Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=76700&ordering=-airdate
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The album title takes its name from a lyric in the song “It’s All But An Ark Lark” from the EP \"Lullabies,\" released the previous year.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569266, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569266/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T07:36:03-07:00", "show": 64918, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64918/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801200.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-451a1632-7d10-4273-ba5a-874092a524ec/mbid-451a1632-7d10-4273-ba5a-874092a524ec-14826089419_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601200.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-451a1632-7d10-4273-ba5a-874092a524ec/mbid-451a1632-7d10-4273-ba5a-874092a524ec-14826089419_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Dazzle", "track_id": "3ff018ef-bf5e-3311-acc3-bbde39f8489b", "recording_id": "7452eb79-fdb2-4787-af7c-c0cd3b8a90e7", "artist": "Siouxsie and the Banshees", "artist_ids": [ "78ea5ea1-3c4d-4b7e-ac5d-68900319ebe2" ], "album": "Hyæna", "release_id": "451a1632-7d10-4273-ba5a-874092a524ec", "release_group_id": "1b9305d8-ced6-38d5-8c5e-d2b75b1ad7f6", "labels": [ "Geffen Records" ], "label_ids": [ "0fadc2ce-f7de-4e27-bbe6-612b317e716b" ], "release_date": "1984-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "John, we’d be so grateful if you could play a request for our niece, Sophie. Sophie moved from Seattle to Edinburgh after graduating at Western Washington University this summer.\n\nSophie has been picked to join the Scottish Water Polo team, and will be representing Scotland in the EU Nations Championship in The Czech Republic next weekend! \n\nPlease can you tell Sophie how proud we are of her success, and how much we’ve enjoyed having her stay with us in Scotland. Please also send my brother Neil and sister-in-law Alison in Bothell all our love. \n\nIt would be a huge surprise if you could play Siouxsie and the Banshees for Sophie on KEXP, our favourite radio station. \n\nLoving the tunes! \n\nHelen and Iain\n==\nThe band recruited a 27-piece orchestra by the name of the “Chandos Players,” which played strings from a piece written by Siouxsie Sioux that originated on piano (which itself was originally called “Baby Piano”).", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569265, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569265/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T07:29:59-07:00", "show": 64918, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64918/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia804504.us.archive.org/2/items/mbid-74560864-f204-3907-b411-8fe747957d56/mbid-74560864-f204-3907-b411-8fe747957d56-7932611464_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia904504.us.archive.org/2/items/mbid-74560864-f204-3907-b411-8fe747957d56/mbid-74560864-f204-3907-b411-8fe747957d56-7932611464_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Memory Gospel", "track_id": "f974a5cf-399e-3f83-bc11-758b04478088", "recording_id": "5352f5bc-fadc-492e-b41a-aff6a0c7b201", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play: The B Sides", "release_id": "74560864-f204-3907-b411-8fe747957d56", "release_group_id": "65fb797e-5c47-3254-928a-1df0df350d76", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2004-07-27", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "On this date in the year 2000, Moby released \"Play: The B Sides.\" The album's songs are all outtakes from his 1999 album \"Play.\"\n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569264, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569264/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T07:27:00-07:00", "show": 64918, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64918/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3569263, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569263/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T07:24:15-07:00", "show": 64918, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64918/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721806.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-6b956618-7189-4474-bce0-7d10f6562704/mbid-6b956618-7189-4474-bce0-7d10f6562704-3776907894_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721806.