#146 Danny Goldberg, Wedding Songs, & Opinions on Ra Ra Riot

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2008

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Manager, label executive, publicist—Danny Goldberg has donned many hats in the music industry. Tune in to hear this music insider share stories of working with everyone from Led Zeppelin to Nirvana. Plus, Jim and Greg will review the new album from orchestral indie rockers Ra Ra Riot.

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0:00.0	You gotta understand something there. 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.
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 Cutt. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.
0:44.0	Today in the world's only rock and roll talk show, Jim and I are going to welcome Danny Goldberg,
0:48.0	a music insider who has worked with everyone from Led Zeppelin to Nirvana.
0:52.0	Plus we'll review the debut album from the much-hiked indie rockers,
0:56.0	Ra Ra Ra Riot.
1:00.0	You are listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. This is your celebration. Celebrate good times.
1:15.0	Greg, we are celebrating the end actually of the big wedding season,
1:21.0	at least for this summer. This was a story that caught my
1:24.0	eye a couple of weeks ago. Bridal Guide magazine has issued its list of the
1:28.4	top 90 wedding songs based on an extensive polling of its readers and of recent brides,
1:34.5	key categories throughout your wedding ceremony and the following reception,
1:38.8	like the bridal party entrance and the recessional and the bouquet toss later on in each of those
1:44.7	categories they had the traditional favorites and then the popular favorites
1:49.2	and then the modern favorites for songs for those important moments in in a reception.
1:54.3	All of which just reminds me how God awful wedding music is.
1:58.0	Yeah, you look at this list, Jim, of 90 songs that get played most frequently at weddings
2:02.1	and you go, I never want to go to another
2:03.3	wedding again. I'm reminded of why I didn't want to go to a wedding ever again.
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