Summer Special - That Thing You Do!

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On a very special episode of the Great Albums, Bill and Brian take a break from our usual geeking out over the minutia of an album to geek out over the minutia of a film. We talk about the best fictional biopic of a 60s pop band That Thing You Do! Written and directed by Tom Hanks, the film follows four small town musicians as they rise to fame on the strength of their danceable rock'n'roll tune (also called "That Thing You Do"). Brian and Bill talk about how they started watching the movie and how they've watched it too much. Also, we follow the plot, talking about what we loved and giving some insight into what made it cool. Also, Bill pulls out some lessons from his Literary Criticism classes from over a decade ago to deconstruct some of characters and plot devices!

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0:00.0	You doing that thing you doing that thing you do, breaking my heart into a million pieces like you always do.
0:26.0	And you don't mean to be cruel.
0:31.1	You never even knew about the party.
0:34.9	I've been going through.
0:38.3	Well, I try and try to forget you. Hello, welcome to the great album's podcast.
0:40.7	I'm Bill.
0:41.2	And I'm Brian.
0:42.1	What are we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:44.4	Oh, we were listening to that thing that keeps running up the pop charts.
0:48.8	Yeah, it was that thing you do by the wonders, or that thing you do by Adam Schlesinger and Mike Viola, if you want to
0:59.6	be more particular about who was really behind the song? So what we do here every week on the
1:05.0	podcast is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great, but we're going to
1:10.1	do something a little bit different today because we're not going
1:13.6	to talk about the soundtrack to that thing you do, which was a 1996 film written and directed
1:20.1	by Tom Hanks.
1:21.6	Not other than Tom Hanks, America's uncle, Tom Hanks.
1:26.4	Yeah, but I mean, you know, this was the time in which he was a kid and he wanted to kind
1:31.2	of reflect on a lot of that and, you know, pay homage to, you know, that, like, Beatlemania
1:39.4	and, you know, Beach Boy and, you know, kind of that, that like, just rock and roll fever that kind of gripped America, like, in the early and mid-60s.
1:49.6	So we're not going to talk about the soundtrack, although I'm sure we're going to talk about a bunch of the music on this.
1:55.1	Like Dell Paxton.
1:56.6	Oh, yeah.
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