Bonus Song Thursday - Fear of Pop "In Love"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill and Brian take a closer look at the song stylings of the iconic actor William Shatner by listening to and discussing his collaboration with Ben Folds on the latter's experimental pop record Fear of Pop Vol. 1. We talk about how this song hinted on what was yet to come. We also read a few listener emails that help us finally put the nail in the coffin on what the deal is with winter in Australia and New Zealand, explore more about how we want to discuss the technical aspects of music and production, and a shout out to our friends in the band Ayer Amarillo!

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0:00.0	I'm I remember the night we met.
0:44.8	That night we said,
0:47.5	entwine under summer skies,
0:51.3	I looked into your eyes,
0:53.4	and you looked into mine.
0:57.6	You said,
0:58.6	Hello, I'm Bill.
1:02.0	And I'm Brian.
1:02.7	And this is the great album's podcast, bonus song Thursday.
1:06.0	Welcome to it.
1:07.5	What were we just listening to right there, Brian.
1:09.3	That song was called In Love by Ben Folds and William Shatner, also known as Fear of Pop.
1:17.1	Well, not the two of them together aren't known as Fear of Pop.
1:20.7	Well, it's the band or the entity that's making that music is called Fear of Pop.
1:28.1	But it was kind of like a Ben Folds kind of side project, right?
1:31.7	Yeah, after Ben Folds 5 kind of blew up in 97 with whatever and ever amen,
1:37.3	you know, the hit song Brick that we briefly touched on.
1:40.6	And I mean, we've had a whole episode about that album,
1:43.1	but we talked about it a little bit
1:44.3	on Monday. Sony just kind of let Ben Folds do whatever he felt like. So he recruited John
1:53.0	Mark Painter, who, you know, did a little bit of arrangement work on the William Shatner,
1:57.5	you know, has been record too. And, you know, a bunch of his buddies and did this fear of pop project.
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