X's Under the Big Black Sun with John Doe

Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In 1982, the Los Angeles punk rock band X put out its album Under the Big Black Sun. Over 40 years later, it's still great! Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with X vocalist and bassist John Doe all about the album and the band's impact. They'll also chat with him about his recent solo album and his work in television and film.

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Featured Songs:

X, "The Have Nots," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967

X, "The Hungry Wolf," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

Bob Dylan, "As I Went Out One Morning," John Wesley Harding, Columbia, 1967

John Doe, "Never Coming Back," Fables in a Foreign Land, Fat Possum, 2022

X, "Riding with Mary," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

X, "Motel Room in My Bed," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

Germs, "Lexicon Devil," (GI), Slash, 1979

The Screamers, "122 Hours Of Fear (Live at the Target)," Live in San Francisco: Sept 2nd 1978, Target Video, 2004

The Dils, "I Hate the Rich," I Hate the Rich (Single), What?, 1977

Circle Jerks, "Stars and Stripes," Wild in the Streets, Step-Forward, 1982

X, "Los Angeles," Los Angeles, Slash, 1980

X, "We're Desperate," Wild Gift, Slash, 1981

X, "Under the Big Black Sun," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

X, "Adult Books," Wild Gift, Slash, 1981

X, "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

X, "Because I Do," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

X, "Blue Spark," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

X, "Come Back to Me," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

X, "Real Child of Hell," Under the Big Black Sun, Elektra, 1982

The Gun Club, "She's Like Heroin to Me," Fire of Love, Ruby, 1981

Los Lobos, "Will the Wolf Survive?," How Will the Wolf Survive?, Slash/Warner Bros., 1984

The Del Fuegos, "Don't Run Wild," Boston, Mass., Slash, 1985

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Henry Lee (feat. PJ Harvey) ," Murder Ballads, Mute, 1996

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, "Revolver," Ballad of the Broken Seas, Cooking Vinyl Limited, 2006

Artificial Go, "Pay Phone," Hopscotch Fever, Feel It, 2024

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0:00.0	Hey, sound opinions listeners.
0:01.6	If you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast, ad-free on Patreon.
0:08.0	One, two, week, we revisit our classic album
0:34.8	dissection of the 1982 X masterpiece under the Big Black Sun.
0:40.8	I'm Jim D. Reganus. And I'm Greg Cott. Let's welcome ex- Vocalist, bassist, and solo artist, and actor, John Doe.
0:48.4	Music We want to welcome John Doe to the show.
1:02.7	Great new solo album out, 40 plus years of history.
1:07.7	It's like almost daunting, John, to chat with you because we don't even know where to start.
1:12.2	But welcome to Sound Opinions.
1:13.9	Well, thank you.
1:15.2	And you may start wherever you choose.
1:17.4	You already started at the most important place.
1:20.9	Yeah.
1:21.3	Why don't we chat about that?
1:22.5	And then on Sound Opinions, we do these classic album dissections when there's an album that changed Greg's
1:27.7	life, my life, and there's a significant date. But I want to talk about the newest stuff first. That's a
1:32.2	great idea. I can roll this into where I am and what inspired this record. Yeah, you're in Chicago, right?
1:38.8	No, I am in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oh, okay. I heard you were spending some time here. No, I'm in
1:44.1	Tulsa, and it's because they're opening the Bob Dylan Center. I, okay. I heard you were spending some time here. No, I'm in Tulsa, and it's because they're
1:45.9	opening the Bob Dylan Center. I got invited here because I, you know, I wrote a thousand words or so on
1:51.6	a record, which also inspired or was part of the inspiration for this new record, a Bob Dylan record.
1:58.4	Which one? John Wesley Harding. Ah, okay.
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