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#573 Turkey Pardons & Remembering Leonard Cohen

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Every year, a turkey is saved from its Thanksgiving dinner fate by a presidential pardon. In that gracious spirit, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot give their own Turkey Pardons. They share their picks of lousy artists who still had one redeemable musical moment. Plus, they pay tribute to the great singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.

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0:00.0

I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

0:13.0

Oh, I'm down, picture man. Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever. I will fight you.

0:35.0

Thanksgiving's almost here and we're in a generous mood.

0:40.0

Today we'll pardon some musical acts we consider,keys. I'm Jim D. Regattis.

0:45.8

And I'm Greg Kott. We're going to pick the one redeeming song from artists that have otherwise

0:50.8

had a less than stellar musical career.

0:53.6

And we remember the life and legacy of Leonard Cohen.

0:56.5

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

0:58.4

I hear why pardon courage so that he can live out the rest of his days in peace and

1:08.0

tranquility. That's because in keeping with a longstanding-standing tradition.

1:12.8

Pumpkin and pecan are hereby granted a full

1:16.2

an unconditional, unconditional presidential pardon.

1:19.7

I'm granting this turkey a permanent reprieve. After many years in the coop he's on his way to a farm in Virginia.

1:25.0

This is sound opinions and you know Greg there has been a long-standing holiday tradition at the White House

1:30.0

around Thanksgiving when the president comes out and pardons a big old turkey

1:36.0

sparing his neck from the chopping block, saving it from the dinner table.

1:41.0

One assumes another turkey's been sacrificed and

1:43.4

somewhere somebody gets turkey for dinner it's a classic tradition it is Jim

1:48.3

in that spirit we're gonna pardon some musical turkeys of our own. By that we mean, you know, bands or

1:54.0

artists that we think have had pretty bad careers, certainly no better than

1:58.7

mediocre, but they've got at least one song or maybe an album that redeems them.

2:04.0

We're not talking about one-hit wonders, but we're talking about artists with otherwise long

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