Devo, Plus Opinions on The Linda Lindas & The Regrettes, RIP Chris Bailey of the Saints

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

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🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Are they not men…they are Devo! This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with two of the founding members of Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale. They chat about the band’s origins, its uniqueness in both sound and image, and their nomination for the Rock Hall of Fame in their home state of Ohio. Plus, the hosts review the debut album from The Linda Lindas and the latest from The Regrettes. Join our Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3sivr9T Become a member on Patreon: https://bit.ly/3slWZvc Sign up for our newsletter: https://bit.ly/3eEvRnG Make a donation via PayPal: https://bit.ly/3dmt9lU Record a Voice Memo: https://bit.ly/2RyD5Ah

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0:00.0	Hey Sound Opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast
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0:36.4	You're listening to Sound Opinions and this week we're talking with Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry
0:42.6	Cassale of Devo. Plus, we bid farewell to Chris Bailey of the Saints. I'm Jim DeRugatus,
0:48.9	and I'm Greg Codd. But first, let's review some new music from the Linda Lindas and the Regrets.
1:05.8	Oh yeah, Greg. That is a little bit of racist sexist boy by the Linda Lindas. Uh, this young. And I mean
1:35.5	young, uh, you know, preteens to 17, the oldest 11 to 17, uh, this young quartet from Los Angeles
1:45.1	was on its way even before that track went viral starting in the spring of 2021 after they played
1:52.3	that song at a, uh, Los Angeles public library gig in the middle of the pandemic. They'd already been
1:58.8	in Amy Polar's movie Moxie. They'd been rehearsing, uh, for years writing their own songs of Latinx
2:07.0	and Asian American descent. These four young women, uh, just, uh, were ferocious, you know, taking a cue.
2:15.6	It has been said from the Riot Girl bands of the 90s, uh, after racist sexist boy went viral.
2:23.7	They got signed to Epitaph Records, one of your cooler punk rock labels. And, uh, here is the
2:31.2	debut album appropriately titled Growing Up. What is this young group giving us on its first full album?
2:40.0	We're going to play a track. We're going to come back and give our opinions. This is, uh, the title track
2:45.7	Growing Up by the Linda Lindes on SoundPaint.
3:15.8	That is Growing Up from the Linda Lindes, the title track from the debut album by this, uh, promising young
3:25.8	quartet. Uh, it's interesting. We've got two bands that we're going to be reviewing today, Jim,
3:30.4	which share, I think, a similar heritage are coming out of a similar, uh, you know, uh, culture.
3:38.1	Young women forming rock bands and growing up in public, you know, it's difficult to be
3:43.6	putting yourself out there in such a, you know, high level platforms. And you're immediately
3:48.6	being scrutinized, you know, are you any good? You know, can they really play, you know, can they write
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