#495 Passion Pit & Opinions on Shamir

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4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Passion Pit first broke through via MySpace with its danceable electronic sound. But beneath the bright synth-pop are often tortured lyrics about frontman Michael Angelakos’s struggle with manic depression. Angelakos joins hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot for a stripped-down performance and frank conversation about his illness. Then, they review the debut record from genre-defying singer Shamir.

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0:00.0	What happened to music that meant something?
0:04.0	The Who at the Kingdom or a kiss at the Coliseum?
0:07.0	Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?
0:12.0	Where is the Iron man of today?
0:14.0	We!
0:15.0	We! Hey, this is not a test. This is Rock and Roll. Michael Angelicos of Passion Pit disguises soul music as dance pop that can fill arenas around the country.
0:41.0	I'm Greg Kott and I'm Jim Deregadis. Michael Angelakis
0:44.7	joins us for a very candid interview and a stripped down performance. Then later in
0:48.9	the show Greg and I review the debut album from the genre-defying artist Shamir.
0:53.8	That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.
0:56.6	This is Sound Opinions, Jim, and later on in the show we're going to review this new album by a brand new artist named Shamir, Shamir Bailey out of Las Vegas.
1:10.0	Every year we go down to South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin Texas and this year I got a
1:13.6	chance to see Shamir and loved what I saw. You know a lot of times we talk about
1:18.7	these artists at South by Southwest and you kind of wonder whatever happens to these
1:21.8	guys, did you ever do anything after we
1:24.0	rave about him well Shamir's debut album is out now we're going to tell you what
1:27.5	we think later on in the show first we have some music news the thrill is long News. The thrill is going to be away from me
1:48.0	away from me.
1:49.0	Although I'll still live on, but so lonely I'll be.
2:00.0	That is, the thrill is gone from BB King dead at the age of 89.
2:07.0	He died a few days ago in Las Vegas.
2:10.0	If you know one BB King song, that is probably it.
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