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-6b956618-7189-4474-bce0-7d10f6562704/mbid-6b956618-7189-4474-bce0-7d10f6562704-3776907894_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Yer So Bad", "track_id": "01576dd3-2db1-3356-a00d-2a721b7a0a7d", "recording_id": "5cffd97e-6f94-48ad-9874-c4ab7e594782", "artist": "Tom Petty", "artist_ids": [ "5ca3f318-d028-4151-ac73-78e2b2d6cdcc" ], "album": "Full Moon Fever", "release_id": "6b956618-7189-4474-bce0-7d10f6562704", "release_group_id": "ffbef03e-3651-39db-8a2f-e140dc5aa219", "labels": [ "MCA Records", "BMG Direct Marketing, Inc." ], "label_ids": [ "46a3941a-c810-47a1-974f-955effec4d09", "9a7d39a4-a887-40f3-a645-a9a136d1f13f" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Tom Petty's debut album, \"Full Moon Fever,\" has been The Morning Show's Album of the Week (this week!)..\n---\nAfter a chance meeting in 1987, Petty developed a quickly blooming friendship with former Beatle George Harrison. In addition to benefits like impromptu living-room performances of \"Norwegian Wood,\" Petty was introduced to ELO frontman Jeff Lynne, who had just produced Harrison's hit comeback album \"Cloud Nine.\" Without any goals in mind, Petty and Lynne began working on music together, starting with an unfinished track named 'Yer So Bad.' \"I couldn't figure out a way from the verse to the chorus,\" Petty recalled. \"And Jeff figured something out right away. Things happened fast with him. So I asked him if he'd produce the track. I loved what he'd done with George.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569262, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569262/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T07:17:42-07:00", "show": 64918, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64918/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801408.us.archive.org/26/items/mbid-a0162eda-d7d8-3eeb-b325-5a09795729b3/mbid-a0162eda-d7d8-3eeb-b325-5a09795729b3-38204068109_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801408.us.archive.org/26/items/mbid-a0162eda-d7d8-3eeb-b325-5a09795729b3/mbid-a0162eda-d7d8-3eeb-b325-5a09795729b3-38204068109_thumb250.jpg", "song": "D’You Know What I Mean?", "track_id": "3d78e4f6-52ca-3aa7-9c61-d3ff7e6ab0f4", "recording_id": "37983e74-ea24-450b-b1c2-c0e7b267ef79", "artist": "Oasis", "artist_ids": [ "39ab1aed-75e0-4140-bd47-540276886b60" ], "album": "Be Here Now", "release_id": "a0162eda-d7d8-3eeb-b325-5a09795729b3", "release_group_id": "aea3ea51-121e-30a6-adc2-c63e659603ac", "labels": [ "Epic" ], "label_ids": [ "8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55" ], "release_date": "1997-08-26", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Morse code in the background says \"bugger all,\" \"pork pies,\" and \"strawberry fields forever.\" \n--\nThis song sampled the drums from The Winstons' \"Amen, Brother\" and (Hmm.) multiple elements of \"Wonderwall\" by Oasis.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569261, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569261/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T07:12:00-07:00", "show": 64918, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64918/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601406.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-19ad86f3-f196-3a69-9ce3-b6763716dba1/mbid-19ad86f3-f196-3a69-9ce3-b6763716dba1-16539088828_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801406.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-19ad86f3-f196-3a69-9ce3-b6763716dba1/mbid-19ad86f3-f196-3a69-9ce3-b6763716dba1-16539088828_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Eye for an Eye", "track_id": "f87d27e7-4a6d-344f-a168-fda38ba7981b", "recording_id": "ba3beaf7-8383-4172-bc8b-768932dc67a5", "artist": "UNKLE", "artist_ids": [ "6648391e-7890-4f6c-b939-976f215195d3" ], "album": "Never, Never, Land", "release_id": "19ad86f3-f196-3a69-9ce3-b6763716dba1", "release_group_id": "42d65310-da2c-3216-89a9-5161a42987cf", "labels": [ "Mo Wax", "Universal Island Records" ], "label_ids": [ "a9060093-ba38-4894-994d-efb808d2d586", "c9df30c6-3a4f-49c1-ad50-53f6a67672da" ], "release_date": "2003-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "UNKLE is \"an experimental hip-hop and downbeat outfit heavy on all-star collaborations, formed by Mo' Wax labelhead James Lavelle\": https://www.allmusic.com/artist/unkle-mn0000221803#biography\n---\n\"Run, run, run, but you sure can't hide...\" This song samples \"Ball of Confusion\" by The Undisputed Truth. That was their cover of the Temptations' 1970 classic, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569260, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569260/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T07:08:54-07:00", "show": 64918, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64918/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721902.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-889c1b07-9abf-4da6-af4e-e414f1baac28/mbid-889c1b07-9abf-4da6-af4e-e414f1baac28-42862110838_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721902.