#555 Better Campaign Songs & Opinions on The Avalanches
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It’s not a political rally without a crowd-pumping and uplifting playlist. But political campaign teams are not always great music tastemakers. NPR’s National Political Correspondent Don Gonyea talks with hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot about hearing the same songs over and over on the campaign trail. Then Jim and Greg play campaign managers and make a list of better campaign theme songs. Plus, a review of the long-awaited second album from Australian electronic group The Avalanches.
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| 0:00.0 | 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, it's good no matter if there's music in the air. |
| 0:27.0 | Get the player. At political rallies the music can be as important as the speeches, but all too often |
| 0:38.8 | the music falls flat. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Jim De Regattis. |
| 0:41.4 | And I'm Greg Kot. With the political conventions around the corner, |
| 0:45.0 | we pick the theme songs politicians should be using on the campaign trail. |
| 0:49.0 | An electronic band The Abilanches are back with their first new record in 16 years. |
| 0:54.3 | We've got a review. |
| 0:55.5 | That's all coming up on sound opinions. Fire. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, oh, who, Oh, who, oh, |
| 1:08.0 | Oh, oh, |
| 1:10.0 | sad news. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, little boy got shot down today. |
| 1:15.0 | You're listening to sound opinions. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Greg Kott with Jim Deeregatus. |
| 1:19.0 | We've just been through a wrenching a couple of weeks here Jim. More videos of black men being |
| 1:24.7 | shot to death by police officers, one in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, another in St. Paul |
| 1:29.7 | Minnesota, followed by the shootings of five police officers in Dallas, mass demonstrations |
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