd27-421e-85f0-f107ed86a43f/mbid-88ab7a5c-fd27-421e-85f0-f107ed86a43f-21986047480_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Alright", "track_id": "70804733-484a-4c9e-930c-e59f19088c8f", "recording_id": "b5e1e12f-8832-4ba4-b772-de15e2db2009", "artist": "Kendrick Lamar", "artist_ids": [ "381086ea-f511-4aba-bdf9-71c753dc5077" ], "album": "To Pimp a Butterfly", "release_id": "88ab7a5c-fd27-421e-85f0-f107ed86a43f", "release_group_id": "d9103c72-3807-4378-9ce7-b6f3e8fdd547", "labels": [ "Aftermath Entertainment", "Top Dawg Entertainment", "Interscope Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c0629488-2aa2-4b46-9de8-decb27147444", "56d2501f-12b7-4cfd-b8f8-e95189ea27f5", "2182a316-c4bd-4605-936a-5e2fac52bdd2" ], "release_date": "2015-03-16", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The track opens with lines from Alice Walker's The Color Purple, \"Alls my life, I had to fight.\" \n\n\"Alright\" expresses ideas of hope amid personal struggles, and features uncredited vocals in its chorus from co-producer Pharrell Williams.\n\nThe song was associated with the Black Lives Matter movement after several youth-led protests were heard chanting the chorus. Publications such as Rolling Stone, People, and Complex noted the song's importance in the protests, calling \"Alright\" the \"unifying soundtrack\" of the movement.\n\nIn an interview with MTV News, Lamar stated that he found inspiration for \"Alright\" while visiting South Africa and witnessing problems that locals faced: \"Their struggle was ten times harder.\" https://tinyurl.com/bp7rv2wf\n\nhttps://oklama.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627464, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627464/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:07:39-07:00", "show": 66146, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66146/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721804.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2883d5d8-1091-4bf6-8550-ca08f346c549/mbid-2883d5d8-1091-4bf6-8550-ca08f346c549-37852849661_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801303.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-2883d5d8-1091-4bf6-8550-ca08f346c549/mbid-2883d5d8-1091-4bf6-8550-ca08f346c549-37852849661_thumb250.jpg", "song": "How Sweet Is Your Love", "track_id": "b0af9818-aa67-43f5-b712-870f23628ef9", "recording_id": "67c493f1-5716-4890-b8df-d2d1cb335cb0", "artist": "Sinkane", "artist_ids": [ "b15d17d4-37ea-4410-9ae4-60b5eee03459" ], "album": "We Belong", "release_id": "2883d5d8-1091-4bf6-8550-ca08f346c549", "release_group_id": "b39c6635-1b8d-46f5-9539-50c1f72f7187", "labels": [ "City Slang" ], "label_ids": [ "82935ddb-a9d6-45a7-85e3-0b0add51fa1c" ], "release_date": "2024-04-05", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Sinkane performed this song in June 2024 when he performed Live in the KEXP Studio! - https://youtu.be/sN4pl36WqAY\n\nDonations from our listeners make these in-studio performances possible. Please make a donation today!\nkexp.org/donate/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627463, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627463/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T16:03:13-07:00", "show": 66145, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66145/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710308.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-1b9b0a6b-5c89-3c43-8f1f-0eb1c18eb56f/mbid-1b9b0a6b-5c89-3c43-8f1f-0eb1c18eb56f-7932097301_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710308.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-1b9b0a6b-5c89-3c43-8f1f-0eb1c18eb56f/mbid-1b9b0a6b-5c89-3c43-8f1f-0eb1c18eb56f-7932097301_thumb250.jpg", "song": "We Are All Made of Stars", "track_id": "638069c4-e8c8-3a6c-b6cc-4c08163721d6", "recording_id": "bb7dcc7a-0b4e-413f-89a3-c3e4ba2d7ff3", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "18", "release_id": "1b9b0a6b-5c89-3c43-8f1f-0eb1c18eb56f", "release_group_id": "f83ca650-ae20-3347-ba06-5eaa9ab163af", "labels": [ "Mute" ], "label_ids": [ "e0b106a5-4add-4839-9e40-c192457e1bf8" ], "release_date": "2002-05-13", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Hello! It's Drive Time and the Spring Fundraising Drive! Now is the perfect time to donate! https://www.kexp.org/donate/\n___\n\nThe lead single from 18, Moby explained during a performance of the song at the 2003 Glastonbury festival that he wrote it in New York after the September 11 attacks to express a sense of hopefulness. \n\nThe lyrics were inspired by the scientific principle that all matter in the universe is essentially made up of stardust. During a Reddit AMA session, Moby said the song is relatively accurate, scientifically speaking. \n\n\"Apart from two elements (hydrogen and helium?) everything else on the periodic table of elements (with which we're comprised) came from the furnace of a star somewhere,\" he wrote. \"Just remember: there's not a single part of you that wasn't present in the first 1/2 second of the big bang. Technically, we're all 13,600,000,000 years old.