Living Colour, Opinions on Blur & Claud
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In the largely white landscape of ‘80s and ‘90s rock, Living Colour stood out with their electrifying riffs, genre blending sound and political lyrics. Decades later, professor and author Kimberly Mack talks with hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot about her recent book on Living Colour’s impact on rock music and culture as a whole. The hosts also review new albums from Blur and Claud.
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Featured Songs:
Living Colour, "Cult of Personality," Vivid, Epic, 1988
The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
Blur, "St. Charles Square," The Ballad of Darren, Warner, 2023
Blur, "The Narcissist," The Ballad of Darren, Warner, 2023
Blur, "The Heights," The Ballad of Darren, Warner, 2023
Blur, "The Ballad," The Ballad of Darren, Warner, 2023
Claud, "A Good Thing," Supermodels, Saddest Factory, 2023
Claud, "The Moving On," Supermodels, Saddest Factory, 2023
Claud, "Crumbs," Supermodels, Saddest Factory, 2023
Claud, "Every Fucking Time," Supermodels, Saddest Factory, 2023
Claud, "Wet," Supermodels, Saddest Factory, 2023
Living Colour, "Love Rears It's Ugly Head," Time's Up, Epic, 1990
Living Colour, "Solace Of You," Time's Up, Epic, 1990
Living Colour, "Time's Up," Time's Up, Epic, 1990
Living Colour, "Pride," Time's Up, Epic, 1990
Living Colour, "This Is the Life," Time's Up, Epic, 1990
Living Colour, "Information Overload," Time's Up, Epic, 1990
RVG, "Midnight Sun," Brain Worms, Fire, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey sound opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast |
| 0:05.8 | ad-free on Patreon you're listening to the sound opinions and this week we're talking the musical |
| 0:33.6 | and cultural impact of living collar with professor and author Kimberly Mack. I'm Jim DeWorgatus |
| 0:40.0 | and I'm Greg Cutt, but first let's review some new music from Blurr and Claude. |
| 1:03.6 | That was a little bit of the song St. Charles Square by Blurr as performed, they performed that one at Wembley Greg. |
| 1:24.8 | Big reunion gig this year, Big reunion album, their ninth in their discography, who was Blurr? |
| 1:32.9 | Seems absurd, but most of our audiences in America have to ask that question. Look in the UK, |
| 1:39.0 | they were as big as Nirvana. Britpop was rivaling grunge in terms of sales in the 90s, |
| 1:46.4 | completely overshadowed here in the States. We were a bit xenophobic I think and of course part |
| 1:52.4 | of the Britpop story was the great feud between Oasis and Blurr. Oasis became the bigger band |
| 2:00.8 | filling stadiums, Blurr was by far the better band not to tip my hand, amazing live, amazing growth |
| 2:08.7 | in the studio over six albums between 91 and 99. Leisure, my modern life is rubbish right, |
| 2:17.6 | park life. Damon Albarn's gone on to mega success solo albums, world beat albums traveling the |
| 2:25.9 | globe and of course gorillas with all sorts of hip-hop superstars, that wonderful cartoon band. |
| 2:33.1 | Damon Albarn at 55, my god I'm feeling old, recently went through the end of his 25-year marriage, |
| 2:42.7 | he's had his ups and downs in his career, there was about with heroin addiction, now he's a yoga |
| 2:48.4 | dad as he self-affacingly calls himself. So what is Albarn re-uniting with the original members |
| 2:57.0 | of Blurr, always a fantastic rhythm section and Graham Coxon, his right-hand man on guitar, |
| 3:03.7 | a wonderful psychedelic pop, mad genius in the Sid Barrett mode without the troubles, |
| 3:10.5 | what are these four gents given us, let's play a song from the album it is called The Ballad of |
| 3:16.8 | Darren and this is Blurr with the Narcissist. |
| 3:40.5 | That is the Narcissist from Blurr's new album The Ballad of Darren, who is Darren, he's |
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