Popcast: Dissecting the Legacy of Alan Vega and Suicide

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Days after Mr. Vega’s death, the journalist Geeta Dayal discusses Suicide’s early days.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:04.5	Popcast, your thrift store organ of music news and criticism. I'm your
0:08.4	host Ben Ratliff. Shari, Shari, Shari.
0:17.0	She got up in. I'm...
0:20.0	I like you.
0:23.0	Come play with me.
0:27.0	Oh, baby,
0:28.0	Come play with me.
0:30.0	Oh, baby, And you're listening to Shari by Suicide. The occasion for that song on this program is that
0:49.6	Alan Vega of Suicide died last Saturday.
0:53.5	And to talk about Alan Vega, we have with us Gita Dayal.
0:57.0	Hey Gita.
0:57.8	Hi, how are you?
0:58.6	Good.
0:59.4	Gita Dayal is a music journalist. I've been reading for a long time who writes about music and also
1:07.4	technology and the ways they overlap in the history of electronic music.
1:14.3	She's written a book about the album Another Green World
1:18.1	by Brian Eno, part of the 33 and a third book series.
1:22.2	But in general, when you come across a piece written by Gita Dyle about electronic
1:28.1	music, you're coming across something that has been very well historically researched.
1:35.0	So I go to her to find out about timelines, context,
1:41.0	how a musician or how a band sits in history, not just in its own scene, country,
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