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#462 Best Guitar Riffs and Opinions on Prince

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Arts, Music, Society & Culture

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps the most essential element of rock 'n' roll: The Guitar Riff. Jim, Greg and some listeners break it down and name their favorites. Then they review a new double album from another guitar legend, Prince.

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0:00.0

Good music is what we want to hear.

0:05.0

What do you mean? Good music. It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to.

0:09.0

And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home.

0:13.0

Did you have a band? Good or bad?

0:23.0

It's a great band, it's a bad band, it's like pizza, baby.

0:25.0

It's good no matter what there's music in the air. Does anything to find rock and roll more than its basic element to guitar

0:38.4

rift? I'm Greg Kott and I'm Jim De Regattis. Guitar solos can be overblown and overrated, but a riff when done right can rule a song.

0:47.7

We name our favorites and review the new double album from another guitar great, Prince. That's all coming up on sound opinions.

0:57.0

You're listening to sound opinions and later on in the show Jim you and I are going to talk about the new Prince albums

1:05.3

This would have been unimaginable a couple of decades ago when he was on Warner Brothers

1:10.2

He has reunited with that label. They had a big fight back in the early 90s over how much music he was putting out.

1:17.0

Now he's putting out two in one day. He couldn't have done that before because they thought he was putting out too much

1:23.0

music so things have changed in the world of Prince. We will dive into those 25

1:27.6

songs later in the show but first some music news. News. What was that forsaken us?

1:45.0

Still ends to come to talk to us. That's a track called A Brain in a Bottle, the lead off cut from a new album by

2:08.5

Tom York and radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. It's called Tomorrow's Modern Foxes.

2:15.0

You know, seven years ago, Greg Radiohead made big news with a bold experiment in a new distribution form

2:21.0

for Radiohead's in Rainbow's album. It was floated online, pay

2:26.2

what you want. York and Godrich are trying something different. They're using

2:30.8

the BitTorrent distribution system to float their new music as part of a bundle

2:36.1

that you have to pay for. Six dollars, which is still a bargain. Ten percent goes to BitTorrent.

2:41.2

The rest goes to the artist.

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