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A Song that Stalked Jim Through the Algorithm

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Jim attempts to redeem a song from German singer Nina Hagen's 1982 album NunSexMonkRock, which Rolling Stone famously dubbed the "most unlistenable" album ever made.

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0:00.0

I tell you little buddy, this whole island is bewitched.

0:04.0

Just to cast away, island lost a sea, oh.

0:09.0

Now I'm stranded on my own.

0:14.0

Sandy, far from home.

0:19.0

You remember, we were shipwrecked together.

0:26.3

Welcome to this bonus episode of Sound Opinions.

0:28.9

I'm Greg Cott.

0:29.7

My co-host is Jim D. Regatus.

0:31.7

And if you want to be the first to hear our bonus podcasts, become a Sound Opinions member on Patreon like Amy Cohn in Naperville, Illinois.

0:39.3

I know Naperville well. My parents lived there for a number of years. Thanks for your support, Amy.

0:44.4

Really appreciate it. Jim and I have crammed our brains so full of music. We don't have enough time to

0:49.8

get into all of it during our regular podcast. So this bonus podcast is perfect for us because we get to

0:57.0

celebrate the Desert Island jukebox and adding yet another song to it. Jim, give us a hint of

1:03.3

what you're going to play this week. I just got to say, you've never got to twist our arms to talk

1:07.3

more about music. I'm going to play something, Greg, that we've never talked about on the show,

1:12.1

that Rolling Stone magazine called Quite Possibly One of the Worst Albums Ever Made,

1:18.1

and Dean Robert Criscow gave a C-plus two.

1:22.0

It read like an F-minus review, but he gave it a C-plus.

1:25.5

But I'm going to defend it.

1:27.4

All right, I love redemption

1:28.9

conversations. We're going to hear more about that in a minute on sound opinions.

1:33.3

Sound Opinions is supported by Goose Island since 1988. Goose Island's been brewing beers in the

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