Bonus Song Thursday - Foo Fighters "Aurora"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

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

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill is once again joined by Jim Hanke of the Vinyl Emergency podcast (soundcloud.com/vinylemergency) to talk about Foo Fighters! We fast forward a little bit in the band's career to discuss a song from their 1999 album There Is Nothing Left to Lose, "Aurora." Jim talks about how this album reflected the band adopting a more mainstream sound but how this song stood out to him and has held up over the years. Bill defends his fandom of this song and the album while complimenting Nate Mendel's exceptional bass playing. Additionally, we read some listener email that gets us analyzing the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack in detail and revealing some great trivia about Lou Reed pre-Velvet Underground history!

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0:00.0	I'm You believe there's something else
0:29.1	To leave your emptiness
0:34.9	And to dream Hello And it's Oh, and
0:49.3	It's on and on and on and on Hello and welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill. And unfortunately, Brian is still not with us. He was not with us earlier in the week when we talked about the Foo Fighters self-titled 1995 album.
1:12.3	And unfortunately, he is still not with us.
1:14.9	His grandmother, unfortunately, passed away this past week, and he is attending to those
1:21.0	affairs.
1:22.1	But in his place, I have a guest with me here, and he's going to help out talking about some more about the foo fighters, and that's Jim Hanky.
1:30.3	Hey, Jim.
1:31.0	Hey, no pressure to Phil Bryan's shoes here.
1:33.9	Well, I think that you are more than capable of doing it.
1:36.6	You seem to be a rather knowledgeable person on music in general.
1:41.1	And since Brian is kind of my go-to encyclopedia, I think that that's,
1:45.5	that's the role that you get to fill maybe. Okay. All right. Or at least be a sounding board,
1:50.9	a sounding board for just when I say dumb things. Well, can do. I'm happy to be here. Thanks
1:56.9	again for having me. No problem. So what we do here on the podcast every week is take a different album of music
2:01.9	and talk about what makes it great.
2:03.8	And then we follow that up with a bonus song episode
2:06.9	where we take a single song by either the same artist
2:10.5	or a song that is tangentially related,
2:13.4	such as a cover or something like that.
2:15.3	But what we're doing here today is actually a song by the same artist, Foo Fighters,
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