Lenny Kaye of the Patti Smith Group, Opinions on Warpaint & Lucius
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🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Lenny Kaye is a guitarist, producer, historian and writer best known for his work with Patti Smith. His newest book tells the story of ten moments that transformed rock and roll. He talks with hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot about all of it this week. Plus Jim and Greg also review albums from Lucius and Warpaint.
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Featured Songs:
Patti Smith Group, "Dancing Barefoot," Wave, Arista, 1979
Lucius, "Next to Normal," Second Nature, Mom + Pop, 2022
Lucius, "Promises," Second Nature, Mom + Pop, 2022
Lucius, "Dance Around It (feat. Brandi Carlile & Sheryl Crow)," Second Nature, Mom + Pop, 2022
Lucius, "LSD," Second Nature, Mom + Pop, 2022
Lucius, "24," Second Nature, Mom + Pop, 2022
Warpaint, "Champion," Radiate Like This, Virgin, 2022
Warpaint, "Hips," Radiate Like This, Virgin, 2022
Warpaint, "Send Nudes," Radiate Like This, Virgin, 2022
Warpaint, "Stevie," Radiate Like This, Virgin, 2022
Patti Smith Group, "Gloria (Live at CBGB)," unreleased, NA, 1975
Mayhem, "Freezing Moon," De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, Deathlike Silence, 1994
Dodo Marmarosa, "You Call It Madness," Dodo's Back!, Argo, 1961
BabyMetal, "Gimme Chocolate," Babymetal, BMD Fox, 2014
The Standells, "Dirty Water," Dirty Water, Geffen, 1966
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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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| 0:32.4 | You're listening to Sound opinions and this week we're talking with the great |
| 0:35.6 | many K of the Paddy Smith group about his new book on 10 moments that changed rock and roll. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Jim DeWergottis and I'm Greg Kott but first we have new albums by Lucius and Warpaint to review. |
| 1:06.2 | That is a track called Next to Normal from the 4th studio album from Lucius's second nature. |
| 1:14.3 | A 4-piece band Lucius is but the core is two women, Holly Lessig and Jess Wolfe. |
| 1:20.8 | You know they met at Berkeley College of Music. They started releasing Music in 2009. |
| 1:24.8 | Their first full-length studio album came out at that time. Then a good grief, 2016. |
| 1:32.1 | It's been a while to concoct this next record, this 4th studio record. They haven't been idle though, |
| 1:38.9 | they've been, I mean they are, I think Holly, less again Jess Wolfe are two of the most |
| 1:43.6 | in demand backing vocalists of the last decade plus. They spent a goodly amount of time doing |
| 1:51.6 | stadium tours with Roger Waters as backing vocalists. When we got to give their whole CV, |
| 1:57.3 | Roger Waters, Cheryl Crow, Harry Styles and Ozzy Ozzy. |
| 2:02.9 | I was born the War on Drugs, Brandy Carlyle. I mean this goes on. Incredible really. |
| 2:09.4 | Here's the new record. We're going to play a track from it before we review it. |
| 2:12.9 | It was produced by Dave Cobb, the Nashville Ace and Brandy Carlyle. So a couple of big names |
| 2:18.0 | working on this one. It's called Second Nature. The track we're going to play is called |
| 2:22.0 | Promises from Lucius Unsoundipates. |
| 2:52.0 | That is Promises from the new Lucius album Second Nature. There's kind of this overly precious |
| 3:05.0 | super museo mentality. I mean there's no way you can actually like Harry Styles, Cheryl Crow, |
| 3:13.4 | Ozzy Ozborn and Roger Waters. I mean there's gigs for higher. We're great musicians we get hired |
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