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#483 Nick Mason on Pink Floyd and Opinions on Drake

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Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Arts, Music

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has been the only constant member of the band throughout its entire history. He speaks with Jim and Greg about his half-century with the pioneering psychedelic band and their highly anticipated reunion. Later, a review of the surprise new mixtape from Drake.

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0:00.0

I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

0:13.0

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

0:36.0

Nick Mason is the only member of Pink Floyd to be present for every album recording.

0:40.0

And so, the drummer serves as the iconic band's official historian.

0:44.6

I'm Greg Kott.

0:45.6

And I'm Jim Deregatus.

0:47.6

Nick Mason shares his perspective on the past, present, and future of Pink Floyd.

0:51.3

Then we review the new surprise album from hip-hop

0:54.7

star Drake. That's all coming up on sound opinions. This is sound

1:00.0

opinions and Greg later in the show we are going to review the album or should we call it

1:05.0

mixed tape there's a debate about that that Drake dropped with great surprise if you're

1:09.6

reading this it's too late pulling what many in the music industry are calling a

1:13.7

Beyoncée where all of a sudden with no fanfare you just put new music out there and

1:18.9

he's being rewarded for it you know well Beyoncé didn't win a Grammy, but don't cry for her, she did quite well,

1:24.8

and Drake's doing really well.

1:26.6

This album that was originally a mixtape debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling

1:31.8

535,000 copies and being streamed 17.3 million times on

1:37.8

Spotify.

1:38.8

That's pretty good for something we weren't even expecting.

1:42.2

But that's later in the show.

1:43.3

First, we've got some music news.

1:44.8

One day, when the glory cost,

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