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#478 Strange Bedfellows of Rock & Opinions on Sleater-Kinney.

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Society & Culture, Arts, Music

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We are talking musical odd couples this week. Take a listen as Jim and Greg play some of the best examples of rock's "Strange Bedfellows." Then they review the long awaited comeback album from Sleater Kinney.

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0:00.0

I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student bodies,

0:10.0

all having to do with rock and roll music.

0:13.0

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

0:33.0

Sometimes the most exciting collaborations come in the most unexpected forms.

0:44.0

Take us for example. I'm Greg Kot.

0:46.0

And I'm Jim Deregadas.

0:48.0

We'll discuss strange musical bedfellows that actually work

0:51.0

and review Slater Kenny's first album in a decade. That's all come back. that's This is sound opinions and some of the best news for me this year Jim has been the

1:03.9

announcement of a new Slater Kenny record which we are going to review later on in the

1:08.3

show had no idea this was coming up until a few months ago but it's welcome news after a decade off. That's coming up until a few months ago but it's welcome news after a decade off.

1:14.0

That's coming up later in the show but first we've got some music news. my honey.

1:41.7

That is broke down palace from the grateful dead. It contains the lyric fair thee, and that gives the name to the Grateful Dead Reunion

1:46.1

shows at Soldier Field in Chicago this summer.

1:50.0

The band is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

1:52.4

It was formed in 1965 in Northern California and

1:55.8

the original members, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreitzman, are getting together.

2:00.9

They're the only surviving original members of the band.

2:03.4

It's also the 20th anniversary of the death of the band's nominal leader, Jerry Garcia.

2:08.0

Well, and you and I reviewed Jerry's last show with the dead at soldier field way back when.

2:12.8

It makes it somewhat appropriate that they're returning to soldier field to do these shows,

2:16.3

Jim, because Garcia was not in great health.

2:19.3

You could see it on that stage in July of 1995, and a month later he was dead yeah and that effectively ended

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