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#176 Literary Rock & Opinions on Metric and Neil Young

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Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2009

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Rock Lit 101: Jim and Greg explore rock’s literary side and discuss the best pop lyricists from the stage to the page.

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0:00.0

What happened to music that meant something?

0:03.0

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.

0:27.0

Welcome to S Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

0:38.7

I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

0:42.4

And I'm Greg Scott. I write about rock and roll for the Chicago Sun Times. And I'm Greg Cod.

0:43.0

I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

0:45.0

This week on the world's only Rock and

0:47.0

and world talk show, Jim and I explore rock's literary side

0:50.0

and discuss the best lyricists in pop music.

0:52.0

Plus, we'll review new records from Rock and Roll. and discuss the best lyricists in pop music.

0:52.6

Plus we'll review new records from rock and roll veteran Neil Young

0:56.0

and the Canadian indie popsters metric.

0:58.9

You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time for some music news. What you're hearing there is a little bit of the closing jam session at the

1:24.8

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland in the last few days.

1:29.0

That is the band Metallica, one of the new inductees jamming with Aerosmith Joe Perry, the Red Hot Chili

1:35.0

Pepper's Flea. Jeff Beck was also inducted this year, Jimmy Page, formerly of Led Zeppelin.

1:41.1

Every year they do this gym where they have a big jam session at the

1:44.7

end for the customers the suit and tie set of record company elite and VIPs that

1:51.4

attend the ceremony every year.

1:52.7

Only the second time that it's actually been done in Cleveland, which is the site of the

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