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#598 Fictional Bands, "Convoy" & Opinions on Gorillaz

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Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Some bands are are born, and some are just made up. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some of their favorite fictional bands from movies, TV, and more. Plus, a review of the new album from cartoon creation Gorillaz, and the strange story of C.W. McCall's trucker hit "Convoy."

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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

0:24.5

snappy.

0:27.0

The fans might not be real, but the music certainly is.

0:37.0

From the Banana Split to Dewey Cox, we'll talk today about great fictional artists.

0:42.8

I'm Jim Deorgatus.

0:44.0

And I'm Greg Scott.

0:44.9

We'll review the latest record from another fictional group,

0:47.5

Gorillas, and we've got the story behind the 70s

0:50.1

cultural phenomenon, Conroy. That's all coming up on sound opinions.

0:57.0

This is sound opinions and Greg all this hour we are going to talk about great

1:05.3

fictional bands bands that didn't really exist as bands in the real world were

1:10.3

invented for a particular project or a film and then some of them did become real bands like this one.

1:16.4

Let's start off by talking about the new album from Gorillas.

1:20.1

We got the power to be loving each other no matter what happens

1:26.2

We got the power to do that

1:29.4

Well now the proof we're on the semi okay called We Got the Power to be ringing the Great Bell and out there

1:37.0

of us.

1:39.0

That is Gorillas with a new track called We Got the Power from their fifth studio album, Humans.

1:44.4

It has guest vocalists on it, including Noel Gallagher from Oasis and Jenny Beth from

1:49.5

Savage's.

1:50.5

Of course, Gorillas is Damon Albarn's project, the lead singer of Blur, the great Brit

1:56.9

pop band of the 90s, collaborating with cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, the creator of the Tank Girl comic book, they came together and said, okay,

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