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-889c1b07-9abf-4da6-af4e-e414f1baac28/mbid-889c1b07-9abf-4da6-af4e-e414f1baac28-42862110838_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Like a Storm", "track_id": "84c8138a-05e8-4291-a3fa-325145609101", "recording_id": "d79d7252-ce8f-4949-b772-5196082d33aa", "artist": "Pain Magazine", "artist_ids": [ "de433c93-be8f-43c3-973a-73dbacd18442" ], "album": "Violent God", "release_id": "889c1b07-9abf-4da6-af4e-e414f1baac28", "release_group_id": "3cf5dbea-fa25-439b-bfd8-9d81a164a32f", "labels": [ "Humus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "b1699f9c-0553-4cf6-9e88-0b345b2458c1" ], "release_date": "2025-10-03", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Pain Magazine is a new collaborative project uniting French post-hardcore trio Birds in Row with industrial techno duo Maelstrom & Louisahhh. The band's debut album, \"Violent God,\" was released earlier this month.\n--\nYou can purchase it here: https://painmagazine.bandcamp.com/album/violent-god", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569259, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569259/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T07:03:16-07:00", "show": 64918, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64918/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801906.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-0d33ef7a-1f5d-4365-b807-b412271b99c3/mbid-0d33ef7a-1f5d-4365-b807-b412271b99c3-3778673680_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801906.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-0d33ef7a-1f5d-4365-b807-b412271b99c3/mbid-0d33ef7a-1f5d-4365-b807-b412271b99c3-3778673680_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Angel", "track_id": "c59e69ca-6a51-3207-99f7-025a31732c7d", "recording_id": "8e74dd9d-e5a3-4acd-918a-c36a0f8cda84", "artist": "Massive Attack", "artist_ids": [ "10adbe5e-a2c0-4bf3-8249-2b4cbf6e6ca8" ], "album": "Mezzanine", "release_id": "0d33ef7a-1f5d-4365-b807-b412271b99c3", "release_group_id": "6f9f6899-c0d3-311d-ae87-a10ae6bc53a9", "labels": [ "Virgin Records America, Inc." ], "label_ids": [ "1644d8bc-b558-447f-82eb-5d6829988156" ], "release_date": "1998-05-12", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "He took a drag of his Marlboro Red as the smoke drifted passed his closed eyes. He wondered, `is this Heaven or Las Vegas,'? It was Everett, Washington. It's 7:03am.\n--\nGood morning, happy Friday, and welcome to The Morning Show with John Richards and handsome producer Owen Murphy. Thanks so much for joining us today!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569258, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569258/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T07:01:47-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3569257, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569257/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T06:56:33-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601506.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-87a7ba84-0196-44b0-b9c2-5fcbe53dabe7/mbid-87a7ba84-0196-44b0-b9c2-5fcbe53dabe7-5853758932_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601506.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-87a7ba84-0196-44b0-b9c2-5fcbe53dabe7/mbid-87a7ba84-0196-44b0-b9c2-5fcbe53dabe7-5853758932_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Walking on Sunshine", "track_id": "21987d97-d3c4-35ce-9e45-fcbfd87c445c", "recording_id": "2138bf67-fe08-46d3-863d-560e1b8c3043", "artist": "Katrina and the Waves", "artist_ids": [ "a57505c9-6b43-4861-a498-fe00b349d591" ], "album": "Just Can’t Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the ’80s, Volume 15", "release_id": "87a7ba84-0196-44b0-b9c2-5fcbe53dabe7", "release_group_id": "5d533b81-8eeb-35ce-9a74-ed91e09d633f", "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": "Kimberly Rew, who founded Katrina & the Waves, wrote this song. Prior to The Waves, Rew was the guitarist between 1978 and 1980 of The Soft Boys, a band which also featured Robyn Hitchcock.\n--\nThis is the favorite song of Philip J. Fry, a character from the Futurama TV Show. He sings this while showering, though the only words he remembers are \"I'm walking on sunshine,\" so he hums the rest.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569256, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569256/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T06:55:27-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3569255, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569255/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T06:51:38-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801401.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-9db1b527-afcc-4f4d-bac8-f964700ce2f8/mbid-9db1b527-afcc-4f4d-bac8-f964700ce2f8-23164429485_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801401.