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#586 The Gotobeds & Opinions on Lupe Fiasco

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Sound Opinions

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Gotobeds are known for outrageous stage antics and a biting sense of humor. But behind that is a lyrical sophistication and tight musicianship. The Pittsburgh post-punk band joins hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot for a raucous performance in the studio. Plus, a review of the new album from Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco.

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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.

0:25.0

It's good no matter if there's music in the air. The Pittsburgh Quartet The Goa Bede serve a post-punk snarl, but always with a sense of humor.

0:41.6

I'm Greg Kott. And I'm Jim Deregadis. The go to beds join us in the studio for a live performance.

0:47.0

Plus we'll review the new album from Chicago rapper Lupe Fiosko.

0:51.0

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions and later on Jim, we are going to review the new album from one of Chicago hip-hop's icons, really Lupe Fiasco, his sixth studio album.

1:12.0

And we're also going to dig deep into one of his older songs

1:15.9

in our new edition of Sample Platter in which we dig into the sample behind one of Lupe's

1:21.4

finest pieces of music. But first we've got the go to beds. Gold. I could be gone from not a soul.

1:37.0

What's a price?

1:39.0

I'm a price!

1:40.0

I could stand. Greg, we are both big fans of the Go to Bededs, and I'm not only a super fan because they're named after the drummer in Wire.

1:57.0

First fell in love with this group through their indie recordings and seeing them at South by Southwest.

2:02.0

The last album made my best of 2016 list.

2:06.9

The roots of the group go back to this already hardcore punk band in Pittsburgh called

2:11.8

Kim Fuke, when guitarist Eli Kossan and Tom Payne first came together.

2:16.4

Eli had another vision for a different project and they added basseth Gavin Jensen and drummer

2:22.0

Carrie Bellback. Came to the attention of Gerard

2:24.7

Kausloy at Matador Records co-founder of that prestigious label and he

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