#125 Ray Davies and Opinions on Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2008

⏱️ 59 minutes

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One of the most influential singer/songwriters of all time joins Jim and Greg live in the studio. Ray Davies, former frontman for the Kinks, talks about his four decades making music and plays songs off his new album "Working Man's Café."

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0:00.0	What happened to music that meant something?
0:04.0	The Who at the Kingdom or Kiss at the Coliseum.
0:07.0	Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?
0:12.0	Where is the Iron on the water where is the iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is Rock and Roll. Welcome to Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.
0:39.0	I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.
0:43.0	And I'm Greg Kat.
0:43.8	I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.
0:46.4	Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show,
0:49.2	we welcome singer-songwriter and Kinks Frontman,
0:51.6	Ray Davis.
0:53.0	Plus we'll review the new albums from Tokyo Police Club and Nick Cave in the Bad Seas.
0:57.0	You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time for some music news.
1:04.0	Something happened for the first time with you.
1:09.0	A heart melted to the ground, found something true
1:13.6	and everyone's looking round thinking I'm going crazy.
1:18.8	But I don't care what they said. I'm in love with you. They try to pull me away
1:29.2	but they don't know the truth. My heart's grateful by the pain that I keep on closing.
1:39.0	You come me open and I keep
1:55.9	Greg that is Leona Lewis and a song called Bleeding love. It was a number one single a week or so ago and it made history. Only the third ever chart-topping US single by a British woman follows Petula Clark's downtown in 1965 and
2:02.1	Sheena Easton's morning train 9 to 5 in 1981.
2:05.8	Who is this young woman?
2:07.6	She's 23 years old, been groomed her entire life, basically from the womb to become a pop star Sylvia Young
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