#553 Best Albums of 2016...So Far
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Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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We’re barely halfway through the year and already there’s an overwhelming amount of great new music to enjoy. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their lists of the Best Albums of 2016...So Far. Plus, they discuss the “Stairway to Heaven” plagiarism verdict and pay tribute to Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist Bernie Worrell.
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| 0:00.0 | You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together. |
| 0:06.0 | Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. |
| 0:26.0 | We're midway through 2016. |
| 0:32.0 | We're midway through 2016 and we've had a bounty of great music already. |
| 0:37.0 | It's time to share our favorites with you. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Jim De Regattus. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm Greg Kott. We're going to share our top albums of 2016 so far and we've lost a number of musical |
| 0:46.8 | greats lately including P-Funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell. We'll have a number of tributes later on in the show. That's all coming up on sound opinions. And that we're why we're going to |
| 1:04.0 | down the road. |
| 1:05.0 | Our show's taller than I saw |
| 1:09.0 | that's old. |
| 1:10.0 | Mary Warts a lighting we are more |
| 1:16.0 | who shines white light and wants it show |
| 1:19.0 | This is sound opinions and that of course is a little bit of |
| 1:22.0 | of stairway to heaven by lead Zeppelin. |
| 1:24.6 | Greg we can now say definitively that it is by Led Zeppelin. |
| 1:28.5 | We have been covering the Led Zeppelin plagiarism lawsuit on the show. |
| 1:33.0 | We've done two stories about it, and now there is a resolution. |
| 1:35.8 | Yes, Los Angeles jury decided that Led Zeppelin's stairway to heaven did not, in fact, |
| 1:41.3 | rip off the Spirit spirit instrumental Taurus. |
| 1:44.5 | We did an AB comparison a few weeks ago on the show |
| 1:48.1 | and there were obvious similarities. |
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