#701 Band Reunions, Opinions on Vampire Weekend

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🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summer is coming…and that means a slew of music festivals and arena concerts around the country. Many bands hit the road for reunion tours, often times without all their original members. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot explore whether or not it’s sacrilegious to see a band missing its key original members. They’ll also share some of their favorite band reunions, ones that lived up to or even surpassed the originals. Plus, a review of the latest from Vampire Weekend.

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0:00.0	He took the bomb. From W be easy Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm
0:25.0	Greg got us and I'm Greg Kot. Now if a band reunites with only one of its
0:27.7	original members is it still the original band?
0:30.3	If you go to see Journey without Steve Perry and you have as good a time as you
0:37.1	would have with Steve Perry in Journey, who gets hurt? We'll discuss when a reunion is really a reunion.
0:45.0	Plus, Vampire Weekend is out with their first new album in six years.
0:50.0	We're going to give our takes. That's all coming up on sound opinions.
0:58.0	You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show Greg we are going to be talking about reunion tours this summer is lousy with them.
1:09.5	Some of them are good, some of them are not. When does a reunion work and when doesn't it?
1:16.0	We'll try to dive into that. But first let's review some new music.
1:19.7	We took a vow in summertime, now we find ourselves in late December.
1:30.0	I believe that New Year's Eve would be the perfect time for their great surrender, but they don't remember.
1:39.0	That's a little bit of Harmony Hall, a track the new Vampire Weekend album, Father of the Bright, the fourth
1:46.3	Vampire Weekend Studio album, its first in six years, the last one came out in 2013 this quartet out of Columbia University in New York
1:56.0	uh... circuit 2006
1:58.3	Jim remember the hype when that self-titled debut album came out in 2008.
2:04.5	It was unbearable, yes.
2:05.7	The anticipation, here's this new waveish indie rock band
2:10.6	flirting with these world music rhythms on their debut record topped by Ezra
2:15.9	Conning's English major lyrics and we have had a couple of albums since then.
2:21.4	They have grown from a much hyped debut album into a major
2:26.2	festival act. Contra came out in 2010, Modern Vampires of the City in 2013. They've been playing
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