#608 Fantasy Songs, Slowdive & Opinions on Public Enemy

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🗓️ 21 July 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The fantasy powerhouse Game of Thrones is returning for its penultimate season. With dragons, knights, and magic on their minds, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot play their favorite songs about fantasy worlds. Plus, a review of the latest from hip-hop stalwarts Public Enemy, and Neil Halstead of Slowdive shares the song that got him Hooked on Sonics.

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0:00.0	From W be easy Chicago and PRX this is sound opinions. I'm Jim Deeregatus.
0:20.0	And I'm Greg Kott. With the new season of Game of Thrones, it's hard to avoid the buzz around
0:24.8	dragons, magic, and epic battles. But fantasy motifs are all over rock music as well.
0:30.0	We share some of our favorites.
0:32.0	Plus, hip-hop Stolwards, Public Enemy,
0:34.1	have released their 14th album.
0:36.5	Hate is going to hate.
0:38.6	Fake is going to fake.
0:40.0	Break is going to break.
0:41.3	Neop fights going to make mistakes. We'll have our review of nothing is quick in the desert.
0:45.0	And Neil Halstead of slow dive tells us about the song that made him up his musical game.
0:51.0	That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.
0:55.0	This is Sound Opinions. I'm Greg Cott with Jim Deeregatus and later on in the show Jim
1:05.1	We're gonna discuss fantasy in rock music a topic a thread that has been occupying the minds of songwriters for decades.
1:14.0	We're going to talk about some of our favorite songs.
1:16.0	The swirling mists over the moats around Mordor, Greg.
1:20.0	Dragons and castles, and you name it, we're going to talk about it in terms of rock music
1:24.6	but uh... first jim we've got to talk about uh... a big piece uh... that you broke
1:28.9	this week on one r kelly
1:31.5	an artist who's travails you have been documenting for over a decade now.
1:37.0	Well since 2000, what is the latest development?
1:40.0	Greg, there was a piece that I'm enormously proud of that took nine months of
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