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#456 New Wave and Opinions on Sinead O'Connor

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4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Get out your skinny ties and don your best Flock of Seagulls hairdo. Jim and Greg celebrate Duran Duran, A-Ha and the best of 1980's New Wave with "Mad World" author Lori Majewski. Then, Jim and Greg review the latest album from iconic singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor.

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0:00.0

There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. Are you ready to get your world rocked?

0:20.0

Are you ready to get your world rocked? Ready?

0:21.0

Are you ready to get your mind blown?

0:24.0

Do it!

0:25.0

One, two, defense!

0:26.0

D'erand-eran, a-a-huh, a flock of seagulls. These bands are often jeered, but there's more to

0:38.6

new wave than skinny ties, cheesy scents, and bad haircuts. I'm Jim De Regadist. And I'm Greg Kot. We take a trip back in time to the

0:46.5

mad world of New Wave. And then we review a new album from an artist that took us from the

0:50.8

New Wave 80s into the 90s.

0:53.0

Shinnade O'Connor.

0:54.1

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

0:56.7

This is sound opinions and we're going to be devoting a chunk of this show Greg to the new wave 80s.

1:05.0

I will confess in the 80s my first band was a group called The Interns.

1:09.0

We were very new wave. I had skinny leather tie that I wore and we covered two flock of seagull songs.

1:15.7

I ran and the other one and the romantic.

1:19.5

But we were a little inconsistent though.

1:21.7

We also covered Russia's 2112. That's coming up in the show,

1:25.6

the best of the new wave, but first some music news. I see out too late

1:35.0

out too late

1:37.0

nothing in my brain

1:40.0

that's what people say

1:42.0

mmm that's what people say. That's what people say.

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