#753: Review Roundup, Bill Withers & the Red Sox Organist
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot review the new records from Fiona Apple, The Weeknd and more. They’ll hear how the Boston Red Sox's organist is keeping busy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus, we bid farewell to Bill Withers.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show I'm going to say farewell to the legend Bill Withers, |
| 0:05.0 | but first we've got some new music to review. |
| 0:08.0 | Greg Springs always a big release season. We did some anticipated record reviews a few weeks ago. I think there's even more excitement about some of the ones we're going to tackle this week. |
| 0:18.0 | We're going to share our thoughts on them, starting out with the new album by The Strokes. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm making bad decisions. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, making bad decisions. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm making bad decisions for you. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm making bad decisions. I'm making bad decisions. That was a track called Bad Decisions by The Strokes. The Strokes of course burst out of New York City in the now rapidly being mythologized era of 2001. An explosion of activity in New York, kind of unparalleled |
| 1:09.0 | since the punk era, bands like the Yayayas, L.cid sound system, and probably most hyped of all, |
| 1:16.0 | the strokes, led by Julian Casablancas. |
| 1:19.0 | After the first full-length album, |
| 1:21.0 | Is This It, |
| 1:22.0 | came Room on Fire first impressions on earth |
| 1:24.8 | future present past other records and then kind of began to fracture we got |
| 1:30.0 | strokes albums in between lots of solo albums and other projects. Now it's been quite |
| 1:36.0 | sometimes seven years since a new Strokes record has come down the pike. This is their sixth overall studio album and |
| 1:44.9 | they turned to that master of mid-career revitalization, Rick Rubin, who's done the |
| 1:52.1 | same for many bands over the years. |
| 1:54.3 | What are the strokes giving us on this new record, |
| 1:57.7 | the new abnormal? |
| 1:59.5 | A title, I will note, that was chosen well |
| 2:02.0 | before the COVID-19 shutdown. |
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