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#575 Hero Worship

Sound Opinions

Sound Opinions

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Artists are also music fans like the rest of us, often paying tribute to the musicians who inspired them. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their favorite examples of Hero Worship in music – songs that name-check great artists from the history of rock and roll. Plus, the Rolling Stones pay tribute to their own blues heroes on a new album.

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There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lovers lament crap. I want something peppy, something happy, something up temple, I want something peppy something happy something up temple I want something snappy. As critics were constantly name-checking our musical heroes.

0:43.0

The only people who do that more are musicians themselves.

0:46.0

I'm Greg Kott.

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And I'm Jim Deregadis.

0:49.0

We'll talk about great moments of hero worship

0:51.0

and review the latest album from The Rolling Stones.

0:54.0

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

0:57.0

Hey, hey, what he got three three I wrote you song.

1:07.0

About a funny old world that's a come in a long

1:14.0

seems sick. Come here along. Seems sick at its hunger, it's tired and it's torn.

1:21.0

It looks like it's a dying and it's hardly been born.

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You're listening to sound opinions.

1:30.0

I'm Jim Deeregatus.

1:31.0

He's Greg Kott and that is Bob Dylan from 1962 song to Woody.

1:37.0

Greg, a cornerstone of the sound opinion's philosophy is that everybody's a critic, but everybody also is a fan.

1:44.0

That includes musicians.

1:46.0

Musicians started playing music because they loved music and they had certain heroes

1:51.0

right and there's a tradition in rock and roll that goes back even

1:55.1

long before Bob Dylan where a young musician will give a shout out a name check if you

2:00.3

will to a hero that he or she worships, writing a song about one of the people that

2:06.4

was instrumental in giving them their start.

2:09.7

We're going to go back and forth and play some of the greatest hero worship songs in rock history today.

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