#136 Songs About America
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🗓️ 4 July 2008
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Join Jim and Greg for the ultimate Independence Day celebration. They'll play their favorite Songs About America and hear some of your picks.
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| 0:00.0 | You gotta understand something there. |
| 0:02.0 | This music is the glue of the world. |
| 0:05.0 | 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. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago sometimes. |
| 0:41.0 | And I'm Greg Cut. I write about rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune. Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show, |
| 0:46.4 | we're going to celebrate Independence Day sound opinion style. That's right Greg you and I are going to play |
| 0:50.9 | our favorite rock songs ever about America and we're going to hear picks from our listeners as well. |
| 1:00.0 | You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time to welcome our newest affiliate 89.5 WN IJ serving the southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois region. |
| 1:10.4 | Jim I have a special fondness for this particular piece of geography because |
| 1:14.7 | that is where Cheap Trick sewed its wild seeds in the 70s. |
| 1:18.3 | Well before it was in the middle. Exactly. Nationally renowned band they used to play |
| 1:21.5 | all over southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois, based in Rockford. National welcoming WN IJ, let's play a track from it. It's called The Ballad of TV violence from Cheap Trick on sound opinions. |
| 1:37.0 | I need it girl to give me some loud. |
| 1:41.0 | I need some love give me your love give me your love |
| 1:47.0 | I live |
| 1:48.0 | I live in life |
| 1:51.0 | to give me your life. |
| 1:53.0 | give me your life. |
| 1:54.0 | I'm in your life. |
| 1:56.0 | Give me your life. |
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