Bonus Song Thursday - Those Pretty Wrongs "Lucky Guy"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Bill and Brian follow up their episode on Big Star's seminal #1 Record by taking a listen to Those Pretty Wrongs' "Lucky Guy." A teaming of Big Star's Jody Stephens and LA-based singer songwriter Luther Russell, the song was released as a 7" single in June 2015. Brian and Bill use the context of Jody Stephens emergence as a songwriter within Big Star to talk about and frame the band's career over the intervening years that led up to this release. We talk about how the song's production is a little reminiscent of Stephens' former band, the great bass tones that come out of Ardent Studios, and how happy Brian is that Jody is stepping out on his own as a songwriter. Additionally, we read a very special email that had us floored and will lend a little insight to a few of the things we discussed on the #1 Record episode.

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0:00.0	Woke up this morning, a little off track, slipped out of bed, fell flat on my back, but I'm a lucky guy.
0:16.0	Oh, I'm a lucky guy.
0:24.6	Flew out of Memphis all the way to L.A. lost my voice, but I still found my way, because I'm a lucky guy.
0:36.7	Hello, I'm Bill.
0:38.0	And I'm Brian.
0:38.9	And this is The Great Albums podcast, Bonus Song Thursday.
0:43.3	Welcome to it.
0:44.4	What were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:46.5	We're listening to a song called Lucky Guy by a band called Those Pretty Wrongs.
0:51.7	Now, the other day, we were talking about Big Star.
0:55.2	Yep.
0:55.6	So what does this band have to do with Big Star?
0:58.2	Well, I'll tell you, Bill.
1:01.0	Big Star.
1:02.8	Because, for those that don't know, let me throw this in there.
1:05.8	What we do here on the podcast every week is we take a different album of music,
1:10.7	talk about what makes it great,
1:12.1	and the other day we did Big Stars' number one record, and then every week we also do a little
1:17.4	bonus episode where we take a single song by the same artist or a related artist or someone
1:24.1	who covered that artist and talk about that single song, the same kind of way that
1:28.8	we do on the regular episode. And we also tend to get to some listener emails and stuff like that
1:34.8	on this show. Yeah. And what we try to do a little differently on bonus song Thursday is, and it
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