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-9db1b527-afcc-4f4d-bac8-f964700ce2f8/mbid-9db1b527-afcc-4f4d-bac8-f964700ce2f8-23164429485_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Here Comes the Sun", "track_id": "6bc42749-de9f-47c2-81cb-5862fb27d867", "recording_id": "a3123dd8-0297-4698-8fff-e2f330a5d45c", "artist": "Richie Havens", "artist_ids": [ "b45ea9f4-d0a1-45e1-b3a8-bf4fe509b8d0" ], "album": "Alarm Clock", "release_id": "38887643-5ca9-45c4-8efd-0e65788098ec", "release_group_id": "3a87a251-25bb-3053-bc24-d1fd437bd0cc", "labels": [ "Stormy Forest" ], "label_ids": [ "8aa39331-de2c-4c6a-8ef5-0503fb1d3dec" ], "release_date": "1970-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Richie Havens developed a unique playing style, which led him to be very creative in his music. Havens taught himself an “open-tuning” guitar-playing style. By re-tuning the strings on his guitar, he was able to play a number of chords just by strumming the guitar and sliding his thumb up and down the neck of his instrument.\n\nOne result was that Havens’ music is almost never a direct copy of another tune. He brought a thoughtful and intriguing character to virtually every one of his songs.\nHere is Richie Havens in a live performance of Here Comes The Sun.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOotCVMFncE\n--\nEnjoy this story of George Harrison's song and some of its great covers: https://bit.ly/2SpQ3Ba", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569251, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569251/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T06:48:30-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710206.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4e506ead-784e-436b-8a75-d27270db057e/mbid-4e506ead-784e-436b-8a75-d27270db057e-27623016970_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710206.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4e506ead-784e-436b-8a75-d27270db057e/mbid-4e506ead-784e-436b-8a75-d27270db057e-27623016970_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Morning Has Broken", "track_id": "3f31b679-9a23-30b1-998d-eb9d267cf786", "recording_id": "f0a89f78-8366-4a85-8cde-df4bda71f00a", "artist": "Cat Stevens", "artist_ids": [ "e2345fdf-2be7-47c5-a6dd-be64353ad134" ], "album": "Teaser and the Firecat", "release_id": "4e506ead-784e-436b-8a75-d27270db057e", "release_group_id": "412367b1-736e-3cce-8e86-6f8bc067be98", "labels": [ "Island" ], "label_ids": [ "dfd92cd3-4888-46d2-b968-328b1feb2642" ], "release_date": "1971-10-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For everyone looking out a window. From Kevin and J Dub", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569250, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569250/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T06:45:12-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/12d9211c-8e4e-46e1-b84f-bdf330707256/16553915780-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/12d9211c-8e4e-46e1-b84f-bdf330707256/16553915780-250.jpg", "song": "Now at Last", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ec318167-f0f1-494f-a127-f8649d448072", "artist": "Blossom Dearie", "artist_ids": [ "6d3e8d4d-c0c9-4208-87d8-900ab1134b1b" ], "album": "Blossom Dearie", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "46645c08-a2f8-4639-9972-febb7ac0e44c", "labels": [ "Verve Reissues" ], "label_ids": [ "d3b89766-5e28-4755-b428-11a9430e2c02" ], "release_date": "1957-04-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Now at Last\" is a tender jazz ballad performed by Blossom Dearie, featured on her self-titled 1957 debut album Blossom Dearie, released on the Verve label. The song was composed by Bob Haymes, brother of famed crooner Dick Haymes, who first recorded it earlier that same year.\n\nYou Gen Xers might recognize her voice from Schoolhouse Rock!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569248, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569248/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T06:41:09-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710109.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820/mbid-57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820-28734527560_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710109.