#612 One-Person Bands & Opinions on Randy Newman & Downtown Boys

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🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Certain artists are perfectionists at heart, and if you want something done right, do it yourself. This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some of their favorite One-Person Bands – artists who have recorded albums playing all the instruments themselves. Plus, reviews of the latest from legendary songwriter Randy Newman and Rhode Island punk band Downtown Boys.

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0:00.0	Hello, Chicago! From W be easy. E.Z. Chicago and PRX. This is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regottis.
0:29.0	And I'm Greg Kot. Certain artists are perfectionists at heart. And you want something done right do it yourself.
0:35.0	Today we'll talk about our favorite one-person bands.
0:38.0	Artists who insist on playing every instrument, singing all the vocals, and writing all the lyrics.
0:44.0	We'll also review new releases from songwriter Randy Newman and Rhode Island punk rockers,
0:49.2	Downtown Boys. Then Greg will play a tune from the Desert Island Jukebox. That's all coming up on
0:58.6	sound opinions. Putin has had a hat on.
1:05.0	Had size number nine.
1:07.0	You say Putin's getting me, getting it.
1:10.0	Putin says just fine.
1:12.0	He can drive his giant track across the Trans-Siberian plate.
1:17.0	He can power a nuclear reactor with the left side of his brain.
1:22.0	And when he takes his shirt off, you drive a lady's crazy.
1:25.0	When they take a shirt I make me want to be a lady.
1:29.0	It's the Putin girls.
1:31.0	This is sound opinions and that was Randy Newman with Putin, a song from his
1:38.8	11th studio album, Dark Matter. Putin was released as a digital single, right around election time in 2016.
1:48.1	It appears on Randy Newman's first album in eight years, Jim. The relevance of that song has not gone away. Now when we talk
1:56.1	about Randy Newman, I think the first thing that comes to a lot of people's mind is, isn't
2:00.0	that the guy wrote short people? You know, that's going to be on his obituary.
2:04.0	It's somewhere going to be in the first or second paragraph.
2:05.8	Well it depends what generation you're from Greg because those of us who were parents
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