Songs About Giving Thanks
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🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
With Thanksgiving upon us, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some of their favorite songs about giving thanks. They also hear selections from the production staff.
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Featured Songs:
Natalie Merchant, "Kind and Generous," Ophelia, Elektra, 1998
The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
Big Star, "Thank You Friends," Third, PVC, 1977
Sister Sledge, "We Are Family," We Are Family, Atlantic, 1979
Earth, Wind & Fire, "Gratitude," Gratitude, Columbia, 1975
Tyler, The Creator, "GONE, GONE / THANK YOU," IGOR, Columbia, 2019
Bonnie Raitt, "Thank You," Bonnie Raitt, Warner Bros., 1971
Lucinda Williams, "Stowaway in Your Heart," Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, Highway 20, 2014
Fall Out Boy, "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs," Infinity On High, Island, 2007
Chance The Rapper, "Blessings (feat. Jamila Woods)," Coloring Book, Self-Released, 2016
Andrew Gold, "Thank You For Being A Friend," All This and Heaven Too, Asylum, 1978
The Kinks, "Days," Days (Single), Pye 7N 17573, 1968
Dido, "Thank You," No Angel, Cheeky, 1999
Descendants, "Thank You," Everything Sucks, Epitaph, 1996
Third Eye Blind, "Thanks a Lot," Third Eye Blind, Elektra, 1997
Alanis Morissette, "Thank U," Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Maverick, Reprise, 1998
The Flaming Lips, "Do You Realize??," Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Warner, 2002
Origami Angel, "Thank You, New Jersey," The Brightest Days, Counter Intuitive, 2023
The Intruders, "Be Thankful For What You Got," Energy of Love, TSOP, Philadelphia International, 1974
Sly and the Family Stone, "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)," Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Single), Epic, 1969
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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 | One, two, three, squatters. Oh, You're listening to sound opinions and this week in honor of the holiday we're sharing some of our favorite songs about giving thanks. I'm Jim |
| 0:34.9 | Diorgatus and I'm Greg Cot. We'll also hear some selections from our |
| 0:38.3 | production staff. Let's get to it. Every time a big holiday rolls around it gives us good reason Mr. Cot to look through our music |
| 0:46.7 | collections and find the appropriate songs, the connect to that day, which |
| 0:51.5 | also happen to be pretty great songs. |
| 0:54.0 | So you know what we are thinking about this week, Thanksgiving. |
| 0:57.3 | You know now there are not nearly as many songs specifically about Thanksgiving, as there are about Christmas. |
| 1:05.0 | But the broader topic, I think there's quite a few. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the broader topic being giving thanks in general. |
| 1:12.0 | And you know, we're, you know we're uh... |
| 1:13.9 | i think we're trying to we we've thought about this long and hard like let's be |
| 1:17.4 | appreciative |
| 1:18.6 | because it's really hard to find reasons sometimes to be appreciative and yes |
| 1:22.2 | it was kind of the theme behind this |
| 1:23.4 | this week's it was now we did this show once before Greg episode 626 in 2017 and |
| 1:31.0 | boy the picks that both of us made really stand out I think as some of the |
| 1:37.6 | greatest thank you songs ever I did thank you by Led Zeppelin I mean |
| 1:42.0 | Abba's thank you for the music. |
| 1:44.0 | So I had to dig deeper this time. |
| 1:46.0 | Some of my picks may be a little controversial, |
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