Songs About Getting Away on Vacation & Opinions on Mitski

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot are taking a sonic vacation from another pandemic winter by sharing their favorite songs about getting away! They also hear selections from the production staff and they review the new record from Mitski.

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Featured Songs:

The Go-Go's, "Vacation," Vacation, I.R.S., 1982

Mitski, "Working For the Knife," Laurel Hell, Dead Oceans, 2022

Mitski, "The Only Heartbreaker," Laurel Hell, Dead Oceans, 2022

Mitski, "Stay Soft," Laurel Hell, Dead Oceans, 2022

Weezer, "Island in the Sun," Weezer (Green Album), Geffen, 2001

The Ventures, "Hawaii Five-O," Hawaii Five-O, Liberty, 1969

The Beginning of the End, "Funky Nassau Pt. 1," Funky Nassau, Alston, 1971

Guided By Voices, "Motor Away," Alien Lanes, Matador, 1995

Amyl and the Sniffers, "Hertz," Comfort to Me, B2B, 2021

Willie Nelson, "On the Road Again," Honeysuckle Rose, Columbia, 1980

Pink Floyd, "Point Me at the Sky," Point Me at the Sky (Single), EMI, 1968

Joni Mitchell, "Free Man in Paris," Court and Spark, Asylum, 1974

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, "I Love Hot Nights," Modern Lovers 88, Rounder, 1988

Big Star, "The India Song," #1 Record, Ardent, 1972

Ronnie Spector & The E Street Band, "Say Goodbye To Hollywood," Say Goodbye To Hollywood (Single), Epic, 1977

Summer Salt, "Driving to Hawaii," Driving to Hawaii, Cherry Lime, 2014

Kraftwerk, "Europe Endless," Trans-Europe Express, Capitol, 1977

Bronski Beat, "Small Town Boy," The Age of Consent, London, 1984

A Tribe Called Quest, "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo," People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, Jive, 1990

Rihanna, "Desperado," Anti, Westbury Road, 2016

The B-52's, "Roam," Cosmic Thing, Reprise, 1989

Eleanor Friedberger, "It's Hard," Rebound, French Kiss, 2018

Kiss, "Strutter," Kiss, Casablanca, 1974

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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	So now listen, gentlemen, it is Star Time.
0:10.0	Are you ready for start time? You're listening to sound opinions and this week we'll be sharing our favorite
0:35.4	songs about escaping another pandemic winter. Getting away on vacation Greg.
0:41.6	I'm Jim D. Regattis and I'm Greg Scott but first Jim and I have a
0:46.4	new album to review by Mitsky. I always knew the world moves on.
0:55.0	I just didn't know.
0:58.0	It would go without me.
1:01.0	I start the day high and
1:04.4	in so low
1:07.0	because I'm working for the night.
1:23.2	That is a little bit of the song working for the knife by Mitsky from her sixth studio album Laurel Hell. Greg, one of the primary sad indie girls
1:27.1	in music for the last decade.
1:29.2	That's a description ladled upon her,
1:31.3	but she has laughed at it.
1:32.8	Mitski Mayawaki was born in Japan.
1:36.8	A white dad, a Japanese mother, grew up all over the world though
1:42.1	because dad was in the US State Department
1:44.8	Turkey China Malaysia the Czech Republic Democratic Republic of Congo
1:50.8	a true global perspective.
1:53.5	She began singing in high school choir
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