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#743 Buried Treasures & Briston Maroney

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Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It's time again for hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot to share their latest buried treasures: recently released, under-the-radar albums you need to hear! Plus, Jim takes a trip to the desert island jukebox to play a song he can't live without. Then, they hear from musician Briston Maroney about the song that got him Hooked On Sonics.

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0:00.0

You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to find out what song got

0:04.2

Bristol Moroni hooked on Sonics. But first it's time for another round of Barry

0:09.9

Treasures. These are records Jim then you and I have been accumulating over the last few weeks,

0:16.1

months that we have been eager to play, haven't had a chance to on the show, yet maybe

0:21.4

they aren't huge mainstream releases, but we have found something

0:24.6

of considerable merit to them that we want to share with our listeners.

0:28.8

Absolutely, Greg, stuff that we're excited to dig deep and on earth.

0:33.2

I'm going to lead us off.

0:34.4

I'm going to Birmingham, Alabama

0:37.2

for a band called People Years

0:40.1

that is putting in an album called Animalism in early April.

0:45.0

There were already some tracks out there on the web.

0:48.0

Wow, okay.

0:50.0

You know, so first I saw Birmingham, Alabama and these guys, you know, so first I saw Birmingham, Alabama, and these guys, you know, are of a certain age.

0:56.6

They've been kicking around there in the South in different groups for years, and now have this band that has coalesced around the songwriting and

1:05.1

production of Chris Raoul and you know I was intrigued by this letter is like hey

1:12.2

Jim pay attention to Birmingham.

1:14.8

And it's like this short story they wrote

1:17.8

about being fascinated with Luna and Pavement and Pink Floyd LCD sound system and and a girl who likes that music too and she's a goth and you shoot a spitball at her and

1:31.1

She despises Americana and nothing you do will get her attention.

1:36.0

And I'm like, this is a great short story.

1:39.0

If these guys write one 100th as good songs as they've written a press release and and it's

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