New Zealand World Tour & RIP Martin Phillipps of The Chills

Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Sound Opinions World Tour rolls along, making its next stop in beautiful New Zealand. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot take a virtual trip to the other side of the world to explore the best of kiwi music, focusing on the influential jangly pop movement known as the Dunedin Sound. Plus they bid farewell to a giant of the New Zealand music scene, Martin Phillipps, of the Chills.

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Featured Songs:

The Chills, "Pink Frost," Pink Frost (single), Flying Nun, 1984

The Chills, "Effloresce and Deliquesce," Submarine Bells, Slash, 1989

The Chills, "I Love My Leather Jacket," Kaleidoscope World, Flying Nun, 1989

The Chills, "Heavenly Pop Hit," Submarine Bells, Slash, 1989

The Chills, "Monolith," Scatterbrain, Fire, 2021

Lorde, "Take Me to the River," Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, A24, 2024

Charli XCX and Lorde, "Girl, so confusing featuring lorde," Girl, so confusing featuring lorde (Single), Atlantic, 2024

The Clean, "Fish," Great Sounds Great, Good Sounds Good, So-So Sounds So-So, Bad Sounds Bad, Rotten Sounds Rotten!!, Flying Nun, 1982

The Clean, "Tally Ho!," Tally Ho! (single), Flying Nun, 1981

The Bats, "Tragedy," Daddy's Highway, Flying Nun, 1987

Look Blue Go Purple, "Cactus Cat," LBGPEP2, Flying Nun, 1986

The Enemy, "Pull Down the Shades," Live at the Beneficiaries Hall, unreleased, 1978

Toy Love, "Swimming Pool," Toy Love, Deluxe, 1980

The Chills, "Rolling Moon," Rolling Moon (single), Flying Nun, 1982

The Clean, "Anything Could Happen," Boodle Boodle Boodle, Flying Nun, 1981

The Chills, "Kaleidoscope World," Dunedin Double, Flying Nun, 1982

The Verlaines, "The Lady and the Lizard," Hallelujah - All The Way Home, Flying Nun, 1985

The Verlaines, "Death and the Maiden," Death and the Maiden (single), Flying Nun, 1983

Sneaky Feelings, "Throwing Stones," Send You, Flying Nun, 1983

Split Enz, "I Got You," True Colours, A&M, 1980

Bailter Space, "Robot World," Robot World, Flying Nun, 1993

Straitjacket Fits, "She Speeds," Hail, Flying Nun, 1988

Headless Chickens, "Cruise Control," Body Blow, Flying Nun, 1991

The Bats, "Made Up In Blue," Made Up In Blue (single), Flying Nun, 1986

The Human Instinct, "Black Sally," Stoned Guitar, AIR, 1970

Herbs, "Light of the Pacific," Light of the Pacific, Warrior, 1983

Upper Hutt Posse, "E Tu," E Tu (single), Jayrem, 1988

Scribe, "Not Many," The Crusader, Dirty, 2003

Aldous Harding, "Imagining My Man," Party, 4AD, 2017

Kane Strang, "My Smile is Extinct," Two Hearts and No Brain, Dead Oceans, 2017

Electric Wire Hustle, "They Don't Want," Electric Wire Hustle, Every Waking Hour, 2009

Lord Echo, "Makossa No. 3," Harmonies, Soundway, 2017

Post Malone, "Guy For That (feat. Luke Combs)," F-1 Trillion, Republic and Mercury, 2024

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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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0:08.0	He took the bomb. You're listening to sound opinions and this week we revisit our sound opinions
0:29.3	world tour of the music of New Zealand. I'm Jim De Regadis. And I'm Greg Cot, but first we're
0:35.8	going to pay tribute to the late Martin Phillips of the influential New Zealand
0:39.6	band The Chills. Sound opinions is supported by Goose Island since 1988 Goose Island's been
0:46.0	brewing beers in the spirit of Chicago. You can find 3-12 Weedale, big juicy beer hug, and so many other limited releases at either of Goose's locations
0:56.5	in Chicago, Goose Island Beer Company, Chicago's Beer. those beer. Yeah, Greg, you're the one who said, let's go back to New Zealand and let's add our thoughts about the chills and as
1:25.1	you pointed out this beloved band influential to many in the indie underground
1:31.3	community but never a household name.
1:34.3	Their career was neatly divided into like three eras that we wanted to take a quick look at.
1:39.3	Yeah, absolutely.
1:40.3	I mean, Martin Phillips died July 28th at the age of 61 and was unexpected
1:45.4	the driving force and the chills out of Dunedin, New Zealand
1:49.4	Southern coast of New Zealand's Southern Island.
1:53.0	Middle-class university town was a population of 100,000 more great bands per capita than just
1:57.5	about any town in the world, they'd say.
1:59.3	It's true, and one of the great indie labels in Flying None.
2:02.5	Absolutely.
2:03.2	And Phillips was there at the start of that whole underground scene there.
2:06.2	Formed his first band in 1978 when he was a teen, the same.
2:10.6	He played keyboards on the Clean's breakthrough single, Tally Ho.
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