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#419 The Best Albums of 2013

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Sound Opinions

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2013

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jim and Greg present the Best Albums of 2013, and they hear nominations from guest critics in the listening audience.

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0:00.0

You know, I guess I think I've always been a professional critic, you know, or some sort of professional

0:08.2

appreciator or something. And then. Now this is serious business here man.

0:25.0

Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do.

0:30.0

One great rock show can change the world.

0:33.0

Best songs, best comebacks,

0:39.0

best records of the years so far.

0:41.0

Like a lot of music fans,

0:42.0

Jim and I make lists all year round.

0:44.0

But come December, there's only one list on our minds.

0:46.0

The Best Albums of the Year.

0:48.0

I'm Greg Cott from the Chicago Tribune.

0:50.0

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

0:53.5

It's time to reveal the top albums of 2013.

0:56.5

That's coming up on sound opinions.

0:58.5

You're listening to sound opinions and time now to count down the best albums of 2013.

1:05.1

Greg, we live for this show, okay?

1:07.2

Not that we reduce all the work we do as critics and journalists all year covering popular

1:12.2

music to lists, but I like the idea

1:14.7

of the year and best of list from critics because it forces them not to equivocate

1:20.1

you have to not sit on the fence and say this is the music that mattered to me most this year and rare is a list from any critic even the ones we disagree with even for me

1:30.5

you that doesn't have some merit in it that doesn't make me reconsider a record or introduce

1:36.0

me to a record.

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