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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=64300&ordering=-airdate
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This line appears on the uncensored version of the album; a clean version where it is replaced with, \"Kick out the jams, brothers and sisters,\" was used on the single and later made available on censored versions of the album.\n--\nWatch a black-and-white film of this great Detroit band performing this song live in, where else, Detroit in 1970: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfKhvzUdJoM", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590194, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590194/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T15:25:19-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia902906.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0/mbid-1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0-9518176776_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia902906.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0/mbid-1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0-9518176776_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun", "track_id": "769d46e8-4a51-380a-90f7-db0cdb0f1598", "recording_id": "60d89e3f-dcae-410d-a50e-2ff1d4d6a964", "artist": "Beastie Boys", "artist_ids": [ "9beb62b2-88db-4cea-801e-162cd344ee53" ], "album": "Paul’s Boutique", "release_id": "1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0", "release_group_id": "b534aa01-d621-31ba-9278-38a500e3cdca", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun\" contains samples of \"Last Bongo in Belgium\" by Incredible Bongo Band and \"Mississippi Queen\" by Mountain.\n--\nThat fat bass line is from Adam Yauch (MCA) and Ad-Rock is playing guitar. The track contains the most live instrumentation on 'Paul's Boutique,' a precursor into where the Beasties would go in the future.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590195, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590195/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T15:24:16-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3590193, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590193/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T15:21:25-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Last Bongo in Belgium", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "151922d9-b61d-4e75-8bd6-0f278baef730", "artist": "Incredible Bongo Band", "artist_ids": [ "f72131c1-b677-4324-84c0-9f5991fe4a4e" ], "album": "Bongo Rock", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "beeb6b52-d7f1-3cf4-9da4-eec7e1d59c02", "labels": [ "Mr Bongo" ], "label_ids": [ "0d518d8f-e485-4c2f-825a-ac6642c2f65d" ], "release_date": "1973-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Shout Out to Aaron!\n---\nThe Incredible Bongo Band was a faux group (essentially just a studio project), formed by Pride record executive Michael Viner to create theme music for the film \"The Thing With Two Heads\". Following the success of the project, Viner then used MGM studio downtime to record funk-influenced covers of hits, using pick-up musicians. Although the \"group\" never existed as a true band, a team of individuals was assembled for a publicity photo. The group's best known work is probably their percussion-centric cover of \"Apache\", originally a worldwide hit in 1960 by The Shadows. It was later sampled heavily by hip hop artists (and, over a decade later, drum 'n' bass artists) to become one of the most popular sampled percussion breaks of all time.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590192, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590192/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T15:14:44-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801203.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-ad23ff72-1bbf-3fe9-bba6-7ff5317e8e70/mbid-ad23ff72-1bbf-3fe9-bba6-7ff5317e8e70-28876744680_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801203.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-ad23ff72-1bbf-3fe9-bba6-7ff5317e8e70/mbid-ad23ff72-1bbf-3fe9-bba6-7ff5317e8e70-28876744680_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)", "track_id": "e10bcaf8-8c0b-3021-bb05-ae24afc69caf", "recording_id": "c0e1d06c-4d5d-4301-84e0-5d20ae112b86", "artist": "Squeeze", "artist_ids": [ "0509a681-a362-4800-9075-656041dccdbd" ], "album": "Argybargy", "release_id": "ad23ff72-1bbf-3fe9-bba6-7ff5317e8e70", "release_group_id": "8efa3366-3ae1-33a6-b322-bd69a303ea5f", "labels": [ "A&M Records" ], "label_ids": [ "35515729-1f2c-4cc9-9390-9af2764bc56c" ], "release_date": "1982-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The song “Pulling Mussels” was written by band members Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook. According to critic Chris Woodstra, it is an “observation of the British working class” and “offers a series of detailed snapshots of the different walks of life on a seaside holiday in Leysdown on Sea.” (However, the phrase “pulling mussels” is British slang for sexual intercourse.) -- Watch a live performance of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbx_6gavLno", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590190, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590190/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T15:10:48-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Shout to the Top", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "200c682d-9727-4212-83bf-6558fa5df675", "artist": "The Style Council", "artist_ids": [ "34e56f20-ddda-48c9-a4bb-6bb12df57de0" ], "album": "Vision Quest (Original Soundtrack)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1984-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Style Council were an English pop band formed in Woking in 1982 by Paul Weller, the former lead vocalist, principal songwriter and guitarist with the rock band the Jam, and keyboardist Mick Talbot.