#273 The Monkees & Opinions on PJ Harvey and Drive-By Truckers

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2011

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jim and Greg dive into the history and legacy of the “Revolutionary Made-for-TV Band,” The Monkees with writer Eric Lefcowitz.

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0:00.0	There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lovers lament crap I want something peppy something happy something up-temporal I want something peppy something happy something up temple I want something
0:24.5	snappy.
0:27.0	Before there was in sync or even glee there was the monkeys. I'm Greg
0:37.9	Cott of the Chicago Tribune and I'm Jim Deeregatus from W be easy and Columbia
0:42.2	College. Today we dive into the story of the
0:44.6	original made-for- TV band The Monkeys and later we've got new reviews of
0:48.9	PJ Harvey and Drive-By Truckers. That's all coming up on sound opinions.
1:00.0	From W.B.E.Z Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions.
1:05.4	And now it's time for some music news. One two three four. Make a month
1:25.0	rapid in the month of me, in the month of me, in the month of me, in the month of me.
1:29.0	You'll make a ready month of me,
1:32.0	fire the wheel, wires away. That is month of May, one of the songs from the latest Arcade Fire Album, The Suburbs that was performed a week ago at the nationally televised
1:45.1	Grammy Awards. That was the prelude to their winning the album of the year. A huge
1:51.6	upset for the Arcade Fire a lot of people saying, who? What? Why? Everybody
1:56.4	thought Eminem was going to win this award including me. He had the biggest selling
2:00.0	album of 2010 with recovery, 3.4 million copies and counting. He had just
2:06.4	appeared on not one but two Super Bowl ads the week prior to that. He had gone
2:12.1	from Pariah to this kind of cuddly
2:13.8	celebrity ready for his mainstream moment. This appeared to be the weekend
2:18.6	he was going to do it. Finally win the big prize from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
2:24.3	but lo and behold here comes this indie rock band out of Montreal winning the big
2:27.7	prize. In the past you used to have to be connected to one of the big corporations
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