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Can Record Labels Be Trusted to Preserve Music History?

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

A 2008 fire destroyed thousands of Universal Music Group masters.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the New York Times

0:06.7

podcast, your no man is an archive, although some certainly try of music news and criticism. I'm your host John Cara Monica

0:15.8

Well I'm a little that I'm going mail it to my local DJ. Yeah it's a jumping little

0:22.4

record I want my jockey to play.

0:25.0

Roll over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again today.

0:30.0

You know my temperature rise and the two parts blowing a fuse

0:37.0

My heart beating rhythm and my soul keep a singing the blues

0:42.0

A roller over Beethoven, tell Chicago to news.

0:47.0

I got the rock and pneumonia, I need a shot of rhythm and blues.

0:52.0

I caught the rolling off the rider sitting down at a room. I am raised

1:03.0

rolling off the writer sitting down at a rhythm review

0:57.0

a roller over betoven they rock and in two by two.

1:02.0

I am enraged and infuriated if you are a

1:07.8

a pop-cast listener I would say there is a strong likelihood that yesterday you read the New York Times magazine story by

1:14.7

Jody Rosen about the Universal Music Group warehouse fire of 2008.

1:21.0

Jody's here and we're going to have a big talk about all the behind the scenes of the reporting and

1:26.2

the implications for what he discovered.

1:29.2

But before we get to that, I want to talk a little bit about my collection. There are a lot of things

1:34.7

happening in the world that cause me no end of existential angst. There was something

1:40.6

very specific about what was on display in this story.

1:45.9

There was a big warehouse fire, a bunch of master recordings owned by Universal

1:51.8

were apparently lost and we're talking

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