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#466 Pink Floyd's The Wall and Music & Science

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Arts, Music, Society & Culture

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Greg conduct a classic album dissection of Pink Floyd’s epic double concept album The Wall, which celebrates its 35th anniversary in November. But first, they talk music and science with Science Friday host Ira Flatow.

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0:00.0

What do you love about music?

0:07.0

To begin with?

0:08.0

Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world.

0:33.0

Fame, divorce, mothers, paranoia.

0:36.0

These are just some of the many topics Pink Floyd tackles in its epic concept album, The Wall.

0:42.0

Today we get to the heart of why this remains a classic album

0:45.2

35 years later.

0:46.9

I'm Jim Deeregatus.

0:48.1

And I'm Greg Cox.

0:49.1

Later in the show, we conduct a classic album

0:51.3

dissection of Pink Floyd's The Wall.

0:53.4

But first we talk music and science

0:55.2

with fellow public radio host, Ira Flato.

0:57.8

That's all coming up on sound opinions. And the She turned a tender eyes to me. Those dingers in the ocean,

1:16.0

sweeters any holiday

1:20.0

but she rounded me with science.

1:24.7

You're listening to sound opinions and don't adjust your dial.

1:28.9

You're listening to sound opinions and don't adjust your dial.

1:31.6

You haven't entered into a weird alternative universe of

1:34.4

public radio our guest is science Friday host irra flato ira welcome to sound

1:39.7

opinions thank you for inviting me it may not even be Friday when you're listening, but it is science day here on sound opinions, Ira, and we wanted to have you on to talk about the meeting of our worlds, music and science.

1:51.0

Every so often Greg and I will talk about a new story that covers a

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