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#551 Anxious Anthems & Opinions on Paul Simon

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Nervy guitars and pounding drums can perfectly convey the restless sensation of being on the verge of breaking down. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their favorite Anxious Anthems. Then, they review the new album from venerable songwriter Paul Simon.

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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 if there's music in the air. We all know the feeling, racing heart, sweaty palms, frayed nerves, and some musicians

0:39.8

are able to convey all that in one perfect panic-stricken tune. I'm Jim Deregatus.

0:45.0

And I'm Greg Kot. We give you our favorite anxious anthems and review the latest from Paul Simon.

0:50.0

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

0:53.0

This is sound opinions.

0:57.0

This is sound opinions and Jim later on in the show I've got the Desert Island Jukebox and I wanted to pay tribute to Merle Haggard one of the great country artists of all time who died recently and I was really ticked off about the way he was presented in some

1:15.6

of the obituaries.

1:16.6

You know everybody focusing on that song Oki from Muskoi which was possibly his biggest hit and I think

1:21.8

it created the wrong impression of what kind of an artist

1:24.5

Merle Haggard actually was and I'm going to present the flip side to Oki from Muskogee.

1:29.2

I look forward to that Greg but that's later on in the show. all the stairs and I've been around talking much too loud

1:44.0

but it's not going down the stairs

1:46.0

when it seems to be that

1:48.0

she has been too much into a few years

1:51.0

and though you try you just can't hide your eyes and it's with it

1:57.0

will stop look around

2:01.0

here it comes. comes.

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