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#301 Songs About Work & Opinions on Lil' Wayne

Sound Opinions

Sound Opinions

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2011

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Sound Opinions honors our nation's laborers with the best Songs About Work. And later, Jim and Greg review new albums from Lil' Wayne and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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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. It's Labor Day.

0:35.0

Labor Day.

0:37.0

time to sit back, take a load off and listen to music.

0:40.0

I'm Greg Cott from the Chicago Tribune.

0:42.0

And I'm Jim Deeregatus from W be Z and Columbia College.

0:45.0

Today Greg and I will play a collection of songs inspired by the concept of work and we'll review the new albums from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Lil Wayne. That's coming up on sound opinions.

0:59.0

From W.B. Easy Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions. I got a job, hey, I got work to do.

1:14.0

I got work to do.

1:15.0

I got work to do.

1:18.0

I got work to do.

1:20.0

I got to do.

1:21.0

You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time for our Labor Day work song spectacular.

1:29.0

Greg we were thinking about how to close out the summer.

1:31.0

Kids everywhere of course are dreading going back to school.

1:35.6

But it's astounding to me how many great, I mean truly wonderful rock and roll songs are inspired

1:42.1

by work and it's astounding because basically the goal of every great rock and roller is to

1:47.6

not work.

1:48.6

You know is to avoid having to grow up and get a real job.

1:52.4

Very true. Very true, indeed.

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