#642 Songs About the Music Industry & Antibalas
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Sound Opinions
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🗓️ 16 March 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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What happens when artists take a look inward at the music business? Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot play the best Songs About the Music Industry. Then, they sit down with the dynamic Antibalas!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Chicago! From W be easy Chicago and PRX, this is Sound Opinions. I'm Greg Kott. |
| 0:26.8 | And I'm Jim Deregadis. There have been problems with the music industry |
| 0:30.5 | ever since Robert Johnson sold his soul at the crossroads and musicians love to bite |
| 0:35.2 | the hand that feeds them. |
| 0:36.7 | This week we share our favorite songs about the music industry. |
| 0:40.0 | I love my label and my label loves me. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll also have a chat with Afro beat band Antibollis. |
| 0:50.0 | That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:52.0 | Oh, she's so good and kind. That's all coming up on sound opinions. You're listening to |
| 0:57.0 | You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to have a conversation with Afro Beat Band Antibollis, but first songs about the music industry. |
| 1:09.0 | So you still want to do the show business and you think that you got what it takes? I mean you really got a rap and be all that |
| 1:16.0 | If you're yourself for the breaks check it out. That is a tribe called Quest with show business. |
| 1:22.0 | Greg this week we are running around Austin, Texas |
| 1:25.5 | at South by Southwest filling our ears with music we'll be talking about for the |
| 1:31.2 | whole rest of the year. We thought we'd pick some of our |
| 1:34.0 | favorite songs in music history that are about the music business. Often these wind up |
| 1:39.0 | being protest songs because let's face it the music business is is pretty corrupt has been from day one |
| 1:46.1 | Musicians biting the hand that feeds them or mistreats them |
| 1:49.7 | Greg why don't you start us off I wanted to pick the most billious protest song that I could think of. |
| 1:55.6 | That is by one Graham Parker. An unjustifiably under-recognized artist out of the UK in the 70s and he was feeling that pain too he put out three |
| 2:05.7 | critically acclaimed albums with Mercury records in the late 70s but he wasn't getting |
| 2:10.7 | a lot of love especially in the United States none of those records |
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