\" https://bit.ly/3LuFrbM", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627462, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627462/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T15:58:49-07:00", "show": 66145, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66145/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/25286937-27a6-4874-abe2-8fd878a36f01/10203697569-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/25286937-27a6-4874-abe2-8fd878a36f01/10203697569-250.jpg", "song": "Boys Don’t Cry", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "b87a5bd5-e486-4f55-b906-14be894ef380", "artist": "The Cure", "artist_ids": [ "69ee3720-a7cb-4402-b48d-a02c366f2bcf" ], "album": "Boys Don’t Cry", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "1e4d6dba-761f-3d5d-9048-a0188b818297", "labels": [ "Fiction" ], "label_ids": [ "df7d4cc5-e131-43a3-a398-5322ceded8bc" ], "release_date": "1979-06-15", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The song grew out of Robert Smith's frustration over being expected to conform to an outdated view of masculinity. \n\n\"When I was growing up, there was peer pressure on you to conform to be a certain way,\" the Cure frontman told NME in 2019. \"And as an English boy at the time, you're encouraged not to show your emotion to any degree. And I couldn't help but show my emotions when I was younger. I never found it awkward showing my emotions. I couldn't really continue without showing my emotions - you'd have to be a pretty boring singer to do that. So I kind of made a big thing about it. I thought, 'Well, it's part of my nature to rail against being told not to do something.'\" https://tinyurl.com/wvpmp2a9", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627461, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627461/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T15:54:01-07:00", "show": 66145, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66145/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3627460, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627460/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T15:52:00-07:00", "show": 66145, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66145/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d2f506bb-cfb5-327e-b8d6-cf4036c77cfa/3880053972-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d2f506bb-cfb5-327e-b8d6-cf4036c77cfa/3880053972-250.jpg", "song": "Interzone", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "f2bbc062-2387-41fd-b079-2ecd7e5b3ca6", "artist": "Joy Division", "artist_ids": [ "9a58fda3-f4ed-4080-a3a5-f457aac9fcdd" ], "album": "Unknown Pleasures", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "42352def-1aab-3000-b548-895ebd869cb6", "labels": [ "London Records 90" ], "label_ids": [ "2cd8a4b0-f36a-4761-8637-893024985e2f" ], "release_date": "1979-06-15", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "One of the hangovers from an aborted RCA album of May 1978 was \"Interzone\" - named after a location in the novel Naked Lunch by William Burrough (a favourite author of Ian Curtis).\n\nRCA’s A&R man Richard Searling was keen for Joy Division to cover one of his favourite Northern Soul singles, namely \"Keep On Keepin’ On,\" recorded by LA soul singer Nolan \"N.F.\" Porter in 1971.\n\nThe Joy Division lads were a bit rubbish at covers, so their mangled take on \"Keep On Keepin’ On\" eventually turned into their own song, \"Interzone.\" https://tinyurl.com/rsa22m2u", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3627459, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627459/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T15:48:38-07:00", "show": 66145, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66145/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710901.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4efdf994-a10f-46c6-bc85-733938b1302c/mbid-4efdf994-a10f-46c6-bc85-733938b1302c-14304162302_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710901.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4efdf994-a10f-46c6-bc85-733938b1302c/mbid-4efdf994-a10f-46c6-bc85-733938b1302c-14304162302_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Kids in America", "track_id": "924a42fa-bf2c-3f45-b85c-77fbd7081a1a", "recording_id": "83d77263-8832-4eb9-8044-ad37fbef2b6d", "artist": "Kim Wilde", "artist_ids": [ "4b462375-c508-432a-8c88-ceeec38b16ae" ], "album": "Kim Wilde", "release_id": "4efdf994-a10f-46c6-bc85-733938b1302c", "release_group_id": "7636a902-b6cd-3048-9da2-65dcf3fcd508", "labels": [ "RAK" ], "label_ids": [ "80c3ece5-2746-4364-8b34-f5ef2b983e21" ], "release_date": "1981-06-29", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The eighth note synth bassline, which forms the intro, was inspired by Gary Numan (as was the vocal melody in the opening lines).\n--\nThis was Wilde's first single. She racked up 19 Top-40 hits in England, but just one more in the US: a #1 cover of \"You Keep Me Hangin' On.\" She later became a prominent gardening expert in England.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