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820/mbid-57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820-28734527560_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Lilac Wine", "track_id": "a3c84845-0a61-3d8d-8480-c814d1ecb5a5", "recording_id": "026a33b3-cd65-4eaf-b761-8f4a67c3ace2", "artist": "Jeff Buckley", "artist_ids": [ "e6e879c0-3d56-4f12-b3c5-3ce459661a8e" ], "album": "Grace", "release_id": "57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820", "release_group_id": "ea29c347-696f-3165-986d-7bad1394b178", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "2004-08-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Lilac Wine\" is a song written by James Shelton (lyrics and music) in 1950. It was introduced by Hope Foye in the short-lived theater musical revue, Dance Me a Song. \nIt's been covered by many artists, including Eartha Kitt, Nina Simone, and (here) Jeff Buckley. You can listen to and compare all three versions here: https://www.song-bar.com/song-of-the-day/eartha-kitt/nina-simone/jeff-buckley-lilac-wine", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569247, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569247/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T06:38:22-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3569246, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569246/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T06:34:43-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800807.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-223ae626-bea5-3530-a48c-6c372d9a4d91/mbid-223ae626-bea5-3530-a48c-6c372d9a4d91-23112691282_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600807.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-223ae626-bea5-3530-a48c-6c372d9a4d91/mbid-223ae626-bea5-3530-a48c-6c372d9a4d91-23112691282_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Victoria", "track_id": "48ef08bd-d4ea-32e6-98ac-35f295ccb7d5", "recording_id": "88e650ec-6e92-40d2-a74b-d4e9dcebb67d", "artist": "The Kinks", "artist_ids": [ "17b53d9f-5c63-4a09-a593-dde4608e0db9" ], "album": "Arthur (or The Decline and Fall of the British Empire)", "release_id": "223ae626-bea5-3530-a48c-6c372d9a4d91", "release_group_id": "cd27ba91-162e-3d8a-8042-9451b84aa78e", "labels": [ "Castle Classics" ], "label_ids": [ "1ee03dcf-17e8-45f0-8d2e-6cc33c66d3e4" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Written from the perspective of Arthur, the album’s central character representing postwar British working-class life, the song glorifies Queen Victoria and the British Empire with a cheerfulness that’s simultaneously patriotic and ironic. Davies uses exuberant rock energy to contrast the empire’s high ideals—“Victoria loved them all”—with the darker realities of class inequality and repression (“Sex was bad, called obscene / And the rich were so mean”).", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3569245, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3569245/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-24T06:31:52-07:00", "show": 64917, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64917/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801809.us.archive.org/3/items/mbid-603455d0-d7a2-4d4c-bbd4-a6dc99bce1cb/mbid-603455d0-d7a2-4d4c-bbd4-a6dc99bce1cb-22077085683_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721902.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-603455d0-d7a2-4d4c-bbd4-a6dc99bce1cb/mbid-603455d0-d7a2-4d4c-bbd4-a6dc99bce1cb-22077085683_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Can't Hardly Wait", "track_id": "e4cedefe-d632-3ef4-b195-3771329cf81a", "recording_id": "908dd7d1-3fb7-450f-ae8b-d81f7aca4ec9", "artist": "The Replacements", "artist_ids": [ "dc0d05ce-2f47-4962-b4fa-8631a0a51987" ], "album": "Pleased to Meet Me", "release_id": "5248e69d-7159-357a-87ba-33bd4ddac984", "release_group_id": "dc5f823b-976f-3ef5-86a7-d443966d212b", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "2008-10-06", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Can't Hardly Wait\" mutated from an obvious suicide song to a more opaque and less controversial one.\n\nReplacements frontman Paul Westerberg wrote it after completing recording sessions for the band's third studio album, Let It Be (1984). That version, recorded for their fourth album, Tim (1985), but left off the tracklist, is unambiguously about a guy driving to a water tower to kill himself. It mentions someone else abandoning him (\"I'll be sad in heaven, you won't follow me there\"), but is otherwise a clearcut meditation on his own chaotic life and his desire to end it.\n\nBy the time the song was finally released on their next album, Pleased To Meet Me (1987), Westerberg obfuscated the suicide aspect to the point that it was impossible to detect. In the new version, the lyrics are directed outward to some unnamed person to whom Westerberg is writing a letter. The thing that Westerberg \"can't hardly wait\" for is to get home and go to sleep. Knowing the song's origin, we can frame \"sleep\" as death, but even then the rest of the lyrics don't make much sense. https://tinyurl.com/3hxt9j6x", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
