Best Speak-Singing Songs, RIP Mark Lanegan & Opinions on Spoon

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🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Whether it's a stylistic choice or born out of necessity, sometimes great songs aren’t sung, they’re spoken. This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some of their favorite tracks featuring speak-singing vocals. Plus, they hear selections from the production staff, review the new album from Spoon, and bid farewell to Mark Lanegan.

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Featured Songs:

Wet Leg, "Chaise Longue," Chaise Longue (Single), Domino, 2022

Spoon, "Lucifer On The Sofa," Lucifer On The Sofa, Matador, 2022

Spoon, "On the Radio," Lucifer On The Sofa, Matador, 2022

Spoon, "Feels Alright," Lucifer On The Sofa, Matador, 2022

Spoon, "Astral Jacket," Lucifer On The Sofa, Matador, 2022

Spoon, "Held," Lucifer On The Sofa, Matador, 2022

Peggy Lee, "Is That All There Is?," Is That All There Is?, Capitol, 1969

Barry White, "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe," Can't Get Enough, 20th Century, 1974

Movements, "The Grey," Feel Something, FEARLESS, 2017

Devo, "Whip It," Freedom of Choice, Warner, 1980

Lou Reed, "Coney Island Baby," Coney Island Baby, RCA, 1975

Grace Jones, "Private Life," Warm Leatherette, Island, 1980

Blur, "Parklife," Parklife, Food, 1994

The Fall, "Totally Wired," Totally Wired (Single), Rough Trade, 1980

Prince, "Let's Go Crazy," Purple Rain, Warner Bros, 1984

Pavement, "Fame Throwa," Slanted and Enchanted, Matador, 1992

REM, "Belong," Out of Time, Warner Bros, 1991

Art Brut, "Formed a Band," Bang Bang Rock & Roll, Downtown, 2005

Talking Heads, "Once In a Lifetime," Remain in Light, Sire, 1980

Billie Eilish, "Bad Guy," When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Darkroom, 2019

Screaming Trees, "Nearly Lost You," Sweet Oblivion, Epic, 1992

The Gutter Twins, "Idle Hands," Saturnalia, Sub Pop , 2008

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, "Ramblin' Man (Live On Sound Opinions in 2011)," Ballad of the Broken Seas, V2, 2006

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0:00.0	Hey there if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the Patreon page,
0:06.4	and free.
0:08.0	What babbling mam blum bahbum bum bum bum bum bum bum b, bum. Skidurhahh. Oh, skidurhooah. Your listening sound opinions and this week we'll be sharing our favorite speak singing tracks
0:34.8	Songs where the vocals are primarily spoken not sung. I'm Jim De Regattis and I'm Greg
0:40.8	Kot and later we'll say farewell to Mark Lanigan but first Jim and I have a new album to review from Spoon do with your your math cigarettes
0:56.0	all your own records
1:00.0	all your own all your rococets Greg that is a little bit of the title track from the 10th studio album by
1:09.0	Spoon Lucifer on the sofa. I love that track. I love that title. I love the idea. Wow, almost
1:17.4	three decades as a band since Spoon formed in Austin, Texas in 1993, primarily driven by singer-g guitarist Britt Daniel,
1:29.3	but formed with his buddy, the drummer with the coolest name in the drumming business, Jim Eno.
1:37.0	He's a great recording producer as well as a studio in Austin, Texas, and that's where Spoon went to record parts of this new
1:47.7	10th studio album, trying to get alive in the studio vibe.
1:53.1	Spoon has been a leading voice in the indie rock underground
1:57.2	for almost all of those three decades, Greg,
2:00.1	since their early debut recordings, all of those that followed for the Vaunted Merge label.
2:06.5	They're now again on the Vaunted Matador label.
2:10.7	And what are they giving us for this new record?
2:14.0	You know, stick around long enough and pretty much every great band
2:18.0	eventually records a song about the radio.
2:21.0	A medium near and dear to our hearts. This is Spoon's new track on
2:26.7	the radio from Lucifer on the sofa.
2:30.3	On the radio
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