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#800: Tune-Yards, serpentwithfeet & La Femme, Memories of 800 Episodes of Sound Ops

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Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 β€’ 2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On the occassion of our 800th episode, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot look back on the show with past producer and listener feedback. They also review new albums from Tune-Yards, serpentwithfeet and La Femme.

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Featured Songs:

Tune-Yards, "nowhere, man," sketchy, 4AD, 2021

Tune-Yards, "hold yourself.," sketchy, 4AD, 2021

Tune-Yards, "be not afraid.," sketchy, 4AD, 2021

Tune-Yards, "make it right.," sketchy, 4AD, 2021

serpentwithfeet, "Heart Storm," DEACON, Secretly Canadian, 2021

serpentwithfeet, "Malik," DEACON, Secretly Canadian, 2021

serpentwithfeet, "Fellowship," DEACON, Secretly Canadian, 2021

La Femme, "Paradigme," Paradigmes, Disque Pointu, 2021

La Femme, "Cool Colorado," Paradigmes, Disque Pointu, 2021

La Femme, "Disconnexion," Paradigmes, Disque Pointu, 2021

Arcade Fire, "Sprawl II (Live on Sound Opinions)," The Suburbs, Merge, 2010

David Bowie, "Rebel Rebel," Diamond Dogs, RCA, 1974

Talking Heads, "Once In A Lifetime (Live)," Stop Making Sense, Sire, 1984

Thom Yorke, "I Want None Of This (Live on Sound Opinions)," Help - A Day In The Life, Independiente, 2005

Radiohead, "The National Anthem (Live at Lollapalooza)," Kid A, Parlophone, 2000

Bob Dylan, "Moonshiner," The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, Columbia, 1991

Wilco, "Ashes of American Flags (Live on Sound Opinions)," Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Nonesuch, 2002

Wilco, "She's A Jar (Live on Sound Opinions)," Summerteeth, Reprise, 1999

Carole King, "I Feel the Earth Move," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Carole King, "Home Again," Tapestry, Ode, 1971

Amythyst Kiah, "Black Myself," (Single), Rounder, 2021

Steely Dan, "Reelin' In the Years," Can't Buy a Thrill, ABC, 1973

Bob Gibson, "Ballad of Fred and Mark," Bob Gibson, Capitol, 1970

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, "K.G.L.W.," L.W., Flightless, 2021

Aretha Franklin, "How I Got Over," Amazing Grace, Atlantic, 1972

Rolling Stones, "Gimme Shelter," Let It Bleed, Decca, 1969

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to sound opinions and this is our 800th episode on public radio.

0:06.0

Later we'll hear some behind the scenes stories from the people who made this show over the years,

0:12.0

but first we've got new music to review from La Femme

0:15.4

Serpent with Feet and this one from Toon yards.

0:20.9

Yes I meant to scare you just like that dream where your guns get pulled back on you.

0:27.0

Laid real pieces off their skin for every skin sit against the people.

0:39.3

That is Tuneards with their fifth album, Sketchy.

0:41.9

That's a track called Nowhere Man

0:44.0

uh... the Oakland base duo Merrill Garbus and Nate runner former guests

0:47.9

on sound opinions very early on in their career

0:50.6

i've got i've got the stats, episode 294 July 2011.

0:55.0

Well worth checking out, Merrill Garbus, puppeteer turned one woman band.

0:59.2

You can see some of her thing in that show.

1:02.4

Amazing to see her perform live the first few times.

1:06.4

Then with Nate Brenner essentially forming a duo and they flushed out the band considerably

1:11.7

over the years as the music has become more ambitious but at

1:15.3

its core it's still Merrill Garbus those songs those lyrics that voice

1:20.9

powerful powerful voice multi instrumentalist as well voice,

1:23.0

multi-instrumentalist as well.

1:25.0

They have been putting out albums steadily, as I mentioned,

1:28.0

four albums prior to this one,

1:30.0

traveled around the world,

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