#783 Review Roundup & Pylon
Sound Opinions
Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It's time for another review roundup. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot give their opinions on new records by AC/DC, Beabadoobee and more. Plus, a conversation with members of the Georgia post-punk band Pylon.
Featured Songs:
Pylon, "Cool," Cool (Single), DB, 1979
AC/DC, "Shot in the Dark," Power Up, Columbia, 2020
AC/DC, "Through The Mists Of Time," Power Up, Columbia, 2020
AC/DC, "Wild Reputation," Power Up, Columbia, 2020
Sturgill Simpson, "Turtles All The Way Down," Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions, High Top Mountain, 2020
Sturgill Simpson, "Breakers Roar," Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions, High Top Mountain, 2020
Sturgill Simpson, "Turtles All The Way Down," Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, High Top Mountain, 2014
Sturgill Simpson, "I Don't Mind," Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions, High Top Mountain, 2020
beabadoobee, "Dye It Red," Fake It Flowers, Dirty Hit, 2020
beabadoobee, "Care," Fake It Flowers, Dirty Hit, 2020
beabadoobee, "Sorry," Fake It Flowers, Dirty Hit, 2020
beabadoobee, "Horen Sarrison," Fake It Flowers, Dirty Hit, 2020
Low Cut Connie, "Take a Little Ride Downtown," Private Lives, Contender, 2020
Low Cut Connie, "Look What They Did," Private Lives, Contender, 2020
Low Cut Connie, "Tea Time," Private Lives, Contender, 2020
Low Cut Connie, "Nobody Else Will Believe You," Private Lives, Contender, 2020
Low Cut Connie, "Now You Know," Private Lives, Contender, 2020
Pylon, "Crazy," Chomp, DB, 1983
Pylon, "Feast On My Heart," Box, New West, 2020
Pylon, "Modern Day Fashion Woman (Version 1)," Box, New West, 2020
Pylon, "Dub," Dub (Single), DB, 1979
Grace Jones , "On Your Knees," Muse, Island, 1979
Parliament, "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)," Mothership Connection, Casablanca, 1975
Grandmaster Flash, "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash and the Wheels of Steel," The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash and the Wheels of Steel (Single), Sugar Hill, 1981
Pylon, "Beep," Chomp, DB, 1983
Pylon, "Altitude," Chomp, DB, 1983
Pylon, "Italian Movie Theme," Chomp, DB, 1983
Radiohead, "The National Anthem," Kid A, Parlophone, 2000
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to tell the story of the Georgia post-punk band Pylon. |
| 0:06.0 | But first we've got some new music to review. Make it feel all right come the door |
| 0:14.0 | now through the hall right |
| 0:17.0 | I shot the door |
| 0:18.0 | yeah like rich fox |
| 0:21.0 | a shot in the dark |
| 0:22.0 | be some walk in the park. |
| 0:25.0 | That is a track called Shot in the Dark from the new, yes, new ACDC album. |
| 0:31.0 | I know maybe hard to tell sometimes. This is the latest one. Power Up is its name. |
| 0:37.0 | What's fascinating about Power Up is that we never expected another ACDC album. |
| 0:42.0 | They have had a particularly bad stretch here in the 2010s. |
| 0:48.6 | The founding guitarist Malcolm Young, I mean one of my heroes in rock and roll he retired in 2014 after being diagnosed with |
| 0:55.9 | dementia and then died a few years later I mean key songwriter really the spine of that band sound for so many years. |
| 1:06.0 | A shortlisted for one of the great rhythm guitarist of that time. |
| 1:10.0 | Absolutely. So the loss of Malcolm was a huge blow. |
| 1:13.0 | Legal troubles for drummer Phil Rudd. |
| 1:15.0 | There was a question whether he would even be able to be a free man, let alone playing on an ACDC album. |
| 1:22.0 | Brian Johnson having to quit touring because of major hearing loss. |
| 1:26.0 | Bassist Cliff Williams left the group in 2016 after the last tour. |
| 1:32.0 | So that left Angus Young to sort of assemble what was left of |
| 1:36.0 | ACDC if anything. He started going through their archives and seeing you know what |
| 1:40.9 | was left in the bank and then when the band all |
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