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590191, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590191/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T15:10:04-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3590189, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590189/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T15:04:30-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Fool in the Rain", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2ca181b6-0183-4813-baf7-b549b8cd455f", "artist": "Led Zeppelin", "artist_ids": [ "678d88b2-87b0-403b-b63d-5da7465aecc3" ], "album": "Fool in the Rain / Hot Dog", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "859287da-a879-3917-bb34-7614732d8e31", "labels": [ "Swan Song" ], "label_ids": [ "e6b3a9cb-23a5-41ed-9bd9-bc540ef19bf5" ], "release_date": "1979-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Led Zeppelin’s “Fool in the Rain” was the last single the band ever released before they formally disbanded in 1980. It appears on their eighth and final studio album “In Through the Out Door”.\nThe origin of “Fool in the Rain” came from the groups’ bassist John Paul Jones and vocalist Robert Plant while they were watching the 1978 FIFA World Cup tournament in Argentina, where a heavy samba beat was consistent throughout the matches and games.: https://storyofsong.com/story/fool-in-the-rain/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590188, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590188/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T15:00:35-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Right by Your Side", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "60db6aa4-384f-4dbc-8114-4951456f8aef", "artist": "Eurhythmics", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Right by Your Side", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "ca204c45-efa4-4084-ab0d-c45e8d99feed", "labels": [ "RCA" ], "label_ids": [ "1ca5ed29-e00b-4ea5-b817-0bcca0e04946" ], "release_date": "1983-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Eurythmics were a British new wave duo formed in 1980, consisting of Scottish vocalist Annie Lennox and English musician and producer Dave Stewart. They were both previously in the Tourists, a band that broke up in 1980.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590187, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590187/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:55:14-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Pass the Dutchie", "track_id": "cb729b35-3ca8-38b2-a590-59e0c6eca11f", "recording_id": "7e244832-ac39-46c8-bb7d-7ae9c72bf041", "artist": "Musical Youth", "artist_ids": [ "1a3e7a10-72ed-4591-a363-c1e3bc92fc09" ], "album": "Just Can’t Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the ’80s, Volume 7", "release_id": "4bf1f622-8cba-4859-bf64-085e2de748f2", "release_group_id": "8bd15c6e-aae8-3bbe-ad70-fa08b3e5de82", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "1994-10-18", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "MJ may have been first on \"Friday Night Videos\", but Musical Were first on MTV!\nMTV debuted (with the Buggles) on 8//1/1981.\n--\n\"Pass the Dutchie\" has been sampled more than 90 times, including by Mos Def in \"Wahid.\"\n--\n Musical Youth’s “Pass the Dutchie” wasn’t entirely original, but it wasn’t an out-and-out cover either. Because of their young age – the members were all aged between 11 and 16 at the time – the group took the foundation of The Mighty Diamonds’ marijuana-referencing “Pass the Kouchie” and changed the lyrics to something more family-friendly. The “Dutchie” in the title refers to a Dutch Oven, also known as a Dutch Pot, which is commonly used in Caribbean cooking.: https://bit.ly/3DKvIM1", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590185, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590185/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:52:27-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Electric Avenue (radio edit)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "d0d0fed3-b5d9-47c9-a845-e9ec7d89ef9b", "artist": "Eddy Grant", "artist_ids": [ "0cf0583a-fcfd-4f07-b573-95273ec4bdb5" ], "album": "Electric Avenue", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5606c9f4-ff72-4db8-8374-ec8c4e6b7dc5", "labels": [ "Strictly Rhythm" ], "label_ids": [ "29c1256a-d989-4035-a856-95d707e2082c" ], "release_date": "1982-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Shout Out Arash!