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#120 Butch Vig & Reviews of Beach House and Goldfrapp

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2008

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Butch Vig, the man behind the sounds of Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana, joins Jim and Greg for a conversation about acting as producer, and therapist, to some of the biggest names in the business. Jim and Greg will also review new albums from Beach House and Goldfrapp.

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0:00.0

What do you love about music?

0:04.0

To begin with,

0:08.0

everything. Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world.

0:39.0

Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media. I'm Jim Deeregatus, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-times.

0:42.0

And I'm Greg Cot. I write about rock and roll at the Chicago Sun-times.

0:42.6

And I'm Greg Cott.

0:43.4

I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

0:45.8

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show,

0:48.0

Jim and I are going to welcome Butch Vigg,

0:50.0

a man who produced two of the most famous bands of the 90s, the Smashing Pumpkins and nirvana.

0:55.1

Plus we'll review the new albums by Beach House and Goldfrapp.

1:00.3

You're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news.

1:03.3

The dream is still lying.

1:05.3

Someday it will come true.

1:07.8

And this country belongs to folks like me and you.

1:12.2

Select voice of freedom sing out through this land.

1:17.0

This is our country.

1:22.0

Greg, it may be our country as John Mellencamp sang but it is no longer

1:26.2

Senator John McCain's song. This is a really funny story that we meant to talk

1:31.2

about a couple of weeks ago when it first broke

1:33.3

the McCain campaign which is now I mean he's the Republican presidential

1:37.1

candidate right it's a done deal he was using originally our country by

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