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#80 The Decemberists & Paul McCartney Review

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2007

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Colin Meloy and the members of The Decemberists visit the show for a lively conversation and performance. Also, tune in for a review of the latest from Paul McCartney.

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0:00.0

What do you love about music?

0:04.0

To begin with,

0:08.0

everything. Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world.

0:39.0

Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media. I'm Jim D. Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sometimes.

0:42.0

And I'm Greg Katz. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago sometimes. And I'm Greg Cots. I write about rock and roll for the Chicago Tribune.

0:45.0

If you've ordered a Grande skim latte in a certain coffee chain in America this week,

0:49.0

you know this man has a new album out. Paul McCartney, we're going to tell you if it's any good.

0:52.0

Plus we have Portland, Orkpop band The Decemberus, live in the studio, for an exclusive performance and some intriguing conversation.

0:59.5

You're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. I hope that someone gets my.

1:13.0

I hope that someone gets my.

1:16.0

I hope that someone gets my message in the bottle.

1:22.0

Yeah. That's the police when they were on performing message in a bottle. But if you read

1:26.5

the blog of police drummer Stuart Copeland, the band was definitely not on when they performed

1:31.6

that song and a bunch of other ones on their

1:33.8

opening concert their first in 23 years Jim the other night in Vancouver. The

1:38.9

reviewers were very kind to this show. Entertainment Weekly rated the show

1:42.4

an A-minus the critic from the

1:44.2

London mail on Sunday declared they've been rehearsing for two months and it shows they're

1:47.9

as tight as stings trousers this is just wishful thinking people are glad to have

1:51.8

them back one of the things that I love about the police is A that they hate each other and B that they're very honest about hating each other as anybody who heard our interview with Andy Summers knows. Stuart Copeland ripped on the show, Jim.

2:04.4

It's amazing because people who bought tickets for this show were paying $225 plus service

2:09.5

fees, not to mention how much they were paying on the secondary market.

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