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#287 Mike Watt & Opinions on Lady Gaga and Death Cab for Cutie

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Sound Opinions

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2011

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Mike Watt of the California punk band The Minutemen talks about the band's history, legacy and influential album Double Nickels on the Dime.

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0:00.0

What happened to music that meant something?

0:04.0

The Who at the Kingdom or Kiss at the Coliseum?

0:07.0

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?

0:12.0

Where is the Iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is Rock and Roll. Almost three decades later, double Nichols on the dime by the Minutemen stands as one of the most influential albums of its era.

0:44.0

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

0:47.6

And I'm Greg Kata, the Chicago Tribune.

0:49.6

We'll be talking with Mike Watt of the Minutemen, and we're also going to review new albums by Death Cab for

0:54.5

Cutie and Lady Gaga.

0:56.3

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

1:00.4

From W.B.E.Z Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news.

1:07.0

Joy my dream, tell me yes,

1:10.0

very loud should the be a mess mess the pieces you don't need are mine.

1:17.0

Take my time.

1:22.0

I'll show you. Take my time.

1:27.0

I'll show you cloud night. We already live in a world of iTunes, the iPod, and the iPad.

1:32.0

Are we ready for the iCloud?

1:34.4

Jim and I have spent considerable time on the show in the last few months talking about

1:38.0

this notion of the cloud-based music system that allows people to access their music

1:42.4

anywhere anytime they want.

1:44.8

In the last few weeks Amazon and Google have rolled out their versions of the Celestial

1:48.8

Jukebox, the Paradise of Unlimited Storage.

1:52.2

You put your music up in the cloud, you can get it anywhere anytime you want.

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