#726 Bands in Costume, Opinions on Battles & Farewell to Music Critic Nick Tosches
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🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Rock and roll has never been purely about the music. The image a band puts forward can be almost as important as their songs. Some bands take it an extra step and make theatrical costumes an integral part of their act. In honor of Halloween, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some of their favorite bands in costume. They also review the latest from rock band Battles and bid farewell to music journalist and biographer Nick Tosches.
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| 0:00.0 | He took the bomb. From W.B.Z. Chicago and PRX. This is Sound Opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis. |
| 0:22.0 | And I'm Greg Kott. For some bands every gig |
| 0:25.2 | requires a costume no matter what month it is. We'll share our favorite songs |
| 0:29.7 | from bands who wouldn't dream of going on stage in street clothes, always a Halloween costume. |
| 0:36.0 | Rock! |
| 0:38.0 | Double Bats Rock! |
| 0:41.0 | Plus we'll review the new album from Art Rockers Battles, |
| 0:45.0 | and Greg will drop a quarter in the Desert Island U-box. |
| 0:56.0 | That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 1:01.0 | You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to review |
| 1:07.4 | Juice Be crypts to the latest album from experimental rock band Battles |
| 1:12.0 | but first we're going to share some songs from |
| 1:14.6 | bands in costume Jim. Yeah in honor of your favorite holiday ever Greg Halloween |
| 1:19.1 | you live for this time a year listen you, you know, pop music in general |
| 1:23.8 | is about reinventing oneself, |
| 1:26.1 | crafting a persona that is not necessarily who you are, right? |
| 1:30.8 | But certain bands, it seems to to me go above and beyond dressing you know the role never being seen |
| 1:36.6 | Sans that costume. Yeah Every day is Halloween right when you're on stage at least right |
| 1:42.1 | That's certainly applied to the first |
| 1:44.3 | band I want to highlight Paul Revere and the Raiders from the the 60s they were an |
| 1:48.4 | Idaho band and you know this garage rock thing was starting up back in the 60s, you know, |
| 1:55.0 | inspired and in a lot of ways by the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. |
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