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So, Dora, we're talking about best new songs of the week on this episode, but I wanted to start first off with Glenn Hanser. Yeah. Glenn Hansard died suddenly in a motorcycle accident last week, and this is our first show since then. So I didn't want to let it go by without taking a minute to acknowledge just how important he was to All Songs Considered and NPR Music. What's your relationship to Glenn Hansard? I mean, I really, really, really grew up watching Once. The movie Once that he and Marketer Glova did together, yeah. The movie Once. When I first started to learn how to play the piano, all I ever wanted to play was Falling Slowly. Oh. And I just, I remember when I learned that song, it was like everything to me.
Yeah. Well, he was also in a band called The Frames, and that's what we're listening to right now. This is a song called In the Deep Shade from an album that came out in 2001 called For the Birds. And when Bob Boylan was the director of All Things Considered back in the late 90s and early 2000s, he used to get emails all the time asking, what's that music that you're playing between stories? And very often it was the frames and it was this song. And it was what inspired Bob to actually start All Songs Considered. And this was one of the first songs that we played on the show back in the day when the show started in the year 2000. This came out, I think, a year later, 2001. But Glenn Hansard and his music, it was foundational to All Songs Considered.
I would even argue that the whole vibe and sound and aesthetic of his music, it really helped establish sort of the emotional vocabulary of All Songs Considered that I think continues even today. You know, it's earnestness over irony, indie over mainstream, authenticity over spectacle, and very, very human. Honestly, if I had to make, I think, maybe a top five list of the most important artists for All Songs Considered, at least in those early days, I would definitely put him somewhere near the top. And he played at your Sweet 16 as well. We had a Sweet 16 party. He played live at that. And people can still watch that performance online. There are a couple of tiny desks, including one he did with Marketa Globa as The Swell Season.
I was just gutted by the news of his passing. And like I said, I just couldn't let this week go by without playing some of his music and just taking a second to reflect on that. It's so special to be able to see how far All Songs has come, starting with the music of Glen Hansard and The Frames.
How did Glen Hansard influence the early sound and spirit of All Songs Considered?
And I feel like as we talk about new music and as I even think about the songs that I want to play, I do feel like that vocabulary that you talked about, I do think about how the music that I'm choosing and that we're talking about is going to add to that vocabulary that keeps All Songs moving. Yeah, I think I think that's true. I think definitely in some of the stuff that I brought today. Do you want to kick us off with some new music, though? Yeah, I was thinking I've been listening to just so much pop music and I was really excited to see a duo from Atlanta named Coco and Claire Claire release a new song last week. And I love Coco and Claire Claire and I I hadn't heard from them for so long. And so I really want to play that song that just came out called Coldplay.
It's called Coldplay?
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