\n---\nThis song refers to Electric Avenue in the south London district of Brixton, the first market street to be lit by electricity. At the beginning of the 1980s, tensions over unemployment, racism and poverty culminated in the street. Grant wrote this song in response. In this interview, the artist and the sound engineer talk about making this song: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/sep/03/how-we-made-eddy-grant-electric-avenue", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590186, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590186/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:50:36-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3590184, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590184/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:43:30-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia803208.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f/mbid-ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f-4017901734_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia903208.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f/mbid-ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f-4017901734_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Double Dutch Bus", "track_id": "3440538d-3ce8-3880-9abe-690b45fcddc5", "recording_id": "7e0e168b-4429-4d65-b661-0dec094ec460", "artist": "Frankie Smith", "artist_ids": [ "1c0ee25e-da2a-436f-991e-67573711f236" ], "album": "Double Dutch Bus", "release_id": "ba42bd34-2a50-4449-908f-c12c1a82513f", "release_group_id": "5716ae91-5a28-3f07-b167-7c50dfe0e107", "labels": [ "Metronome" ], "label_ids": [ "b20a6195-5d40-4717-9882-02f7e9a53f16" ], "release_date": "1981-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Like \"Rapper's Delight\" and many other rap songs that were gaining traction in the early 80's, the song tells a clever and self-deprecating story: Frankie Smith misses his bus and has to walk 15 blocks to get to work. But \"Double Dutch Bus\" has a secret weapon: a hook filled with a kind of pig Latin variation sung by Smith and a group of kids along the lines of:\nMizzo izzay wizzat nizzo yizzou izzay\n\nThis was a precursor to Jay-Z's improvised language in his 2001 hit \"Izzo (H.O.V.A.),\" where he spells out HOVA in izzle-speak: H to the Izz-o, V to the Izz-A\n\nSnoop Dogg, an old-school aficionado, put his own spin on it, using it as part of his regular speech. Fo shizzle.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590183, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590183/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:39:10-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Pump Me Up", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "fd097a41-47d4-4cc2-83ce-612852ddd02d", "artist": "Trouble Funk", "artist_ids": [ "138aaf2c-77b6-451e-ade2-ce18894eeaa7" ], "album": "Drop the Bomb", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "1b7162d2-617a-3c5d-92ae-4a91a18739bf", "labels": [ "Sugar Hill Records" ], "label_ids": [ "9d96792c-b9c6-4a88-8c35-7f442e359011" ], "release_date": "1982-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This song has been sampled more than 150 times. \n\nThis banger was sampled in Public Enemy's protest anthem \"Fight the Power\" and M/A/R/R/S's dance classic \"Pump Up The Volume.\" \n--\nAlmost 40 years later (in 2018), Trouble Funk performed \"Pump Me Up\" and other songs in an exhilarating NPR Tiny Desk Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=592crJUBgGc", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590182, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590182/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:35:03-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Soul Makossa (The Original Version)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1c2c627c-ec89-4343-93d4-2e32587dd616", "artist": "Manu Dibango", "artist_ids": [ "826b488f-5164-45ca-abc4-ab11b3c321eb" ], "album": "Soul Makossa", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "a3beee66-6c52-457e-8ec3-de7409bb5c2b", "labels": [ "Atlantic" ], "label_ids": [ "50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7" ], "release_date": "1973-05-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Born on this day in 1933!\n---\nManu Dibango, was a Cameroonian saxophonist, songwriter, and pioneer of Afro-funk music. His epic 1972 release “Soul Makossa,” meaning “I will dance” in the native Cameroonian dialect of Douala in which it was written, was one of the first songs by an African to gain global popularity and was believed by some to be the first disco record. It is the most sampled African track of all time.\n--\n‘Pappy Grove’ as he was also known, influenced innumerable artists including Herbie Hancock and Kool and the Gang, hip-hop in the 1990s, with the famous “ma-ma-se, ma-ma-sa, ma-ma-ko-sa” refrain sampled for Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” for his 1982 Thriller album and Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop the Music” in 2007.: https://intro.africa/story/soul-makossa-is-the-most-sampled-african-track-of-all-time/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590181, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590181/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:31:06-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800502.