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#569 Songs That Give You the Creeps & Opinions on Leonard Cohen

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Sound Opinions

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The spookiest time of the year is upon us. To celebrate Halloween, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot turn the show over to listeners who share the songs that tingle their spines the most. Plus, they share their thoughts on Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize and review the latest from singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.

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0:00.0

What do you love about music?

0:04.0

To begin with,

0:08.0

everything. Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world. Some lyrics keep you up at night.

0:36.0

Some melodies make your hair stand on end and some songs just plain old creep you out.

0:41.0

I'm Jim Deregatus.

0:42.0

And I'm Greg Kott. We get ready for

0:44.3

Halloween with a list of songs to scare you and keep the trick-or-treaters off

0:48.0

your lawn. Plus, our thoughts on Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize and review of the latest from Leonard Cohen.

0:54.3

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

0:57.6

The Noel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the Great American song traditions.

1:15.0

This is sound opinions and yes as the world now knows Greg on October 13th the

1:20.9

Swedish Academy named Bob Dylan as a Nobel Prize winner in literature.

1:26.6

This instantly set the internet on fire, right?

1:28.6

I mean there's a presidential election, but then second only to that, the internet exploded by people anti the notion of a singer-songwriter

1:37.0

winning a prize in literature and other people saying that Bob Dylan deserves any award that anyone would ever want to give him.

1:43.7

I mean personally I think he should have five Michelin stars right?

1:46.9

Obviously we're Dylan's super-fans. We did a three-part appreciation of Dylan's

1:52.0

long career could have easily been 30 parts.

1:55.0

He's an American treasure.

1:56.2

He's a treasure for the world in terms of what he's done for songwriting, right?

1:59.8

Yes, absolutely.

2:01.8

And it's funny to me, Jim, that Dylan seemingly has not acknowledged.

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