Bonus Song Thursday - REM "Hope"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

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

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill and Brian follow up our conversation about Leonard Cohen with an REM song that curiously has Cohen listed as a writer although there was no collaboration between the artists. This leads us down memory lane as we discuss our college days and out first band together. Then we read a listener email about how we joined him on a Christmas day adventure and his own additions and recommendations for great albums that came out in 2016.

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0:00.0	You want to go out Friday and you want to go forever.
0:20.0	You know that it sounds childish
0:23.6	That you dreamt of alligators
0:26.6	You hope that we are with you
0:30.6	And you hope you're recognized
0:34.6	You want to go forever You see it in my eyes Hello, I'm Bill.
0:44.6	And I'm Brian.
0:45.5	And this is the great album's podcast, bonus song Thursday.
0:49.4	B'Bibbonus!
0:51.4	What were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:53.3	That song was called Hope by R.E.M.
0:56.0	That was not a Leonard Cohen song. Yeah, because what we do here every week on the podcast is take
1:01.4	a different album of music and talk about what makes it great. Earlier this week, we had Justin Pope
1:06.9	join us, and we were talking about, we kind of did a career retrospective on Leonard Cohen,
1:13.0	kind of like right from the first album to the last album with a selection of different
1:17.0	songs in between to just kind of like talk about what made him cool, because that's what we do.
1:21.2	We take different albums, what makes them cool earlier this week.
1:24.5	We didn't quite do that, but we're following up with this R.E.M.
1:27.8	song because actually they gave Leonard Cohen a co-write on this song.
1:33.3	Yeah, and this...
1:34.1	Because it sounds so much like one of his songs.
1:36.9	Yeah, and this came out on an album of theirs called Up.
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