#609 Penelope Spheeris & Opinions on Arcade Fire

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Penelope Spheeris has directed some of the most influential movies about music of all time, from Wayne's World to all three installments of The Decline of Western Civilization films. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with Penelope about the 25th anniversary of Wayne's World, her fascinating path as a director, and the legacy of her films. Plus, a review of the new album from Arcade Fire.

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0:00.0	Oh, Shr.
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0:17.0	Ohh, uh.
0:18.0	Ohh, um. From W be Z Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis.
0:31.4	And I'm Greg Kot. This week we're talking about the 25th anniversary of Wayne's world with the film's director, Penelope Spheyrus.
0:38.0	It all came together in some sort of magical way where the planets were lined up right, the chemistry of the right people,
0:47.0	everybody was at the peak of their game, very seldom in life did things line up like that.
0:52.0	And we'll review everything now, the new album from Arcade Fire.
0:56.2	That's all coming up to sound opinions and we'll get to our conversation with
1:07.5	director Penelope Sphearest soon. But first we've got a new album to review, Greg. I'm guessing you got everything now.
1:25.0	Every space in your head is filled up with the things that you read.
1:32.0	I guess you got everything. filled up with the things that you read.
1:34.0	I guess you've got everything now.
1:37.0	That is everything now, the title track from the fifth studio album from Arcade Fire, one of the leading independent rock bands in the world,
1:45.7	now signed with a major label, Columbia Records Artists Arcade Fire.
1:50.5	Formed Montreal in 2001, debut album in 2004 funeral, was gushingly reviewed in the indie press and became one of the best-selling indie rock records of its time. They followed up with the Neon Bible in 2008.
2:05.9	The Suburbs was the big mainstream breakthrough. It was a surprise winner of the
2:11.1	2011 Grammy album of the year.
2:15.0	Follow it up in 2013 with kind of a left turn, a record that probably the first crack in the arm or so to speak.
2:21.0	Here was a disco a record that got some mixed reviews for the first
2:24.4	time in the band's career. It was called Reflector and now four years later we
2:28.8	have the fifth studio album Everything Now,
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