#240 Thriller (Classic Album Dissection) & Opinions on Eminem and Wolf Parade

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🗓️ 2 July 2010

⏱️ 59 minutes

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One year after Michael Jackson’s death, Jim and Greg explore the legacy of the King of Pop’s most famous album with Nelson George, author of Thriller: The Musical Life of Michael Jackson. Plus Jim and Greg review the new albums from Eminem and Wolf Parade.

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0:00.0	I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.
0:13.0	Oh, I'm down, bitch!
0:16.0	A man! Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever I will fight you. A year after Michael Jackson's death
0:37.2	his legacy remains a complicated one but one thing we know for sure thriller
0:42.0	will forever be a landmark album.
0:44.8	We'll talk to writer Nelson George about the making of that disc.
0:48.0	I'm Jim deregatus of vocalo.org.
0:50.4	And I'm Greg Kott of the Chicago Tribune.
0:52.5	Stay tuned for our discussion and review of the highly anticipated new album by M&M,
0:57.5	today on Sound Opinions.
0:59.5	From WBEZ Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. So, Great. Greg those are the strokes and they are one of the headlining bands this year at
1:38.9	the Lala Palusa Festival in Grant Park in Chicago. If you want to see them in Chicago, the
1:45.2	strokes, you got to go to Lala Palusa. Otherwise they're not allowed to play
1:48.8	anywhere within 300 miles of Chicago for nine months. That is what is called a radius or
1:56.8	exclusivity clause. In recent years the dominant model in the summer concert
2:02.4	industry has shifted from bands getting together
2:05.4	two or three at a time or even an entire day multi-band bill crossing the country from left
2:10.7	to right or vice versa and playing at the outdoor amphitheaters or sheds.
2:14.8	Two, several big destination festivals anchored at different parts of the country, drawing people
2:21.3	from throughout that area to come and see as many as 130 bands in a day,
2:26.0	one place, one time.
2:28.0	I'm thinking of the Coachella Festival in the California Desert outside Los Angeles,
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