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#274 Gang of Four & Opinions on Radiohead

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Sound Opinions

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2011

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Greg sit down with Andy Gill and Jon King, founders of the pioneering post-punk group Gang of Four. Plus they review the new album from Radiohead.

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0:00.0

What do you love about music?

0:07.0

To begin with?

0:08.0

Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world. When Gang of Four debuted in 1979, it was a sound unlike any other, intense, aggressive and

0:40.8

danceable.

0:41.8

I'm Greg Kott from the Chicago Tribune.

0:43.7

And I'm Jim Dirogatus from W.B.E.Z. and Columbia College.

0:47.1

We sit down with Gang of Four founders John King and Andy Gill.

0:50.2

Plus we review the surprising new album by Radiohead.

0:53.0

That's coming up on Sound Opinions.

0:59.0

From W.B.E. Z Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions and now it's time for some music news. Thousands of desperation. Lonely lies.

1:14.0

Like an animal,

1:16.0

islands of isolation.

1:18.0

Surrounds by violence.

1:20.0

I'll take away and hope is my violence.

1:21.0

I'll take away and hope is sorrows. That is a song called The Ivory Gate of Dreams from the Progressive Metal Band

1:39.6

Fate's Warning. All of us have been watching with fascination in the developments in the Middle East as young people

1:46.0

and others are taking to the streets and demanding democratic change.

1:50.4

Where you have young people, you have music.

1:52.3

Often where you have political movements you have music pushing them forward

1:57.0

Last mood f-m. according to a new story in evolver f-m is a program that was developed by a company called Music Hack Day, New York.

2:06.0

It is used to ascertain the mood of countries all over the world in almost real time based on the most popular songs there from a read of

2:16.4

last FMs monitoring of what people are listening to in their media players, what they're purchasing

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