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The Great Albums

Bonus Song Thursday - The War on Drugs "Touch of Grey"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

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

4.3749 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Brian and Bill continue talking about the Grateful Dead via the War on Drugs recent cover of "Touch of Grey" from the Day of the Dead tribute compilation. Brian talks about why he loves this song, the whole collection, and how it's helped him open up to being a fan of the Grateful Dead. Then we read some listener emails including a correction about us confusing Norway for Sweden and an interpretation of an Against Me! tune.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Bill.

0:32.6

And I'm Brian. And this is the great albums podcast, bonus song Thursday.

0:36.8

Bonus.

0:39.4

What were we just listening to right there, Brian?

0:45.2

I could listen to that song all day, every day for the rest of my life. That was Touch of Grey by Philadelphia's own The War on Drugs. Welcome to the podcast, Adam Grand

0:53.6

Ducille and War on Drugs. I to the podcast, Adam Grand Ducille and War on Drugs.

0:56.5

I love it.

0:57.5

And I actually very much like this band.

0:59.8

And that was a cover of who?

1:01.5

The Grateful Dead.

1:02.8

There you go.

1:03.9

Yes.

1:04.1

Because if you haven't listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different album of music.

1:09.6

And we talk about what makes it great.

1:11.7

Earlier in the week, we were talking about the Grateful Dead's American Beauty,

1:16.0

because then every week we follow it up with a bonus song episode where we talk about the same artist

1:21.2

or something tangentially related.

1:24.1

And in this case, it's tangential.

1:25.9

Oh, very tangential.

1:26.8

Another artist covered the Grateful Dead.

1:28.6

But we're going to do the same kind of thing where we do a bit of a deep dive on the song

1:32.2

and just kind of talk about its ins and outs.

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