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#414 Sound Opinions on Astral Weeks, James Murphy & Lou Reed

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2013

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Greg conduct a Classic Album Dissection of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. The landmark release celebrates its 45th anniversary this month. Plus, a review of the chart-topping debut by New Zealand's Lorde.

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0:00.0

I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

0:13.0

Oh, I'm down, fetch a bell. Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever. I will fight you.

0:33.0

No work in Van Morrison's Cannon or in the rock lexicon for that matter sounds quite

0:41.4

like astral weeks. I'm Greg Cott of the Chicago Tribune.

0:44.4

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

0:47.6

Today we celebrate the 45th anniversary of Astral Weeks and I'll remember Rock Legend Lou Reed in the Desert Island Jukebox.

0:55.1

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

1:00.5

You're listening to sound opinions. I'm losing my edge. The kids are coming up from behind.

1:32.0

That's a track from LCD Sound Systems 2005 debut album in which singer-producer James Murphy says he's losing his edge. Well, two years after the project disbanded,

1:34.0

is this the case?

1:35.0

Murphy's gone from punk and dance clubs to Broadway?

1:39.0

He's composed original music

1:41.0

for the Broadway revival of the Harold Pinter Play Betrayal.

1:45.0

But if you're going to lose your edge, that's not a bad way to go.

1:48.0

The play stars Daniel Craig and Rachel Weiss is produced by Scott Rudin and is directed by Mike Nichols.

1:53.5

Let's find out how this all came together.

1:56.0

James, welcome back to Sound Opinions.

1:58.0

Well, thank you very much.

2:00.0

So Harold Pinter and Betrayal, did you have any knowledge at all of this play before you got the job to score it?

2:05.6

I read the play I think probably in 1992, but I totally forgot about it.

2:10.8

But I knew Pinter, of course.

2:12.3

And I got to reread it and and get very

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