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#94 The Flaming Lips

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2007

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Oklahoma's Fabulous Freaks are coming to Sound Opinions! Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips join Jim and Greg for a rare conversation about how the twenty-five year music veterans have stayed so weird for so long.

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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.

0:39.0

I'm Jim De Regattis, pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-times.

0:42.0

And I'm Greg Katz, I write about rock and roll at the Chicago sometimes. And I'm Greg Cott.

0:43.2

I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

0:45.6

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show, we're going to sit down with

0:48.6

psychedelic rockers, The Flaming Lips, to help us explore their 25 year history.

0:53.0

Then it's my turn to add a track to the Desert Island Jukebox.

1:00.0

You're listening to sound opinions, and now it's time for some music news. Oh, No kids that is not the soundtrack to a Cadillac commercial. I mean it was but before that it was the signature song by one of the greatest bands in rock history.

1:40.0

I know you are on the same page as me about that Mr. Kot and Led Zeppelin is reuniting.

1:45.4

Woo because nobody stays broken up.

1:47.3

Doesn't matter if they're dead.

1:48.3

Doesn't matter if they're century old.

1:50.2

Doesn't matter.

1:50.9

This is for one show and one show only they say. Led Zeppelin is

1:54.8

reuniting John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, and Jimmy Page with Jason Bonham, John Bonham

2:00.8

because Bonham of course the most innovative drummer in the history of

2:04.2

rock and roll I think it's safe to say is dead. So sort of Zeppelin three quarters of Zeppelin

2:08.7

to pay tribute to the founder of Atlantic Records, Amet Erdigan, who died last year.

2:14.2

This is a big concert that can take place in London on November 26th at the O2 Arena that will

2:19.1

also feature Pete Townsend and Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones.

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