Ira Robbins, Billie Eilish & Shellac Reviews

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4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with Ira Robbins, founder of Trouser Press magazine which inspired a generation of underground music writers. Plus, the hosts review new music from Billie Eilish and Shellac.

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Featured Songs:

Billie Eilish, "Skinny," Hit Me Hard and Soft, Interscope, 2024

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1966

Billie Eilish, "Ocean Eyes," Don't Smile at Me, Interscope, 2017

Billie Eilish, "Lunch," Hit Me Hard and Soft, Interscope, 2024

Billie Eilish, "Bury A Friend," When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Interscope, 2019

Billie Eilish, "The Greatest," Hit Me Hard and Soft, Interscope, 2024

Billie Eilish, "Blue," Hit Me Hard and Soft, Interscope, 2024

Shellac, "Scabby the Rat," To All Trains, Touch and Go, 2024

Shellac, "I Don't Fear Hell," To All Trains, Touch and Go, 2024

Shellac, "Tattoos," To All Trains, Touch and Go, 2024

Rory Gallagher, "A Million Miles Away (Live at The San Diego Center, CA, USA 1974)," Live In San Diego '74, UMC, 2022

Tucky Buzzard, "Run in the Morning," Buzzard, Purple, 1973

The Who, "A Quick One, While He's Away," A Quick One, Reaction, 1966

Camel, "Never Let Go (Live at Hammersmith Odeon)," A Live Record, Deram, 1978

The Bonzo Doo-Dah Dog Band, "The Trouser Press," The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse, Liberty, 1968

Carole King, "I Feel the Earth Move," Tapestry, Ode, 1975

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0:00.0	Hey there if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon,
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0:07.0	Hello, Chicago! Oh, You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're talking with
0:34.0	Ira Robbins about trouser press. I'm Jim De Regottis and I'm Greg Kott but first
0:39.0	let's review some new music from Billy Eilish and Shalack. Sound opinions is supported by Goose Island since
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1:03.0	Feeling off when I feel fine.
1:07.0	21 took a lifetime.
1:10.0	People say you look happy just because I got skinny
1:17.0	But they hold me still me and maybe the real me and I think she's pretty That is a track album, at the right
1:33.0	that is a track called Skinny, a little bit of that track anyway,
1:36.0	from the new Billy Eilish album, Hit Me Hard and Soft.
1:40.0	That is her third album,
1:42.0	at the ripe old age of 22. She's a music industry veteran, 22 years old. Once again, working with her brother, Phineas O'Connell, who's a co-songwriter, producer on everything that she's done to this day.
1:56.4	The 2016 homemade single that the two made, Ocean Eyes, with Phineas producing and 14 year old Billy singing on that particular track was a viral
2:08.1	hit.
2:12.1	Suddenly she's getting noticed by everybody.
2:14.6	Interscope records signs her, puts on an EP in 2017.
2:19.7	That 2019 debut album kind of remade the landscape of pop music that year I think.
2:26.0	There was a number one album sold a million copies.
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