#131 Death Cab for Cutie & Opinions on Usher

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2008

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Death Cab for Cutie has gone from indie obscurity to having the #1 selling album in the country. Tune in to hear their discussion with Jim and Greg and performance in front of a live audience.

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0:00.0	You gotta understand something here. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.
0:06.0	Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Welcome to soundions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.
0:36.5	I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.
0:40.1	And I'm Greg Kott.
0:41.1	I write about Rock-En Roll for the Chicago Tribune.
0:43.1	Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show,
0:45.2	Jim and I are going to welcome the band that just debuted at number one in the country,
0:48.7	Seattle's Death Cab for Beauty.
0:50.8	Plus we'll look at the latest hit album from Usher and I'll pick a song to bring to the desert island.
0:57.0	You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time for some music news.
1:04.0	Happy birthday to you.
1:11.0	Happy birthday to you.
1:17.0	Mr. President,
1:21.0	Mr President.
1:22.0	Happy birthday. Mr President, happy birthday to you.
1:28.8	We are making Warner music and the estate of Mildred and Patty Hill very happy right now by playing that song
1:35.2	happy birthday of course written in the 19th century here we are in the 21st
1:40.0	century and royalties on copyright are still being paid every time happy birthday
1:46.4	is played. There's a professor in this country who is very upset about these
1:50.5	circumstances right Jim? Yeah professor-Eise of George Washington University Law School
1:55.7	dived deep into the whole story of Happy Birthday, Greg, because it is probably the ideal case
2:01.7	study for copyright law in the US.
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