2024 Obits, Singles & Greg's Annual Mixtape

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🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Every year, host Greg Kot makes a mixtape of new songs to express his feelings about the past year. Greg shares a selection of that mix and the rest of the show staff look at other top singles of 2024. Plus, the hosts remember a few other musicians we lost in 2024.

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Featured Songs:

Chappell Roan, "Good Luck, Babe!," Good Luck, Babe! (Single), Island, 2024

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967

King Crimson, "21st Century Schizoid Man," In the Court of the Crimson King, Island, 1969

The Allman Brothers Band, "Ramblin' Man," Brothers and Sisters, Capricorn, 1973

Slim Dunlap, "The Ballad of the Opening Band," The Old New Me, Medium Cool/Twin/Tone, 1993

Marlena Shaw, "Woman of the Ghetto," The Spice of Life, Cadet, 1969

Beyoncé, "16 CARRIAGES," Cowboy Carter, Parkwood and Columbia, 2024

Sabrina Carpenter, "Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix)," Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix) (Single), Island, 2024

Kabin Crew, "The Spark (feat. Lisdoonvarna Crew)," The Spark (feat. Lisdoonvarna Crew) (Single), Rubyworks, 2024

Charli XCX, "Girl, so confusing featuring lorde," Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat (Single), Atlantic, 2024

Geordie Greep, "Holy, Holy," The New Sound, Rough Trade, 2024

Shaboozey, "A Bar Song (Tipsy)," Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going, American Dogwood and Empire, 2024

Wussy Duo, "Cellar Door," Cellar Door EP, Shake It!, 2024

La Luz, "Strange World," News of the Universe, Sub Pop, 2024

Trupa Trupa, "Sister Ray," Sister Ray (Single), Self-Released, 2024

The Bug Club, "Lonsdale Slipons," On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System, Sub Pop, 2024

Lambrini Girls, "God's Country," God's Country (Single), City Slang, 2024

Tunde Adebimpe, "Magnetic," Magnetic (Single), Sub Pop, 2024

The Unfit, "Who's in Charge," Disconnected EP, Share It Music, 2024

The Jesus Lizard, "Hide & Seek," Rack, Ipecac, 2024

Shellac, "Chick New Wave," To All Trains, Touch And Go, 2024

Horsegirl, "2468," 2468 (Single), Matador, 2024

X, "The Hungry Wolf," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

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0:00.0	Hey there, if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the Patreon page and free.
0:08.2	Hello, Chicago!
0:40.5	Hello! You're listening to sound opinions. You're listening to sound opinions, and this week we're taking one last look at 2024.
0:42.1	I'm Jim D. Reguff.
0:43.0	And I'm Greg Cott.
0:48.1	I'll share my annual mixtape and we'll mourn the musicians we lost last year.
0:51.6	Plus, we're going to share some of our favorite singles from the past year.
0:53.6	We'll get into it in just a moment. Every year we do our best to spotlight the musicians and music industry folks who died that we want to pay tribute to.
1:01.0	However, we can't always get to everyone.
1:04.0	Yeah, that's right, Jim. I mean, first we want to recap who we discussed this year,
1:09.0	and people occasionally say well why
1:10.9	didn't you cover this guy or this gal when they died and in fact we did a lot of
1:16.1	these it's true it's just been unfortunate windfall of of people that we needed to pay tribute to
1:22.6	here's who we covered in our radio episodes who passed away in in the last year Dexter, Ron Weber, Carl Wallinger, Eric Carmen, James Chance, Francois Hardy, Steve Albini, and Martin Phillips.
1:34.3	And on our weekly bonus episodes, we paid tribute to Les McCann, Mary Weiss, Mojo Nixon, the great Wayne Kramer, Damo Suzuki of Cannes, Dwayne Eddy, Bob Newhart, there was a musical connection, John Mayall, Claire Elliott, AKA Zero, Sergio Mendez, Nick Gravanitis, Chris Christofferson, Phil Lesh, Quincy Jones, Aston Barrett,
2:06.1	Will Cullen Hart of the Olivia Tremor Control, and the poet, Nikki Giovanni.
2:09.7	You can find all of those memorials on our podcast feed.
2:15.5	Now we're going to spend a little more time highlighting some people we didn't get a chance to memorialize this year.
2:16.8	Jim, you're up first. You know, Greg,
2:18.3	as newspaper guys, as former newspaper people, one of the things about obits, you know,
2:24.7	some people roll their eyes about getting the obit beat, but this is a chance to tell someone's
2:29.5	life story in a short, succinct way, and they're often fascinating. If I say the name Pete Sinfield,
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