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-bd75a130-7ee1-4b68-940b-592b5f21c605/mbid-bd75a130-7ee1-4b68-940b-592b5f21c605-11523292523_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600502.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-bd75a130-7ee1-4b68-940b-592b5f21c605/mbid-bd75a130-7ee1-4b68-940b-592b5f21c605-11523292523_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Kingston Advice", "track_id": "1f668503-6c00-3632-b640-e4219a189f51", "recording_id": "ed043b7d-8478-4615-a0a6-4c9964bf78c2", "artist": "The Clash", "artist_ids": [ "8f92558c-2baa-4758-8c38-615519e9deda" ], "album": "Sandinista!", "release_id": "bd75a130-7ee1-4b68-940b-592b5f21c605", "release_group_id": "ff729e76-b7c5-3877-bf7d-bbad4fde43cb", "labels": [ "Epic" ], "label_ids": [ "8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55" ], "release_date": "1999-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976. They are considered one of the most influential acts in the original wave of British punk rock, with their music fusing elements of reggae, dub, funk, ska, and rockabilly.\n---\nhttps://www.theclash.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590180, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590180/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:27:50-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800507.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-59c31871-75a3-4a1d-bf9f-5a7c3569e005/mbid-59c31871-75a3-4a1d-bf9f-5a7c3569e005-14902790726_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800507.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-59c31871-75a3-4a1d-bf9f-5a7c3569e005/mbid-59c31871-75a3-4a1d-bf9f-5a7c3569e005-14902790726_thumb250.jpg", "song": "One Thing Leads to Another", "track_id": "ecc8caa4-7679-3df8-8af0-7b1f4f8bfc35", "recording_id": "c9cc29b5-073e-4116-82be-124a81c310dc", "artist": "The Fixx", "artist_ids": [ "0d32d0c9-69aa-407c-93e3-92b72e471d37" ], "album": "Just Can’t Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the ’80s, Volume 11", "release_id": "59c31871-75a3-4a1d-bf9f-5a7c3569e005", "release_group_id": "be7acd1d-dace-3f2f-a304-e66872d71648", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "1995-06-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Born on this day in 1957, Cy Curnin of The Fixx!\n---\n\"One Thing Leads to Another\" was in heavy rotation on MTV when the network was picking up steam, giving The Fixx a great deal of exposure stateside along with acts like Duran Duran and Eurythmics. The song is well-remembered by early MTV viewers, and the song is included on many 1980s compilation albums and continues to get substantial radio airplay today.\n\nIn 2012, lead singer/lyricist Cy Curnin explained the meaning of this song, which deals with malleable politicians. \"If you're going to be a liar, you'd better be a damn good liar and remember what you said, or the whole thing's going to get pear shaped,\" said Curnin. \"That was 30 years ago, and look where the system is now. A lot of people stand on ballot boxes and say a lot of things and lie in order to get elected and do nothing. 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He gave her a new look, produced and wrote most of the songs on this first album, and brought her along as the opening act on his Purple Rain tour.\n---\nhttps://sheilae.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3590179, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590179/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:21:31-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3590177, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590177/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-12T14:10:18-08:00", "show": 65356, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65356/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "D.M.S.R.", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "11182248-cfc1-4ddd-9227-3e455d233184", "artist": "Prince", "artist_ids": [ "070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e" ], "album": "1999", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "561be5b7-a39c-3866-859d-d86f30816ae7", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71" ], "release_date": "1982-10-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "D.S.M.R. is the fifth track on his fifth album, released on October 27, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It became his first album to be recorded with his band the Revolution. https://bit.ly/42SacyB\n\nBasic tracking for D.M.S.R. took place at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California on 20 April 1982, during the same set of sessions which produced Free, Something In The Water (Does Not Compute), Delirious, Automatic and How Come U Don’t Call Me Anymore.\n\nWhen CD technology was created and albums were released on CD, D.M.S.R. was left off the initial releases of 1999 as the time limit on CDs was 74 minutes at the time. As CD capacities increased, however, the track was added to the tracklist again.\n\nAccording to Princevault.com, this song was first performed in 1986, and last performed in 2016 in Montreal. https://bit.ly/41tCU7C", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
