Bonus Song Thursday - Sleater-Kinney "A New Wave" (plus more Kanye West)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

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

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill and Brian follow up Sleater-Kinney with some more Sleater-Kinney, by talking about "A New Wave" off 2015's No Cities to Love. We talk about how the band didn't miss a beat in its 10 year hiatus and a bunch about how cool Bob's Burgers is. Then we delve into a bunch of emails responding to our divisive Kanye West comments on last week's episode!

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Bill.
0:16.2	And this is the great albums podcast, bonus song Thursday.
0:19.4	Bonus.
0:20.2	What are we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:22.3	That song's called A New Wave by Slater Kinney from their latest album, No Cities to Love.
0:28.0	What we do on the podcast every week is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:32.9	And then later in the week, we do a bonus song episode where we follow up with either a song
0:38.8	by the same artist or something tangentially related.
0:42.1	And earlier this week, we were talking about Slater Kinney.
0:45.3	And, you know, Slater Kitty is interesting to talk about with this song because they
0:50.5	took this huge hiatus.
0:53.0	Yeah, 10 years.
0:54.0	Yeah. But it didn't feel that long either. Yeah, 10 years. Yeah.
0:54.5	But it didn't feel that long either.
0:57.0	Yeah, maybe that's because we're just getting old.
0:58.7	Yeah, I was going to say it feels like 10 seconds.
1:01.0	Yeah, because it was, we were, well, you were a junior.
1:05.0	I was a senior in college.
1:07.9	2005.
1:08.8	Yeah, when the woods came out.
1:10.7	And I was like, oh, okay, yeah, Slater Kinney.
1:12.9	And then, you know, they went on their tour.
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