Best of 2018, part 1

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Some of our favorite stories from the past year. First, the musical equivalent to stock art, library music, where composers anonymously churned out some of the strangest, funkiest — and most recognizable — music of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. The Domino’s Pizza mascot, The Noid, was just a whimsical advertising mascot — until it became part of a really dark story. And Kurt Andersen talks with Angélique Kidjo, a superstar of African music, about her recent album: a song-by-song cover of the 1980 Talking Heads classic “Remain in Light.”

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.4	I'm Karenis.
0:11.2	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.5	This first level of garden.
0:14.8	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.7	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:18.3	Very well done.
0:19.5	Editing is all about timing.
0:21.2	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.8	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:26.2	Studio 360.
0:28.2	It's good, Anderson.
0:30.6	This hour on Studio 360, we are playing some of our very favorite stories from 2018.
0:37.8	So, sit back and grab a cold one.
0:41.8	Bush, as crisp and cold as a mountain stream.
0:45.6	It has the same great taste it's always had.
0:48.4	That music you're hearing in this Bush ad was not composed with beer in mind. It was a pre-recorded track sitting
0:57.1	on some digital server of a production music company where the ad agency found that music
1:03.4	and paid a fee, downloaded it, and put it into their TV commercial. By the way, we listen to that
1:09.5	kind of ready-made stock music all the
1:12.1	time, and not just in commercials, in movies, on TV, in video games, on radio shows, podcasts,
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