25th Anniversary of Common's Like Water for Chocolate

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This year marks the 25th anniversary of socially conscious rapper Common's pivotal album Like Water for Chocolate. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot revisit their classic album dissection of Like Water for Chocolate including an interview with Common from the year 2000.

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Featured Songs:

Common, "Time Travelin' (A Tribute to Fela)," Like Water for Chocolate, MCA, 2000

Common, "Take it EZ," Can I Borrow a Dollar?, Relativity, 1992

Common, "I Used to Love H.E.R.," Resurrection, Relativity, 1994

Common, "Brown Sugar," Brown Sugar, EMI, 1995

Common, "Funky for You," Like Water for Chocolate, MCA, 2000

Common, "A Song for Assata," Like Water for Chocolate, MCA, 2000

Common, "Payback is a Grandmother," Like Water for Chocolate, MCA, 2000

Common, "The Light," Like Water for Chocolate, MCA, 2000

Common, "The 6th Sense," Like Water for Chocolate, MCA, 2000

Common, "Thelonius," Like Water for Chocolate, MCA, 2000

Common, "Geto Heaven Remix T.S.O.I," Like Water for Chocolate (Alternate Edition), MCA, 2001

Common, "A Film Called (Pimp)," Like Water for Chocolate, MCA, 2000

Kendrick Lamar, "Institutionalized," To Pimp a Butterfly, Interscope, 2015

New York Dolls, "Looking For a Kiss," New York Dolls, Mercury, 1973

Delivery, "The New Alphabet," Force Majeure, Heavenly, 2025

Delivery, "Deadlines," Force Majeure, Heavenly, 2025

Lucy Dacus, "Ankles," Forever is a Feeling, Geffen, 2025

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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.
0:08.1	Wabababab loomob.
0:10.3	You're listening to Sound Opinions, and this week we revisit our classic album
0:25.5	Dissection of Commons like Water for Chocolate.
0:29.1	I'm Jim D. Reganus.
0:30.4	And I'm Greg Cott.
0:31.6	Let's get right into it.
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0:52.3	We've been covering common since the beginning of his career, Jim.
0:56.0	Absolutely.
0:57.0	And there are various signpost albums where you can say there was a, you know, a big leap in his ambition
1:04.0	and his ability to pull off those ambitions.
1:06.0	And I think this was one of those records where everybody really started to pay attention to this guy.
1:14.0	There have been tracks here and there. The album's up to then have been pretty good.
1:18.0	This album put him on sort of a bigger international radar.
1:20.7	And there's been no turning back since then, really. And, you know, the work he'd done and everything he stood for is suddenly inspiring these other great artists, like members of the roots,
1:30.1	and DeAngelo and Macy Gray.
1:33.0	I mean, you know, Common has a rare kind of charisma.
1:36.3	He walks into a room and it's just like, wow.
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