#796 Best Band Lineup Changes, Opinions on Arlo Parks & slowthai

Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Music, Arts

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk about their favorite bands that have improved significantly after lineup changes. They also review new albums by British rapper Slowthai and British singer songwriter Arlo Parks.

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Featured Songs:

Arlo Parks, "Green Eyes," Collapsed in Sunbeams, Transgressive, 2021

Arlo Parks, "Too Good," Collapsed in Sunbeams, Transgressive, 2021

Arlo Parks, "Hope," Collapsed in Sunbeams, Transgressive, 2021

Arlo Parks, "Porta 400," Collapsed in Sunbeams, Transgressive, 2021

Slowthai, "Play with Fire," Tyron, Method, 2021

Slowthai, "Feel Away," Tyron, Method, 2021

Slowthai, "adhd," Tyron, Method, 2021

Fleetwood Mac, "Albatross," Albatross (Single), Blue Horizon, 1968

Fleetwood Mac, "Bermuda Triangle," Heroes Are Hard to Find, Reprise, 1974

Fleetwood Mac, "World Turning," Fleetwood Mac, Reprise, 1975

Genesis, "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway," The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Charisma, 1974

Genesis, "Squonk," A Trick of the Tail, Charisma, 1976

James Brown, "I Got the Feelin'," I Got the Feelin', King, 1968

James Brown, "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine," Sex Machine, King, 1970

Buzzcocks, "Boredom," Spiral Scratch, New Hormones, 1977

Buzzcocks, "Autonomy," Another Music in a Different Kitchen, United Artists, 1978

The Temptations, "My Girl," The Temptations Sing Smokey, Gordy, 1965

The Temptations, "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)," The Sky's the Limit, Gordy, 1971

Black Flag, "Louie Louie," Louie Louie (Single), Posh Boy, 1981

Black Flag, "Best One Yet," Loose Nut, SST, 1985

Rush, "Working Man," Rush, Moon, 1974

Rush, "By-Tor and the Snow Dog," Fly By Night, Mercury, 1975

Nirvana, "Love Buzz," Bleach, Sub Pop, 1989

Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Nevermind, DGC, 1991

XTC, "This is Pop?," White Music, Virgin, 1978

XTC, "Life Begins at the Hop," Life Begins at the Hop (Single), Virgin, 1979

Todd Rundgren, "We Gotta Get You a Woman," Runt, Ampex, 1970

Jimi Hendrix Experience, "Wait Until Tomorrow," Axis: Bold As Love, Track, 1967

Lightnin' Hopkins, "Long Gone Like a Turkey Through The Corn," Country Blues, Tradition, 1959

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0:00.0	You're listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to talk about our favorite examples of bands that changed members and got better for it.
0:08.0	Really interesting when an established band in the middle of its career, maybe somewhat successful already, makes a change to at least
0:16.2	one band member and then just gets exponentially more popular.
0:20.8	Yeah, we were going to call it hostile takeovers, but they weren't always hostile.
0:24.4	We'll have some fun with that.
0:25.4	But first, we've got some new music to review.
0:27.8	I bought you breakfast, then you scatter your rings.
0:32.2	The air was fragrant and thick with our silence.
0:37.0	I held my breath for something deep inside pinched, I touched the bump on your wrist you were born with
0:46.2	That is a little bit of the song too good by Arlo Parks from her first full album, Mr. Cot, collapsed in sunbeams. A super talented young,
0:58.9	20 years old now, a musician and poet from West London with a multicultural background.
1:06.0	Her dad was from Nigeria.
1:08.0	Mom was from France and had Chadian background. And she's raised in West London, poetry her first love.
1:16.5	Greg, with the release of her first EP, super sad generation 2019, the worst thing that can happen to any singer-songwriter ever happened to poor Arlo.
1:26.0	She was branded by the Brits, the voice of her generation.
1:30.0	An artist of some substance and a wide-ranging interest from classic singer-songwriter music to, as I said, poetry steeped in poetry, but also a big fan of radiohead.
1:40.4	So there's interesting production stuff happening in her music.
1:44.4	Let's play a song from this album and get into our opinions.
1:47.2	I'm eager to hear what you think.
1:48.8	I have a lot to say as well.
1:50.4	This is Hope by Arlo Parks on Sound Opinions.
1:55.0	Mary tried to talk the pleasure by king to be in a life
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