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#85 Arcade Fire

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2007

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week: Arcade Fire. Jim and Greg sit down with members of this anthemic rock band for a candid conversation about how an indie group from Montreal took the music industry by storm.

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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. Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

0:40.0

I'm Jim De Regottis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sometimes.

0:43.4

And I'm Greg Kot. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

0:46.9

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show.

0:49.6

The biggest reunion tour of the summer has come through town and Jim and I are going to weigh in on the reunited police.

0:55.0

Plus we'll have a conversation with the anthemic rock band of the moment, Arcade Fire.

1:00.0

You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time to welcome our newest affiliate. My name is, my name is, my name is, my name is, my name is,

1:15.0

Greg, you can call him Slim Shady, you can call him M&M. I think when he was born in

1:21.0

St. Joseph Missouri, the day when the birth certificate was Marshall

1:23.8

Mathers. St. Joseph's is right next door to Merriville, Missouri and KX CV has just added

1:30.7

us, welcome aboard Missouri.

1:33.0

My name is my name is what my name is

1:37.0

my name is and now time for some music news

1:41.0

it's time to get away some music news. That's

1:45.0

LCD sound system, sound of silver. That disc can now be found at the iTunes Music Store for a cut rate

1:55.7

discount price of $6.99. The iTunes Store has announced a huge number of cut-rate album downloads are now being made

2:04.4

available 699 and 599. This in response to an announcement the

2:09.9

previous week by the largest music company in the world universal records

2:13.9

that they were going to a month

2:16.4

to month licensing agreement with iTunes in other words they were no longer going

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